That's a neat project and a nice write up :) And I like your writing style, this was fun to read :D Oh, and this seems to me like time well spent, there are still other days to take an arrow to the knee in Skyrim ;P Cheers!
Haven't been playing a whole lot over the last year. Certainly not anything new. Had great fun playing through Vice City again (check out Vanilla Vice on moddb) and with the THPS 1 + 2 remake :)
Oh, and probably the greatest thing was playing through Tomb Raider 1 with a friend in couch co-op...