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Blogging has officially jumped the shark for me. I do write on another site and I guess I would call it a blog, but it's not remotely personal... just deals with a MMORPG. Writing for fun = good, writing just to write = bad.

So I wanted to write a last entry on here telling people how to find me if they care to. I don't want to lose touch with everyone. I'm super busy in general lately (with two jobs and whatnot), but I try to answer IMs and such. If you want my e-mail or Facebook link or something, IM me and let me know. Not cool with putting it here.

IM: inputuserdata
Sites: napsthecat.com, mmeow.net

Basically this is all I do online anymore that isn't work that's covered by NDAs and other shit. So if you want to know how my life is, talk to me. Josh does it. Seems to work well.

Take care. I still read stuff on here and will comment from time to time, so the account won't be deleted.

I'm not coming back to blog, but I just had to post this somewhere:

"The way I would fix Social Security is to sit down with Republicans and Democrats together at a table, voicing my opposition to tax increases, and sitting down and negotiating a fix to Social Security, which is the only way that Social Security is going to be fixed.  That's my solution to the Social Security system."

Written by an eight year old for a paper on government or said by John McCain?

The answer is absolutely depressing.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120431596193503527.html?mod=Leader-US

I think I'm done with this for a while. I'm really busy, to the point that I can't even get anywhere with most of what I want to do... And considering all of those things (comics, social networking site, etc.) are more important to me than blogging, this is on the chopping block.

I've not posted much of note here recently and when I do it's short and pointless. I'm not sure when I'll be back on, but it'll be a while. I had to muster all of my energy just to write this.

I've never felt more exhausted in my entire life.

I just watched an episode of The Boondocks and it was one of the most boring things I've ever seen in my life,

Off to STL tomorrow. Fun fun fun fun fun.

I was never on the fence about the new Banjo-Kazooie game. I was interested from the first shots and videos we saw. It was always a purchase.

But I read something else that makes it a buy-right-away thing instead of a wait-a-few months thing:

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/900/900010p1.html

1.) It's only $39.99 (I'm hoping they might follow this price with Viva Pinata 2 too).
2.) Pre-ordering it gives you a code to download the XBLA version of the original N64 Banjo-Kazooie for free, two weeks before it officially goes on sale to everyone else.

Good deal. Apparently BK2 will be hitting XBLA too, so I'm all for saving some money since I was interested in all three games.

Rare has been noticably stingy with XBLA games, their only release so far being an update of Jetpack (which, admittedly, is fun and worth $5). But this being a N64 game opens up some good opportunities too.

Hopefully this means we'll eventually see fucking Blast Corps.

So the NDA for Warhammer Online's closed beta ends tomorrow. Does anyone that reads this care about it at all?

I feel like I'm the only one on the Internet that couldn't care less about Joss Whedon.

Although I imagine there are more people like me than it seems considering what happened to Firefly.

Suddenly it looks like I'll be doing pretty well financially. I get paid decently at my current job, but it's nothing to brag over. It could and should be more.

I've spent a lot of time trying to supplement this. On Monday, I was called by two places. One was a part time job I applied to weeks earlier. The other was completely out of the blue.

I interviewed with the former today and I think it went extremely well. They are a small company that builds web sites for small businesses. They've developed their own CMS that handles a lot of the actual coding... so I mostly would just be designing and implementing sites according to client needs. Seems relatively simple and I should be hearing back for sure in a few days. They talked to me like I have the job already, though.

The latter was a friend of a friend. Her company needed someone to change things on their site since their last developer disappeared off the face of the planet. I was recommended to her. Pretty simple stuff: adding rows to a database to add content to the site. The thing was that their last developer apparently couldn't figure this out and was in the process of creating static pages. It made no sense; while they didn't provide the database login, but it was easy to find within the site's files.

I really lowballed the price for this, saying about $15 an hour. I did it in about 1 and a half total (including time just talking with people), which is obviously not much money. She called me back and let me know that this was grossly underpriced and that their last guy wanted $125 an hour and had a minimum of 8 hours. So she put me in at $100 an hour and rounded it up. I got $200 for what was essentially 45 minutes of real work.

Too bad that won't be more common, but I am their go-to guy now. Even a couple hours a month with them would be nice.

So we'll see what happens. I can use the money.