Working from Home

Hello Everybody,

I apologize for not posting the last few weeks, but everything kind of exploded. These past few weeks have been both stressful and nice. With everything that’s been going on with me health wise I was almost forced to quit my job. Luckily, they declared we would be working from home. So then that began, and my life changed again. I gained the benefits of working from home and being able to hang out with my family more. However, I also gained the stress of work at home and now it was harder to separate work and home. I feel this quarantine has been hard on a lot of us. I’m lucky where I can work from home and have different hobbies I like to do at home. I’m also perfectly fine not socializing with people in person. I know many people who are not that lucky. I have close friends and family with no jobs now or have been hit hard by pandemic. I’m hoping to find some more ways to hang out with friends and family during this pandemic.

This pandemic has also allowed me to spend more time on my favorite pass times. I’ve been working on my models and painting. I made some lovely looking wells and then also made some less lovely bandits. I also have caught up on my shows. I watched all of Star Trek the Next Generation and the Star Trek Nemesis movie. I’ve been wanting to watch Picard, so I had to get a bit of the backstory as I had never watched the entire series. I’m also going to be working on some review’s as I haven’t done one of those in so long. I’m trying to get better of putting more time into writing and creating.

Well til next time you guys. Stay safe, and I hope to have some good stories for you.

Continued Expansion of my Hunt

Hello Everybody,

I hope your last week has gone well. This last week was a strange one for me. There’s been a lot of family drama and craziness. It’s not fun and has been adding onto my family’s stress. It’s something that we must push through and make changes for, but it is what it is. I know I’m stressed about it and most of it isn’t close to me in particular. I’m hopeful that everything will move towards the better, but realistic about it as well. The rest of my week has been spent working on my typical stuff. I’ve also made progress on some of my side projects and I’m excited for it. My D&D stuff is moving forward so far and I’m excited to run people through it.

My job hunt however has hit a bit of wall. Several of the jobs I’ve applied to I simply haven’t heard back from. It’s frustrating as the job is still up and I’m still not hearing anything. I’ve had the help of some amazing recruiters though that are helping me out greatly. I may have some new opportunities coming soon. I’ve also been expanding my hunt to more areas. To try and improve my chances I’ve been continuing to expand my portfolio and skills. Slowly I’ve been learning more of code. I’m hoping that I’ll be hearing some good things soon.

Well till next week you guys. I hope you have an awesome week and I have some good news for you all.

Crazy Week of Family Fun

Hello everybody,

I hope your week was awesome. Mine was wild and busy. Did my typical this past week with the addition of watching some of the E3 reveals that happened. I’m super excited about what’s coming. The new Pokemon game looks amazing. I’m super excited to play it and see how it’s changed from the past ones. I’m also very excited about the next Destiny 2 expansion named The Shadowkeep. This year has a lot of awesome looking games and I’m excited to see what other games are shown at E3. The rest of my week was wild.

So this week was a lot of family business and just being busy. Things took a turn when my Grandma fell out of her wheelchair late Wednesday night early Thursday morning. My Grandpa had to call 911 to get her off the floor. Next morning comes around and her legs swollen, so they take her to the hospital. Turns out she had broken her leg and because of her MS she didn’t feel any pain, that’s both a positive and negative. So Thursday night I’m babysitting my youngest cousin and my uncle comes back to tell me that she might need surgery to put pins in. Ultimately, they splinted her leg and she is now in recovery. Friday though my Grandpa goes missing. So my mom and I go out hunting and my Uncle and cousin are hunting as well, but no one can find him. Until he suddenly walks into my Grandma’s hospital room and is shocked when we tell him we had been hunting for him. So last week had a bit of extra stress for me, but I felt really bad for my Grandma and mom. My grandma for obvious reasons, and my mom because she just was so stressed by it all and it has been a real tiring week for her. I'll say my Grandma is now recovering and on the mend.

Well til next week you guys I hope you have an amazing week. Ubisoft just released a new content creation tool for Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey to create quests for the game. I’ll be trying that this week and let you know how it goes. I hope to have some awesome stuff to show you.

Returning to Normal

Hello everyone,

I hope you guys have been having an amazing week. My week has been interesting and kind of all over the place. It was all my usual work but in a weird jumbled order. It was both fun and annoying. It’s exciting though to see how my week developed and how this month will develop. I’ve applied to many more jobs and some I’m very confident about hearing back from. My projects are going forward very smoothly. One of my projects I’m taking on the role of producer now and becoming a lot more involved. It should be very interesting to see how it develops.

This weekend was also a lot of fun. On Sunday I went to the MS Walk. The MS Walk, for those that haven’t heard of it, it’s a 5 mile walk to raise money for research on a cure for multiple sclerosis. I’ve been going to it ever since I was a child, but while in Florida I couldn’t attend. My grandma has MS so we raise money in her name. Its been very interesting to see how the MS Walk has changed over the years. They used to be sponsored by Oberto Beef Jerky which was honestly my favorite part. It was great cause they had free jerky for those participating. They also used to have different characters from Star Wars there. So there were Stormtroopers, Darth Vader, Boba Fett, and all sorts of other characters. It’s always an awesome time to go and it’s for an awesome cause. I'‘m happy that I can attend again.

