As I’ve been busy for the last couple of days, I’ve decided to give myself an extension on the game. Here’s an updated pic.

Yesterday, I had the crazy idea of making a game in a week that would run on 4 different platforms - Windows, PSP, Xbox, and OS X. Could this be something I actually finish?

Here’s a pic. Exciting, huh?

..and we’re done. FWIW, I have to change two files in wp-includes, links.php and templates-functions-general.php, to get rid of the list items in the link list over there on the right, and to format the archive link dates over there on the left.

Yes, I wrote that mainly to remind myself in the future.

A few things will look a little goofy while I upgrade to WordPress 2.0.  It’s a smooth upgrade for most people, but I have some jiggery-pokery to do with some of the files to get it to display exactly as I need.

Yes, I’ve been totally slacking off lately. Now that it’s a new year, I guess I should go back and document the holidays.

Just to finish off on my birthday, we went out to eat at the Chinese place in town (well, in the nearest town that’s not this one) and I’ve decided we shouldn’t bother again. It’s just too blah. I’d rather do the buffet thing for Chinese, I think.

Anyway, Christmas! Christmaaaaas! Financial schedules this year had us down to the wire on presents, which was hard for one particular thing I wanted to get Amy - a pair of Kershaw Komachi kitchen knives. I’d spotted them on Amazon and thought they looked cute, and then when I heard they perform pretty well, I decided on them to go along with the other things we got Amy (vintage Aquarian tarot set, Arrested Development season 2, Brian Regan CD) but Amazon didn’t have the chef’s knife in stock, so I waited. And waited. And I knew they wouldn’t get any in time for Christmas. I then thought I’d just buy the full set of four knives, but by the time I got paid, that too was out of stock. I managed to find the knives at knifeworks.com and placed the order - then got told they were out of stock the next day. I couldn’t find them when we looked in Target, or in Bed, Bath & Beyond. I was almost going to buy a single Henckels knife or that Rachel Ray coppertail knife, but then decided I wasn’t going to pay 40 bucks for something that was made in China. Then, the weekend before Christmas, I happened to check on Amazon one last time, and Target had them in stock! One two-day shipping option later, and Christmas was saved.

This year was a difficult one with Sam, because it’s very much a transitional phase. For the first time, music CDs and DVDs were the first things bought, not action figures. We did grab a couple of figures to round out the presents, but in previous years it’s been all about the action figures, so we were hoping it wouldn’t be too much of a disappointment this year. Luckily, he loves his Gorillaz and Weird Al DVDs, so I think we did good.

What did I get? Well, I was surprised to find that a copy of We Love Katamari had been sitting in the bathroom cupboard, hidden in a tampon box, for over a month! It was such a nice present because even though I throw out plenty of suggestions, I know I’m hard to buy for, and the game is something I’ve been wanting since buying the first one. Then I amassed a very surprising amount of money and gift certificates, so guess what that turned into? Mario Kart DS bundle! At last!

New Year’s.. Let’s not talk about it. It was a lot of swearing and plumbing that ended in $53 of chromed brass pipe.