Still Alive...
...less distracted. A few people have poked me about updating, so I guess it's time I did.
Work was crazy for a long time leading up to E3. As you may know if you know me, I'm a developer for a game company, currently working on Hero's Journey. E3 was, as Simutronics CEO David Whatley put it, a flawless victory. We went in as a "Who?" company with what was assumed to be a vaporware title, and walked out with three (and counting) Best of Show awards. Not too shabby. The two months leading up to it had me working basically 18 hours a day, 7 days a week. It was a hell of an undertaking, and I'm pretty proud of the results. It burnt me out a little; for a week or two after it wound down, I had trouble going home or doing much of anything else...I just couldn't relate to the free time. It's all good now, though.
I've often had little passing thoughts which were blog-worthy (worthy of this one, anyway), but once you let it go for long enough, it feels like the post that breaks the silence needs to be something epic in nature. I finally decided that, frosty Shiner Bock in hand, I was going to just update the damn thing and get it out of the way, so I could return to my regularly scheduled incoherence.
The past week or two, I've been on a recording spree, trying to finish a song by Father's Day. I've occasionally wanted to do this song, and it just makes sense to do it by then, since it reminds me of my dad - a fact which may or may not please him, once he knows what song I'm talking about. Anyway, that should be up in a few days.
Speaking of BLF, we are apparently huge in Japan. :p Not really, but the punk cover of House of Pain's Jump Around got indexed by some Japanese search engine, and gets downloaded a couple of dozen times a day on average. Awesome. Unfortunately, no one's ever written me to give feedback on it, so I am forced to suspect that there are a few thousand annoyed Japanese people out there wondering when House of Pain learned to play the guitar.
Finally, just before we moved here, a Krav Maga school opened up just down the street from our apartment in Knoxville. I had never heard of it, and so studied up a little, and it sounded right up my alley. So we moved cross-country. Anyway, I've been waiting for a school to open up in the STL area, and as soon as I quit looking, one did (last October, actually). I haven't been in particularly impressive shape in a while this lifetime, but I've been exercising a bit more regularly, and it's starting to pay off, plus I've missed martial arts since I quit taking Shaolin, the first time I left Knoxvegas. So I think in a month or two, I'll go check out that school. Besides, it sounds like Adam is getting buff, and I'd hate for him to beat me up one day.
From the enough-about-me department, there has been an exciting development in D's life, but I can't pass it on because I'm not really sure who reads this. No, she's not pregnant...if you know her, though, you might want to ask her about it.
Currently listening to: "Teardrops", Massive Attack
Work was crazy for a long time leading up to E3. As you may know if you know me, I'm a developer for a game company, currently working on Hero's Journey. E3 was, as Simutronics CEO David Whatley put it, a flawless victory. We went in as a "Who?" company with what was assumed to be a vaporware title, and walked out with three (and counting) Best of Show awards. Not too shabby. The two months leading up to it had me working basically 18 hours a day, 7 days a week. It was a hell of an undertaking, and I'm pretty proud of the results. It burnt me out a little; for a week or two after it wound down, I had trouble going home or doing much of anything else...I just couldn't relate to the free time. It's all good now, though.
I've often had little passing thoughts which were blog-worthy (worthy of this one, anyway), but once you let it go for long enough, it feels like the post that breaks the silence needs to be something epic in nature. I finally decided that, frosty Shiner Bock in hand, I was going to just update the damn thing and get it out of the way, so I could return to my regularly scheduled incoherence.
The past week or two, I've been on a recording spree, trying to finish a song by Father's Day. I've occasionally wanted to do this song, and it just makes sense to do it by then, since it reminds me of my dad - a fact which may or may not please him, once he knows what song I'm talking about. Anyway, that should be up in a few days.
Speaking of BLF, we are apparently huge in Japan. :p Not really, but the punk cover of House of Pain's Jump Around got indexed by some Japanese search engine, and gets downloaded a couple of dozen times a day on average. Awesome. Unfortunately, no one's ever written me to give feedback on it, so I am forced to suspect that there are a few thousand annoyed Japanese people out there wondering when House of Pain learned to play the guitar.
Finally, just before we moved here, a Krav Maga school opened up just down the street from our apartment in Knoxville. I had never heard of it, and so studied up a little, and it sounded right up my alley. So we moved cross-country. Anyway, I've been waiting for a school to open up in the STL area, and as soon as I quit looking, one did (last October, actually). I haven't been in particularly impressive shape in a while this lifetime, but I've been exercising a bit more regularly, and it's starting to pay off, plus I've missed martial arts since I quit taking Shaolin, the first time I left Knoxvegas. So I think in a month or two, I'll go check out that school. Besides, it sounds like Adam is getting buff, and I'd hate for him to beat me up one day.
From the enough-about-me department, there has been an exciting development in D's life, but I can't pass it on because I'm not really sure who reads this. No, she's not pregnant...if you know her, though, you might want to ask her about it.
Currently listening to: "Teardrops", Massive Attack
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