Plan for Pat Wilson
by Pat Wilson · 06/28/2004 (3:18 pm) · 11 comments
After a week of driving I have arrived at GarageGames to do some crazy arrangement where I work and they pay me. It sounded like a good deal, so I took it.
I drove from New Hampshire to Rochester, NY, had beer with Ron Yacketta (woo), stole my TV back from my roommates, grabbed a friend and started driving. First stop was Toledo, Ohio. Ohio is made of very beautiful waitresses in pink shirts and people who drive the speed limit.
I next went to Lincoln, NE to stay with my grandmother. After that, Denver, CO to stay with my uncle. Denver people all have cracked windshields. On the way out of CO, through Berthed (sp?) pass, I hiked up to the top of Rabbit Ears which was fun. After that I stopped in Ogden, Utah. Ogden is a very big town with very little, and I got to see prostitutes getting busted. They may have been scantly clad drug dealers too, who knows. Ogden sucked for food too, their diner gets a D-.
Next stop was some town outside Portland, OR. The guy at the reception desk at the Holiday Inn Express is my hero. He was really funny, gave me a cheap room price, suggested an awesome place to eat (They had a saltwater fish tank with a shark too, a real one) and they had wicked good beer. I had a few of their wicked good beers. They also had wicked good waitresses to serve me wicked good beer with wicked nice straight black hair.
Next stop was Mt. St. Helens. Mt. St. Helens sucks. First off, the park doesn't open until 10, and you have to pay money to park. This means that you can't quite do anything until then. The park ranger at the top is also a complete jerk who yelled at me, and so instead of hiking and paying him, I drove right back down his stupid mountain. Death to the park ranger. Then I went to GarageGames, which is now.
So after a long trip and so on, I am claiming the title of 10th employee of GarageGames.
I drove from New Hampshire to Rochester, NY, had beer with Ron Yacketta (woo), stole my TV back from my roommates, grabbed a friend and started driving. First stop was Toledo, Ohio. Ohio is made of very beautiful waitresses in pink shirts and people who drive the speed limit.
I next went to Lincoln, NE to stay with my grandmother. After that, Denver, CO to stay with my uncle. Denver people all have cracked windshields. On the way out of CO, through Berthed (sp?) pass, I hiked up to the top of Rabbit Ears which was fun. After that I stopped in Ogden, Utah. Ogden is a very big town with very little, and I got to see prostitutes getting busted. They may have been scantly clad drug dealers too, who knows. Ogden sucked for food too, their diner gets a D-.
Next stop was some town outside Portland, OR. The guy at the reception desk at the Holiday Inn Express is my hero. He was really funny, gave me a cheap room price, suggested an awesome place to eat (They had a saltwater fish tank with a shark too, a real one) and they had wicked good beer. I had a few of their wicked good beers. They also had wicked good waitresses to serve me wicked good beer with wicked nice straight black hair.
Next stop was Mt. St. Helens. Mt. St. Helens sucks. First off, the park doesn't open until 10, and you have to pay money to park. This means that you can't quite do anything until then. The park ranger at the top is also a complete jerk who yelled at me, and so instead of hiking and paying him, I drove right back down his stupid mountain. Death to the park ranger. Then I went to GarageGames, which is now.
So after a long trip and so on, I am claiming the title of 10th employee of GarageGames.
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#2
06/28/2004 (5:13 pm)
WOO! crazy road adventures are the BEST! I wish mine ended at GG instead of summer school :(... I guess theres always next year
#3
::shiver:: It's true.
06/28/2004 (5:25 pm)
Ohio is made of very beautiful watresses in pink shirts and people who drive the speed limit.::shiver:: It's true.
#4
Last time I was in Ohio, I was speeding in the fast lane and people STILL came up behind me flashing their lights and blaring their horns for me to get out of the way. In fact, I followed a Semi at 105 MPH for over 30 minutes while I could keep him in my site. I'm not kidding, a full sized semi with trailer moving well over 100 MPH. I just hung back about a 1/4 mile so I could see him and see if he alerted any cops by screaming past them. Gotta love it.
06/28/2004 (5:40 pm)
"Ohio is made of very beautiful watresses in pink shirts and people who drive the speed limit"Last time I was in Ohio, I was speeding in the fast lane and people STILL came up behind me flashing their lights and blaring their horns for me to get out of the way. In fact, I followed a Semi at 105 MPH for over 30 minutes while I could keep him in my site. I'm not kidding, a full sized semi with trailer moving well over 100 MPH. I just hung back about a 1/4 mile so I could see him and see if he alerted any cops by screaming past them. Gotta love it.
#5
It's good to see you arrived safely (and got the benefit of the pink waitresses).
06/28/2004 (5:54 pm)
Are you sure it wasn't Ogden, UT? I've never been to Ogden, ID (but that's not saying much). Ogden, UT has all the milktoast and then some that you described.It's good to see you arrived safely (and got the benefit of the pink waitresses).
#6
06/28/2004 (11:14 pm)
Awesome, congrats and good luck!
#7
06/29/2004 (12:15 am)
Cool, a new employee with some background in MMORPGs (it's in your profile). May I ask which UO server you worked on? I'm just curious to know which scripting engine you wrote. 
#8
Oh well, back to plan B - raising a crop of Brittany Spears look-alikes who dote on old men.
Some people want to achive immortality through their works. I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying...
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06/29/2004 (4:10 am)
My pink waitresses escaped? Damn. I was breeding them specially for my old, old age. By now they have gathered an entire tribe of truck driver protectors... Some people want to achive immortality through their works. I prefer to achieve immortality by not dying...
Woody Allen (sort of)
#9
06/29/2004 (6:07 am)
hiring new employees is a proof that GarageGames is a secure and growing company. Long live indie games supporters :)
#10
Thiago, I worked on New World Order, which was a emulator that really didn't make it. The initial scripting engine also had a few memory leaks due to me being a newbie C++ programmer at the time. Chances are they redid it ;)
06/29/2004 (4:38 pm)
Yeah, David, my bad. It was Utah. Stupid Utah.Thiago, I worked on New World Order, which was a emulator that really didn't make it. The initial scripting engine also had a few memory leaks due to me being a newbie C++ programmer at the time. Chances are they redid it ;)
#11
07/05/2004 (4:31 pm)
pat, out of curiousity, where in nh did you come from?
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