Lock-out / Tag-out

Wired seems to be the way to go lately, so heres a wire of the fish tank design.

Have been off line for almost a year. Didn't log in, forgot my gmail account because I do not use it for email, and took me the better part of three months to "hack" back into my blogger account, mainly because I didn't have any email account tied to this so I could get my password recovery info.

So alls well that ends well, or so they say.

The period of being locked out is over, Though there is the possibility of being locked out at work, The whole union Vs company issue, normal corporate operations. SOP

Been grinding and loosing days, not in terms of weeks but terms, as in presidential terms.

Get busy, new kid, house, etc, next thing you know The boy is in pre-school and those business deals you been working on turned to dried up cereal stuck on the bottom of a bowl for days on end. Hard and useless. You got to scrape it out, re-wash the bowl before you can get started again.

So far, Liquid metal hasn't been touched in over a year, the E.D. stuff has been sitting and cooling off, so I have to heat that back up before I can work with it again, and over all. I lost several more years of my life to drone work.

Now the issue I am facing isn't so much loosing a couple years of my life to make some corporation very wealthy. The issue I am facing is that for every month I stall on my projects, I get another year behind the competition, and that is because game design and development is still shooting forward.

By working on it full time as an Indi-developer, I slowly slide farther behind other companies who are shooting ahead with big money and big teams. By not doing anything Its like trying to run on foot after a drag racer, there is no way in hell it will happen.

Good news on this picture though. As I have been sitting on my ass watching my beer gut get bigger (So-long six pack, hello pony keg!) Some industries developed which will help me catch up again. Engine middle ware for MMO developers are srpouting up left and right, so you get an MMO engine, plug in your graphics, models, and scripts, and it goes. you do not have to build everything from scratch, like with the first release of Everquest, and Asheron's Call.

Server clients, player clients, server hosting, heck all you gotta have is the IP and ambition to stick your neck out on the block to publish an MMO now a days. Partly good, but so many are being published that it dilutes the quality and people's willingness to try new stuff, because everything else is crap.

So while I bury my head in the sand, I have been listening to podcasts a lot lately, and pod books. (audio books for podcasting.)

So many new industries are springing up that It gives me a glimmer of hope. It seems old school things are fading fast, however new school items are rising to take it's place. So as long as your plugged in you still have your feet under you.

For you writers out there, check out www.Podiobooks.com perhaps it's time to reconsider the whole publishing paradigm. Audio seems to be a better medium for those on the go or for those stuck in traffic for three or more hours a day.

Some suggestions is the Share series, Quarter-share, Half-Share, and Full-Share. To get a better idea of what I'm talking about. Tons of stuff out there, and I'm tempted to start publishing some of my closet writings in audio format.

I never had the ambition to get a book published, though I am a published writer, in magazines, newspapers, and business periodicals, I just didn't get into it that much. but this format seems like it would be some serious fun to make, and get published at the same time.

There again, you need to weed out the bad writers from the good one, but the best part of it is. Fresh blood can get into the market without having to be related to someone in the business.

And there is good blood out there.

Well now that I have access to my blog again I'll start writing some more, and keep everyone up to date.

and remember, don't forget to lock the hatch BEFORE you dive your sub.