Today is the day I start my new job at Aspyr Media. Wish me luck!

Sorry for the lack of updates this last week…we had some family problems. Nothing serious, no one dead or hurt, just stuff we had to deal with. It turned out to be fortunate that I don’t start at Aspyr until next week, though.

It has occurred to me that I may need to explain what PSRD is again.

PSRD stands for “politics, sex, religion and drugs”, and represents topics that I do not discuss in depth on this blog, ever. Why? Because they are topics that many people invest with more importance than they merit, and thus become divisive. I understand that giving people a forum where they can flame and fight is actually a good way to boost your blog readership, but you can go to Draginol’s site for that. I’m just here to make games and chew gum, and I’m all out of gum.

My son just wrote his name unassisted for the first time. I’m very proud of him.

Well, my interview was with Wolfpack Studios and…they turned me down. I’m not terribly surprised; I don’t think I did very well on the interview.

Ugh, eight days since an update! Why didn’t somebody tell me?

Anyhoo, I’ve finally gotten a job interview! I don’t know if I want to say who with right now…I’ll tell you when it’s over. Still, it’s nice to finally see some progress on the job hunt.

All of my efforts for the last week have been on writing and improving my resume, portfolio and code samples, so I don’t really have anything to report on Star Revolution. Hopefully something screenshot-worthy will happen this week.

Last night I was driving home from work. I was pulling up behind a van at a red light when something caught my eye. I realized that the van had an onboard DVD player. Cute.

Then, despite the very bad lighting and small size of the screen, I realized that the DVD player was playing Blue’s Clues.

Then, to my horror, I actually recognized which episode it was playing.

I have a limited number of brain cells, and some of them are busily engaged in making sure I can recognize when Steve is singing “Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes”. Good grief.

I am in a beautiful mood today. This doesn’t mean that I’m happy (although I don’t feel bad). It means that I am in a mood to experience and appreciate beauty.

The day didn’t start out this way, though. I woke up feeling pretty lousy. Over the last couple of days, some things have conspired to lower my mood. Which is also why nothing else has gotten done on the RPG.

So I was driving to work early this morning…and I didn’t go to work. Instead, I went to Whole Foods.

We are fortunate here in Austin to have the world headquarters of Whole Foods. It’s a huge store, it’s gorgeous, and there are about twelve different places inside where you can get a hot meal – everything from grilled salmon to Italian to rice bowls. Everything is made fresh with no preservatives. While I’m no hippie, my attempts to lose weight have taught me exactly how much junk goes into normal preprocessed foods. Whole Foods is basically where you go when you get tired of eating McDonald’s and Wal-Mart’s crap. You pay for it, but it’s very, very good food.

So I bought some white bread, some mayonnaise and some chicken salad. I took them back to work and made myself a sandwich.

Delicious.

Then I turned on WinAmp. The shuffle gave me this track. (If you need a plugin to play .SPC files, you can get one here. I recommend SNESAmp for WinAmp. Of course, you should have already done this when I talked about the Front Mission soundtrack. More Super Nintendo soundtracks can be found here.)

And that pretty much clinched it. Today is all about Beauty Appreciation. There will be no listening to Cypress Hill or Audioslave. Instead, today will feature pieces from Yoko Kanno, Nobuo Uematsu, and Björk, among others. Beauty forever!