Hardfought turns eleven years old today. Not so much a milestone as it is a longevity thing. Pretty cool in my opinion. So, for all three or four of ya that continue to visit and post here (not counting all you spam bots, hah!) when ya go out tonight, drink one for Hardfought’s birthday. Cheers ;)

If you’ve read any of the posts here from this summer, then ya know that my wife and I are having our first (and last, hah) baby. We found out this morning that we are definitely having a baby girl ;) Went in for our 20 week ultrasound and our baby decided to play nice and cooperate with the doc and not try to hide anything heheh, so yeah it’s definitely a girl. We have a name picked out already, but Jenn asked me to keep it under wraps until she’s born. Due date is on or around February 13th. The doctor also checked a whole list of things, making sure our lil mini-K2 is OK – got a clean bill of health from the doc, he didn’t see anything out of the ordinary. Pretty excited at the moment… wondering how soon you can teach a kid to use a mouse and keyboard :-P

I’ll post a video of the ultrasound in the forum thread with this post, it’s pretty cool. Woot!!

Or so says Def Leppard. I dunno about that, don’t think that holds true. Otherwise Hardfought wouldn’t have lasted nearly as long as it has.

So yeah. I think right now the traffic to this site is at an all-time low. Not too surprised, as I haven’t really had anything to say. Hell, I don’t even come to the site every day like I used to… don’t have the time. But since this has been a weekend for Getting Shit Done, I figured it was about damn time I got to posting something here. So… hi ;-) Just an FYI in case any of the two or three of ya that still frequent the site were wondering – no more game servers. Ever. I’m totally done with that part of my life, I got other shit to do. I am selling one of the game servers, and am converting the other into a folding@home/data backup server. I don’t even game anymore, except for the occasional round of Nethack. Ah well. I’m gonna be forty this year folks (gah!), some things ya just grow out of. Maybe I’ll revisit some FPS action someday, but I doubt it.

So what’s been going on with K2 you might ask? Well, me and my significant other bought a new house in March, and we finally got moved in a couple weeks ago. Nice decent-sized house on one acre and surrounded by a few hundreds acres of woods, meadows and mountains that will never be developed on. Gotta love Vermont :-) I’m still in the military, working full-time with the Vermont Army National Guard, figure I’ll make a career of it. Jenn is doing great with the physical therapy clinic she works at. We’re planning on a mini-K2 by this time next year. Yeah that’s right, someone decided it was OK for me to reproduce hahah :-P

Well, that’s all I got really. My once-every-six-months-posting :-) I figure no matter how slow or lonely Hardfought gets, I’ll keep the doors open here. If anything, where the hell am I gonna keep all these pics? Certainly not on facebook, fuck that noise. Plus it’s pretty cheap to keep the site up and it practically runs itself. So there ya go.

If you just happen to come by the site, post something, say hello, make fun of sX, whatever. Just to know there’s still somebody out there. See ya around gang ;-)

Today is Veteran’s Day, a day where we take the time to recognize and honor those who have made the sacrifice to serve their country. Please make sure you thank all of those who have made that sacrifice for you as you enjoy your day/weekend off this week. I’d like to recognize one of our own, who just recently heard the call and is serving right now – Spy-Man, who is three weeks in already at basic training at Ft. Benning. Good luck to ya Spy, and we’re all proud of you.

Have a safe weekend folks, see you online…

Hey gang, thought I’d check in and say hello. As usual, not a whole helluva lot going on in Hardfought-land. However, our ten year anniversary is coming up in less than a month. We still have a handful of die-hards that still visit the site and participate on the forums… it’s pretty cool that some of ya have stuck around for that long, heh ;-)

My gaming rig is dead (again) so I got nothin’ to do gaming-wise, and it’ll probably stay this way for awhile. Not surprisingly, this makes my wife very happy, as I am now forced to spend much more quality time with her and our dog and otherwise lead a normal existence. Bleh lol. Anyways, hope you all are doing well, and I hope to see a lot of ya chime in next month for our ten-year. Be good folks.

Today is the day that Americans remember those Veterans who served and died defending their country. I have a small list of friends that I take a moment to remember who gave their lives while serving in Iraq, and I’m sure at least a few of ya have friends and family also that sacrificed their lives so the rest of us could enjoy ours. I know today is traditionally a big BBQ day, but lets not forget what we’re really celebrating. Have a good day folks, and enjoy your time off.