So it's been a another long hiatus; a great example of how hard it actually is to just write.  Seems so easy right?  You just sit down and scribble some thoughts down, type them in, make sure you have your, and you're sorted out and viola, done.  Right?  I can hear my writer Brother in Law laughing at me right now.

Boy did I get that wrong; lots of blogs come and go.  Actually, they never really go, they just sit around like zombies on the web, much like this near dead one right here.  What I've come to realize is you really need a hook.  Something that is your little corner of blogdom.  Some people blog about food, or travel, or selfies.  But focus helps, gives you a topic to riff on each week and helps you to increase your expertise.  That's what this blog has been missing, well minus the actual blogging of course.

My intention was to just yap about life in general, or whatever came to mind.  And I suppose I always reserve the right to do that but without a focus you get what we have here, five years and a handful of posts.  Clearly that was not working, so what, if anything has changed?

Good question.

What changed is an old friend of mine and I got to talking via e-mail and then Google Hangouts.  Somehow the idea of making computer games came up, something we had both talked about at times as being the perfect second career.  We'd both retired and were working good jobs, but they weren't the "dream" job.  For the two of us the dream was designing virtual content, improving IT experiences, being CREATIVE.

Those initial contacts turned into several meetings from Oct to Dec of 2015.  We met weekly to just dream and talk about strategy, goals, large picture projects and to have a beer together even if he lived in Portland and I was in Panama City FL.  Those initial meetings morphed into the foundation of a fledgling company.  A startup if you will, but more than a start up, it's in fact a culmination of our prior experiences flying fighters in the Air Force, and a lifetime love of IT, technology and computer games.  An experience based culmination and creation.

1212Gaming.com was born on 1 Jan 2016, under the umbrella of our bigger dreams loosely contained in WindowShade Imaginarium.com.  I say loosely because they are constantly in danger of bursting out and taking flight to places unknown and certainly exciting.

And there you have the situation coming full circle.  This blog is reborn and repurposed as an extension of 1212Gaming and WindowShade Imaginarium.  It will be a living document tracking the inception and development of a small dream germinated in the fevered imaginations of two gamer fighter pilots, one an IT and programming nerd and the other a developer and technology power user.

We are engaged and cleared to press.  See you out there friends, it's time to get creative.