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Back Once Again With The Renegade Master!!!

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Yarr, that’s right, I’ve returned! Christmas was a blast. Annie and I went to Tacoma, and hung out with her family for awhile, then I went to Portland with my family for awhile, and then back to Tacoma for a week of network gaming fun with Annie’s brothers and cousins! Hooray!

While in Portland, Steve and I hooked up with Miles and went to Chu’s, and discussed our top-secret plans for Studio Fojar. Oh, and Miles got me the coolest geek gift ever, although I’m not sure he got it due to the geek qualities of it. He got me a ninja throwing star! It’s totally cool, so I immediately hung it on the wall over my computer like the guy in Neuromancer did. It’s a totally rad gift, and it made me feel like a complete ass for not getting him anything. But I’m making plans for a birthday gift. Oh ho! I will not be defeated! When did this turn into a contest? I don’t know, but I’m going to win!

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Network gaming was awesome as well. I think at one point we had 8 computers hooked together and 6 guys playing Quake 3. Everyone seemed to enjoy it, and I think we might do it again on the next break that everyone’s home for.

I bought the expansion pack for the Sims, and discovered, to my dismay, that it doesn’t work on Windows 2000, even though the regular game does! Solution: partition my hard drive and create a 98/2K dual boot, which I’ve been meaning to do anyways.

In the process of upgrading my machine’s drivers to prepare for this, I was upgrading Annie’s computer as well. While trying to flash the video card’s BIOS to a new version, the computer crashed and now the video card doesn’t give a signal to the monitor at all. Tech Support says all I have to do is put the card in a friend’s computer (who has a different video card) and flash the bios again. I’m gonna get Urn to help me. “Come on, Urn, I doubt the same thing would happen twice! I’m sure your computer will be fine!”

Tomorrow, I return to work, sort of. We’re starting the process of moving everything to the new location. More nerve-wracking than that, though, is the fact that Urn’s and my first radio show is tomorrow night. I’m really nervous about it, and it doesn’t help that Urn is nowhere to be found, so I don’t know how prepared he is, or if he set up our first interview. :(

Server Problems

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Lots of crazy stuff going on lately. The Myst 3 themes contract got approved, and this weekend I was putting the finishing touches on the themes. Just a couple more tiny touches, and they’ll be complete! I’ll post screenshots for people to see when they’re done.

Obviously, (to anyone who visits the site frequently), the server was down for awhile recently. I got a panicked ICQ message from Steve asking if I could pitch in for a new motherboard. To our relief, we found out the next night that the server wasn’t dead at all, just the ISP had switched his IP number without telling him. So a couple days later, things were fine.

As for Studio Fojar, things are going well. The three of us are still excited about the idea, which is more than I can say about most of our ideas. I promise I’ll put up a big post about here soon, and get the site done up properly soon.

Oh, and KT’s christmas gift got here today. Once again, KT has triumphed in the gift department. She consistently finds these amazingly cool gifts that make me feel pathetic for what I got her. Anyways, I opened the package to find a large velvet box, which contained what appears to be a silver-plated mouse with my initials engraved on it. It’s hilarious. I’ll get a photo of it up somehow.

Coworkers Make the Job

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Working this job has made me realize something. I used to think that the work I was doing would be the most important thing, and that I could deal with any workplace situation given that I was doing what I loved. I have since realize that is inherently wrong. While doing what I love can make any job more bearable, the real key to enjoying your work is the people you work with.

My job seems mundane and irritating because that’s what the people I work with are like, even though I’m doing graphics production, which I love. On the other hand, I’ve had two jobs that I liked, even though they were just grunt work. There were moments when I was first working grocery that I really liked because the guy running the butcher shop and the guys in the deli were friends, and we all had fun together. The work sucked, but the people were cool. The job started sucking when we came under new management. Also, I would have to say that my favorite job I ever had was my stint at Egghead. Everyone who worked there was like-minded. We were all good friends, and hung out after work, even! This despite the fact that I was working retail, and it sucked, I loved the job for my coworkers.

The tech team job in Portland was also awesome at times because of a combination of people who were, for the most part, in the same mindset, and work that was, for the most part, what I enjoyed doing.

All of this brings me to the inescapable conclusion that if there’s even a tiny chance that Studio Fojar could work, I will seize it. I cannot pass up my dream of doing what I love with people who share my mindset.

Fun With Google

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Money-Making Schemes

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I love the way Fojar floats from one money-making scheme to another. None of them ever really fail, it’s just that when they prove to be unprofitable after a week, development is halted to focus on the next idea. Disadvantage: Possibly our short attention span is preventing us from ever fully-developing any idea to its maximum potential. Advantage: Short attention span leads to a great deal of experimentation and learning processes, not to mention that it’s a lot of fun.

What’s that? You want some examples? Well, the earliest I remember was trying to get someone to pay Steve to do Pokey. Never took off due to Steve’s feeling of compromised artistic values. Then there was the time that Fojar was going to become a major ISP, and we were going to make all the money we needed from selling accounts and web design. Most recently, there’s A1-Super, which should make us rich any day now, when we sell 3000 subdomains, the space ninja store, the banners, which we’re currently plotting to get major banner ad places to pay us to have, and FCS, which as far as I know, has not yet sold a single copy.

Are any of these bad ideas? Not at all! Most of them (FCS especially) are fantastic ideas, and I really think they have potential. But when you’ve heard Steve say “If we can just sell 1000 accounts, which I don’t think is unreasonable, we’d be set!” over twenty times, you begin to take it with a grain of salt.

To quote Miles, “THAT’S THE FOJAR WAY,” and I for one wouldn’t have it any other way. Well, maybe have it the same way, but actually sell something. ;)