My Nostradamus like accuracy of predictions was right on the mark about the next update. I love it when a plan comes together. But actually there is an augary of doom. This section will not be the forfront of the HoM site anymore. It has become "Old News".
Thanks to Brett, I am now BLOGG ENABLED!!! and what that allows me to do is have more interactions with the thousands, if not 5 people that read this.
So the grand experiment does not truely end. It take on a new mantle, WORD PRESS style. Now I still like knowing the nuts and bolts of everything so I will probably still do a little HTML, but Word Press allows me to get to the interactive part with much less hassle. And just as Nostradamus foretold, I will be able to update more often.
And Nostradamus wouldn't lie.
Peace and Prophecy grease
Well, getting the updates up to every thre or so weeks. Blindy speed! I woould like to say HI to Leta Hall the only woman who reads this website. When I say the only woman, I really mean the only living person who reads this website. SO HI LETA!!!!!! I am building a theater set for Leta specifically designed to make her the BEST part of the play. But lets move to the big news of the day.
Have you heard about this new form of Electronic Crack? It can waste your life away and you may never even notice it. Thats right folks; WORLD OF WARCRAFT is a purified form of crack. It is not only legal but you dont have all that messy cleaning of pipes and lung problems. So I now know of 7 close friends playing, plus all the people in the guild I am in "Sanctum Lumina" a real nice group of people! So I am not saying that WoW is soaking up every free second, but......
The other news is on Craigslist we posted an ad for our forster dog 'Inu'. And some people wanted to see him so I am putting his cute little mug up for all to see.
Yes he is that cute, but yes he is only a year to a year and a half old. He is a puppy. Very people friendly, but likes to chase cats, and that is about the only reason we cant keep him. Our cats have been in political exile in the basement since we have had him. Although, someone out there with a cat who is enough of a thug (and I dont say that because I know Leta reads this) may be able to change his mind. That is not our cats though. Our cats are more the taunt you at a distance then disappear in a puff of smoke. So Inu will be the surpise door prize for the next lucky person who leaves their car unlocked. I am joking, I really do like Inu, he is fun and love ball and chasing stick games. He needs a person or family that can pay much more attention to him. So please let Stacey know if you are interested in a wonderful dog.
I should write more but I have...........important computer work to do
Thanks Mollie for helping me with that quest
PEACE and Gnome Grease
So OK. I admit it. I lost steam on this. I finally figured out the frames, I organized, I made it almost simplisity itself to update the news page and what have I done? What you may ask? Listened to a lot of Lewis Black and started playing World of Warcraft. Oh man I thought halflife 2 was gonna be the death of me. Oh not even close. I haven't played Anarchy Online in 2 weeks but played WoW every nite. It helps that Stacey like to play WoW also.
I was looking over the web for WoW stuff because my 10 free subscription has run out and I am now chewing my finger nails. Then it dawned on me! What happened to learning to build a web page? What happened to learning modeling and running wild with Half life 2? What happened to the video/machinima projects? Not to mention what happened to sleep? Sword practice? Jo practice? the list goes on.... Well you see I have this cool dwarf hunter with his pet bear and an even cooler gnome mage that does engineering........ [starts banging head on desk]
I am lost like gilligan's island.
I would make a more topical reference to the TV show lost but.......I've never seen it. Been playing WoW.
There is a teenager taking the director class at my Community Television station MCT. I mention him for 2 reasons. One: We talk about MMORPG's. It is where I found out that he has accounts with Star wars Galaxies, Everquest 2, and World of Warcraft. OK I have an Anarchy online account which is soon to be canceled, and my WoW account. He has 3 different game account, and he plays them AT THE SAME TIME!
Which leads me to point number 2: He is ADHD.
Bet you couldn't see that one coming.
Now I was an active kid. Back then we were just called hyperactive or just hyper. But no one said "OH MY GOD!! will you medicate him!!", they just nodded to my parents knowingly and went on their way. I've seen some border line cases that make me say "No its really the parents who want to be medicated, the kid just needs to focus", but seeing a clear cut case of ADHD (I had to chain him to a chair so the cameraman, a student also, could learn how to compose a shot) makes me think I am not ADHD. I am so completely focused on playing that game that I forget to eat, to sleep, the dogs, and anything else people would consider to be a normal healthy life. But I am not attention deficit.
