I haven't written a lot over the last week or so, as there hasn't really been much "new" to write about. Still playing, and loving EQ2, leveling and exploring like mad.

As my "secondary" game, I've picked EVE Online back up. I played 3 years ago, and just sort of stopped playing, as a horde of other titles were wanting my attention. But, I do like pure sandbox gameplay sometimes, and EVE is the most sandboxy MMO out there. It's literally wide open - you can do anything! There's just a ton of stuff you could do, so much so that it intimidates a lot of people.

It also has aspects of other games that I like, particularly a very deep and complex ship outfitting system, that gives you kind of the same experience that the character building systems of non-class-based MMOs give you.

A short list of the things you could choose to do in the game includes mining, hauling, Wormhole exploration, mission running, piracy (PvP piracy), huge-scale PvP combat, covert/black operations, scouting, trading, industry (building ships and weapons to sell to other players), stock trading (yes, the game has player Corporations and they can offer stock), really the list goes on. And, you don't have to only do one of those - you can setup your character to do all of them if you want! And not at lessened efficacy either.

I'll make a more detailed EVE post once I've been playing for another week or two.

As for other hobbies, the next rocket launch is this coming Sunday. I've got 2 rockets built, but unpainted. They can fly without paint, and it seems likely that's what'll happen. ;) One is my Callisto, which should be my Level 1 Certification rocket. It's ready to go, minus motor retention, which a club member is set to help me with on launch day. It'll be kind of cool - seat-of-your-pants rocketry! Certifying Level 1 on a rocket with just-installed motor retention. And it being my first rocket flight in over 20 years. Whee! :D