I've been keeping busy over the last couple weeks doing this and that. Last thursday was the normal poker night which went well, ended up breaking even so I can't complain about that. Was a big turnout too...6 people, Bailey, Kat, Brian, Rachael, Cass, me. I had a good time so I can't complain about that. I'm hoping I can sort things out with Steve, had a little squabble with him over a game of poker a couple weeks ago. It sucks but in the end, I still feel I was right and I have corroborated that as well.

Weekend was rather lazy, sadly I got the Red Rings of Death for my 360 which sucks, but I can survive for a couple weeks without my XBOX. I look at it this way, it will give me time to play other games, as well as working on other things that I've been putting off. On another note, if you have a PS3, make sure you pick up Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. The game is amazing, graphics-wise, gameplay-wise, and story-wise.

Monday night I went to the scout meeting, helped their fire building competition. Went well, I'm glad I'm getting more involved in it. I know I'm going camping this weekend so that should be a good time. Eric's running it too so it'll be fun to see what he can do.

I found a bunch of tutorials on game design so I think I'll spend some time reading over those and see if I can't get something started. I think I have an idea of what I want to do, so hopefully the tutorials could help me out. Here's the link if anyone's interested: http://gpwiki.org/. Not sure how good they are just yet, but so far it seems to be a good start.

I got my subversion repository set up on my server for my code for my website and should be able to use it for anything else as well. I created a new tree last night for a version 3 of my site, not sure when that's going to get any real progress. I know what I want to do, just trying to figure out how to do it. Will have to read up on things to get it done.

Tags: poker, xbox360, uncharted, rrod

The week didn't go by too badly. I am glad it's Friday though. I've spent the last two days at work trying to work out IBM's Rational Performance Tester. I tell you, to download and install it, was a trick and a half. However, once installed, it's actually relatively simple to operate. It appears to be based off Eclipse, the open source Java IDE (now supporting C, C++, and PHP as well). I'm not the biggest fan of Eclipse but the interface seems to do well for this program.

I got myself a nice Phillips 5.1 surround system for my TV and it sounds BEAUTIFUL...just need to get some speaker stands and figure out how to get the on screen display to work and it will be perfect for me.

Anyway, last night, was of course poker night. Small gathering this time, Brian, Tim, and myself.  It was still fun. Ended up going up $5. Brian now probably considers me the riverboat captain, or a river rat as his last hand he paired 10s, I paired 9s.  Then the river gave me a flush Ace high.  So I was quite happy, particularly since I was fluctuating most of the game.  Pretty much got myself up to $15 and based on the time and me not wanting to press my luck, I bought out, which Tim was more than happy to oblige as he needed to get home too. Poker this weekend sounds good...anyone interested?

Tags: poker, work