I'm leaving this purposely vague in regards to what your backlog is of, though I'll tell you about my backlogs.
Games I'm not playing on my Xbox (Not pictured: The games I'm not playing on my Wii, because they're all on a portable hard drive due to my having softmodded it.)
Games I'm not playing on Steam
I also have a large selection of comic books (in cbr/cbz format) I'm not reading, due to freeleech on the tracker I use, and a large array of movies/televisions series I should watch at some point, like Big Man Japan, Tokyo Gore Police, and all three current seasons of the Boondocks.
So how about you Hubski? What are you woefully behind on?
All I can say is: how can you have a copy of FTL: Faster Than Light that you've never played. That game's awesome. I have a Steam backlog, too, but it's nowhere near as long as yours. I have a book "waiting list": I wouldn't call it a backlog, because the rate at which books are added to it fluctuates and books rarely "jump the queue", so there's nothing on there that I'll never get to: it's just a matter of time. When I'm under pressure and doing too much, I get a backlog of emails, especially in my personal account. I try to process to Inbox Zero, but I can only manage it on a good day. On a bad day, it's far too easy to slip into the habit of using by inbox as a to-do list, which in turn only generates more stress - I've got to get better at that. I've got a slight backlog of board games: I think I've only got two board games (and, separately, two expansions) that I own but have never played, but I'd probably have more if my partner hadn't had me agree to a moratorium on more board games purchases until we'd at least played everything that I already owned. Oh, and I've got a little backlog on paperwork relating to my dad's estate: it's taken far too long (he died almost a year ago) to get things underway, owing to some legal complications, but now that we're finally moving I've got a heap of paperwork I need to do that I simply haven't found time for. I've learned a lot about being an executor this last year, and my god there's a lot of stuff that you (potentially) have to do!
|All I can say is: how can you have a copy of FTL: Faster Than Light that you've never played. That game's awesome. I've had people express shock that I'm not playing Dark Souls and Mirror's Edge as well. No shock at any of the books I'm not reading though. I'm working through Dead Space here and there, and have swiftly learned the first rule of that game: Shoot corpses.
Mostly books. I read a fair bit, but not as much as I'd like. I have yet to finish Game of Thrones, have a stack of Philip K. Dick books I've bee meaning to get to, and a couple books of the Foundation Series still in my to-read-pile. I have a backlog of projects to do for my house, and that takes up most my time. I moved in almost a year ago now, but still a lot to do, many of them waiting for winter to be over. Lots of painting to do inside, shelves/cabinets to hang, tear down the dropped ceiling that is in a couple of the rooms in the basement and finish it properly, dismantle and trash all the old shit cabinets in the garage, re-do all the heads on my sprinkler system, remove an old dead tree that fell over under high winds and heavy snow this winter on my property line, new faucet fixture for the kitchen, and probably a bunch of other shit I'm forgetting. I'm in a life transition from computer geek to Mr. Fix-It. I play video games, but I don't play many, I'm more of a "play the same ones all the time" kind of person. the only games on my Steam are CS:Source, CS:GO, and PlanetSide2 right now. CS:GO and PlanetSide2 satisfy my noob-killing urges well enough I really don't need anything else, and only play video games like 1-2 nights a week anyway. I'm also going through The West Wing on Netflix... easily my favorite TV show that's ever existed.
Dude. I just want to say that you are responsible for me wasting SO MUCH TIME these past 118 days. I started watching and became addicted to the West Wing. I'm in season 7 right now, about 4 episodes in. I can almost see the finish line. While I've really enjoyed the show, I will be glad to be free of it.
You should take a few pictures of the before status of some of your house projects, then do them, then take a few of the after status, and post them online. Ain't no validation like Internet validation and you'll get that in spades.
I plan to, not sure about posting them online though. Mostly because I like being able to personally look back and see how ugly things were before, and to remember how the place was when we bought it.
1. links to things people have sent me -- mostly video
2. thenewgreen's podcasts
3. theadvancedapes podcasts
4. writing projects to start or finish, particularly organizing, archiving, transcribing, and digitizing the letters sent during world war 2 between my two uncles -- young men ages 19 and 21 -- who were overseas in the Canadian navy and the rest of the family. They were brilliant, descriptive, analytical writers observing and fighting in the war - The older you get, the greater the backlog. But catching up means other things will backlog. Anyway, no guilt -- it's an endless cycle of creating and reflecting. Why clean up old messes when I can be creating new ones? One of my friends had an apartment fire (faulty wiring inside the wall and something to do with a space heater.) He said it was kind of good, because now he doesn't have to deal with all his files from university.
