Ahem...

Well, I'm not doing a brilliant job of keeping this blog updated, but on the positive side of things, I do have fairly good excuses for not doing so. I guess I'll have to work in a routine somewhere.

Things are all very much up in the air at the moment. To be honest, I have no idea at all where I'll be a month from now, except that it could be anywhere, and in any circumstances.

Interesting times...

More Shockwave...

A month on, and I'm still enjoying Shockwave. And I haven't even started on multiplayer yet, other than a test co-op match with JonB. There's a lot of depth in there, and flashy explosions as well.

I passed the first round of General's Challenge with Granger today, for the first time ever. One day I might even learn to play him well. I just can't seem to get the hang of using planes as anything other than support units - I never build more than two airfields, three at most. Still, Granger's lineup includes some of the more interesting new units, so this habit will have to change.

The 0.95 update is due in January, assuming the provisional date is met. I hope so, because that should just about coincide with the moment I've more or less learnt the ropes, so I'll get a whole new bunch of toys to play with (including three new Generals!).

Cuantas movidas...

Un saludo a todos los colegas de España! Siento que de momento todos los mensajes hayan sido en Inglés, en cuanto haya averiguado cómo poder hacer varias secciones diferentes en la página, la dividiré por idiomas, y traduciré los mensajes anteriores.

Vaya par de semanitas! He pasado dos días en Madrid, haciendo una prueba de traducción para entrar en una empresa que está enfrente del Santiago Bernabeu. Aún sigo a la espera de los resultados - si sale bien, igual me mudo a Madrid dentro de poco. Mientras estuve allí, me quedé en casa de Roberto, el especialista, que hace ya casi dos años que no lo veía. También vimos a Jose Manuel, que está por allí opositando (suerte!). Me lo pasé muy bien, y alegra ver a los antiguos compañeros de clase.

Aparte de eso tengo media docena más de entrevistas pendientes, si sale alguno puede que tenga que irme a Barcelona o a Málaga, más practicas en la OAMI, en cual caso me quedaría aquí en Alicante. Si añadimos a eso que por fin empiezan a llegar trabajos para mi empresa de traducción, estoy como loco, con mucho que hacer, poco tiempo, y sin saber donde voy a estar dentro de dos meses. Pero al menos es divertido!

Hiatus

Family visit this week, so I won't be having any time to update the blog. Look for updates next week. And now, here's the same sentence regurgitated by Google's new Hindi text tool:

फमिली विसित नेक्स्ट वीक, सो इ वों'टी बे हविंग एनी टीम तो अपडेट थे ब्लोग। लुक फॉर उप्दतेस नेक्स्ट वीक.

Shockwave

I downloaded Shockwave for Generals: Zero Hour the other day, and it's totally blown me away. It's been a fair while since a game made me gape in astonishment, and I can't even remember the last time a mod had that effect on me. I've only had time to try out the USA Laser General and the Superweapon General so far, but... wow.

Download at http://www.shockwavemod.com/

How much wood would a wood-chuck chuck, if a wood-chuck would chuck wood?

Well, no updates in a week. There hasn't really been much to talk about, things are going slow slow slow. We've been hard at work all week, but so far, little to show for it, hopefully that will change over the next couple of weeks.

I've been teaching my Spanish partner's family English and French tongue-twisters, which has been crazy, to say the least. The French "Si mon tonton ton ton tonton, ton tonton tendu sera" was especially popular.

In gaming news, I've installed Zero Hour again, hoping to get in a few epic multiplayer battles with JonB, and, as usual, I'm messing around with the .ini files already. My current pasttime is combining all of the sub-Generals' units and abilities into the original side, I.E. giving vanilla USA all of the subunits and powers from Airforce, Laser and Superweapons. I'm pretty sure I've got all the USA units done now, just need the General's Powers. Once I'm done with all three sides, it'll be time to throw in some other minor changes here and there (I'd like to give the laser tanks a continuous "stream" laser, rather than a "zap" laser, and I think the Stealth Fighter needs to be balanced vs the Aurora to make it more useful) and then try to balance the new sides to a reasonable level.

Project Lightfoot has been advancing well, but it's slowing down now, as the basic theory is coalescing nicely, and now I need to start prototyping things to see how they work for real, and to start building the world. Which means improving my (pathetic) 3d modelling skills, and finding a decent platform to prototype from.

Lazy Sunday

Nothing much to update today. I've added a few more links to the site, and if anyone knows how to implement tabs (the navigational sort) in Blogger, then the next step will be adding languages.

In personal news, my new translation agency has its first client! A law firm, no less, looking to contract translations and interpreting services. Things are looking up.

Typical...

No work for two months, and the day I start a blog, work comes in. Looks like some of those changes will have to wait a bit longer.

In other news, I've run out of games! I can't play most of the games that have come out in the last year or so on my laptop, and I've played the ones I have to death... so, any suggestions from roughly 2002-2006 that I might have missed while playing WoW? (No MMOs, haven't got the time or money)

JBconCola

As far as I can recall, this is my first ever blog post. This blog is a trial, while I work out how to use Wordpress, and set up a homepage, to see if I can actually reliably keep a blog updated...

Why JBconCola? It was my first stable online nickname. After some trouble with a stalker, I created my current nick - Lobosolitario, which has stuck with me so far. But JBconCola has nostalgia value.

The page layout should change as I get the hang of the settings. That hideous star in the corner is going, for starters...

Anyway, here's to blogging!