It’s amazing how much a job can distract you from things.

Brandon — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:02:41 +0000

It’s been a while hasn’t it? The last time I posted something I was unemployed. But now I am employed at Lockheed Martin as a full time simulation developer. If you’ve never heard of Lockheed Martin, it’s the world’s largest defense contractor and they make military-ish type things. It’s a decent job: the people are nice and hours are very flexible (half day fridays are awesome). As for the work, I haven’t gotten into anything too deep yet but it’s the first time I’ve been part of a development team greater than two people in size so I’m excited about that.

I would be lying if I said that my job was the only thing distracting me these days. I have a wonderful girlfriend, Sally, who I’ve been seeing for a few months now (6 months in Feb.) I usually don’t like to talk about girls until I know exactly what’s up, but I know what’s up with her and I’m really happy. The only hard part is the semi-long distance. She lives in long island while I’m still in south jersey so that’s pretty lame. I’ve been learning NJ Transit pretty well though.

On the gaming front I’ve been playing the same two games for the past 2 months: Left 4 Dead 2 and Guild Wars and I can’t get enough of them. L4D2 needs no explanation, but I feel like Guild Wars is the most under appreciated game in the history of PC games amongst everyone I know. There’s just so much to do in the game both PvE and PvP wise. And competitively it takes a lot of skill to play. I really like that the expansions are horizontal (meaning that the new content is spread amongst all areas of gameplay) rather than vertical (meaning the new content is solely focused on adding to the end game which obsoletes old content like WoW does). I am really looking forward to Guild Wars 2 but there has been no release day announcement so it’s going to be a while. I’ve pretty much stopped playing dance games all together but the community is still amazing and I will try to be a part of it as long as I can.

Other random thoughts that I don’t feel like putting into paragraph form:

-The Old Republic Q1 2011 YES
-Raquetball is cool
-Rock climbing is very cool
-I will never look at the Jersey Shore the same way
-Time to make a music game engine
-Time to make GAMES
-I really want to play poker
-The Battlestar Galactica game is amazing and I need people to play with me
-I need to do more physical activity
-PAX EAST!!!!