I am officially a really, really big geek now.  I had bought an X-Box, and messed around a bit with Left for Dead, and got intimidated because I really sucked with the whole moving and looking and shooting thing.

Then Ian and I got sent a director's reel, and he had done the commercial for Halo 3.  It looked really cool, and it turned out when I bought the X-Box I got Halo 3.  I started playing it alone, then Ian and I finished a rewrite on the script, and celebrated by playing the game. 

It rocks.  I got better and better.  Of course we were playing at the easy setting, and any 13 year old boy would kick my ass, but I was able to kill aliens, and we have actually stayed alive through three missions. 

I've discovered a number of things.  I keep getting distracted with all the pretties in the game.  It's amazing.  At one point I fell in a river, and they had the bottom and sides of the river designed!

I love to shoot things.

I want more of the items I see to have a function and add to the story the way objects and books did in Myst.

And it's a lot more fun to play with a friend.  That may be the girl talking.

Oh, and the first time my controller started shaking in my hands, I yelled, and almost tossed it into the air.

I love these games.  Now I want to get Mass Effect.  I watched Ty and Daniel play that game and it looks really cool too.