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Tuesday February 10th 2004 05:39 PM PST

I can't explain how much more enjoyable the trip to work is when i take the train. I left the house at 8AM on the nose, and i arrived at 9:10 with walking and train transfers and all. I sat today screwing around writing stupid ideas in my sketch book. But i really was amazed at how much faster the time goes. I have to admit i was lucky today cause i hit the right time on both trains. The gold line was pulling in right as i got to the stattion. Then when i made the train transfer at Union, the north hollywood train was pulling in right as i got to the platform. So in both cases i didn't have to wait at all for the trains.

I really have to say that working is much much much better than sitting on my ass at home. Don't call me crazy. After doing NOTHING for so long, ANYTHING is better. I can't say that the job is that interesting as far as assignments go. Video compression, flash ad banners, screensaver work, a little html and javascript. Everybody knows that all i really want to do is build games, but those jobs are few and far between. I had a talk yesterday with Andy here about the irritating fact that Flash will not really let you protect any of your code. I've been reluctant in the past to build games using flash just for the simple reason that anybody with half a brain can crack into ALL you code and see all the inner workings of a game engine you might build.

So i guess i really need to focus on the basics that will keep money flowing. I'll continue to do all the grunt jobs to pay the bills, and i'm going to seek out all the little game jobs that might come my way.