{"id":79,"date":"2005-01-01T09:31:11","date_gmt":"2005-01-01T09:31:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-01-01T09:31:11","modified_gmt":"2005-01-01T09:31:11","slug":"promises-promises-promises-who-needs-them-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/01\/01\/promises-promises-promises-who-needs-them-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Promises, Promises, Promises &#8211; Who Needs Them Anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year one and all! Welcome to 2005 \u2013 the year of the gamer!<\/p>\n<p>Any resolutions for this gamer?  Heck no!  I have always thought New Year resolutions were a wee bit silly.  I mean, why make them in the first place?  If you need to loose 10 pounds, why wait until January 1st to start?  If you are smoking, why not break the habit Labor Day weekend?  Maybe I just do not get it.<\/p>\n<p>In the South we eat black-eye peas and collards (greens) to bring us good fortune through out the New Year.  I cannot stand collards, but I remember that my grandmother used to love them and was always disappointed if we did not eat them to start off the New Year.  Tonya is fixing a big \u2018ol pot of the peas, but thankfully no collards.  Hopefully the prosperity thing will happen; keeping my fingers crossed.<\/p>\n<p>OK, if I have to make some resolutions to keep this article somewhat interesting, I will resolve to do the following:<\/p>\n<p><UL><LI>Finish Champions of Norrath (currently at the start of Act IV)<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Continue to make progress in Gran Turismo 3 (currently around 23%)<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Actually play games that I purchase instead of letting them collect dust<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Sale games on eBay that are currently collecting dust<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Better restore the Hawks to glory in NBA Live 2005 \u2026 since, ah, it is collecting dust<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Get a launch day PSP, take a day off, and write tons of comments about the new portable, its games, and my impressions.  Glory days!<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Finish GTA: Vice City<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Finish GTA III<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Continue to make progress in GTA San Andreas since the previous two will never happen<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Defeat Sin thus completing Final Fantasy X (currently leveling up to fight Sin)<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Post regular updates to this blog<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Maintain a regular exercise program so I do not get fat and lazy while accomplishing the above.<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\nSo there you have it.  I have made some stinking promises, and like the rest of you, there is no way in hell that I will actually keep *all* my promises.  I guess promises were made to be broken \u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year one and all! Welcome to 2005 \u2013 the year of the gamer! Any resolutions for this gamer? Heck no! I have always thought New Year resolutions were a wee bit silly. I mean, why make them in the first place? If you need to loose 10 pounds, why wait until January 1st &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/01\/01\/promises-promises-promises-who-needs-them-anyway\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Promises, Promises, Promises &#8211; Who Needs Them Anyway?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}