Searching

Today's goal was to reasses the cost of attending Full Sail along with living there. I compiled a nice little excel sheet and turned my room upside down in the proccess.



I purchased these three must read books today during lunch break. I'm going to start with Code and work my way through the series.



Today was terribly painful at work. For those that don't know I work at an OfficeMax distribution center at the moment (I change jobs quite a bit but this one pays very well 12.50 an hour with benefits and generally much more laid back than other jobs I've encountered). Today we had a company wide meeting about the new core values of OfficeMax and how OfficeMax wants enter the Blue Ocean and leave the Red Ocean. Our new core values are Passion, Ingenuity, and Fun. Man was the meeting fun ...

Zenkaikon

This weekend I attended my very first Game Expo (VGXPO) and in the proccess stumbled upon my very first Anime Expo (Zenikaikon) as well. There I met a lot of very interesting people. I had met up with Mellisa Diaz who is the owner of http://preciousmiseries.com and http://stitchesandcompany.com/. She was kind enough to draw me a picture and sign it, which I'm going to store away for when she becomes a popular artist and designer.

I had also met a girl named Evirion who is a friend of Melissa's. Francine (Evirion) had won first place at the cosplay contest. Francine hand made her entire costume, and it was the most authentic and realistic thing I've ever seen. I spent some time talking to her about how long it took, the cost and labor of it all and generally what its like to cosplay (now that I think about it, it would be kinda cool to interview a cosplayer if this were an Anime related blog). I got so excited about cosplaying that I decided to try it out in the future. At first I wanted to do Magna Carta and the like. Those costumes seem very intricate and I'll try to build one for the next big East Coast anime con but I will also try to have my first costume be a little simpler so right now I'm looking into Allen Walker from D.Gray-man wearing a top hat : )

I had the opportunity to play some GO with a girl who is attending UPenn and has a real Go club. I'm thinking about attending, but she's really good ^^

Here are some more pictures from the event, and some advice. If your an Anime enthusianst and have never attended an Anime-con than your missing out. I have been watching this stuff since I can remember and yet never experienced a gathering of so many people that are interested the same things as myself.

Quite before the comming storm

I've been dormant for several weeks, but not uneventful. In fact so much has happened both in the game industry, and in my personal life that I am dedicating several hours of blogging this Saturday to put up rants, reviews, and a little something something.

Expected Blogs:
- Windows Vista Review
- FullSail, yanking the anchor.
- Magazine fananza.
- PS3

And lots more. I don't want to list everything I have planned due to the possibility that I might not get to everything and its always best to set the expectations low and deliver more (see. Playstation3).