Sorry, just gotta have some place to vent a bit. :P

It all started with a date. I show up at my date's house and ring the doorbell. I hear "I'll be right there!" from inside the house, followed shortly by "thumpthumpthUMPTHUMP BAMMMM!", and then absolute silence. I rang the bell, knocked on the door, and no response. So, I did what any normal person (well, imo at least) would do: I found an unlocked window and managed to climb my way in...to find my date unconscious at the bottom of a staircase.



Call the emergency services, etc. Breathing and pulse are OK, but remaining unconscious. After a bit, I hear sirens pulling up to the house. I open the front door to go out and meet the police officers...and am promptly handcuffed and stuffed into the back seat of a cruiser.



Apparently, a neighbor saw me "break in" through the window and called the police. Fortunately they listened as I explained my situation, and after confirming my call to 911, they let me go. EMTs show up and cart my date off to the hospital. They wouldn't give me much information (it was a first date and I don't know the family), but apparently it's a concussion and a "moderate to severe back injury".

Ugh...why me. I swear I've got a dark cloud following me everywhere...much like the ones overhead this morning as I attended a funeral in the rain.

So, life's been letting loose the dumptrucks o' suck on poor Ame here lately. Bleh...maybe I just need some Ben & Jerry's. However it hasn't been all bad...I've been working my butt off on the next version of REMIX and I'm pretty happy with the progress I'm making. Also, stalking Ferous on Hydraxis is fun too (thanks for being a good sport, Farara!).


The other stuff I've been messing around with is video editing. I did a lot of this back in college for the university PR department, but times have changed a lot from the ancient VCR-based Casablanca standalone I used to edit on. So, I registered for YouTube and posted a couple vids I'd like some opinions on:

1. REMIX Installation Instructions video - 4:36 of your life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJLQrEm2oRs

2. Addon concept demo for an addon that dims the game world (but not UI elements!) while in combat so you can see what's going on a bit better - 1:21 of your life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAVcKhXCBRM

Still can't get my video quality up, though. All this encoding stuff seems way too complicated to me...why is it that there isn't some sort of standardised format by now?

So anyway, thank you for your patience in dealing with my crazy rambling vent-post of doom here.