Has it really been months?

I can't even remember the last post I made. Man I need to get back to this damn it. I've been thinking quite a bit about throwing a lot of the work I've been doing up here, kind of giving the blog a little more of a tech feel. Hmm, we'll have to think about that one.

Anyway, in the past month, what's happened? Well I've gotten and beaten BioShock, and Halo 3. Bioshock was absolutely amazing. I mean amazing to the point that it has me reading Altas Shrugged again (and even enjoying it this time.....despite Rands inability to write concise thoughts and keep paragraphs from spaning pages.....).

Halo 3, it was everything I had hoped it would be, and even a little more. Sure it was typical 1st person shooter, but in my mind anyway, I was buying the game much less for the hope of revolutionized game play, as much as to continue the story. It's like waiting for the next book in a enthralling series, you can barely wait for the continuation, and when it gets here, it's a physical relief.

On Halo 3, retarded me goes ahead and pre-orders the game, then picks it up. The only problem is that The Brother was not around his XBox for 3 weeks, and the family tradition has been to play Halo together, so the game sat for 3 weeks in its wrapper, sitting right next to the XBox. But it was worth it.

Well, I think that's about all for now. peace and misanthropy!
~M.

This was so NOT in my job description.

It came to my attention today that I have not posted in an entire week. WTF? I mean, I can see missing a day or two, but an entire week? In my defense, I did have to run to the Main Office, which not only adds an hour to my commute, but they tend to be a little more strict on work web access there than in my remote office here. Meh, what do you do?

To the best of my experience, with any given job, there is a certain level of "bend over and take it"-ness, and that it really is impractical and unwarranted for me to complain at all about what I am going to be forced to label as one of the better jobs that I have ever had. And I suppose that people are continuing to use VB6 much for the same reason that there are companies out there that are continuing to manage COBOL systems. They're in place, and they work. Kind of.

So the other day I was voicing an opinion of VB6, when a co-worker of mine, Speed Racer, gave me one of those quizzical looks that imply "what're you talking about man? You on drugs again?" "VB's not so bad" he says, "It's only a marginal pain in the butt, I was a Java developer before I came here, and sure there's some differences, but it's not that bad!" To which I replay "As a Java programmer, you don't have a soul to crush, so it doesn't surprise me VB doesn't hurt you."

I bet you can now guess what my next project is in. Damn.

~M.