But what is that called?
I would look it up, but I am waiting for my copy of World of Warcraft to arrive.
Peace and Warcraft Grease
The answer is "OH YES". Well I didn't have change for the metro, a friend came in from out of town, I had a flat tire, my friend had a flat tire, the kids were sick! ITS NOT MY FAULT!
Well OK everything in that was true except for the friend having a flat tire, so if any of my friends had flat tires or the Christmas/New Years break let me know. Yeah it was an illin christmas, and not in that Beastie Boys kinda way. Whole fam Damily got had the bad Martian death cold. Other than that we all survived the holidays. Kids made out like bandits. And I had a very sober New Years. Sober or Somber? The heavy holiday season melancholy seems to have lifted but lurks in the shadows. But on to other brighter things.
Just when I decide to name my computers Huey, Dewey, and Louie; the soon to be named Dewey up and dies. Still can't get a grip on what is wrong. Oh so Huey, Dewey, and Louie are not the addorable duck nephews to Donald but the drones from the movie Silent Running. So I am down to 2 computers and Stacey's Mac. How will I survive?
Still working with notepad. The 30 day trial of Dreamweaver is over. Sigh. Who knows I may still get a wave of insoiration to learn more web stuff. Would ultimately like to have a simple Message board that could be around for folks to chat on. But considering "Cascading Style Sheets" are putting me to sleep, I am not sure how this is going to go.
Got some pics of the kids sliding in the snow. I will try to get them uploaded soon
Peace and Snow Grease
Yes it is! there is a little down time while everyone else is on vacation. So I got to playing with photoshop (ack! a 4th application) to do a few new Avatars for the RedvsBlue account. I thought they were stupid enough that I needed to put them up here.
So I dont want to press my luck and say that it could be 3 days in a row, but you never know what tomorrow holds. I dont know if I gave a mention to my brother Brock who got his black belt in the "Second most obscure indonesian Martial Art" but a definite congrats. Also that, if I haven't in any recent times mentioned how much I love Stacey,
I Love Stacey!!
nuff said
SO what do you think? This of course was not done with Dreamweaver MX, I am still using notepad but I have learned some ground up lessons in frames. Wahoo! The restructuring has compacted up the site, organized it, better, stronger, faster. Look out world I'm out of control. OK so I've really done none of the "learn 3 new applications" things I was hoping to do. But for now, Notepad will work.
We have all had a wonderful holiday so far. Had a wonderful shindig on christmas eve at the house, way too crowded, and took too few pictures. Took 2 kids and 2 dogs to Mom's house on Christmas day. way too crowded and forgot the camera. Oh well, maybe something will end up in the gallery. I am not sure what to think about Christmas anymore. I love the fact that the kids get worked into an almost beserker frenzy over it. But for me it feels like more stuff to try and cram into another closet. Maybe the new year will bring an enlightment into the world of "Live and let Live".
I am hoping to find a home for "Inu" soon. If anyone out there would like a Huskie/german Shepard mix, who is great with other dogs, but likes to chase cats, let me know. Our cats are too scared of him to put him in his place. We would need a real Thug of a cat to get it through his cainine cranium. But our cats only pick on the passive 13 year old dog types.
Hope to update this new oh so swank site before the New Year, but as the saying goes "Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow"
Peace and procrastinating grease
So I realize that importing the site into Dreamweaver has caused me a major amount of headaches. I have been fighting ittooth and nail trying to have it find my picture files and not reference other drives. But in some ways, I like the program, and wrestling with it makes me learn more parts. So maybe not all bad.
