Plan for Matthew "King Tut" Langley

Well the past couple weeks have been weird and tough all combined into one very unfriendly package lol.

Well about two weeks ago my laptop crashed. This is the laptop that I do most of my work on, for documentation, for my own games, my teams games, my college class work, and contract work. Fortunately I kept a decent ammount of it on my desktop and external drive as well. Unforunately two days after my laptop crashed, my desktop crashed! Imagine the luck lol.

I'm a PC-Tech, have a degree in networking and usually avoid problems like these, as we all know sometimes its unavoidable, though there are definately ways to help "prevent" things from happening. Well my power supply died in my laptop and my desktop the Windows OS seemed to start missing some files (I share the desktop though so I can't always keep tabs on it). Sounds like a virus or general corruption problem, but either way they were both down... within 2 days of eachother.

The last time I had a PC crash on me was a server about a year or so ago, and it was a good 2-3 years old, had it run constantly for a long time without switching out hardware. The motherboard finally went faulty, but it served its time. It was one of the first PCs I've put together and it worked well for its purpose (Linux Web Server).

Now all the blame can't be put on the computers, though I'd really love to just leave it at that lol. I didn't back up my data as properly as I should have. Finally after 2 weeks I've gotten the data off of my laptop HD (by swapping it out of classmates computer's numerous times and copying data to my external). I've also put another HD into my desktop (an older one I still had) and gotten the data off of that. So in the end things were ok, though I was fairly crippled for a good two weeks (possibly more, I'm trying to forget lol).

Now after two weeks of struggling with this I get to this last weekend. My car's ignition key hole jams up. Figured it was just between it and the steering wheel jammed up, happens to a lot of people, well after an hour and a half of me and friend trying to unjam it I pretty much conceided it (without a smile on my face lol). This was Sunday night, at about 11:30 pm at a friends place. So I camp out all night at my friends place, don't get any sleep due to nerves (the stress of everything and this on top of it). Get up in the morning, have it towed 28 miles accross town to a dealership near where I live. Fortunately its covered in Ford's roadside assitance (thank God). I missed work and class that day however. On top of this I'm within 3 months of my college final (working on a second degree, a BA in Game Design). So the pressure in that is coming down.

Well finally I'm starting to feel better, lol. Car is back, Laptop is backed up, fortunately have a family member loan me their's while I send mine in for service. My desktop is working (still need to wipe the HD and reinstall Windows, but that I don't mind). All is well with the world and me, at least for the moment. I'm finally back in action working on my projects, my college final project, as well as contract projects, still with an optomistic goal for IGC (having a few demo's to show off). On top of this there is a possibility of a funded game another classmate and I are working on, using TGE and possibly TSE. Will have to see how things are going.

Torque 101 went well last week, got into very basic scripting, but a nice ease into it as to not intimidate those new to coding. Josh Williams dropped a quick hello over messenger on the big projection screen (which was very cool of him) and those at the session got a kick out of. Tomorrow we might be getting into more scripting, think I'll ease into some GUI scripting first and then see if theres time to manipulate an AIPlayer some or not.

Things are finally at ease, graduation is approaching, and I'm working on a few things, always optomistic about mroe things :) (Ok well "always optomistic" doesn't apply to the past two weeks).