It’s been a while, but in my defense… fuck you. Anyways. Post-holiday time is always hectic. It’s like you’re starting a new year and you have to first pick yourself up from the lazy holiday season. It’s a really poorly designed system. The holidays should be in the middle of the year, or like right after we get tax returns. That way when the government coughs up a bunch of cash back to us slaves, we can inject it right back into the economy… instead of trying to save it (which we don’t) and end up being broke by holiday season.

So yesterday was my daughters birthday party; good times. But because we have some new people working on my shift which I’m still training (and aren’t ready to work alone yet) my work schedule has been fucked up. I have to work 7 days straight and I didn’t even get the day off for her party. So I had to come home from work, help finish everything for the party, take a few hour nap and wake up and act all happy. Then after everyone left I tried to get some shut eye… a whopping hour and a half before work. Needless to say I was totally tired as a mudda fucka and started hallucinating on my drive home!

Couple of things I plan on doing this year: Chad and I are still discussing our game, we’ve even created a svn repository and sorta tinkering. Well it’s mainly Chad tinkering and me thinkering. I haven’t actually contributed to the code yet, but I did upgrade my Visual Studio installation in preparation for it! From what I can tell we’re going to make Zinger into a stand alone game, or maybe not… we don’t know yet but the first step is the game engine anyway.

I also started using my Google Calender; such an epic tool. I have so many things going on at any given time that I lose track of them so easily. I made a promise to myself to start utilizing it. WHRY?! Dude the service is free and it iterates into my phone perfectly… why wouldn’t I?

Since GATM went down I find myself playing games more often… love it! But my developer side is hungry. Luckily I’ve found a friend in Waxx and the Mine-Dog community. We’ve been working together a lot more lately and I’ve been able to tinker with their website and all that fun stuff. Will be interesting to see what we can manage in 2009.

Speaking of which, in 2009 I’ll be aiming to keep my blog more frequently updated, and add a Twitter thingymajiggy. I’ll probably start that right after I finish this blog post. DONE!

Let’s see, I think that about sums up this post. OH! One last thing, I think I want to take a film class of sorts. Possibly a filming techniques and editing course. I’ve always wanted to make machinima but lacked the video editing ability. I downloaded a demo for Sony Vegas once and I felt like a fag in a titty bar.

The worst part is I kept trying to find something better to do, maybe a club or some other event. They were either way too expensive or just as lame as going to a masquerade. I just don’t get parties like this where you have to wear a mask. Why can’t I just show up without a mask and get drunk and have a good time? Whats with the masks? Isn’t that where ugly people go… to parties where you don’t see other peoples faces? So am I going to be talking to lots of ugly people? Why are ugly people so ugly? These are the questions I had to ask myself.

But since I spent so much time trying to find out something else to do, I ended up having to run out last minute to find a fucking mask. And you know what I found out? Too many people throw masquerades on New Years. Every place (that was even open) was sold out of these masks. Or they had some shitty faggot masks that were shaped like a cats head or other fairy pussy shit like that. Yea that’s what I want to do, look like a Furry for New Years.

So my wife calls me because we had split up to look for a mask and she says she found a few masks and wanted to know what color I wanted. I had a choice: green, yellow or silver. I told her to just buy them all and I’d figure it out later. So when she gets home I look at the masks and they are seriously too small for my face. It was like a fat man with a toddlers jacket on. Now I’m even more pissed because not only am I going to go to a dumb masquerade but now I have to wear a really stupid mask.

All angry and annoyed, I turn to my savior. No not Jebus or Zeus… GOOGLE! Why Google? The fuck if I know, not like I could have a mask ordered and delivered in an hour. But you know what? It worked! Google saved the day! I found a “make it yourself” page and everything turned out great. Here’s a picture of my wife and I:

(oh and by the way the party turned out to be a lot of fun, it wasn’t as dumb at all. Happy New Years!)