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I don’t think anyone actually follows this blog, but for those of you randomly finding it from google searches, I thought it appropriate to provide an update beyond the status of my defense. I did, in fact, successfully defend my dissertation, and it is now freely available through the U Florida library catalog.

Furthermore, I graduated from UF and started my job at U Mary Washington back in the Fall, and am now starting my second semester. It’s been fun so far!

More importantly, Stacy and I had our baby girl, Wendy June, back in October. She’s a neat little person and we love getting to know her.

After moving to Fredericksburg, VA, we rented for a few months, but in November we become first-time homeowners. It’s a nice little house. Kind of old and retro in some respects, but it has held up fine, for the most part. (The oil furnace went out for a few days, but it was covered by our home warranty, thankfully.)

And also the book I coedited, Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Videogames, was published by Vanderbilt University Press.

So, it’s been some exciting times.

This will most likely be the last post on this blog for a while, but if you’d like to follow my research, I will be setting up a different site to help turn my dissertation into a book. Also, I have set up within the UMWBlogs system (which is excellent, btw) that collects various feeds I publish through different sites, including this one and my teaching websites.