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I've been working on a trailer for Car Washer. It's been a while since I've done any serious video editing, but I think it's coming along pretty nicely. All I need to do now is adjust the timing and add in music and sound effects. It should be finished and online sometime over the weekend. I'll post a link to it on Monday but, if you don't want to wait, I'll probably link to it on the forums and the Car Washer web site as soon as its up.

Josiah

Since I've been working so hard lately, I took some time off yesterday (not from my teaching job, but from working on my own projects) to start a game of Final Fantasy XIII-2. It was a nice break and I'm enjoying the game so far.

What I'm not enjoying is the ants. I've had a bit of an ant problem in my apartment for the last couple of weeks (despite keeping the place very clean). I bought some of those poisoned ant bait packs and spread them around right away. And, while it took a little while, that mostly took care of the problem aside from the occasional stray ant. Problem was, every time I got rid of the ants in one room they showed up in another. And, just when I finally thought I'd taken care of all of them, they found my dishwasher. Yes, the dishwasher. They just keep showing up there, never mind the fact that they should die every time I run the thing. I've got some of those poison packs sitting on the floor nearby but the ants never seem to leave dishwasher so it doesn't do any good. And, of course, putting poison in the dishwasher itself seems like a really bad idea. So that's been getting on my nerves all week. I came up with one last idea, which I just put into effect yesterday. If it fails though, I may have to resort to spraying them and then running the dishwasher empty a whole bunch of times before using it. Fun, fun, fun...

Josiah

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While I'm fine with not going on a day trip every weekend, like I did in Japan, I prefer to spend my time relaxing and/or doing something fun. Of course, that's not always possible and, like last week, I spent most of my free time this weekend working. Like before, I made a lot of progress. Unfortunately, there's still lots to do. For Car Washer I still need to make a trailer video, use the video to finish the updated version of the Car Washer web site so I can get that online, submit the game to the various online stores I want to carry it (Steam, XBLA indie arcade, etc.), and get an online store of my own set up. And, once that's done, I'll still need to update various documents and profiles of mine with the information about Car Washer and then get to work on other things that I've been putting off in order to finish Car Washer. And, after all that, I can finally turn my focus back to Aurora's Nightmare (which will be a nice change of pace).

Actually, I probably wouldn't mind working on the weekend much if I hadn't been spending most of my free time during the week working as well... If you don't count the time I spent bug testing Car Washer, I've barely even played any video games over the last couple of weeks. Anyway, I'm looking forward to a weekend where I won't be spending all Saturday night and most of Sunday working on stuff. Will it be this weekend? Maybe, it'll depend on how much I manage to get done before hand. And, I suppose, if my friends decide to have a Super Bowl party or something. But either way, I'll need to take time for another Orlando trip sometime in the next few weeks if I want to hit every theme park on my list before summer vacation and I'd love to just take a day to play video games (especially with Final Fantasy XIII-2 coming out tomorrow), so we'll see. Things are bound to calm down sooner or later.

Josiah