Image via Wikipedia So, you may have noticed. I haven’t blogged in the last couple of weeks or so. So what’s up? What’s going on? Is everything ok?
Everything is fine. It’s been a long and intense few weeks - even more than normal, which is saying a lot.
On top of work, family life, working out, and keeping the house relatively presentable, we needed to plan and shop for our child’s second birthday. We figured we’d play it out like a big group play date for entire families so that dads could participate. It was a heck of a lot of fun for everyone. Our child looked like an explosion of glee on having such a lovely group play date at our place with so many friends.
The morning after the birthday party, the Supreme Court decided the so-called “violent video game” case, Brown v EMA. To say that we at ECA, and everyone in the industry, had been waiting for the decision would be an understatement. People were getting ulcers over the thing. Not me, mind, you, but other folks. I had hope. Clearly everyone, or nearly everyone, in the industry was on IM, SCOTUS blog live feed and multiple phones all morning waiting for the decision to come out and discussing as it was coming out. I know I was! For gamer geeks in the industry, this was the Super Bowl. For lawyer gamer geeks, even more so.
It would also be an understatement to say that life fell into a vortex in the two weeks following the decision. This decision is a game changer on a number of levels. I’ve discussed it a number of places, and will not do so here. But yes, Virginia, this is monumental.
In trying to regroup after the post-decision, we’ve also been working on many other issues at ECA. One of which is S. 978, the anti-streaming bill before Congress, which could criminalize video game streaming. Not so lovely for consumers. Check out our campaign.
Which by way of nothing brings me to current results and working out. I’m still working out. 1-1.5 hours 5 days a week. About half of the workouts are video games and half are jogging. I’m up to 5.2 miles and training for a 10K (6.2 mile) race August 6th. My weight is presently 25 pounds lost, with my next weight loss goal of 30 lost overall by the third week in August.
How are you all doing?
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