Mid-Vacation Blog

Hey all,

So I'm here on what I'll call my "vacation," for lack of a better term. I can't elaborate more on it for now, but I'd like to outline a few things that have been going on.

1. I've visited my family at their summer house, which was really fun and great. We went out on their boat, saw some fireworks, and most important for me, I got a chance to speak with my mom, sister, and step-dad face-to-face under relaxed circumstances. 
2. I bought a new laptop. It seems to be working fine so far, and although it cost about the same as my desktop, it is actually portable, as laptops tend to be. It is also pretty good for development. I've got all my usual suite of dev software on it: Unity, Unreal, Visual Studio Community, Audacity, Blender, and GIMP. These all run really smoothly, and I haven't encountered any major issues.
3. I've completed one game jam, and I'm currently working on another, themed around vikings.
4. I've been going to a local rock climbing gym, and have met some nice people there. Before I left Japan, I injured my right thumb (a sprain or possibly hyper-extension), and that has hindered my climbing a bit. I think it might be a few weeks before it is really healed, so I'm trying to tape it, and not use my thumb in the meantime.
5. I have done some sightseeing, both locally and in DC when I visited my other sister there.
6. I've read a lot of books: the Hyperion Cantos, the first half of David Farland's Runelords series, part of Swink's Game Feel.

I've also been playing a little. The Epic Games Store released Torchlight, Overcooked, and Limbo for free, so I've been playing them a little as well. That's about all for now.