Man, what a week! I haven't played anything for over a week with the exception of some Forza 3 last night with friends. I've barely had time to do any reading. Work has been keeping me really busy and if I've actually had any time spare in the evenings, I've usually spent it with friends. That means Assassin's Creed 2 has been on hold since last week. I haven't had the energy to get any reading done when I finally get into bed in favour of just going to sleep. I did manage to get some creative writing done earlier in the week, but that was admittedly business related (beginnings of a story outline for one of our projects).
I cannot believe Christmas is next week. I must have been saying Christmas is a 'still few weeks away' for over a month. I only realised how close it was on Thursday when I looked at the date. This also means I've been totally slack this year in terms of Christmas cards and presents. So I apologise for that. I'll catch up in the new year. Speaking of which, I also can't believe it is almost 2010. It doesn't seem that long ago we were celebrating the turn of the century. Having said that, I'm also looking forward to some time off.
It's going to take a while before I get used to using things like Twitter and Facebook. I'm like one someone who comes up with a good response hours after the conversation. Whenever I realise I've done something I could have thrown out there, it's well after I'm done. It doesn't feel legitimate posting everything in the past-tense on those things (and I don't want to use present-tense in case I contradict myself about what I'm doing or look like I'm slacking off). I'm sure I'll get better at it, I'm just not mindful of using them when I'm caught up in the moment of actually doing something.
There is an Xbox 360 Dev Kit sitting on the floor beside me, which looks pretty cool. It will be fun to have a look at that in the coming weeks (probably next year at this rate). I was evaluating the Boost C++ Libraries earlier in the week (might have been last weekend actually). I haven't had the need to really use it in the past (beyond standard STL), as I've generally been working with custom libraries to handle Threading and such, but I need a framework for a Rebel Brains project and it seemed like a good candidate. I threw together some stuff in about 20 minutes before breakfast on Wednesday, and I was impressed how quick it was to get up and running with it.
Anyway, that's all for now. It's been a very long week and I'm looking forward to getting away from the computer for a bit.
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