Catching up.
posted by Norm on October 27th, 2008 • filed under GeneralIt’s been a while.
Madison remains a pretty classy place, and summer here was a pretty excellent experience. That’s one of the nice things about the Midwest – as miserable as the winters tend to be, the summers often manage to make up for it. Once particularly nice thing was that the days of incredible humidity that characterize summer in southeast Michigan don’t seem to be a factor here. I’m not sure if that’s a regional difference or if I just got lucky this time around. Ask me again in a year, I suppose!
Work remains a significant portion of my life and time (not always by choice!) but, unfortunately, I’m not at liberty to talk about…well, any of it really. NDAs are common in all technical fields but, in m brief experience at least, people don’t usually want to know about the gritty details of HVAC assembly code or telephone directory systems. Game development, on the other hand, is one of those things that people like to ask about and, when confronted with NDA talk, tend to get even more curious. People that probably haven’t played a game other than Rock Band in decades, mind you! I recently had a sixty or seventy year old lady start interrogating me at a local deli.
True story.
In an attempt to get ahead on some matters of student-related debt I’ve started doing freelance web development work in addition to my day job at Human Head. How long I can sustain this is an open question but contract work is one of those areas in which you can pull down relatively big scores punctuated by long periods of complacency. If that’s your <em>only</em> source of income it’s a problem; if it’s supplementary, the ability to turn it on and off is a wonderful bonus. The project should start up officially early next week, and in celebration of this I’ve updated my web resumé and added a (very small) portfolio containing selections of sites I’ve designed over the years. If you care to take a look, it’s right here.
Oh, and for those of you wondering: yes, I’m still a fatass.
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