I've actually been looking around at IRC hosting just out of curiosity but haven't found quite what I'm looking for just yet. I've looked at a few things and to possibility of built in dice bots but those always seem flaky to me. As for what I've been up to?
Let me 'splain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up.
About 3 or 4 years ago I moved from Jacksonville, FL to Fairview Heights, IL (That's in the Metro East area just outside of St. Louis, MO). Kept working for Sherwin-Williams after the move. Got into World of Warcraft on the horde side. Went back to college. Got out of playing World of Warcraft and then quit college. Moved from an apartment to a house. Got back into World of Warcraft on the Alliance side. Met a cool chick in the Warcraft guild I that I was co-running at the time and we became good friends. Transferred from one store to work at a different store further away working more hours for the same pay. Discovered that cool gamer chick was quickly becoming more than just friends with me. Got fed up with work and went back to college to get a degree in business management. Transferred back to the old store to better focus on school and on the new found relationship. Gamer chick moved up here with me and we got married on August 1st this year. We're working on getting her up to speed with Shadowrun. She's already been initiated into Munchkin (I have all of the sets for regular munchkin) and Zombie Fluxx.

That's mostly everything. Gaming has been dead for me outside of video games due to time constraints. I'm working on changing that.