Well, I forgot this dA account even existed. My excuse is that I created it five years ago. I figure I'll write a new journal entry, forget about it for give more years, then reflect upon it once more.

A lot has happened in the past five years. First and foremost, I'm married to an amazing and gorgeous woman named Lisa and we have a beautiful baby girl named Adriana. We have been married since September 5th, 2007. I am twenty three now, have a job with our shady government, and I live in Okinawa, Japan. The mighty Japan! The dreamed local of 90% of dA subscribers! It's about as amazing as you think it is. What else is there? Oh, I've changed.

Why is it that whenever someone hasn't written in their blog in a few years they decide to write about how they have changed? The people who knew you that many years ago are still going to think of you as that past entity, no matter how hard you try to convince them otherwise. So I'm not going to bother selfishly describing how I've bettered myself. I'll leave it at that. Everyone changes, some for the better and some for the worse. It's inevitable and hardly worth talking about. Besides, the past isn't real. Why fake it?

All I can do now is wonder about this account. Keep it and use it? Keep it and disregard its existence once again? Delete it altogether?

It wouldn't take much to delete this account. Not too much has been uploaded and as such not many comments have been had. Still, I have this weird characteristic, shared by many, where I think, "If I delete this then I'll end up wanting to use it and I'll regret it!" So, the most I can do is attempt to use it. I have two blogs which I hardly update, a myspace which grew old a year ago, and facebook which I neglect as much as the myspace. I'm a big fan of my livejournal and will keep it for as long as possible but I just never seem to be motivated to update it. Don't get me wrong, I'm still a dork who thinks about something and wants to update my blog with that thought, but whenever I actually get to my computer I feel like doing something different. Nonetheless, perhaps I'll use this as a picture base. Hell, I'm updating this now, who says it won't happen again?

I was thinking about leaving my older user info as is for nostalgias sake, but then anyone who happens across this will think I'm still a giddy eighteen year old with a picture of his ex up. So, in response to this desire, I have come up with a solution; post my old user info right here.

* Website: [link]
* E-mail: Finalmike9@aol.com
* AIM: thetennisbeach
* Current Age: 18
* Current Residence: Warwick, RI
* Interests: Tennis!
* Favourite movie: Shogun
* Favourite band or musician: Smashing Pumpkins, Monty's Fan Club
* Favourite genre of music: Punk
* Favourite artist: Ryoko!
* Operating System: Windows XP
* MP3 player of choice: WinAmp
* Shell of choice: Aston
* Wallpaper of choice: [link]
* Favourite game: Xenogears
* Favourite gaming platform: Playstation, SNES (gotta have rpg's)
* Favourite cartoon character: Taz!
* Personal Quote: If looks could kill I'd watch you die.
* Tools of the Trade: q_tools

Honestly, I have no idea what q_tools is.

To wrap this up, I'll simply say hello again.