Another overcast day
Mood:  not sure
Hubby is home sick again today. He is still running a fever intermittently and he says his throat feels like he swallowed glass. He is very very sick. We're taking him to the Dr. this afternoon. Payday is probably going to be tight because he doesn't have any sick leave. But there is no choice in the matter, I would rather have him home and getting well than working himself to death. If this turns out to be strep, I was reading last night that if it goes untreated it turns into Rheumatic Fever, so he definitely needs to see the Dr. today. Thankfully he let me make the appointment for him without any argument on the matter.

I never put the roof on the house plans I drew yesterday. Got distracted with other things instead. I did write some more notes for my game though. I got some new ideas that, if we can implement them properly, I think will create opportunities to involve the whole family in the gaming experience. I want to reach beyond the mainstream target audience of teenage boys - I want my game to appeal to men, women, and families as well. A lot of games on the market today say that they are games "for everyone", but really they are still targeting that 16-25 male audience. I want my game to be "for everyone ELSE". The hard core FPS hack & slash gamer may not like my game. But I believe there is a huge untapped audience out there that wants to play games, but nothing out there meets their needs. I know I'm one of those people myself. I want to make a game that's fun for the rest of us... and hopefully still captivating enough to draw in a few family members of the other genre. Although it isn't going to be a hack & slash game so obviously some are not going to like it, and that's just the way it's going to have to be. There are 100 titles or more on store shelves for the gore & violence FPS players. There needs to be something out there for gamers like us too, who like action and adventure, interpersonal relationships, exploration and discovery, a sence of impending danger without having to actually face it on a constant second by second basis. And that when we do face danger, it isn't always about collecting "uber gear" to triumph over the enemy, but perhaps more about having clever wits, and increased knowledge.

Anyway... maybe someday my game will be done. If we can ever get enough time to work on it. At this rate it may take 10-15 years. It would be nice if we had some funding for developing the game so that we could focus our work on it full time. It's hard to make progress with $0 funding, no support, and only a dwindling handful of volunteers to work on it. We all have to tend to everything else in our lives first, many days there is no time left for working on the game after we've done everything else. At least my husband is able to keep our computers running well, and our network functioning smoothly. I do appreciate that he does that for us, and that he does it so well.

Well, I've been typing for about 15 minutes now. Guess I better go get a cup of tea or something. And try to figure out what I can feed my family for breakfast that won't hurt Hubby's throat.
Not sure if we have any Malt-o-meal or not...

Bonjour! Aloha! Hasta luego! Auf wiederzehan! Chus! Das Vedanya! And all that...

Damp, Dark & Dreary
Mood:  caffeinated
I'm losing count of the days, I think I missed posting here on Monday. Monday's are difficult. And I was very sleepy, a little irritable, and doubt I would have said anything particularly insightful anyway. I spent the day playing with my Punch! Pro home design program, daydreaming about a wonderful home+office that would be fun to build. Complete with space for Company offices and a conference room. I did some touchups on it this morning, and I'm fairly happy with the floorplan now. I need to put the roof on it today, so it will look nice in the 3-D fly through.

I took my youngest to the Dr. yesterday for a rash, and today my husband is home sick with the flu. He had a fever all night, and has a sore throat this morning. :( I hope we aren't in for another month or two of illnesses around here. Expect delays and gaps between entries, as the distraction of tending my sick family causes me to lose track of time.

Sleepy, damp, rainy, dreary day today. Good day to stay indoors with a cup of tea and read stories or draw.

Day 4
My daughter is sick, so we aren't going to church today, in hopes of preventing the spread of infection. So instead I added some links and experimented with the versatility of editing my page appearance. Hope you have fun exploring the trail of links...

Day 3
Mood:  caffeinated
*YAWN*

Morning comes entirely too early.

Whatever happened to lazy Saturday mornings and sleeping in late? I "slept in" until 7:30 this morning. I'm still sleepy but can't sleep. LOL

Lots of running around to do today. No rest for the weary.

Oh, a few people have asked me about the background picture. Yes, that is a photo that I took with my digital camera in the countryside here. The double rainbow was so pretty, and I happened to have my camera with me so I stuck it out the window of the truck and took a few pictures. That was one of the better shots. I liked it. I thought you might like it too. I had to edit it a little bit in Adobe Photoshop to make it more suitable as a background, but the changes are very slight. The original image is attached to this post for those who may be interested.

Day 2
Mood:  rushed
Well here I am again, another day God has granted us. There was some concern about the end of the world being at hand last night when Comcast had nationwide connectivity problems and it seemed the entire internet might crash. Without internet access, certainly gobal society and the world as we know it would collapse! =D

So today we launch the last-hope attack against the invading armies of ants with our newest weapon which arrived in the mail yesterday - diatomaceous earth. Hopefully this will eliminate the problem and we can have our house back again. Nothing else has worked against the persistent annoying invaders. And I'm fed up with being bitten by miniscule little insects. They always bite me in the same place too, in the crook of my elbow or between my fingers. What's up with that?

I spent all morning writing letters and answering email. And now I have to make the kids finish up their school work, and then go to the store and then dust the house with DE so I don't think I will have much if any time for drawing anything or working on the game today. I did get several pages of notes on ideas for the game development written this week though, every little bit is progress. Hopefully soon we will have a terrain to put my models on, if our friend is able to make the software work for him. Of course, they won't be able to move because my animation skills are hopeless, but at least they will have a ground to stand on. HA HA

Still day 1...
Mood:  cool
... Okay, so I didn't leave you alone to think about that little sterotypical euphemism...

I just changed some of the colors and settings a bit to try and make it easier to read. If it is still hard to read I can change it again.

Day 1
Mood:  not sure
No idea what I'm doing here, but I'm doing it! Lots of strange things to learn about this alternate universe... blogging.

Hmmm... what would strangers want to know about me... what would I want to tell? That's the real question...

Well, in relation to creating a Weblog, not sure how frequently I will post here, but I'm willing to give it a try. I just don't have a lot of free time for rambling distractedly to an unknown audience I guess. I spend most of my time at the computer, but usually doing research for various things, drawing, working on some aspect of developing my game, or playing MMORPGs (WOW mostly). Yeah, I'm a Christian Homeschooling Gamer Mom! I'll let that description coalesce in your imagination a bit before continuing on I think...

Pray for the Tsunami victims