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This guy peed my bed.

This is my dog Zk. Yes, I spelled that correctly — Zk. He peed my bed last night when my girlfriend scared him.

He felt really bad about it.

Yesterday, I had planned to do absolutely nothing but hang out. I’ve been stressing about this project I’m working on at home and decided to take a day to relax and do nothing. It started well–I went to work and the day was a disaster of failing jobs and difficulties but I got over it quick. I got home and Wendy and I went to Target to recycle our bottles. We had 102 bottles and made $5.10, great. We then spent $6.00 on some mouthwash — 102 bottles recycled for less than 1 bottle of mouthwash.

After getting home, we had a great dinner of bratwurst and corn on the cob. Instead of relaxing, I ended up tinkering around with my game project and ended up doing more work in one sitting than I had done all week. Well, since my time is winding down I will notion to anyone who is reading to go ahead and buy me 1200 Microsoft Points so I can purchase a new indie game on Xbox Live called Limbo. It looks pretty good but frighteningly violent.

I’m getting itchy about game development…

-steve

This whale is stupid.

I’ve been attempting to reset my twitter password for about 2 days now. I had intentions on using it again to re-establish my online identity. This has been one of the most daunting tasks ever. I have never surrendered to a whale before in technological combat but this may be the first time.

EDIT: Found him!

I tried everything. I attempted to guess all of the 253 passwords I commonly use. About 3 rejections in I started proving that I wasn’t a robot via CAPTCHA codes. So after typing “dancing molly” and “sauteed catapult” and other outrageous phrases for the next 250 attempts I surrendered to the “Forgot password?” link. Boy was this a bad idea. I almost instantaneously received my friendly reset-your-password-dummy e-mail. The comfort of the “It happens to the best of us…” message in the e-mail quickly faded as I received this whale image over 500 times attempting to reset my password. Recently, I’ve been receiving this image of a robot with a severed hand saying “Something is technically wrong.” but I can’t seem to reproduce him for the post. I surrender twitter. I’ll never be famous online because of you.

EDIT: I finally got my password changed. After a quick “Woohoo! Your password is now changed!” I clicked “Proceed to my account” which promptly presented me with the aforementioned severed robot. Oh, Twitter.

I understand I haven’t used my website in a while but I also understand that I pay for it. So I decided to stop wasting money and make my yearly post. About what? Who knows, give me a few and I’ll genius something up.

I’ve been currently working on a major project with my friend Neal from Scotland. It’s a game development project that I’m at no liberty to discuss yet. As soon as I feel the project is at a suitable or promising state I’ll be sure to post the information.

Other than that, I’ve been working at IBM in New York for about two months now. I am officially a Software Engineer but my actual title is Systems Programmer. A systems programmer is basically a system administrator for a mainframe computer. (You know, the big giant computers you thought ceased to exist.) IBM is a great company with great benefits and I’m especially proud of it being my first real job.

So, I opened up the site again and it’s pretty ugly right now. Maybe I’ll find time to make it less ugly, but I wouldn’t count on it. Hope you’re having a great year.

-steve

My week off consists of doing homework all week. I wish I could play some games!

Hashing assignment, ASP.NET assignment, Semaphore assignment.

Anyone want to buy me Torchlight? I would be so thankful! It’s only 19.99 USD!