It was part of my “new year” resolution that I would use what I have - by that I meant

- read books I already own that I havent read, or reread books I havent read in a while, instead of buying new stuff
- play games I own that I never finished or barely started, instead of buying new games
- watch DVDs I own, and catch good films on TV, instead of buying more

I have done pretty well on the book front, not buying many this year (all right, I think I did buy about 30, but almost all used and many reference books), doing a lot of swapping, and reading quite a few books.
I have also done ok on the games, revisiting games like “Might and Magic 6”, “Evil Islands”, Galactic Civilisations, Disciples 2, and keeping playing WoW and Guild Wars.

It’s all about enjoying what one has, and reducing the amount of wasted stuff in my life.

But I can do better, so here’s a challenge I am setting myself:

Each week I will do the following
1) read a book I have owned for more than 1 year. I will alternate fiction (easier) and non fiction. I will blog about it here.
2) play an old game I havent played in 1 year, or ever, and blog my impressions
3) watch one of my old DVDs and blog about it
4) spend some time on one of the million web2.0/community sites that I registered for and never did anything, blog about it, and decide whether to dump it or not

I will also do a similar pledge about discovering new things, but that is another post and another challenge

This refers to Challenge: use what you have but the summary was that:
Each week I will do the following
1) read a book I have owned for more than 1 year. I will alternate fiction (easier) and non fiction
2) play an old game I havent played in 1 year, or ever
3) watch one of my old DVDs
4) spend some time on one of the million web2.0/community sites that I registered for and never did anything, and decide whether to dump it or not

I’m not doing too bad on books and DVDs, but games are tough - I am not playing my existing games and still tempted to buy some of the great games coming out… maybe making this public will make me stick to the challenge…

Games I could revisit:

Descent 2 and Descent 3
Sacrifice
Freespace
Red Faction
Evil Islands (under way)
Might and Magic 6 (under way)
Disciples 2
Sacred
Neverwinter Nights
Arcanum
SWAT 4
Myth
Chaser
Fable
Silverfall
Max Payne
No One Lives Forever 2
Prey
Iwar 2
H&D 2
Armies of Exigo
Europa 1400 & The Guild 2
Hostile Waters
Tortuga Two Treasures
Battle Mages

That’s just a random grab from my list  - I’d welcome suggestions/votes as to which one anyone is interested in my revisiting and writing about