I'm a person that's prone to obsession, of sorts. Ironically, I don't have an especially adictive personality, at least for things like substances. I've never been hooked on drinking or smoking, though I've done both. I've never really felt the need to dabble in drugs, since I've seen more than a few friends torn apart by them. My problems come deeper than that, when I get stuck on some new personal fad, and start to follow it. But, in the end, I've always been able to walk away from the ones I've felt dominated my life to an unhealthy degree.

Some other things, though, have really stuck with me through the years once I discovered I really had a deep passion or love for them. A few examples... video games, drawing, 3D rendering, writing... and Lego. I've actually been actively trying to de-centralize video games in my life, since I'd gotten pretty deep into them. World of Warcraft really helped me stop playing as many other games, though I still purchase a ton of them. I purchased an Xbox 360, though my wife tends to use it more as a Media Center extender than I use it for games. I need to play it more, given how much I paid for it, but I think as an extender we're getting more than enough value out of it.

Drawing I still dabble in now and again, but my table is currently tied up as a desk for my media center, and that makes it a little tough. Plus, I'm not all that good. I really try, and even took a couple of college classes on it a couple years ago, which really pointed out where I need to practice. It's one of the things I do more now as an idle distraction, or when I'm planning out things for my writing. 3D art was a huge hobby in college, but unfortunately has just fallen to the wayside as I've run out of free time in my life.

Writing, on the other hand, is something I still do pretty steadily. Unfortunately, I never progress with it, since my ideas work faster than my production. I get a few chapters in to the story, and decide that I need to revise it because its moving to slow, to wordy, or its needs polish, or the like. Currently, I have three story ideas running at any particular time: Song of the Blood (Fantasy Story), When Heaven Fell (Sci-Fi Story), and Broken Goods (kind of a Romantic Comedy). I've been working on each of these for years, honestly, and have yet to finish one. Of course, I always tell myself that this will be the time. What's kind of funny is that the Sci-Fi and Fantasy stories have slowly merged into the same setting, separated by a few hundred thousand years.

Lego, on the other hand, I've been dabbling with since 1999. I had them as a kid, and absolutely loved the toys. I had the little red bucket with the snap down lid that I could put my little blocks in. I loved to build my house, complete with the little smiley brick. However, in 1999, I was in my 20s, wandering around Wal-Mart, like you do, and saw a Lego set with with a X-Wing. I love Star Wars, and I loved Lego, so I figured, why the heck not.

At that time, I learned exactly how relaxing and fun having toys could be, and how much fun it still was to build the things. I couldn't get enough, and purchased a bunch of the sets to the classic. I passed on a lot of the "prequel" sets, which I regret now, since they're costing me a fortune to get 5-7 years later. To date, I have 48 Star Wars Lego sets, which spill across my office and living room. Thank God (and perhaps Satan) I have an understanding wife that thinks the collection is "cute." I still have about 50 sets I need to get, which is even scarier, since the grand total behind those all the sets I don't have runs about $6,000, minimum.

So, anyway, I've had this post up and going for about three days now, thinking I should probably get it out there. But I have fun rambling, you know. That's the fun in a blog.