long time no blog
Not to much going on in terms of mapping. I’ve been chipping away at some super secret projects. I have however, caved and got Portal 2. Of course I dove into the sdk right after beating the single player campaign. I made a quick level. It’s not much; I only took about 15 mins for design. I was mainly just seeing how everything works.
It’s called the hike. enjoy.
Also, the door instance is retarded. I tweaked it but didn’t spend as much time as I should have. If you notice it’s because you read this. ;P
The Peacock Adventure
So, I recently went up to North Carolina to see my grandfather who recently had a stroke. He seems to be improving and doing well considering the circumstances. It was a great time all around, seeing family and long time friends of the family.
I took the veggie car up and it preformed well. My brother who went along, petitioned against bringing extra oil up with us which meant that we’d have to fill up with diesel along the way. What a sticker shock that was! Being used to driving for free has me spoiled.
Anyway, upon arriving my aunt told us about a peacock that liked to linger around the back of my grandfathers house in which we were staying. It was a beautiful bird and we decided to catch it. So we did! and brought it back to Georgia in my trunk. It was pretty amazing adventure and now we have a peacock.
Fickle
I amaze even myself how fickle I am when technology or mechanics unexpectedly doesn’t work or break.
I had car trouble yesterday right after I spent 15mins fixing one problem, a huge host of others surface. I don’t know if I’ve been that mad in a long time.
The things we take for granted everyday can turn on us.
On a more positive note, I cleaned out (blew compressed air through) the veggie line and that seems to have been the problem. I also installed a small diesel tank in the front instead of the notoriously unreliable tank installed in the back. All is well in the veggie world.