Winter?

So, last week was fairly busy in its own limited way. I'm very blessed by the Lord, for as Solomon said “If you're happy in your work you're happy indeed.” and that basically sums up my work situation. I'm hoping to have my design work on Worlds of Magic finished in the next couple of months. As soon as that's done I intend to start work on my next game. (At least from a “design document” point of view.)

In order to prepare for that I've been doing a lot of “playsearch” which is my very own form of research, lol. I probably played more than 40 hours last week and I need to try to do that much this week as well. I've been playing a lot of World of Warplanes and World of Tanks. My next game (at least the next proposed one) is a WW2 based strategy game. I'm drawing inspiration from WoT as well as another game called Axis & Allies Miniatures. Joey Miller is supposed to come over later this week for us to play AAM and D&D. It's a job I'm looking forward to doing, lol.


We still haven't heard back from Kalypso, but our hopes are high and work on the game continues full speed. Every day we get a little bit closer to the playable alpha. If Kalypso hasn't decided to publish us by the time that's done it will probably be enough to push them over the edge, lol. The game is really starting to look good. The screenshots below will give you an idea of the progress we've made :)


Changing the subject rather suddenly and dramatically: the weather has gone crazy today. It has been freezing cold for weeks. Tomorrow we are supposed to have snow. In fact, take a look:


However, at the moment it's in the mid-60s outside. See!


Still, that's South Carolina for you. It feels like Spring right now and we're likely to have snow in a couple of days. Days like this try to give you a false sense of security so you won't be ready for the Winter storm that's about to hit. All this cold brings to mind the rather new Southern saying: “All this global warming is about to freeze us to death.” I have to admit that I love snow, but I hope that by this coming Sunday Beauregard is going to predict an early spring.

Changing the subject once again: Rachel's back is getting better and better. A couple of more moths of chiropractor visits should have her as right as rain. Titus, on the other hand, seems to be holding on to his cold with both hands. Really he is slowly getting better, he just has a bit of congestion that seems determined to stay around. I started to get a touch of it myself, but by the grace of God it went away within around 24 hours. It's also been a great blessing that none of the other children have gotten it.

Speaking of another quick change of subject Alec got put on restriction last week. He had whined about eating in his room until Rachel and I decided to let him. Well, lo and behold, she found a number of dirty dishes in his room. So, she put him on a week's restriction. No food in his room for a week. What did he decide to do? Set his computer up on the porch so he could eat and play at the same time. Of course, it dropped down to 26 degrees while he was out there. After about a day and a half of that he gave it up, lol.


All things considered that's enough for this blog. We've been stuck in the house, hiding from the cold, for weeks now. We're dreaming of Dominica and hoping and praying we have the money to get back there by this time next year. Dad and Mom E. are even hoping they can get down there sooner. I look forward to a life without Winter, lol. In any event, I'm calling it here. So, goodnight from South Carolina!