January 19, 2008

Pull over!

Mood: Really Happy..
Music: Dear God, Sarah McLachlan.
Game: Rock Band (360), Call of Duty 4 (PC), Assassin's Creed (360), Hellgate London (PC), Ratchet and Clank (PS3), MMO Beta (PC)
Book: Looking for a book again...
Watching: Blade Runner, 25th Anniversary Edition (BluRay)
Weather: Cold, Clear

When you work in marketing/design, things like this definitely make you laugh out loud.

Silverlight training is over. I'd forgotten how much I miss coding. I really do like it...even if it doesn't pay that well, the hours suck, and you're constantly being hammered over timelines.

Have a long weekend this week, so I'm looking forward to getting some sleep, playing some serious game, and generally chilling.

Posted by Glenn at 12:45 PM | Comments (1)

January 09, 2008

OK, I Got The Hint

Mood: Really Happy..
Music: Vasoline, Stone Temple Pilots.
Game: Rock Band (360), Call of Duty 4 (PC), Assassin's Creed (360), Hellgate London (PC), Ratchet and Clank (PS3), MMO Beta (PC)
Book: Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson (Again)
Watching: Blade Runner, 25th Anniversary Edition (BluRay)
Weather: Cold, Relatively Clear

OK...since I last blogged:

- I got married. 31 October, 2007.
- I bought a house. 31 October, 2007 (Yes ,same day.)
- Moved into said new house. 19 November, 2007.
- Worked on a project that had me working 114 and 134 hours in consecutive weeks. (Last week of November, First week of December.)
- Had a bunch of time off between Christmas and New Year's.
- Got a PS3 for Christmas...and a new keyboard and mouse and other toys, including a Nerf sniper rifle.

Now you're caught up.

This week, I'm in intensive Silverlight training. I could explain what Silverlight is...but suffice it to say that I'm basically being forced to remember how to code in Javascript, when I last used it about 10 years ago. It hurts my brain. A lot. I remember the structures and theory, but the syntax is just plain painful. Doesn't hurt that the Javascript I need to manipulate is attached to a file format call XAML, which isn't what you think it is.

If I had more time, I'd really be enjoying this...but instead, I'm getting crunchy trying to force code by trial and error.

Anyway, I'll try to write more frequently. Yeah, I said that before. But I really will be trying this time. Even if I have to slack off in a training session to do so.

Peer pressure occasionally works.

So there.

Posted by Glenn at 01:05 PM | Comments (0)