April 17, 2008
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Lately I’ve been playing Fable for XBox a lot. It’s a fantasy game where you start out as an orphaned kid who gets trained at the Guild of Heroes. As you go through the game, your choices affect who you become. I’ve played through as a good wizard, an evil wizard, a good warrior, and now an evil warrior.
Motivated by the guilt caused by endless hours on my butt playing that game, I have also done one or two enriching and productive things. Last Friday Chelle scored us free tickets to the Lancaster Symphony concert. At work I’m delving into knowledge management in a serious way, alongside my typical duties. I also went to the grocery store last night, and I’ve been keeping the budget. Now that taxes and a stupid medical bill are out of the way, it feels like we’re gaining forward momentum toward our next goal of eliminating our debt. I thought I wouldn’t feel less stressed until we were actually out from under the weight of our debt, but I’ve found that simply sticking to a budget and having a plan have drastically reduced the money-related stress for me.
Amanda has been under the weather the past couple days. Aside from that, it’s been really great to see her unleashing her serious artistic talent again, this time through painting. Guinea pigs, mostly.
I am taking a stab at a bona fide cool-looking design for Frodo’s Notebook. The functionality is 85% in place, but the look and feel, and usability, were not on the mark. I always feel like I look so stupid trying to tackle this Web stuff that I’m not good enough at.
It’s sunny and around 70 degrees today. I am really enjoying my walks to and from work again, now that spring seems to be here. In a year the convention center across the way will be completed, and it will be a thrill to walk by there every day, especially when there are gobs of convention-goers toting freebies.
