Chase

Yesterday was my dad's birthday, but nobody cares about that anymore; March 20 is now my nephew's birthday. He is named Chase Garret Madsen and he is a baby. I went to meet Chase and he slept the whole time I was there(rude). But he seems like an ok fellow just the same and I hope to get to know him better at a later date.

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Here is what he looks like. Handsome, yes?

It is cold.

Hey here's a blog update for you.

It is winter. Nothing happens; we sleep and we wait for spring.

OK no. Stuff happens. I am in cooking school and it is fun. I mean, I go to a four hour class and i come home and make more food for fun. So that is agreeing with me. I went to one of my classes last week to find that class was canceled because the teacher had passed away. I mention it just because it's weird, I mean I didn't know the guy. 's unusual. They're getting a replacement, luckily.

We got my sister all married off and she lives in Muncie now, so that's pretty cool. I didn't blog about the wedding (quite nice) or post pictures (I look frickin awesome in a tux) because I am lame.

So this weekend I was fixin' to start work on another Flash game because jayisgames.com is having another competition. But I stupidly downloaded some shady programs, one of which turned out to be a trojan, and it started queering stuff up in my computer. No problem, says I, I'll just reinstall everything. But then I dig out my Windows CD and there's a big ol' happy-fun crack in it. Crap. So I spent all weekend fooling with that instead of doing anything useful.

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Report: I GOTS A PUPPY

I forgot that puppies are awesome. Somebody must have dumped him off near our house because my dad found him under our porch. This is him:

I don't know why anyone would throw away a perfectly good dog but he's mine now.

I can't go walk around outside without being followed around by all these dogs and cats, and I have to make sure they get along. My cats don't know if this new dog is someone to play with or someone to run away from.

My sister's wedding is in 10 days. Dang. There are so many things to prepare for a wedding, I am exhausted from hearing about it. The baby is a boy and will arrive March-ish. Nephew!

My desktop be sprawling

I got a new computer monitor. It is wide and it is 19 inches across. It looks huge here on my desk, like the windows are going to swallow me up. What I'm trying to say is there are more pixels here than I am used to dealing with.

I got a check in the mail today from IVY Tech College. Did I tell you that I am receiving education at IVY Tech? I did not; I am sorry. But I got a butt-load of financial aid by virtue of the fact that I am 24 years old(and therefore the government considers me "independent") and I did not make a lick of money last year. Today they sent me the remainder and it is almost $1500. That's as much as I made total at my last job. I tell you I feel bad about it, but it's tempting to try to live off the money-printing powers of the government, once one has got a taste of it.

I have produced another game for a competition at jayisgames. This time I am pitted against 49 other skilled ludologists. This means bad odds for me but a rich bounty for those who enjoy fun.

The consensus on the site is that my game, entitled "Balancing Act" is too hard. I think people just need to increase their feeble balancing skills.