So, it's Thursday at 1:02 AM. How is Javantea's Fate doing? Not so well. I procrastinated on working on Javantea's Fate until 11:00 PM Wednesday, two hours ago. Creating the characters took a lot of time beyond the two hours, so no this isn't quite how I wanted it to work out.
Secondly, this is a fluke because Anarchy Online's story started last night. I spent Tuesday night getting back into the rhythm of AO and then all of this night participating in the event. It was pretty cool and I'm glad that I went there. Also, there's a full movie to go with the even. Check the community site. It's a big download, but 20 MB not bad if you want to see a 30 minute CG rendered show for free.
Next is school, I've been doing poorly lately and I need to get going on it. I have to blame my laziness and my happiness with working on Javantea's Fate. If Javantea's Fate crashed more, I might be persuaded into giving it up.
Next is my money situation. You might as well hear it from me after seeing the second page. I am poor. Many students are poor, but I am ultra-poor. Not only do I lack a work ethic, I lack will to work for those who do not meet my (fairly high) standards. I also am extremely skilled at one trade which is taking a nose-dive into the blue yonder. Ya, this webpage may not look it, but I'm a web developer. I do code rather than aesthetics, but nonetheless, people in my position aren't making cash. Also, I am well skilled as a physicist, but I assume that I'm blacklisted here at the UW for Lab jobs because each person I ask about it is very willing to help, but cannot. My course load is heavy, but my need for rent money does not change. Even more than that, I lack free time to work. I like Javantea's Fate so much that it takes up a fair amount of time in my life. With studying Electricity and Magnetism (Physics 321), Quantum Mechanics (Physics 324), Modern Physics (Physics 225), and a Physics lab all at the same time, it's a struggle and I usually just give up on that end. But I'm hoping to start working on it. This will be my last year at the UW whether I get my Bachelor's Degree in Physics or not. But that shouldn't happen, right? I'm a student and students get scholarships, grants, money from a trust fund, and in any case loans that cover it. Well, no. I received no free money. A few hundred here and there from my parents (I absolutely find no reason to have the health insurance they buy me because I'll NEVER go to a hospital no matter if I'm on my death bed or worse) is all the free cash I got. So what about loans? Well, Uncle Sam is stupid enough to give this anarchist high-interest loans to pay for tuition, but will only give loans to my parents for rent/food. My parents are another story altogether. They're the ones that picked their retirement over their children's education. That's their prerogative, but when the stock market crashes (like it already has) and their retirement cuts out twenty years before they do, the saving I have that could put them into a retiring home will instead go to a homeless charity. So the parent loan thing fell through. It all started when I wouldn't take over my father's previously successful computer programming business, but it's a long story and this is just a rant about my money shortage.
Last but not least, we have the very awful old job that I am required to take care of. My boss assumes that I don't lose sleep each time he writes me an e-mail or has one of his workers call me. He's quite wrong. Each time he tells me he has a bug in the system I built, I go into cardiac arrest. I can't complain too much because the money it provided kept a roof over my head for part of my student life. But day after day I swear that I'm going to just delete all the source code and start from scratch. I am keeping track of the date when I should have started working from scratch. That date was June 2001. Really, that's not such a big deal since over the course of two years, I restarted from scratch a dozen times. The latest start from scratch was December 7, 2000. I guess a person learns from their mistakes, but I don't think that learning from them for the rest of a person's life makes any sense at all.
After I sleep a few hours, I'm going to redo Page 2. *shrug* It looks like heck anyway. The animations aren't very good, AltSci3D Manga Maker isn't working right, the DirectX exporter screwed up the Warehouse grunt's legs, and last but not least, there's no text! How are people supposed to read this without any text?!
Oh, also, tomorrow I'm going to work on Page 3, Scene 2 generally, a Penny Arcade crossover fanpic. They don't know about it yet, so it'll be a surprise. Fun! I hope I can represent Tycho and Gabe successfully in 3d. I bet I can. But where will they be? But anyway, I'm just hoping to get my good friend Tycho to plug my website so I can get a few hits. Perhaps I can get some regulars so that these rants will mean something. Keep an eye out at my hero's websites (Penny-Arcade, MegaTokyo, and Exploitation Now) for fanpics and plugs. That's my plan anyway. Imagine Piro, Largo, Jordan, and Bush in 3d, I think you know it'd be cool. Thanks in advance for plugging Javantea.com!
Okay, the sooner I sleep, the sooner you get a new Page 2.