Its seems half of the last news piece is gone too. It is left on my desk at Bethesda I would guess. So essentially, my "what could be more insane" comments, really do make me look insane, or maybe narcoleptic. Suffice it to say, the point of that rambling was that I am not only going to try and learn Dreamweaver, but I am also going to start evaluating the best way to do MACHINIMA project I have been rolling around in the back of my head. I would love to do a Half life 2 project, but I have been learning some Unreal Tournament. I don't think I will be making any choices real soon.
And that should sum up the insane part.... learn 3+ major applications, lead a real life, and not go off my nutter.
Peace and thorazine grease
1) I will really get to update this site and make it something Stacey and I can use. To that end I am trying to teach myself 'DREAMWEAVER MX' from a book. I apparently have had this book around for a while. It has a trial version of Dreamweaver with it, whick I am typing in right now. You may see over the next few days some new things on the site. There is a Dreamweaver MX 2004 book out, but I will try this and see if the program is intuitive enough. I am not big on testing before the web (sorry Boon-Rah, God of black box testing). If this was a real serious project, I would test it on everything, or have Brett hammer it, cause he has every browser know to man abd beast on his rig. I feel like you can watch my ups and downs this way ("blog-do" japanese for the "way of the Blog"). I promise to be brutally honest about what I write here. Anyone will tell you that people have to tell me to talk. Yep. I am a shy and introverted kinda guy. Days go by with hardly a peep out of me. My kids will say "Daddy, why aren't you talking?" and I will say "huh?" then they will say "You weren't talking!" then I will say "what?"....You get the picture.
2) Hah thought I forgot I was making a list din't ya? Well number 2 is doing my best to not forget things. No you won't see my grocery lists here, although I could make a locked section with that. Would that be overkill?
Dec 8, 2004Today is Hope's Birthday. She would have been 4 years old today. A void in our lives that can't be replaced. The tears are fewer now (except at this writing), but she is still there in our hearts. I hate the fact that I have to work tonight. Stacey baked a cake last night for Hope. We get by however we can..... (add that Circle Jerks song). So the twisted gut feeling is here sitting in the Lab with all the beeping and noise..like the NICU. Hands are shaking. I know that Stacey and I will make it through, but the ride isn't fun. I once again thank all the family and friends we have for helping us through that time. Thanks could never begin to scartch the surface of how everyone helped us through.
But of course the child that shows that persevering spirit is Garrett, and a happy little picture for the Holiday's that he truely loves. He is working hard and getting a grip on this big world, but he is always happy, except when trying to do those buttons! They can be frustrating. And he will say "I AM FUSTuWATED!" but then he plays with Inu and is happy and dancing again. Now ask me why he is wearing Samantha's hat? Because your everyone elses stuff is much better than your own.
Peace and Holiday Grease.
So I finsihed half life over the weekend. Now I can give my body a chance to recover. I didn't play it straight through. The longest strech I played was 7.5 hours, on a work night, with a cold, just needed to operate heavy machinery and I would have been set.
So now comes the time I start piddling around with level building, modeling, and other such. I just ordered the Maya Personal Learning Edition. Can use that with both UT2K4 and HL2. I really like the rep that Softimage has but it is not intutitive for me. Mind you I haven't had the system up and running with it for that long.
Been crashing in Anarchy Online, a lot. I think it is a CPU tempreture issue. I NEED to find a good cooler OR get intel to give me a new CPU.
Oh yeah here is my link to the major HL Dawgg!! He runs a bunch of dedicated servers. A big fan of "KILLBOX". Because I know everyone reads this page, you will want to go give a lil luv to the site.
Peace and Liberal Grease!
So the thing that has twisted my mind for months (or maybe more than a year) will be on the shelves tomorrow. Or off the internet via STEAM. I finally got my new computer built and it seems to be working. Switch the cases and reseating the heat sink now gets my CPU temp below 45. I was crashing at 55+C in the other case.
So where to go with this site? Stacey is writing a novel so she needs a section, and I would like to get into so many projects that I cant get myself straight. Who knows.When I get HL2 in hands I will try to narrow down my efforts to that.
No cracks about my updating the site.
So this is it I am diving into the world wide web. I will do this as I am teaching myself HTML. I am going to update this as regular as I can.