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Well, as most of you know, I just got done car shopping. I decided to go with a *cough* Ford. It's not my first choice, but it'll work until the 2010 Camaro comes out and I can afford it. All is well though considering it could have been a lot worse. Here is a pic of the new car from a magazine although I should have some pics soon of the car.

New outlook to bring the last half of the year

Well, as it turns out I was in a car wreck on the 4th. An 82 year old lady wasn't paying attention and ran a red light while catching me right in the middle of the intersection. Good things have come of this though, she is ok and I'm ok, but old people cars are obviously more metal than mine. Hers appeared to have minor damage as it's suprising since she went through a brick wall after hitting my car twice (in the front and then spun to get the rear). It obviously could have been a lot worse and as I said, I'm just happy everyone is ok and no kids were in the cars.
With that being said, here are some pics of the Camaro as it sits now.


A lot of good memories in the car, but from the sounds of it they are going to total it. I'll have to wait and see Monday. If they do then I'll be car shopping for another Camaro and see what I can find for a good price that hasn't been beat on.

More later.

Well, it's about time! The 2009 *sigh* Camaro is going to be hitting the streets in late 2008 early 2009. It's going to be REALLY nice and about the right time for me to trade in this one.
The new one is SUPER nice and indeed something that I'm looking forward to taking even a test drive in. If you want to see the prototype, have a look at the new Transformers movie.

New equipment for home

Well, I finally went out and bought a new external MyBox Western Digital external 1 Terrabyte drive to place all my animations and training DVDs on. I have to admit, the new drive is amazing and a nice addition. I think that I may end up getting a second 1 Terrabyte drive and start to get the drive space that I need. The config can be set to Raid 0 or Raid 1 (0 does not mirror the 500G drive, but uses both as one partition. So a smaller drive may be in order to hold documents and things that do not require a large amount of space. As you can see in the image, the blue circle is where the Terra drive is. Such a pretty sight to behold wouldn't you agree? So now it's time to get back to work and get some more things done here. Only two days to compile everything together and get the school work that I need to get done, completed. Wish me luck!

Chow.

Adobe CS3 Installation

Ok, well here's the story. While paying over $900.00 US for the Adobe suite I figured that I got a deal. I was unaware that it was going to be such a hassle and of how broke the installer is for XP Pro.

I installed disk 1 with no problems. Disk 2 required the Adobe 8 pkg to be installed. Upon trying to install it, the install hung, with no errors of course. I then installed 8 and went back to the install (note: disk 1 alone is about a 45 min install each time). It passed Adobe 8 and then hung on the next pkg. >.<

Not a problem, so I thought; I'll just call adobe. Blah blah blah... 15 minutes later of giving almost everything except my birth marks to them I was told "Oh, well it seems that this will have to go to technical support and they won't be in until tomorrow."

Let's recap... $900+ Adobe Master Collection CS3, 5 hours or troubleshooting the install, a call to an overseas "help" desk to wait until tomorrow? What!?!?!? So if you can wait for Adobe to get off their coffee breaks and stop playing with the cube toys, maybe we could have an installer that works for the amount of money that they are getting for their products. Hell, I haven't had this much trouble with an installer even from a freeware package!

Adobe, loose the interns and hire some real programmers that know how to make an installer that isn't broke before releasing it out to the public.

House gets flooded...

Well, as of last Friday our house was flooded and we ended up with some rain water in the bedroom, living area and kitchen. So now begins the task of getting everything in order to get the carpet and base boards taken care of. It's really a mess and I hope that nobody has to go through this. We did get some relief from the insurance company and it should cover our costs. Overall everyone is ok and just a little bummed about having to replace the new carpet we just had installed. Other than that, it could have been a lot worse.

It's been a while

Well, finally school has come to a close for the term. The next term is going to bring me back to working on some more 3D projects in Unreal Tounament 2004 with level design! Woot! Have to wonder how these will come out in the 9 weeks that we have. It should be interesting to see what happens.

Other than that, not a lot has been going on. There are a few points that I have been kind of down, but I think that's really just not working as much as I would like to in 3D and itching to get out there in the real world of entertainment. I know it's a ways off, but really 12 months isn't a long time and then i'll be looking for a new job and trying to get my foot in the door at some studio. Just have to see how things go! ;)