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I finally made progress with that game I am programming and it will have its first stage 1 round of testing tonight. If all goes well then I can move on to stage 2, which is really just features and not connected with the game play at all. The way I see it, it is going to be a three stage process with stage 1 being the most in depth. Unfortunately I cannot give any details as of yet, but I can say it might be the star of new games. It will not be on Lep’s Lair, because it is for a client, but I have been wanting to add games, so maybe if all goes well I might add some poker or something where you play with other people.

Bathroom Cabinets really make the bathroom don’t they? Krissy’s bathroom up here has no shower, and the toilet needs to be replaced, but they have this new bathroom vanity in there that houses the sink and your eye just goes to that and nothing else that is in the room. I never really thought that Bathroom Cabinets added much appeal to the bathroom style, but I guess they add more than I ever realized. I’ve always had brown wooden looking ones, I didn’t really know they came in anything else, but they have a white one up here, maybe that is why my eye is so drawn to it, because it is so different than what I am used to seeing. That might be the case.

I taught Krissy how to drive. I was there when she first started out and didn’t know how far to turn the wheel of the car and ended up in a bush to when she was driving up to New York a few weeks ago just fine. Now I have had my car for years, it’s the one car that hasn’t crapped out on me beyond repair and I love it to death. It has kind of become our car though. That is fine except when I want to leave and she has the car, there’s nothing I can really do about it. I know that she wants a car, preferably a Cobolt or Jetta, so we have been looking at Online Car Loans. I guess we can just go to a dealership and see their terms and conditions for Car Loans for new drivers, but they would probably be ridiculous. I guess we will need to see what happens with money and everything in the coming weeks before we can make an informed decision.

I have been doing nothing but coding the last few days. Tomorrow I think I am finally going to be getting away and going to a comic book store and possibly the mall with Krissy’s friend Lucy and her. I think they just want to go to the mall because they can finally get behind the adult curtain at this one store. A lesbian, my girlfriend, and me in an adult section of a store. It sounds fun doesn’t it?

In other news we are still in New York. Have been up here since around Father’s Day and I don’t know when we will be leaving, but at this point it looks like we might be finding a place up here and moving in. It won’t be so bad as long as rent includes utilities. Just need to figure out how to do all this.

In one of the high schools that I went to I took a jewelry class. It was full on working with metals to create pieces of jewelry, you could even make a ring out of wax and send it out to be encases in gold or silver. The metal that the school had on hand though was steel, copper, aluminum, the standard cheaper metals, along with strips and sheets of silver. Ever since I left that school I wanted to get back into jewelry making. I was thinking about buying some perforated metal or something and seeing how much the tools I would need would cost me. I know I would need a wooden mallot, a blow torch, a ball peen hammer, and a special kind of saw. I think I could get back into it fairly easy, it would just be the price of everything that would be hard.

I know that I could get a lot of the metal supplies from Petro Wire & Steel, they seem to have good pricing on the stuff I would need. The thing that I love about their site is that it is very easy to navigate, there’s no guess work for anything. I just need to select a metal type, like wire cloth or bar grating and then select what I want. It is very clean and they try to organize things very well and it shows. A lot of the other sites I have looked at are disorganized. If and when I do get back into the jewelry making then I will go there and pick up the metals that I would need, even if they would just be for practice.

E3 is over and I am still half expecting something exciting to pop up. In actuality the only exciting thing that came about for me, and I am sure for a lot of people was the announcement of Final Fantasy 13 on the Xbox 360. While I am very happy and excited for that to happen, with how Square Enix is, we will see a new Xbox before we see Final Fantasy 13. Gears of War 2 I may pick up, I beat Gears 1, might as well continue the story right? Comic Con is next week so I am looking forward to that. I have been trying to get to a comic book store up here, but I don’t know when I will be able to find my way out to New Hyde Park.

