The Work Continues

At some point I may get back to blogging about what you see in the pictures. However, for the moment that would read something like “I went for a walk and walked around walking and once I had walked way down the road I walked back walking.” Alternatively I could talk about work while one of the kids took pictures of me every few minutes sitting at a keyboard typing. I suppose it might be interesting to watch the shadow move around me as I sat in the same place all day. Still, all things considered it's probably best that I just use the pictures as eye candy to dress up whatever I happen to be talking about.


Today I've been thinking about a number of things. Our Internet here has slowed way down for some reason. As a result I can't make phone-calls home. I called Lime, but it's Friday, so they couldn't send a man around until Monday. Well, we'll be gone all day Monday, so I had to make the appointment for Tuesday. One thing added to another today until I had one of those “I wish we could go home now!” moments. It's mainly the aggravation we've had with the Internet since we moved out here. Well, that and wishing I could eat a Burger King chicken sandwich.


Now, I readily admit that it's pretty shallow to put fast food on my list of reasons for wanting to go home. I can only assure you that if it was the only reason we had we wouldn't even be thinking about leaving this place. It's just that, as we're going back to the US anyway, I might as well get a chicken sandwich, lol. Obviously we miss everyone too. However, that's the kind of thing where you think to yourself “Eh, we'll see them in a few weeks.” It's another thing to have to think to yourself “I'm going to be fighting Internet issues for the next two months!” Especially when you make your living on the Internet.


Speaking of that, my living is going very well, thank the Lord. Les (WoM's producer) is at Gamescom (as I'm sure most of you know) and had meetings with several different publishers. More than one showed an interest in Worlds of Magic and we hope to have a firm offer in the next few weeks. If that happens we'll have more funding to complete the game as well as a distribution channel already in place. All things considered it's very good news for us :)


I also got a chance to work on a new roleplaying system I'm designing today. I realized that D20 (the system we're using now) isn't a perfect fit for the next game I want to make. So, in my spare time I've started working on a new system from the ground up. It's going to be open to the public and anyone will be able to use it for any reason. I'm hoping that fact will pull people into the project that can help me make it happen. I've only just started the work and it's a “spare time” project, but I have a good feeling about it.


Rachel and the kids pretty much did the same old, same old today. Rachel cleaned and cooked, making the boys help a bit here and there. The kids played computer games or watched videos on the Internet. Nothing particularly remarkable really. Although we are having turkey and dumplings for dinner, which is nice.

Either way the time has come to bring this to a close. So, goodnight from Dominica!