I have a backlog of art. I collect all the mediums tha tcna give me insight into humanity. Books, records, films. I spend all my time in them but I will never catch up. I'll never be able to complete all that I hope to. It's a painful thought that the things that keep me who I am and sane will never be complete in a way I want them to be. I have a backlog in education. Poverty puts a stop to this. Bureaucracy and plutocracy ensures that stop. There is nothing more painful than this. There is no way not to feel extreme rage when I know what I'm capable, I have proved that I have the intelligence to do anything, and yet here I sit accepted to multiple top universities and I am unable to get an education because of goddamn money. I sit every day at my dead end IT job and stew in the fears of my future unless a university provides for me. I have a backlog of rage. And cynicism. And misanthropy. It takes every bit of my self to sit at my job or my house day after day and continue to hold hope that I will be able to advance myself, that the world continues to be open to improvement, that people strive to be good when I have nothing but time and evidence to the contrary. The things I don't have a backlog of are what matter, though. I don't have a backlog of information, thanks to the internet and my ability to find anything I want to know. There's no backlog of love due to my significant other of two years and friends I've had close to me for even longer. There's no backlog in beauty, seeing as I live in DC, which I consider one of the most beautiful cities and areas in this country, and that I plan to spend a week in Norway this summer, and that I am able to spend a week in Norway thanks to a lack of backups in technology of flight, medicine, and human rights.
If education were free, what path would you choose? What would you study? I agree that DC is amongst the most beautiful cities in the country. My brother has lived there for many years and I really enjoy visiting him. Great food, great museums (and they're free! -the museums) and lots of interesting people and cultures converging. Enjoy Norway, and good luck.
I love the museums so much it's hard to comprehend. So much culture from all around the world makes it incredible. I was going to American for a bit majoring in international economics with a focus on trade. Though after attempting for two years through their either incessant attempts to force me out or having massive clerical errors, I've given up there, but that opens the window for me to go to George Washington and be able to double major in that as well as mechanical aerospace engineering. And thanks on Norway! I hope to make it at least partially my home sometime in the future.
I've had to give up most video games as I just cannot keep up with them. It's been six months since my wedding and we still haven't finished our thank you cards. I've been trying to spend more and more of my free time coding but even still I'm behind on a number of projects. Even my student loans are behind because I've had to appeal them!
Been on my list for two years or so. There was a real asshole that used to come into my work on a daily basis, Bryson was like a god to this guy. It always put me off reading his stuff. One day the guy was such an asshole that he got 86'ed for life and I let myself read Brysons "At Home" it was terrific. I'm sure I'll like his history as well.
He also wrote a tiny little book that taught me more true things about Shakespeare than all of my English courses put together, and a wonderful memoir about walking the Appalachian Trail that made me want to walk the Appalachian Trail. EDIT: did you know we have six samples of Shakespeare's handwriting, all signatures, all spelled differently, none of which say "William Shakespeare"? Come on, factoids don't get much better than that.
1809 hours on TF2. WAT I have a lengthy Steam backlog as well: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198025445557/games?t... I used to have an extensive TV backlog, but I've decided most of those things aren't worth my time. I very rarely watch TV anymore. I'm too busy at school. I have read so few books for fun recently that my backlog has become far too long to even keep track of. One of my new year's resolutions was to begin reading recreationally again, at least one book per month. Right now, I'm reading Tolkien.
Books, games, and music. For video games, I blame the Steam Sales and games that we're gifted to me. I also like to beat a game and then move on to the next one, which makes getting around to playing all of them very difficult. Finally going to start playing Portal sometime over the next couple of weeks. As for books, I'm reading Penguin Books Great Ideas, the Winston Churchill one, but have bought 3 or 4 books that I haven't even started yet. Lastly is music, I currently have 5 albums that I'm in the process of reviewing and bringing back to the radio station, and a lot more music to listen to on top of that.
I am woefully behind on making my next podcast. I started the night before last and I'm about five minutes into it and I expect it will be 10 minutes long. It should have been done by now. I am also woefully behind on finishing a new song. I have been participating in a songwriting challenge with cW and jonaswildman. I've begun recording but haven't finished. -I'm way behind. Jonas is already done. I'm woefully behind at work because I keep coming back to Hubski and commenting on questions like this :)
I have a similar backlog of Steam games. Seasonal sales and Humble Bundles do crazy things to your library. I have a backlog of friends to catch up with. It's been tough since school ended and I've been trying to keep up with people but I've been woefully behind on several of them. There are plenty of albums I'm behind on. For example I recently downloaded all of Aesop Rock because I was interested in his work, but I also want to give it due attention and appreciate the lyrics so I just kinda haven't dug into it and keep listening to things I'm already comfortable with. I'm also behind on the programming projects I want to do. I've had it in my mind to make a simple game but I just haven't gotten around to learning the tools I need. I guess when I program at work all day I'm not as interested in doing it on my own, even though it'd be fun and I'm getting a lot of good practice. I guess this one is more of an "idea" backlog than having anything physical to be behind on.