Squid’s Status Report: Jan 21 - Jan 27

The Gamer

  • So how about this?  I got myself all worked up over my chatpad not working with the wireless headset.  Probably the next day it was working, and I figured wow I am a schmuck for complaning soooooo much about that, luckily last night it did NOT work, so clearly something is up, and I am not insane.
  • I finally passed the end of Act III in Gears of War for Windows - only 2 acts to go
  • I finished Pirates of the Caribean: At World’s End, to add to my 100% complete list.  Soul gathering was the most annoying part.  It isn’t hard, just time consuming.  It took about 16 hours total.
  • I am up to level 40 in Kingdom Under Fire.  I can see why the game gets some mediocre reviews, it really is alot of the same, and to get all the achievements is without a doubt going to be a complete grind.  I however still enjoy the game and would tell everyone that might be interested to at least give it a rental and see what you think.
  • The gamerscore challenge is over, as expected Pat2k9 nabbed the prize with a serious gain over all of us.  I opened my big mouth and trash talked Kanone into beating my butt too - I did finish up with 4th place.  Considering the time I have to game, and the games I have available - it wasn’t a bad placing I guess.  

The Coder

  • I continue to dabble with the code for TheLiveEye.com - still nothing obvious, really just trying to test out somethings to make it more stable, or more efficient, so far I am not sure I made any real progress actually.
  • DaKing240 sent me some more ideas to expand on his contest site - which I added some of that stuff to the site, but it was mostly basic HTML and throwing some ideas out on the site to expand later.
  •   At work I have been essentially rebuilding the entire framework of our existing application - its proved rather fun, frustrating, and rewarding all at the same time - the first phase is almost complete after about 2 weeks.
  • I did some coding for the not ready to announce project, which by the way will be officially announced and open for discussion soon. 

The Person

  • Another boring week for the non-gamer, non-coding section of this little update.  I just did the normal things, spent time with the family, watched tv, etc.
  • My DVR system died, so I missed Prison Break, rather annoyed about that
  • Also due to the DVR issue, I once again missed the Sarah Conner Chronicles, I guess I am just not watching this show - if I miss too many episodes in the start of a show, I just never keep up with it - anyone else watching this?
  • My wife got me interested in Dexter - so we rented the first season on DVD and watched that, it was interesting, not sure if I will upgrade to include showtime or just watch box sets when they come out yet.

Get your Flame on With the Developers

Want to play Kingdom Under Fire with the developers?  Well here is your chance, Xbox.com is having another one of those play with the developers type thing.  So send over your friend requests, and learn to slay those enemies by the creators themselves.

Who: BLUESIDE
Date: Saturday, January 19, 2008
Time: 6:00 P.M. – 12:00 A.M. ET / 3:00 – 9:00 P.M. PT
Game: Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom
Gamertags: BLUESIDECODEXP, BLUESIDENETPRG, BLUESIDEGAMEPRG

If you want to play it with me - just message me anytime :-)