I hope you guys will have a great week. I look forward to bringing you guys exciting news in the future.

Winter Wonderland in Seattle

Hello my friends,

I apologize for my late posting I’m a little sick and completely forgot yesterday. I hope you all are doing well. My week has been decent apart from getting sick. I sold a bunch of my cards on eBay so today I’m shipping them out. I finished a project I was working on so now you can go and buy Tales of Mahabharata on Steam. If you do you’ll have full access to the core game we released late last year and the free expansion that adds the war to the game. I’m very proud of the game and I’m excited to see how it does. I’m hoping to start seeing more reviews on Steam so that I have more feedback to help grow from. So please check it out and let us know what you think.

The past week has also been strange due to the winter storm in Seattle right now. This is the most snow I have ever seen in Seattle and it’s going to keep snowing. Typically we maybe get an inch or two where I live, but as of right now it’s about a foot deep. This probably means it’s going to be a hot summer which in Seattle can be very bad. Many older homes in Seattle don’t have A/C as it wasn’t needed, but now summers are getting into the hundreds which can be bad. With climate change going on we have been seeing more and more of these rapid and extreme changes. In Florida it meant I had more hurricanes. In Washington it means the weather will go from very cold to very warm. I love snow, but most people in Seattle are not ready for this amount. Hopefully, people are staying safe and warm.

Well til next week my friends! I hope you guys have a wonderful week and stay safe. I hope to have more good news next time!

Holiday Season Craziness

Hello everybody!

I hope you all had a wonderful few weeks and a happy holidays. I’m sorry that I didn’t post last week but it was all sorts of crazy. The holiday season is always nuts in my family. This is because my family is large and complicated. I always have around six celebrations with different family members and people. It’s fun and exciting every time, and I’m so lucky to have this crazy but fun family. It’s also fun to give everyone different gifts and celebrate the season. I found all sorts of fun things to give this year. I got my dad this cool alehorn that will be fun for D&D. I got these two silly pillows one covered in Guy Fieri that I gave to my brother, and the other was covered in a crying Kim Kardashian and I gave it to my sister. It’s always fun to see peoples reactions to the different gifts. I think everyone liked their gifts and that’s all I hope for.

The rest of the past weeks has been mostly working out different plans and schedules. One of the more exciting aspects of the week was having dinner with some old friends from my childhood. It was cool to catch up and reminisce as I hadn’t seen them in roughly 9 or 10 years. I was excited hearing about their lives and finding out we all wanted to work in the world of entertainment. One of my friends is currently in school for game audio. The other is wanting to do a lot more of film production. Both are currently in school and moving forward rapidly. It’s always fun seeing what’s going on with different people and how much everyone’s grown. I’m looking forward to the New Year and the possible future.

Well till next week you guys. Have a happy New Years. I hope to have more news for you next time.

A Christmas Cold

Hello everybody,

I hope you all had a good week. My week was fairly easy. The only thing that happened was I had a cold that has been messing with me. It’s made it more difficult to actually do any work. Luckily though the cold is nearly gone and hopefully, I can focus more. I’m excited for it to be gone so that I can enjoy the season without issue. It will also be very helpful for me while I’m job hunting and adapting my portfolio. Otherwise I’m very excited for the stuff going on this month.

This month is packed full of exciting events. There are all sorts of movies to see. I want to see Aquaman as I’ve heard it’s the best DC movie. I also would like to see Spiderman: Into the Spider-verse I’ve heard it’s really good. These may give me a chance to write some new movie reviews. I miss writing reviews but I don’t see movies or play games quick enough I feel. I also am excited for all of the Christmas shenanigans. It will be a crazy week and an exciting time.

Well till next week you guys. I hope you all have an amazing time and I hope to have good news for you all soon.

Crazy Week

Hello my friends!

            I hope all of you had a good week. I've had quite the week. I was able to see Infinity War and had a lot of fun with that. I also went bowling with a bunch of people from my studio. Bowling was great and I had a lot of fun. Sadly, I got a tinge of food poisoning I think from food at the bowling place. The rest of my week was nuts.

            The week started off well enough with studio work and class. However, when the Lead Producer came in on Wednesday apparently there were all sorts of issues. This past week has been us attempting to pick up pieces and figure out our battle plan. This upcoming week will be us continuing to move forward with our plan and trying to fix the issues that happened. The issues that happened were caused by such a minuscule thing any one of the leads, including myself, could have stopped it. I was very disappointed in myself for missing the problem. Now I have been lifted into the spotlight and am on watch to ensure I'm doing the best I can as Lead Designer. I thought I was doing a good job, but apparently I wasn't doing good enough. All in all this has been a huge learning experience and I hope to be able to stop any future thing.

            Well I'll chat with you guys next week. I hope your week goes well and you have a great time. I'm going to try and make it through this next week, without having to fight someone.