Sixth Week
77/100. Oh well.
I got off to a good start with exercise the first 4 days, but a bunch of midnight shifts allowed the cold I had been dodging for more than a week to finally get me, and I just didn’t have the energy after that. I’m mostly over the cold now; feeling pretty good today.
I’ve been trying to learn a few new songs on guitar this week. I played along with some MJ Hibbett (“A Million Ukeleles” and “She Tastes Like Sugar”) more Midnight Oil (“Real Thing” which is actually a cover) and R.E.M. (“Low” – what a great song). I also worked on my scales. It was just KK and I doing the music at church this week; we both played acoustic guitar (usually I play bass) and took turns with one leading the rhythm and the other doing something “interesting” like arpeggios.
The “sort/fix” category has further expanded to include things that I’m doing solely for the benefit of others. That included helping to cut Ben’s hair (he really needed it, and there’s no way he’ll sit still for a stranger to cut his hair) and a church business meeting. More enjoyable activities included sorting through my music CD collection, and testing/sorting some of my latest thrift store purchases, including a Spider-Man plug & play gamestick that was a lot more enjoyable than I expected. $3!
The kids and I continued watch the Super Mario Bros. Super Show DVDs, and have now rescued Peach for the first time with Luigi in Super Mario Galaxy. We’re up to 64 stars now, though we’re playing less frequently as I think the kids are finally starting to get a bit bored of it. But I think we’ll push through to finish the game with Luigi as I hear there’s a couple extra bonuses as a reward.
Reading-wise, I read Exodus chapters 18-38, and continued with “On the Edge”. I’m into the chapter about the Commodore 128 now.
Carla and I watched some more episodes of Battlestar Galactica (nearly done season one now). I also watched Mats Sundin’s not-last home game with Toronto with friends and had some good over-coffee talking afterwards.
I finished my current assignment for the paid game work. I had a good time making a little demo to show it off; with some google image searching and a bunch of Paint Shop Pro massaging I made some NDS-ready graphics that followed a written description of an example cut-scene in the game design document, and put it all together. The producer seemed to like it.
I didn’t really get any work done on my own projects, but I did come up with a new idea that I really like, and I’ve taken a bit of time tonight to start researching it. It’s Autoduel meets Strategic Commander, and it had me reading through my old Graph Theory text book from university.