...Since I last posted.
Last time I posted, I was one semester away from graduating college. Now, I did that a year ago. Old hat. Didn't attend the ceremony, and got only one piece of paper for my two majors (which were, as far as the school was concerned, completely separate things up to that point).
Last I posted, I had recently put down a few ideas for RPG campaigns, and the like. Since then, I've run one of those ideas - the "no humans" FFRPG idea, in Aetas Procella - and that campaign feels likely to either die or resurge. I need to get inspired for it to continue.
Since then, I've gotten into some other things. I've been programming a lot more, on my own and with my girlfriend's help, and I've learned way more from that than (I feel like) I did in school. I've also gotten into the 4th edition of Dungeons and Dragons, specifically because it's not nearly so crazy and confusing as the 3rd (or 3.5th) edition was. I play with a bunch of my old High School friends now, every Sunday-night-ish.
What else... Speaking of my girlfriend, she's still the same gal I was with as of last post. We've been together for, what, three and a half years now? Wow.
And the big news: I'm going to grad school, this november. Full Sail, for a master's in Video Game Design. It's only a year-long program, but it's supposed to be intense. It's also the best step I can take towards "what I want to be when I grow up". (Yeah, stil - after 15 years of wanting to make video games, I'm about to be academically certified to do so.)
Lesse, what else...
Oh, I had a job in that missing year-point-five. Worked at a place that does databases for hospitals and doctors. It would have been an okay gig, except they didn't have any work for me to do. So I got laid off about six months in. But I saved oodles of cash, and that's all I needed from them. (I also learned that there is only so much internet a guy can surf in an 8-hour workday and not go crazy. Pretty sure I read the entirety of TVTropes.)
I picked up guitar, and my GF started learning the mandolin. I can't play much but I know a few chords and the melodies to a few songs (Kids on the City Corner, Chocobo Theme). I just tuned my guitar yesterday after about a month of neglect, and it sounds so much better.
Got a PSP, many many new games, and not enough time (!) to play them in. I still want to go through my whole collection, sometime, and finish every single game. I do have a Backloggery now, though, so I can say that I have at least 183 games, of which 66 (or 36.5%) are unfinished. When I look at it that way, it doesn't seem like such a huge project... But not every single one of those games is good. Many, but not all...
Oh, and my family has two new dogs since I last posted. Jack Russel Terrier and a fluffy little white mop. Both purebred, and the little fluffy white one isn't yet pottytrained (and that's after six months of trying very hard). Lovable dogs, both, but I miss the days when the house didn't smell like urine.
So that's a quick overview. Maybe I'll post again? I won't make any promises.
