Wow! How about that, more than one update in the SAME month! I kick ass. Anyway, I'm updating because I did a little work. I started on a whole new castle tile set. I got a little bold and went with a very light gray for the color of the bricks. Now I wish I'da gone one shade darker, but too late. Anyway, The set is turning out ok, not as well as I had hoped. I forgot just how much work actually went into making a complete set. I've got about half the outside tiles done and I've still got to do all the "inside" tiles. Its a lot of work.

I haven't touched the code base, so no battle engine. I've just done some tile work. I've still been very busy. I've recently started to wonder why in the world I decided to take summer classes. Reminds me of a line in Spaceballs: "for the first time, for the last time"...

Good news, looks like a couple of big accounts are going to definately roll in, gotta get contracts signed this next week and then its a sure thing. Might collect as much as $4000 in retainers next week! Unfortunately, or perhaps it is fortunately... anyway... (Un)fortunately, I've got to learn some C++ really fast as one of the two projects will rely on some hard core CGI programming. I don't wanna do it in perl cause of speed... but I'll get into that a little further in some other update.

Next update I post online should have a completed site to point everyone over to (I'm almost done with one). I don't know if any of my regular readers have noticed, but I haven't built any sites recently.. well, other than a freebie for Gathering. That basically means I haven't made any money in a while. Why is it when I work the hardest, I'm making the least? [groan]

Oh yeah, almost forgot, Snow Creek Berry updated her site with a new midi contest. This one should go pretty quick, its not a tough tune. Check it out!

And for those that care, I'm feeling MUCH better than I did last update.

I've done nothing with Talibah since my last update. I've been trying to build Tempest and go to school. I haven't really been myself lately. Particularly the past few days. Something is bothering me and I'm not sure what it is. My uncle recently died (Bob). I still need to update his site to reflect his passing. A highschool friend of mine just passed away as well, I'm going to the funeral this evening. There's "stuff" going on in my personal life. I paid for last month's rent with a hot check, I'm not the kind of person who writes hot checks. I just found out another highschool friend went nuts and was committed. I feel like a king sitting on his throne watching his empire crumble at his feet.

But somehow, the way I feel seems as if it is caused by a single thing. Like there's one thing thats not right... and I can't focus on what this one thing is. Perhaps it really is a combo of all the things going on... but I really don't think so. Regardless, my head is fuzzy.. its functioning kinda like Windoze does when an app crashes and leave the system with about 5% of its memeory free...

Anyway, right now I'm trying to take classes 4 hours a day and built Tempest into a killer company. When I get to a point where I know I can make my bills each month, I will either finish TLOT or re-start TLOT for linux later on. I'm trying to build a vague game plan for my life right now. Once I finished my current classes I'll have a few months for Tempest. During this time I will be doing to C++ cgi development under linux. This will hopefully get my programming skills up to par. Next fall I will be taking a games programming course geared for DirectX. Next spring I hope to take an indpendent study class for game programming under Linux. Where does that put me for next summer? Who knows....

Thats it for this update. who knows when the next one will be.

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