Over the last few months, things in my life have not been terribly good. They're not awful mind you, but the wife had a barrage of medical issues, stress and problem stuff at the job, and other things were starting to pile up and after a while it mentally puts a strain on you. So a few weeks ago I pretty much had to give myself a kick in the ass and try to find some kind of new hobby or project to focus on to get myself out of a funk since video games and liquor weren't doing it on their own anymore.

So given what I do I first thought I'll do some new web project. The last time I did something big I made a blog where I reviewed really bad booze called SadSpirits.com. It actually got a pretty nice sized following, but in the process my liver and taste buds threatened to kill me, and I eventually retired the site. So alcohol was ruled out. At that point it pretty much fell back onto video games (yeah I know I really need to find a third interest at some point).

I brainstormed a while and finally fell back onto an idea for a niche site that I came up on several months back. A blog/review site where you get reviews for games that can be played and enjoyed by a parent and his kid. Good stuff, not just licensed crap that kids tend to drift towards. So I found a decent domain that wasn't taken, found a Word Press template I could live with, and lo and behold www.Second-Generation.com was born. And after I wrote the first couple pages I came to a grand realization.... I can't write reviews worth a crap.

The entire reason why I've never really written reviews for this site or any other is that I'm really terrible at it. If you've heard me trying to describe a game on the podcasts you know this. Public speaking = easy. Game reviews = nuts in a vice grip.  My brain just doesn't remember all the reasons why I like something and I end up forgetting half the things that were important to mention. But you know what? That's actually okay. I don't mind that I can't write this shit. The whole reason I did the site in the first place was just to distract myself and find a hobby and mission accomplished!

I think I may even keep it up for a while. I doubt anyone will ever see it (I'll be sparing everyone here), but that's okay. If someone does stumble across it that'll feel doubley cool. And in the meantime I can be one of those uppidy pretentous people who says, "ooooooh I've written about that on my blog" and then never give the address out. And I will enjoy that too.