One of my other guilty pleasures is fantasy novels, "teenage boy romance novels" my wife calls them. Fairly accurate assessment... Dragonlance, McCaffery, a little other stuff here and there.

Despite my reservations after the complete butchery of the end of the latest big Dragonlance trilogy, I pi…

Monday means [extra] job hunting day.

No replies. No calls. No recruiters actually answering my calls. No particularly tastey looking ads...

Just a whole lot of 'bleh', and a side of advil for the headache.

Sigh, so much slow going. I fear I'm just stuck because I don't have a good idea in my head how I want to make the actual game structures. In particular some of the fog of war info, and how to implement Trading in a way that is satisfying, but not computationally [or Human Interface-ally] suicidal.…

So I awake this morning and head on down to the computer as usual. Hrm. Sitting at a login prompt. No problem, power outage or the dog/cats hit the switch. Boot up, and re-establish connections. Hrm. SSH timeout to the linux box. Find a spare monitor and drag it downstairs to the linux box. [when I…

So that phone monkey position said to call back Friday when I called Wednesday. Today the HR lady said that the engineering folks asked for more resumes, so it's not looking good.

I need to find some folks to network with, or get something done that I can show off with. Both are quite difficult whe…

My modified Agent just became Listener of the Black Hand last night! It feels like I'm getting a little away from ESIV. Hopefully a little more work will get done soon.

I spent the afternoon mowing my lawn for the first time. Well, not my lawn; my mortgage company's lawn that I'm still paying for...…

One of my other hobbies is armchair number theory. For whatever reason, I got the motivation to port an old factoring algorithm to C#, with the help of this BigInteger Library.

Not exactly the speediest thing in town, but it works.

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Minnesota is peculiar in one way I've found. I've gone on about 12 interviews now, and had numerous other applicatons... and I've not yet done a technical phone screen. Even the actual interviews are almost wholy untechnical. I've gotten maybe 1 question that my wife [professional secretary] could…

Well, I'd say it's less disinteresting now.

The towns have more people, and the people are a bit more varied and interesting. The ruins are much more varied and interesting [and better placed; that is a high level dungeon isn't right next to a low level dungeon]. The quests are generally a bit more…

I managed to pick up Elder Scrolls IV today. GalCiv2 didn't have very much staying power it seems. I'm not sure exactly why either. I didn't particularly care for Morrowind...

Anyways, BestBuy was nice enough to sticker over the "PC-DVD" logo on the box, causing me a bit of a delay until I could ste…