Ahhh Summer, the one chance I have to enjoy the finer things in life. During the school year, I am far too busy to sit down and play video games for longer than an hour, something I am trying to fix for next year for sure.

With this free time comes a rare opportunity to do something I enjoy greatly – Reading books for fun! My friend Cody suggested to me that I get around to reading the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Thankfully, he has been dead for such a long time that all of his works have fallen out of Copyright and are available online for free in whatever form, including epub which I have put on my Barnes and Noble Nook for easy enjoyment on the go.

Now that I have a solid 3 days of time to relax, I get to catch up on my Starcraft 2 between my reading adventures. Right now I am only a silver league Terran player, but I am always looking to try the other races, perhaps I should play some Random and just see how far I can make it. At this point, I am pretty sure I watch a lot more Starcraft than I play games. Gotta fix that soon.

I had set out to not only get in shape and have fun this summer, but also to keep my mind active and engaged. Thus far I have been pretty successful in the first two but I am going to begin reading more tutorials and programming books whenever I get the free time to sit down with some coffee at a computer. Specifically, I have the aspiration to learn how to make games and I know that a great tool to get started making games relatively quick is Microsoft XNA. I picked up a book last month for the summer and I have begun digging into it. Nothing exciting to post yet, but I should have some interesting mini games or 2D games to show off in the upcoming months.

The summer shows much promise for fun, I just need to keep busy. I hope to have some serious projects started, keep your eyes on my site to keep your eyes on some cool stuff happening over the summer.