Holidays BAD!

12.01.2003

I have a history of things going wrong during a holiday. The Flat Tire of July 4th. The Memorial Day Lightning Strike. This year: The Thanksgiving Heater Crash.

I finally turned the heat on last week, and everything seemed to be working fine, but sometime between Thursday night and Friday morning, the heating unit stopped working. No fan. No lights on the thermostat (although the temperature still showed up), nothing. I changed the batteries in the thermostat. I tripped thecircuit breaker. I checked on the heating unit outside, still nothing. It being a holiday weekend, it was hard to get hold of anyone to come look at it, but hopefully somebody will come by tomorrow (I've still got calls to make). Will I end up getting a new 96 cent part? Will I have to get a completely new heating and air unit? Is there anything in between? Maybe I'll find out tomorrow.

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Russellmania Wrestling Simulator

11.25.2003

Close to 20 years ago I had an idea for a wrestling video game. The games of the day featured 1 on 1 matches against sometimes known (Hulk Hogan) sometimes unknown (Bop N Wrestle) characters. At best you would have to beat 5 guys and then win thechampionship - at which point the game was over.

I've always wanted something more. Something that would act like what's played out on tv. Story lines. Title defenses. Feuds. My wish came close to being fulfilled when the Smackdown series of games for the PS2 came out. The only drawback to these games is the finite amount of storylines.

The best solution to this would be to make mods for Smackdown to include new storylines. If it was a game available for the PC,I think it would be plausible, but for a console title I'm not so sure how to do it. So, I'm back to an idea I had 20 years ago.

What if I made a video game?

That's part of the reason I went to school and got my CS degree. Theoretically, I have the knowledge, or at the very least I should have learned how to get the knowledge. So 2 years ago I decided that's what I would do. I would make my wrestling video game. On Thanksgiving of 2001, I started to make notes of what I wanted, and didn't want, in my video game. I decided I would think about these things for a year, and then start making the game. The problem was, after a year I still didn't know how to start. So from there, I continued making notes and started looking around at how to make a video game. And now, after 2 years of notes and a year of wondering how to make it, it's time to start.

Unfortunately, I can't start out making the grandiose game I've always dreamed of, I'mgoing to have to take baby steps. But come Thursday, I take the next step and actually write the code for that first baby step.

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A Short Week

11.24.2003

This is shaping up to be a really short week.

• Monday - A normal length day in which I have to go to Best Buy and do some birthday shopping
• Tuesday - A short day in which we of Spiritus Inc go downtown to have a holiday luncheon, more than likely followed by sneaking of to the boss' and playing with his $10K Mac.
• Wednesday - I think everyone else at work is taking off so they can travel to their holiday locations. I think I should join in the taking off, even though all my holiday locations are at best an hour away.
• Thursday - Holiday festivities, probably in both Florence and metropolitan Moulton.
• Friday - NOT going shopping (as opposed to last year).

Maybe this shortness will give me time to catch up on things I've been putting off (like those @#%!@ camtoons!)

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Multilingual Programming

11.20.2003

This has been the [busy] week of work prgoramming, mainly in a different language each day. Tuesday was playing around in Flash and some ActionScript. Yesterday and today find me in .NET hell. Tomorrow will hopefully find me out of .NET hell, but I have to wrap up some things in PHP and old fashioned ASP.

And that's why there's been a scarcity of updates this week.

To make up for it, my favortie Australian bikini site has just updated their model gallery competition pictures. I will never wear one of their bikinis (at the very least, because I have boy parts), but I do enjoy admiring those that have the guts (and the parts) to wear these.

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Not a Real Entry

11.18.2003

I've got a lot going on today after my return from Gatlinburg, so this is mostly just to let Mom know I made it back ok.

Mom! I made it back ok!

Now if I can just survive the onslaught of tornadoes the weathermen have been forecasting for today.

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