Ten months on
Isn’t it about time for one of these posts? You know the kind. And if you don’t, you will know it by the end, here. If you manage to stay for so long. Let’s see what’s happened in the past ten months.
Big things:
- Monica and I moved to San Francisco. Fun trip, came close to killing us on the journey, probably deserves a post of its own. We have an absolutely adequate place to live in the Laurel Heights neighborhood. Laurel Heights is some sort of new moniker for the area, I gather, assigned when Presidio Heights didn’t want their name being dragged through the gutters of Geary, or anything south of California, for that matter. But it does live up to its heights namesake, as we live on the third floor on top of a hill and can see a wonderful view of downtown, the Civic Center, the Mission, the Haight, with the bay behind most of that, and some beautiful parkland behind the rest.
- I got a new job. Working on Bioshock 2 at 2K Marin. Fantastic gig, fantastic people. Can’t say much more than that, other than to check the web and read what’s going on with the game. You play a big daddy–the first, in fact.
Not-as-big things:
- Yesterday, in fact, I ran the furthest I’ve ever run. Five miles. Five. Which doesn’t really hold a candle to Monica’s 11 she did yesterday, but still. Five, for me, is a lot. My body feels it today, too. Feels like my muscles are being reconstituted with death.
- Took a class on comic book scriptwriting, with Monica, down at SLG’s offices in San Jose. Great time, taught by the lovely Serena Valentino, and looking forward to writing more. Unfortunately now work is consuming most of my creative attention (which is merely an excuse), and so I haven’t written much recently. But while I was in the class, I wrote more fiction during that month-and-a-half than I had ever written before, combined. So that’s nice. Except that it was pure shit. That just means I’m getting closer to mining something that’s less than pure shit out of my fictional brain, which makes me excited to keep writing. ‘Cept for this work thing. !!
- House-sitted for family for a month while they were away hiking through Nepal and India. Involved caring for a dog, a cat and a bird, which makes it sound like it was some sort of Warner Brothers cartoon in the making–but I can assure you it was anything but. Or, if it was a cartoon, it most definitely was the mature, depressing kind of cartoon. Where the cat has a stroke and racks up thousands of dollars in vet bills, needs multiple MRIs and twice-daily drug delivery, and ends up losing so much quality of life that the owners put it to sleep a month after they get home. Brutal time. Not your fault, you tell yourself, the cat was old and lived a good life. But that doesn’t change that the poor thing showed signs of brain disease on your time.
- Monica doesn’t have a computer, so she uses my MacBook Pro, and I type this up on my fancy-pants new 13″ MacBook. That I bought one month before Apple refreshed their product line and introduced a 13-inch MacBook Pro. Should have read an Apple rumors site? Eff that poo. I’m happy with this machine. Not meant to play any games, though it’ll run System Shock 2 like a champ–which I’m playing again. What a fantastic game.
- We went to Wondercon earlier this year, that annual sf/comic convention at the Moscone Center. It was a blast. Looking forward to next year.
No promises this thing’ll remain updated. But I’ve got some public-facing writing in me, just dying to get out. So maybe this’ll be the venue. A sight better than making some new blog or whatever. I still do tweet pretty often, so that’s fun.
I will make one promise: I promise that, if I do intend to update this unruly beast, it’ll be sooner than ten months from now. Lest it be relegated to the coffin that is the internet archive.
