What I've been doing!

For the past three weeks, it's been very difficult to play Runescape for any amount of time. Luckily, I'm getting back into Runescape now, but I attribute my absence to two main reasons:

1. I began playing a wonderful game called League of Legends with my best friend. It's unlike any game I've ever played. I would best describe it as a combination between an MMORPG and an RTS. Basically, you control a "champion" and, along with teammates, try to conquer an opposing base while protecting your own. It's beautifully made, actively updated, and free to play (with some cosmetic content available for purchase). I highly recommend it.
2. I've been disillusioned with Jagex's recent updates. It's clear their business model places high priority on making money (which I completely understand--they are a business after all!) I suppose I simply miss the past when the homepage didn't have any ads at all, compared to today where the entire background is an ad in addition to the two prominent ads as well. Also, Jagex seems to be abandoning their previous method of letting word-of-mouth spread their popularity and now rely on Facebook and YouTube as well. They also compromised account security by allowing people to log in with their Facebook accounts. It's all very annoying when I think of how things used to be.

So I've begun slowly getting back into the game and it's been fun so far. I currently have 771m and I'm seriously considering selling a partyhat to purchase 200m construction xp before all 22 frontpage ranks become closed. This has been brooding in my mind for some time, but after a friend sold his blue partyhat to buy 200m herblore, it became my top considered option. In the mean time, I'm doing some fishing (finally trying rocktails with the 90 fishing I got months ago) and I've found it relaxing, but almost so relaxing that it puts me to sleep. No joke, I had to take a break from Runescape while fishing because I wanted to fall asleep.

I recently downloaded a version of editing software that's good for 30 days, so I may put together some videos before that trial ends. I guess making my history video for 2008 would be appropriate, given the sentiments I addressed above.

Personal: Tomorrow is officially my last day of school. I'm exempt from all my final exams, but I keep going anyway to ensure I have 13 years of perfect school attendance at graduation. It'll be nice to stop going to school though, because it's really a very inefficient waste of time--I have nothing to do so I find myself derping around on the library computers if I don't have thank-you letters to write or something.

I made $0.98 from my Google Adsense account in May! This really surprised me because I only have ads on this blog and one YouTube video. It's a great motivator to start a website to see if I can actually make a decent earning on ads alone. I'm thinking it'll be a great project to maintain during my time in college.