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Nothing much to tell about me in 2003. It was kind of the same as 2002, music and pizza. I took in a lot of media though. Here are my favorites. 

In this game you learn the power of observation. Microsoft's new, and smaller, halo ring orbits earth so you can observe your gears farms and take notes. The stats help your farmers know what to grow next and complete innovative machines for Microsoft. It's like a sports management sim except for tech. You highlight things as you speed past the farms and then pour over spreadsheets. Then you call up your middle managers to tell then what to do. I liked the visuals from space but gameplay is more like a real job than I could stand, so I played these other five games. 

Solitaire played with a mandatory five people, couch co-op, with one controller. This series is absurd. Who does this sort of thing? Apparently it's quite popular though. In this fifth installment you use the solitaire gameplay to fight mythological beasts and outwit a complex conversation system in an epic tale of desperate battles, betrayal and deceit. I would've loved it if I didn't need five couches for social distancing. I played the following seven games instead. 

'02 was fair for me. Nothing special happened for me that year, just more pizza delivery and jam sessions, two great tastes that taste great together. 

The Grand Gears series gets a Disney DLC pack where you can farm with Disney characters. Make them happy and they'll join your party with special magical powers in battle. Or, it's just the following four games I played earlier today. 

2001 seems like a great year to me from a media perspective but it was kind of hell for me. I left my job that summer and started a new one (no better than the old one) where I began working late night again. 911 happened. I woke up just in time to watch part of it happen live; one of those "never forget" moments. Then rent went up, and I moved to a new place. After all that, things picked up because Adult Swim started on Comedy Central, members of The State comedy troop made a movie, and a game appeared that would define the next decade for me, Halo. 

It could be another solitaire variant but it's actually the collective title of the four games I played today. 

2000 was the year I started playing some live shows with my band in Philly and several other states. I had to upgrade all my gear for this and it cost me a pretty penny. I did some music on my own as well with a four track and a drum machine. It was music all the time that year, except when I saw, played or read the following.  

Renomus spent long years casting spells and doing magic for questing parties. He made a lot of dough, and wanted a rest. So he bought himself a small farm and sold corn and apples out on the highway. With his magic, he may have influenced a few deals, but by and large he was an honest farmer, and satisfied. Then one day a forest gnome brought him a curious message. . .

It keeps you from getting lost when traveling the digital plane. Today I came across three regional aberations that call themselves games. They are, of course, live alogrithms who need a creative input to expand their functionality - to grow, in other words. I played three of them. I wonder how the results changed the cosmic data stream?