Bongo` wrote:
Bah! Im a year older now. What do i do with myself...
Sorry, I'm late conveying my well-wishes. Everything came to a head here with my family matters. For the past week, I've been totally detached from this and the rest of the real world. (Yep, D-D is a big part of my real world, but these issues are not.)
Yeah, I'm tired of counting birthday's, too. Seems like every time the family powers up a cake with candles for me, the VFD threatens to charge me with 'failure to control a conflagration'.
I'm finally almost at the point in which I hope to disengage my mind from what's been occupying me greatly since about last November and test the waters to see if I can concentrate on our work long enough to confirm that I've overcome a weird form of writers block. (Clumsy sentence form, but it's accurate.) Yep, my issues started several months before we released BH and SS-II, but we were on cruise control with those two games by November. As for these issues, the most difficult problems are handled, except we still don't know the outcome of Sherry's job situation (read: security). But at least I have a fallback plan in place now to handle the worst case scenario.
Finally, as soon as I get one of my kids settled who's starting a new job (need about a week more), I plan to get rolling on game work again - somewhat. However, Sherry and I are taking a second vacation this year while the taking is good. In about three weeks, we're flying to Hawaii to spend about half of June, but it's not totally how it sounds. We lived there once - from 1997-2001. I'll have our laptops along, so I may get some actual game work done. We'll be splitting our time between the islands of Oahu and Molokai.
So, Bongo`, happy birthday, again. I hope you and your family are coping with the loss of your father. One never get's over this, but in time a sense of happiness in life does return. If you are ready to work again, I will get you an A-II report soon. A complex series of string errors (apparently random misdirections) are occurring, and I need time to sit down and concentrate on the details so I can construct a cogent report. PM and CS work will follow. To assure continuity, I need to review and refresh everything previous regarding CS.