Updates

I’ve been in a bit of a rut lately. Kind of a limboesque-depression sort of mood. I tend to get this way every now and again for seemingly no reason at all…or when I read the Skulltag forums these days (heh). I don’t feel like doing anything while at the same time I feel hopelessly bored. It’s probably a severe chemical imbalance or something I don’t want to get on the computer or go outside or anything…it’s really weird. I think part of it has to do with me waiting on something yet thinking that I need to be doing something during that time (when I don’t really have anything that I HAVE to do). I think this time of year is partly to blame; Spring can’t get here fast enough. It feels like I’m getting pulled in opposite directions, mentally speaking. Maybe I’m a workaholic? …nah, that can’t be it

Well, I’ve been trying to keep myself occupied so I can get my head out of this crazy mess. I’m waiting on Claustrophobia’s testing to finish up so there’s not a whole lot I can do with that at the moment. So I’ve been working on my map for Project Vega for the past few days. In truth I am sorta enjoying myself with this map when I’m not being starred down by mapper’s block. Doom mapping has sorta been…I dunno, stale to me the past few months. I can’t wait to do some Doom mapping that’s not tied to a community effort; a small single project that I can work on in my spare time would be really really nice. Something like that probably won’t happen for a long time though. So yea, working on this map is sorta like breathing fresh air…again, when I’m not choking to death on the caustic breathe of the mapping block demon

Tomorrow (actually, today) I gotta run into town and renew my car’s registration. Funny story – My mom has been driving my vehicle for the past month or so (out of necessity…I won’t go into detail) and it turns out my registration was behind. Really behind. Like almost a year behind. If you know me, personally, then you would know that I have this horrible memory. And, you see, and my mom sorta paid for it yesterday :(. She got pulled over because the registration was supposed to be renewed before July 2008. Thank goodness we know most of the cops around here – she let here off the hook as long as the registration gets renewed before tomorrow. So I’ll have my vehicle back to go into town and straighten everything out. The fresh air will be nice and will hopefully clear my head of this damnable evil fog. But you may be asking yourself “Mech, wtf how did you get away with tags that were that far behind?”. Well, as it turns out, I had to have semi-major surgery around that time last year. Summer time was pretty miserable for me since…well, I spent most of it in my room recovering (well almost all of my Summer’s are miserable to me anyways…this one was just magnitudes worse). So I forgot all about renewing my registration since I wasn’t driving around for almost 4 months. Since then I really haven’t been driving very much at all…apparently not enough for the police to notice. But yea, it could be worse; my mom could have killed me

But I digress! Just wanted to make a post here so things don’t seem to empty and dead looking. One of these days I’ll get around to finishing up the ‘Design’ page with the rest of my silly ole projects. Maybe I can do some of that once Claus is done. I’ll leave all you loyal readers (lol) with a screenshot of the Project Vega map I’m working on. It’s from the one of the editor’s 2D views (ZY to be specific) so it’s gonna just look like a bunch of skewed lines. A 3D shot wouldn’t look any better at this point in time since 0% of the texturing is done and all of the structures just sorta blend in together. But hey! It’s all your gonna get until some offical screenshots pop up on the Vega DevBlog

Oh and also, feel free to check out my Twitter page I setup. I did it for Vega. Why? I dunno.