Hello boys and girls!

As most of you now know I am located in Tuscana Italia and will be staying here for the next 5 months still. Other than my girlfriend breaking up with my one week after I arrived I am ok. However, this is not about that. If one thinks bad a few years they would remember me writing lots of journals about playing quake. I got pretty bored with it though with the lack of tournaments, and I started working etc.

However, with the announcement of the ESWC and me being in Europe it gives me the opportunity to play in a tournament again! (albeit if only a qualifier). I might not have been brilliant, but tournaments were really the only thing I enjoyed, if playing in them or watching them. So hopefully Italy has a qualifier, because I would really really like to go, but of course this leads to other problems.

First the good things:
- I have a computer, quake 3 and a usable cfg (necessary)
- I can still aim
- I have my mouse and mousepad
- I can spare an hour or two every day

The bad things:
- No internet connection
- No keyboard (have you ever tried playing on a laptop keyboard?)
- No one to play against
- The last time I played compeditively in a tournament was in 2002. (I came 7th, in SA, so nothing great, I must say though that the person that beat me was later disqualified for cheating and I was not allowed to replay my games hmmph)
- My current game is a complete mess, I can't time, I fuck up my movement often, my strategy is bananas, I lose concerntration after 2 minutes and end up randomly running around. (the last ummm 6 years I have been playing mostly drunk and being very aggressive)

Oh yeah, and is there anyway to play full screen on a letter box laptop screen where the viewpoint isn't warped?

Anyway, how the hell would one get back into reasonable shape in this situation? And apart from Stermy and booms (hopefully they don't turn up), who is good in Italy?

Anyway, yay!