roncli.com blog: August 2006

In June, as you know, Kathy and I went to Melbourne, Australia. Just this past week, we went to Las Vegas, staying at the Luxor hotel for a few days. I had a ton of fun, even won $630 in blackjack. Plus we had a nice, relaxing aqua massage. Boy are those things wonderful.

Problem is, I get home, and all hell breaks loose. I have two websites I need to at least start this week, a bunch of stuff to review for Saurin, and to top it all off the boss is in town, giving work for this week a fast and hectic pace. Nothing seems to be going easy this week.

On top of this, I don't have enough time to do much of anything, and with all that is going on I've managed to stress myself out in all of two and a half days. Geesh, I need a vacation. Again.

Labels: Blackjack, Las Vegas, Life

Thursday, August 10, 2006

Another Update
Posted: 12:05:00 AM 0 comments

Not too much going on right now. I've taken on another project that should be picking up really soon which will probably take up a lot of my time. In the meantime, I've stopped work on everything else to work on a game in C++ using SDL and OpenGL... goodness, the horizons I'm expanding with this project... which should be relatively done within the month. I'm having a lot of fun coding this one... it's a simple point and click game, and I've been challenging myself to use things I haven't touched yet, such as operator overloading, templates, vectors, and other simple concepts. At the same time, it's a fun game to play, so most of my time has been actually playing it. Yes, I have a working alpha, so it shouldn't be long before I wrap this one up.

I have a trip to Las Vegas coming up. I've studied up on my Blackjack game and will cram some more on the plane so I get my hits, splits, and surrenders down pat. I've had some good trips and I've had some bad trips, so it'll be interesting, if not fun, to see how I do this time around.

Labels: Blackjack, Coding, Constellation, Las Vegas, Life, Projects