Just complaining about the weather. A foot and a half of snow in the last three days meant that I couldn’t get to the things I wanted to this weekend. Not only is there shovelling snow on the front walk and driveway, but there is also cleaning off the car. Not easy, when there is a foot of snow on the car. And by the time I clear the driveway and the car, I’m too tired to go anywhere.
When I was a kid, winter was fun. Now that I’m an adult, and getting older, winter is more a PITA than anything else.
Whoever put on music at work last night is a Swiftie & now I have a melange of Taylor Swift songs all stuck in my head simultaneously and jockeying with each other for primacy.
We woke up to the alarm at 5 Sunday, so we could get Kizzy to an agility competition. She was entered in 3 different categories and got two first place ribbons. She also got two big ribbons for moving up from novice to whatever is next, and her AKC title now includes mention of her agility level.
I was exposed to a meme today that promptly dropped a Blink 182 song into my head and it won’t go away.
Na-na na-na Na-na Na-na Na-na…
I’m also incredibly sore today, but I knew I would be. I like to pretend I’m half my age and go into mosh pits and while I don’t exactly regret the decision to do that on Saturday, many of my joints are displeased with me over it.
I pit dreams. You think yours are bad. I wish I had less sleep. Woke a bit ago from a dream where the guy who raped me 3 years ago was in my apt. threatening to break my legs.
Or last weeks, where me and another person were fighting Charles Manson.
Is it because of Jeopardy? Because they had their announcer read song lyrics as part of a category of audio clues in a recently-aired championship and that was one of the clues. It was hilarious and I wouldn’t be surprised for it to become a meme.
Did you know the music would be trouble when you walked in?
Yet again another product … nay, TWO products … that I enjoy have disappeared from store shelves.
One (an instant “just add hot water” black bean soup) is still on Amazon for something like three-four bucks a cup.
Fuck that noise.
The other (a chicken pho, also a semi instant thingie) seems to have disappeared altogether. That one was delicious doctored up with a bit of hoisin and cilantro.
I don’t even want to post this. On cleveland19news.com, some "person"had 18 frozen puppies in the freezer for his pet snake. No words.
Columbia county Oregon.
A company I went to an in-person interview for has not responded to my follow up email that I sent last Wednesday. That was sent a week after the interview. I get not following up on every application you get but not following up on an in-person interview? That’s cold.
Heck, when I joined my current company I was pretty much dealing directly with my boss, who I’ve known professionally for years. I never spoke to a human in Human Resources. I got few emails that weren’t automatic ones asking me to log in to fill out forms. At least he was very responsive to my questions and concerns, and he’d warned me that HR were terrible.
I accepted this position for career/accreditation reasons and the work I do is a lot of fun and I work with good people - but the larger international company? I do NOT recommend it as a place of employment. It’s shitty in so many ways. But they’re willing to pay me, and I’ll take their money.
Super anti mini-rant today. I was reading the thread about trying to locate a person you’ve lost touch with going only by their name, and on a whim I searched my (real) name. I didn’t expect much, and there wasn’t, mainly links to sites offering to find my address/phone number, and a few “also present at” some minor news events. Not at all surprising, I’ve never done anything specially news worthy.
But there were links to the Infocom-style text adventure game for CP/M I wrote way back in the 80s!
Naturally I followed the links. I’d only given a copy of the game to my brother, and he’d shared it with the handful of other guys in their Computer Club, but somehow the game was saved to various archives, translated so it could be played using DOS, and so forth. Some people actually were playing and discussing it in 2010! Playing a 25 year old game, isn’t that sorta … pathetically nerdish? Some deluded soul even wrote a step-by-step solution for it!
(That was a fun read for me, it kept triggering a ‘oh, yeah, I remember thinking up that puzzle!’ memories.)
Anyway, my life has not been in vain. Given that the internet is well known to be forever, my masterpiece will linger forever in some musty corner of it. Lol.
Now I wonder if I’ve ever played your game. It’s possible, I’ve played a lot of those over the years. I even have the Frotz app on my phone so I can play various text adventure games on it.
Does that make me pathetically nerdy? Almost certainly.
I had a similar reaction when an RPG I wrote years ago for a Palm OS game showed up again in an iOS app, revived from the dead. I found out because someone emailed me to praise my game. Blew me away. That iOS app is also now dead though.
Ohhh, I wish I’d known of it back in the day. I miss the Palm OS and wish someone would make my Palm Vx efficient again!
(Hmmm, maybe I should pull it out at my coffeeshop and pretend to be working on it)
The app in question was Kyle’s Quest 2. I didn’t create the game engine itself, but one of the “levels” (what they called the RPGs that were plugged into the engine). I miss those days, when I’d pull out my laptop on a long ferry ride and work on my game while on my way to or from work in Seattle. There was also a tight online community of developers and I used to share tricks with other people and sometimes make sprites for people on demand. (It had graphics equivalent to an SNES, and in fact my own game used sprites from an old SNES game that I then heavily edited in MS Paint.)
I was proud of some of my innovations, like I figured out how to make a dynamic map and also came up with a poison system (where you could get a negative effect that caused you to lose health, energy, and so on per step outside of combat, like you’d see in the old Dragon Warrior or Final Fantasy NES games). I used to want to be a game developer and went to college with that intention in mind, but my life didn’t go that way. Still, I’ve worked on games as a hobby and it’s fun knowing people have enjoyed them, even if pretty much everything I’ve ever done is lost to the sands of time at this point. (I also was a volunteer developer for a couple of text-based online role-playing games that had graphics as well, that was extremely fun to do.)
