Programmer, Analyst, Learner, Leader, Gamer

Brain juices flowing, that’s what!

After succefully surviving another session at DeVry with all A’s while going to PAX during final’s week and being inundated into gaming culture in a way I never have before, I’ve decided along with Vitor, Chindako, DaveUK, Kerrie, and Mike to make a game. I’ve got a good team pulled together, I’ve setup the project management resources, and *GASP* I bought a top of the line laptop for school and development. Vitor has a unique combat system in mind. Brian has the brains and contacts to work out a good story and get us published. DaveUK has unique sound. Kerrie has unqiue art. Mike is going to help with coding and focus testing. I have the project management skills to pull it all together (along with coding). We’ve got a game in mind and if it takes us 2 years to get it out of the door so be it, but we’re going to make a really awesome game.

Need I say more?

Victor (my clone here at work) and I are going at lunch to pick up a copy. We’re gonna grab pizza and soda and play into the night. Good times. I can’t wait. MWUAHAHAHAHA

I got caught up in Math, got A-Red-Thread.com/Store launched, I got all my schoolwork done early so… I figured it was a good weekend for WoW. I ended up grinding a ton of PVP points, getting my belt on Thursday, my Neck on Saturday, and my Merciless Gloves on arena week reset. Now my resillience is 218 and I’m an unstoppable machine. Good times. We went back to Karazhan this weekend, killed a world dragon, and have been having a huge boon in recruitment. I’m pretty excited because it feels like the guild is coming together finally. We’re on the cusp of taking the 25-mans seriously. I’m more interested still in having 2 stable Karazhan teams. Even a month of solid Karazhan and we should be able to start doing the 25-mans regularly.

I lost a week of journal’ing. I don’t know what happened in the last week. Time has flown by so fast.

Well here’s the short and skinny of what’s been going on. Got all my reports done last week for the CIA application. I got really sick this last weekend and I think that’s what caused me to ‘fall off’ the horse if you will. Been spending a lot of time helping Kerrie getting her website www.a-red-thread.com rolling. As a company we decided that we’re NOT going to VB.Net but rather C#, which is awesome. As response to that I’ve been converting CIA.Net to C# which currently is done minus a few things and testing. I got my passport turned in finally. Last but certainly not least (does that even apply in this case? meh), Kerrie’s serrogate little brother passed away this week. She’s been a pseduo mess, I think the only thing keeping her together is focusing on the stress of getting to the East coast in time. Once she’s there I think it’ll finally sink in, maybe even on the plane. Tonight I’m taking her to the airport and she won’t be back until the day I’m going up to Seattle for PAX. Life is going by fast right now, all this along with the economy going crazy right now, things are interesting. At least the drama recently in the guild has died down. I’m caught up on Math homework so I should be able to get some good WoW time in this weekend.

I don’t feel as hungry as I used to. I don’t get it. It’s like I’ve eaten my fill and I don’t want to overeat. I feel content with the amount of food I’m consuming. I went to the pizza buffet at Round Table with the guys and I didn’t over eat. Is this way it’s like to be “properly nourished”? I’ve been “malnourished” as is expected from Crohn’s, but I didn’t expect to see results this fast. I mean they say this drug works fast, but THIS fast? Maybe again this is my brain screwing with me, but it seems like I have more pigment in my skin since I got on this stuff. I’ve already noticed a difference this morning in the lack of pain in my joints, that I can tell is working quickly although as I type this my wrists hurt. Again today I feel great, better than last night, although I feel drowsy like I did yesterday. Expect a lot of posts about my health in the coming days, I want to track my day to day progress of how well the Remicade is doing. Overall I feel better than I’ve been since all this started and I’m pretty relaxed right now, which is saying a lot.

It wasn’t a big deal. I got a needle in me, some blood drawn, and got pumped full of some stuff. Overall it wasn’t painful or annoying, in fact I felt in a way like I slept in because I was half asleep to asleep during the whole thing. I don’t seem to be having reactions to the medication so I’m pretty happy about that. Between being nervous about the needle and nervious about reactions to the medication, these were my primary concerns. Now I just need to get over the fear of coming down deathly ill. That will pass in time I guess. I feel “better” but at the same time I feel quite drowsy. I don’t know how to think about it, we’ll see how I feel in the morning.

Spent the evening hanging out at Kerrie’s place getting caught up on Math. Kinda nice to sit back and focus on that for an evening. I blew through two tests and a whole chapter of the class, not bad concidering the class is comprised of like 5 chapters. A lot of this old math knowledge is coming back to me, it’s pretty amazing stuff. I hoping that by week 8 all I’ll have left in the class is to take time re-taking some of the lower scoring tests working my grade up. Shouldn’t be an issue concidering I’m so much further than I was before.

Today I woke up late, had some breakfast, and jumped on first thing to do some homework. I did all my CIS homework, posts, and my mid-term only to be interupted in the middle by hearing that Baliku had just /gquit. After putting an immediate band-aide on the situation I jumped back to my mid-term and kicked it’s ass.

I played WoW for a little bit helping my brother blow through STV quests with his alt, then proceeded to play some Paper Mario. That game is so fun and relaxing, it’s nice on Sunday to get away from WoW and just do something non-WoW, but gaming related. I think I’m going to continue to do this. I mean even if I’m together with Kerrie on Sunday, when I get home wind down with an hour or two of Mario before bed. Good times.

Ended up having a long talk with Brian about his health and his friendship with Amanda. It seems like she is putting undo distance between them amoung other things. I tried to give him as much advice as I could and tried to make him not feel “crazy” about what is going on. I just want the three of them to be in game again, drama free, and not hating each other. Regardless about what goes on IRL, it shouldn’t affect everyone’s ability to enjoy each other’s time in game and having fun.

A Red Thread launched today with great success. Not only did she sell 2 necklaces, a bracelet, but also several earrings. The total was around $250 which wasn’t bad for a first day showing. The biggest stresser of the day was if we ran into Eden and if she was going to start some drama. Turned out that no drama happened although I was stressed when warned that her Mother was going to show up. I’m glad Kerrie’s first day at the market was such a success although it sounds like she really hurt herself trying to pack up the booth herself. I dunno it sounds like there might be some issues that need to be dealt with. I really really want to help her out as much as a I can, but at the same time I don’t want to add to my already complicated schedule.

I had a grand time. Introductions were made. Food was eatten. Tug of war was won and sack race was won. I didn’t hit the target when given the opportunity to dunk anyone which stinks, but neither did anyone else. In all cases someone ran up and pushed the target to dunk someone. We all had a good laugh. Kerrie seemed to like Vitor (Victor Hermenzie, my co-worker and partner in crime) which was awesome because I think she’s going to be seeing more of him. Drive time in the car got her to know him even better since we were all carpooling. I ended up winning the grand prize for the day which is a gift certificate for a mini vacation’s hotel stay (at a Hilton property). Good times, I guess Karma goes a long way.