Robin Harbron

98% for my first week playing my game – and I didn’t entirely fail on those last 2 points either; if I was awarding half-points then I would have earned them.

One of my daily activities is sorting and fixing stuff. I found my old Pac-Man and calculator watches. My Pac-Man watch came back to life briefly but died again. I assume it must be shorting out somehow. But my calculator watch is working pretty good, except for two buttons that I haven’t managed to get working again yet. It was very interesting to Ben and Kyla.

Some other highlights included starting to read the Bible in a year. I chose to read it in more-or-less chronological order, so I’m into Job now and really enjoying it. I’m also spending some time everyday working through my backlog on my bookshelf. I finished The Book of the King (The Wormling) last week (it wasn’t nearly as bad as I expected), and now I’m reading Manga Messiah.

I watched some episodes of (new) Battlestar Galactica with my wife, and we’re really enjoying it. I bought the first 3 seasons of Stargate SG-1 from a bargain bin at SuperStore so I think we’ll watch that once we’re done with BG.

I practiced ukelele the first few days of the week until I got my acoustic guitar back at home, then started practicing some of my own songs and some Midnight Oil songs. Maybe Rich and Shroom would like to perform a cover of a song or two of theirs some day. I also started teaching my daughter Heidi guitar instead of piano since she wanted a break.

I got all my exercise in. Either walking or VRT or both so it adds up to at least 30 minutes each day. VRT is “Visualized Resistance Training”. The goofy sounding way of explaining it is “imaginary weight lifting”. A better way is that you train yourself to use your opposing sets of muscles against each other so you can create your own resistance instead of using weights.

I managed to spend time with 4 friends during the week, including watching a post-apocalyptic zombie-ish movie from my “to watch” list with one friend, getting in my walk with another, and an especially enjoyably geeky time over coffee with another.

It was a long process, but I managed to get the Myst-like demo for the SuperCPU I had shown at the Chicago Commodore EXPO back in 2000 transferred over to my Windows machine. I now have it building on that side, and it can be transferred back to the real hardware via ethernet with UDPSlave. Still lots to do; my eventual goal is to make a new demo of it that I can distribute over the Internet. Short-term goals there are to modify UDPSlave so it can transfer files directly to the SuperCPU’s high memory, set up a Perl script so I can convert a bunch of .jpg or .bmp files to IFLI at once, and re-work the part of the game that described the clickable zones for each game location and where each leads to. It seems that part was lost.

Boy, it seems I could have turned this post into a whole week worth of posts, and gone into a lot more detail in some areas.

I don’t think I’ll be putting my scorecard up on the web; it’s all kept on old-fashioned paper, and it’s occasionally a bit personal too.

Oh, and pretty good news tonight; it looks pretty likely that I’ll have a new game programming contract shortly. I just finished my work on the EU version of Crayola Treasure Adventures and was starting to look for work again.

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