When my car was messing up last week, Krissy swore that there was something wrong with the power steering. Now I looked at the power steering fluid and it was full so I was pretty sure that the steering rack and the steering box were in tact and didn’t need any maintenance, especially since when I drove there was nothing wrong with them. It was all just because of the belt though, it was the main one that connected everything together, so I can see why when that went everything else seemed to mess up too. I would have been in trouble if it was the power steering though, that is very important especially hen you are going faster than 40 miles an hour.

Well I didn’t write much else about E3 because the rest was kind of boring. Sony and Nintendo didn’t really bring anything new to the table, besides Nintendo’s snowboaring game using the balance board. Other than that it was pretty predictable and kind of boring.

Speaking of E3 there are reports saying that Microsoft cancelled the Bungie announcement because their conference would have been going on for over 2 hours had they included everything they wanted to. I think what happened is that they saw that Sony and Nintendo’s press conferences were weak and couldn’t live up to Microsoft’s Final Fantasy 13 announcement. I guess we will need to wait to hear about the new Halo game, I just wonder how long the wait will be.

I want to go to Vegas and I know that there are a lot of casinos there that I could lose the potential of thousands of dollars, if not more. I also know that there are some great restaurants there, like Chef Ramsey’s place, and I know that there are a lot of bars. In fact there was one bar where all they have is vodka and you need to spend a minimum of $250 on a bottle of vodka, so that can be fun. I just can’t seem to think that besides gambling, drinking, and eating, there has to be other things to do in Las Vegas. If I went I don’t think I would take an official tour, but I would go around and see if they have the tourist brochures in different hotels and casinos so I can spend time doing other things besides drinking and gambling.

If I were to go to another city, say New York, I would definitely check out New York City tours, especially if I was staying in the city for a few days. The online travel guides for NYC look impressive, and definitely something I would love to experience first hand. I signed up for the trusted tours newsletter because there’s a chance to win a $150 iTunes gift card. That is a lot of free music, so I am definitely in.

So there is no announcement from Bungie regarding their next game. In the wake of this sad news, Microsoft went ahead and talked about the absence of Halo from their presentation. They have confirmed that along with Halo Wars, along with the Peter Jackson Halo Project are not the only Halo games in the works. Bungie is working on a new Halo game. This could be the Halo “Blue” that Walmart reported a few days ago. Rumors say that it is a Master Chiefless Halo game focusing on the UNSC soldiers turning it into more of a Call of Duty meets Socom game. I wonder if we will ever see the Chief awaken from his cryo sleep and get off that planet. I guess we will have to wait and see.

So Bungie’s countdown was shut down and replaced by a message signed the president of Bungie, Harold Ryan. There are some reasons to believe that this is legitimate, but it is Bungie so there are reasons why you should believe that this is merely a joke. First off, Harold Ryan is not the president of Bungie studios, his last known job title is that of studio manager.

Secondly Bungie likes the number 7. At 7:00 exactly this message was put up. If they had wanted to make it look less suspicious they should have done it at 7:10 or something. They also didn’t put the old website back up, just the announcement so the weekly updates and the front page are still in limbo. Taking look at the counter from yesterday, it was set to expire on July 15th, not the 16th when the announcement was to be made. I think they are either messing around, or this is some sort of viral campaign like the Cortana Letters were for Halo 1. I guess we will know soon enough though.

Well E3 is in full swing now. I have seen a few of the trailers, I have to say that there is a Square Enix game that looks good and is coming in September, but other than that I think I am looking forward to Halo Wars the most this E3. I am surprised that Microsoft didn’t announce a motion sensored controller, but maybe that was never their intention. They did announce that you could load entire games onto the harddrive and play them that way, of course the game disk needs to be in the disc drive for it to play. I am not going to find much of a use for that considering that I don’t find load times that annoying, though for GTA4 it might be good.

Nintendo and Sony are tomorrow with something going on with Bungie on Wednesday, so I guess I have a few days before I decide who wins E3 for me. Nintendo already announced MotionPlus which gives you precision accuracy with your Wiimote. Something like that you’d think they would wait for their press conference, so maybe they have something much bigger in store for tomorrow? I can only speculate.