Yes I have Returned from Eugene...
Sorry for the lack of updates the past couple of weeks. I have spent most of the time since IGC just relaxing, recovering and spending time with my wife after a 4 week mini death march that was done in order to get Realm Wars 2 ready for the show (the game won Best Multiplayer if you are curious).
Here is a quick recap of the past two weeks...
Realm Wars 2 : I have spent a lot of time doing research and making notes with regards to the next phase of Realm Wars 2. We recieved a lot of great feedback at the show that I need to process through and deconstruct so that the team can pick through it all and work together a choosing the best solutions possible. Markus has begun the early prototyping here on this stuff but there isn't much that I can report back on what it is at this time (sorry NDA stuff).
Family Stuff : My parents have taken off to visit Europe for 3 or 4 weeks and that means that a whole bunch of wacky family responsibilities have fallen onto my shoulders. The most serious of these two are being the contact for my grandmother, who is in a nursing home and babysitting my little nephew, who is a year old, on Saturdays.
The first day being the contact for my grandmother was rather interesting. I get a phone call from my sister who tells me that the Nursing Home my grandmother is in has been trying to reach me, now I know that the cel phone recpetion where I work sucks (I think the building I work in knocks out some of the signal) but even still the employees at the home never left me a message which is annoying (GRRR!!!), anyways I need to truck back across town practicly to where I work (since the home is just a few minutes away from work). When I get there I found out that she has some sort of infection in her hand and needs to go to the doctors to get it looked at because she says it hurts... okay fine, I go get my grandma, make a side trip to help her friend in the home find her way back to her room (since this lady cannot see very well) and then off we go. From there its 2.5 more hours worth of waiting, meeting doctors, getting xrays and picking up medication. Luckily she is okay and had a simple infection in her hand from her arthritis and the medication has cleared that up.
The next day though my wife and I have to babysit my newphew. Now the little guy knows us but hes never been left alone with us before and never been left alone at our house alone. As such from 830 to about 1 he wasn't a happy camper, from 1 to 2 he fell asleep after a crying fit! Thankfully from 3 to 530 when he got picked up he settled down enough and was well behaved, we ended up watching "the Waterboy" on TV while my wife took some time out to play World of Warcraft :) I have to watch the little guy tomorrow on my own, so here is hoping that I can manage.
The House: The house has had some good progress that are best explained in pictures. Here is what the place looked like on Wedneday when I few out from Edmonton to Eugene...
... and this is what it looks like as of yesterday evening...
... great progress all around and it looks like from the wood that is stacked up behind the house that they are preparing to put in the sub-floor. SWEET! The house won't be ready for Christmas unfortunately but it should be ready for us by the time our first anniversary rolls around so its not too bad.
