Christmas Time in Des Moines

So, I was lucky and the lottery gave us a day off for Christmas at the last minute. Which means I have tomorrow off. They told us this today. Which is to be expected. Of course this means however that I had to plan my Christmas a head of time as if I was going to work, and now I won't get to see my son until after 3:30pm. Then Friday, back to work and we'll see if I end up having to work New Years day, which is a strong possibility. Groan, groan, whine, ect.. To be honest I'm just glad I have a job right now. So the little annoyances aren't really that bad.

I do however need to start concentrating on some sort of transitional period over the next year. I plan to continue my current job, but would like to be ready to go into a software development position of some sort by the first part of next year. At which time I'm also hoping to have the engine ready and being used for exclusive production of Phyersoft games for the length of the current agreed upon contract, after which the engine will be released to the public.

At that time, I'm hoping that over a few years of further development, support, and building a community around the engine, I'll be able to transition into having it as the base ip for my own business. Then, after getting some infrastructure setup to continue development and support, I can really begin concentrating on making games. Of course as soon as the engine is in a production quality state, I'm going to begin on a project of my own as well. I have three that have been partially designed that I'd really like to finish and build, but I'll have to cross that bridge when the time comes.

In the meantime, the challenge of staying focused and motivated is in the forefront. I may have to limit myself to being more selective in my future involvements in future projects that stretch outside of the realm of my main goals, after current projects are made good upon and completed. At least until I have more time. If I continue to be so fragmented in my undertakings, and going off on tangent projects, the next four years will go by like this past one. Time having passed with good intentions, some work, a lot of planning, and little to show for it. This of course would not be a good thing.

For anyone interested, I'm now on Twitter. Something that I put off for a while because I thought it was kinda weird, but after getting into it the last couple of weeks, you can get a peek inside the lives of people all over the world every day, which is an awesome concept, even if it is instantly brief and and enormous time killer. A cool thing I've done, just randomly select followers from one person to the next and see who you end up on after a random number of clicks.

Merry Christmas everyone, may your stockings be coal free, unless they're stuffed with clean coal, then market that shiznit and make some clean energy for the masses.