For anyone who's got a Mac and wants to check it out, this is a board game engine I've been working on.  I've only got one working game so far which I've recently changed from simple colored boxes to something dramatically more pretty.  Eventually there will be multiple games and an editor so you can construct your own.  In the meantime if you want to mess around with some of the game parameters you can edit the "RulesDict.dict" file that gets created and change things like the board size, number of colors, stuff like that.

So if you didn't know I play guitar in a rock band.  The name of my band is called Gathering Grey.  We mix a of lot of rock styles into our music.  We play for fun and for the love of making music.  The band consists of me (guitar, keys), Josh (guitar), Matt (drums, keys, loops), Matt (bass), Nathan (vocals, keys).

This band started with me and a couple of friends who just love to play music.  We're in the process of finishing our first LP.  All we have left are some vocal and midi parts to finish up before we mix it and send it out to get mastered.  Hopefully within a few weeks we can have this project finished up so we can mass produce it and get it on to itunes and other music sites.

This is our website.  We have clips and stuff from where we've been recording.  http://gatheringgrey.wordpress.com/

You can listen to some of our music here.  https://soundcloud.com/search?q=gathering%20grey

Here's a link to Matt's youtube channel.  He posts some videos of our band once in awhile.  Anything with Gathering Grey will be us.  http://www.youtube.com/user/mattdudleydrumming/videos?flow=grid&view=0

Check it out and tell me what you think!

So it has been awhile since I have been to the website, hell I had forgotten about it until 10 minuites before I began writing this.  After what I can imagine has been 12 months since my las visit I have to say one thing: Garreth, the points on the site are broken.

I have lost touch with many of you guys since my school and professional life has taken over, in addition to transferring Vulk to another server so that I could play with some rl friends when time permits. Damn do I miss you guys, especially those that left before I left and now see back on.  Whenever I think about an awesome time playing WoW, Downfall is involved 99% of the time, but that has all fallen into "the good old days" of WoW.  One of the reasons that I am writing this because I am planning on transferring my druid, Cizin, over to the realm on which Vulk now resides: Firetree.

Now we reach the main reason why I am writing this blog post: You know, I've never had the pleasure of attending one of the annual meetup that downfall holds, and I have only had the pleasure of meeting a select few of you in person (Garreth, Aidin, Grasen) but I do want to change that by possibly creating a mini-meetup. I want to see how many of you guys would be interested before I make this an official event.

In my efforts to get in shape, I have taken up something that I have always wanted to get into, cycling. I have found that I want to do some touring on a bike so for the past few months I have been planning a trip to Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons just south of there. Now, for me this would all be by bike from my abode in Colorado, roughly 1200 miles round trip and a little over 3 weeks in duration, but for you guys it could be as simple as driving there and only spending a couple days before returning home. In total I plan on spending a week camping out there and enjoying, well, everything. I'm sure I don't have to remind you guys on all the awesome stuff one can do out doors. Right now I am planning on reaching yellowstone by late May to mid June to give you guys a possible timeframe.

So who is interested? Hell, if anyone else is crazy enough we could meet up somewhere and ride there together.