I wrote this email to Robin Walker, product manager of Team Fortress 2, today.

Thanks for making Team Fortress 2 so damn awesome of a game, for which reason I'm teeter-tottering on the edge of my sanity right about now. Personally, this couldn't have come at a worse time after something that I've been through that was just dumb luck counting against me. I dunno if I can seriously play TF2 outside of the competitive thing. I'm really considering just tossing all but the necessary out of my backpack so I can just play the game. 

Yeah, it's mostly a mix of stress and nerves just being excited at the wrong moment, but I am pretty upset that there are only going to be 100 golden wrenches. Much akin to the disappointment where I found out that after my ISP went down for whatever reason that the Soldier's service medal was released and I had to miss out on that too. I can understand numbering them, but why limit them to such a small allotment?

Sorry, I just needed to vent.

Something just hit me wrong with that whole situation and I lost my mind. I'm still reeling from some sort of scatterbrained daze.

The main focus of Steve Job's keynote Monday morning was the iPhone 4 and iOS 4 announcements. Also, this hilarious exploitable.

Yes, iBooks is going to get updated. Fuck yes, Netflix is coming to the iPhone. Oh fuck, Farmville is coming to the iPhone. That was basically the first twenty minutes of the presentation.

I'll write up something cool after I do some work watching matches for tf2trubl tonight. Count on it.

Time to get back to posting stuff on a regular basis. When I find something interesting to rant on about, I'll definitely throw it up here. No doubt about that.

I recently got my hands on the latest and greatest Twitter app for the iPhone, recently rebranded Twitter for iPhone and given a pretty good upgrade from its Tweetie 2 for iPhone counterpart. Here's a rundown.

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Actually, don't even bother looking below the fold here. It's a mess.

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I'm taking a break from writing–for the first time in a long while–the first content for my Team Fortress 2, tf2trubl (http://tf2trubl.carrtrubl.com). As I discuss in the first post, I hope to make it a home for my contributions to the great gaming community known as TF2.

Yes, I'm going to have to postpone the fourth episode AGAIN.

Apologies to all 20 of you that downloaded the original three, but I kept getting interrupted while plotting out how I was going to execute the fourth downloadable show. I've got a pad of paper right here beside me with some stuff written on it and I fully intend to bring most of what it has written down to you in the audio form.

In no particular order, with arbitrary reasoning:

• Fire Emblem, because I've been playing it and having metric fuck-tons of fun
• Left 4 Dead 2's The Passing DLC, because Valve is awesome and cool
• the latest on the Steam for Mac beta, because (once again) Valve is awesome and cool
• dropping half of my FourSquare friends, because they don't communicate with me
• Tweetie being snatched up by Twitter, because the only good first-party developers are Apple and Nintendo

I've also got a couple of cool blog posts on deck that I'll probably publish Friday and Saturday, barring anything else distracting me. These possibly blog posts include:

• items from the previous list that I don't cover in carrtrublcast #004
• "Competitive TF2: One Medic to Rule Them All"
• uStream vs. Qik for my iPhone 3G
• IRC: why I Really Care about it
• Specific Twitter Accounts vs. Facebook failConnect on one account

Of course, those aren't all the ideas I have in my head right now, but getting back to writing is going to happen starting tomorrow. Count on it.

I've been getting pretty busy trying to work on school, tf2trubl, and planning out what I want to make the podcast all about.

There's so much I do want to talk about with regards to the podcast, but I can't say anything right now because details are still being worked out in a part-time fashion. It's not going to be my reason for living and no one wants to take a big risk on the random guy who wants to talk about Team Fortress 2, gaming in general, his life, politics, religion–anything, really.

Until more news comes around with the podcast and tf2trubl, please support tgbf.tv (http://tgbf.tv) and KritzKast (http://kritzkast.com) with your attention and participation. Both thrive on community involvement and having something to talk about while commenting on a competitive TF2 or Defense of the Ancients match on TGBF or carrying on about the latest joke the mentlegen from KritzKast have cooked up.

With any luck, I'll be recording another fourth episode for mass consumption tonight while driving to band practice. The previous attempt at a fourth episode was… just not the quality of show that I'd like to publish. I'll probably go on about Fire Emblem and yesterdays' failed shoutcasting attempt. It'll go up tomorrow morning if I decide to publish it.

To my tumblr followers: Sorry I've been a little pre-occupied with the computer time that I have lately. I'll be back over there and publishing soon enough!