Here at work looking at the Antietam screens for the fourth day. They are boring and annoying and ugly. I’m looking forward to being done with them for good. I’m getting pretty sick of the interface work as well; I need a better idea of what the game is supposed to do, which means I really need to get involved with the programmers and creators to figure out what it does. I can understand why nobody likes doing interfaces here.
Sierra Online is apparently gonna lay off 300 people- they make Tribes 2, Half-Life and a bunch of other really cool games. If they are in trouble, what does this company have in the wings? I’m afraid again. I’m talking to Jeff C about him teaching me C++ by doing Quake mods, which would be very cool. Apparently I need Visual Studio to really figure out what I’m doing and to compile quickly. C++ frightens me but I have to start somewhere. I also should really get back to Perl as well- I was doing some work with it but pretty much slacked off, and it’s time to increase my marketability fast. That’s also gonna take some serious work in 3D Studio Max.
On the Hopeless Consumer front, the Scout 2 will be in Ellicott City tonight, so I’m gonna go see that. Maybe it’ll be in great shape, maybe it’ll be a mess. We’ll see. I do know it has no rockers, passenger floor, and the quarters have been cut too. If it runs smooth, has a Dana 60 rear and 300 transfer case, and the body is straight, I’ll consider it, but that also means I need a place to put it- the big problem. I’d have to flat-tow or trailer it to Aurora and leave it somewhere- but where? Renie no longer has the barn. Brian might be able to store it for me, but I don’t know just yet. And it’s $1300, which cuts into the Emergency Fund by 1/2, and I’m STILL not paid yet, and I’m getting very thin. Bill didn’t transfer funds to his checking account, so now he’s overdrawn and charged $30. Dummy.
OK, I just found out that the Austerlitz stuff just got immensely worse. Infintessimally worse. Outrageously worse. Ugggghhh. That’s it- I’m learning Max immediately- I’m NOT getting stuck doing the interface stuff here any more. Meanwhile, I’m typing this out on a machine that’s not connected to the internet- Covad is down and ToadNet is telling us 4pm or so. Sure. Whatever.