Back at work today after a couple of crazy weekends. I went down to San Jose to chill with 2 of my old high school buddies. That was a lot of fun seeing those two clowns again after years. We actually made it out to Santa Cruz and saw the mystery spot. Which is really quite entertaining i would suggest checking it out once in your life. After that I got home kind of late so I didn't make it to class the next morning.

Oh well, C'est la vie. The week went by in a blur and I barely have any work done to show for it. I am working on a new frag video, which is something to look forward to. I have actually synced up the frags to a nice Rage Against the Machine song, and its turning out pretty well. I'm sure my loyal fans will enjoy it. :P

So I'm back in the city at my internship with www.GotGame.com , and there is lots of work to do. They had me working on intro scenes for a few of the regular game review shows on the site. If you haven't already, I suggest you check them out. Fun stuff to watch. Whats cool is we have acquired Gamevee.com game video website, so that has become the video player for our website.

Showdown LAN

I'm Back in class today, reflecting on a whole weekend of gaming at the Showdown LAN. I got lucky in more ways than you could imagine. It was BYOC, and I was not about to lug my 40 lb armour case computer, but I was lucky enough to have one of my coworkers from gotgame bring an extra computer. I rang for team Bonk in the TF2 tournament. The competition was pretty fierce, and we ended up in 4th place, just shy of winning a prize. There were a few pub teams that we just stomped on, but we were up against other teams that were pug teams, made up of players from pro gaming teams like pandemic/xensity (xendemic), and experiment/sway/devastation.

I had a lot of fun playing in the tournament, wearing the gotgame headset, and I have to thank Zain and his teammates for being so kind and getting me a place to stay, even when my games ran longer than theirs. It was a lot of fun, we played some epic rounds of beer pong. The first night we played beer pong, our host had misplaced his balls, so we used aluminum foil instead. The would eventually get waterlogged and this threw all of our aim off, so the games lasted a little longer than they should have. The next night we found the ping pong balls in the beer pong cabinet (go figure). So it was on.

At the LAN they had raffles, and prizes given away after they gave out the prizes for the tournament winners. The first place prize was a Quad Core Extreme Edition, and a GeForce GTX 260. Second place took home an Antec 1200 case.

I stood in line, and signed up for the raffle to get lucky number 130. Then I took my seat and waited patiently for all the prizes to be given out. They started the raffle, gave out a whole mess of assorted prizes. Then, it was down to the last 2 raffle prizes: a GTX 260, and a laptop. I looked at my friend, and said, "I'm going to win that video card." The guy on stage loved to keep us in suspense, and he would draw out the numbers slowly. He announced "The winner of this BFG GTX 260 is number One....three...... zero!" I had planned on just staying silent, and pumping my fist if i won anything, but for this card, I was just too excited...as soon as he said the last number I jumped out of my chair and ran up on stage "YES! ahahahah!!" Took the Box and kissed it. I felt like I had just won the tournament then and there.

A Perfect Collision of Two Seemingly Parralel Worlds

Not every day does such a great opportunity just fall into your lap, at the same moment you become ready for it. Even if the most incredible, life-changing job opportunity peeked its nose around the corner, would you be in the right position, with the right skillset, at the right time to be able to capitalize on it?

With a bit of luck in the form of a brilliant older sister- two years of preparation, and countless hours spent mashing the keyboard in my favorite FPS: Team Fortress 2; I finally can say my hard work has finally payed off.

Whoever says playing video games is a waste of time- think again. During the interview for an internship at Genesis Interactive: http://www.gotgame.com my experience in video games has finally been officially validated. "I probably play more TF2 than anyone you know," is what I told them in my interview. Well, not only do I play the game, I do a lot of stuff revolving around the game: frag videos with dope title scenes, map testing, being active member (former staff) of http://www.teamfortress2fort.com - the worlds largest tf2 fansite.

Here at GotGame I hope to be able to combine my knowledge of 3d visual effects with my passion for gaming to produce something that is satisfying in my life.

Things are finally coming together for good ol' Durbs. Just when I felt the stress of year-round school, and living 3000 miles away from friends and family taking its toll; I got a message from my older sister about an internship opportunity. This was the sign I had been waiting for. No longer would I feel that I had wasted my time in California.

It is always darkest before dawn.