A week
ago today, Kate and I were making the drive down to her house so that she
could return to Maryland and potentially begin going to school.
Interesting events while we were there included going to a club in
Baltimore (Hammerjacks), going to a restaurant in Baltimore (Tio Pepe),
and hitting Best Buy like there’s no tomorrow (purchased 3 DVDs, a CD, and
some cases for my GBA games). I returned home Sunday all by myself,
sadly.
The house has fully moved in, and while things are in a bit of disarray
right now, wires will soon be taped down and we’ll all be too busy with
school work to even look at each other. Well, hopefully not.
Today marks the beginning of classes for the Fall 2001 semester. My
schedule, of course, has been updated to reflect my new time commitment
thingies, and will probably change slightly over the next few weeks as
sections are added or moved, and CCC gets firmly established again.
For those who I haven’t told, Kevin Smith is coming to campus via CUPB;
it’ll be October 1st, at 7:30 (I believe).
GBA owners must go pick up Mario Kart: Super Circuit for the sheer ownage.
Other than that, I don’t know what to tell you…oh yeah, I do have a scan
of our engagement announcement photo. I
know I’m way behind on my various databases, but given there’s maybe 3
people who read this site regularly, and those people talk to me more than
enough, I think I’ll be okay to get school going
first.
And So It Begins
The Date Is Set
August 17th, 2002. Exactly one year from today. Please note that it is NOT today, which some people have kind of forgotten and gone to report in public news sources.
August-us Gloop
I have
to start this news update with a serious disappointment; Andrew from
MacAddict responded this morning and regretfully informed me that the DV
tape with the bulk of their expo footage – including the engagement – got
hosed on the way back to their offices. So sadly, there will be no video;
I’m sure you’re all as disappointed as I am.
But it’s not all bad – Kate and I are doing well in our silly room in the
mad house. And she did get her ring back, perfectly fitted, from Kay last
Friday.
Let me talk a little bit about iPuppet while I have the chance; iPuppet
Classic Cards is a game developed by Freeverse, to be published by Aspyr.
It’s basically a freshened up version of our 4 big card games
(Hearts/Spades/Setback/Euchre), cross platform (MacOS9/MacOSX/Win), and
with some spiffy new features. The main new feature is the iPuppet, which
allows you to put your hand inside the puppet head and slap a picture of
yourself on, thus letting the other network players easily see you. Super
cool.
I’m in charge of beta testing this mother of a software project, which
means I get to lead 80+ testers in downloading and testing. I’ve gotten
around 300 emails in the past week, so if you wonder why you never get a
chance to talk to me online anymore, that’s probably why.
Oh, also in the past week, Kate decided she was going to stay an extra
week; she’ll now return home on the 23rd.
Outside of that, life continues on – I have some updating to do to the
movie database later today, should I find a moment.
Oh, Mac users – get Airburst. Best shareware game EVER. And watch
utterer.com soon for another round of the MacWorld Hangover, probably
going up this evening.
Wow, a lot has gone on, hasn’t it?