Career Change

Well my dear friend, I think things are pretty much back to normal. We are back in sync with west coast time, the apartment has managed to lend itself well to the four of us without feeling crowded and I am nearing the end of a cold that hit me fast and hard and has left me with a strained neck and shoulder as I awkwardly piled up pillows in an attempt to sleep without having to reach for a tissue every five minutes. Ah, such is life!

With everything in it's place and running smoothly, I have had time to think about my next step on this funky road I travel and well, a career change is in order. I am going to try my hand at modelling.

Okay, I'll give you a moment to mop up the coffee I know just sprayed right out your nose and mouth. Obviously I don't mean that type of modelling, I mean 3D modelling for gaming purposes. Okay, another moment to mop up more coffee is probably needed here, after all we both know I am not gifted in the technology department. But I am an artist and it's about time I dragged myself into the 21st century. I now have words like Blender, Unity, polygons and meshes in my vocab and more importantly, I know and understand what they all mean! Impressed? I'm beside myself with giddy pride as I rotate, scale, translate and LMB the heck out of our desktop. My trusty team of geeks (aka the Boy and the Man) are watching mouths agog as I create a game character who I will animate, somewhere around Chapter 8.

This is of course all down to the Boy. We have in the back of our minds the thought that University may not be for him with all it's social hurdles and processing challenges. He is at home in the world of computers and it appears gifted at this gaming thing. At present he is designing a game with people from Australia and Romania and has plans for a gaming empire. We see ourselves as his champions and guides, so I had better get myself up to date, can't champion the kid if I have no idea what I'm talking about. The added bonus being a new skill for me and a possible income in the future. When you open yourself up to new possibilities great things can happen. Let's see if this is one of those times. Heck, I've said it out loud now, so I can't fail, that would be too embarrassing.

Always yours
your newly geeky friend
Sparrow