Sort of a waste to have my own blog and never update it. I have been super busy, but still no excuses. Since my last post I’ve shipped my first game Red Alert 3 and started work on the expansion pack Red Alert 3: Uprising. Shipping is a great feeling and its been a long time coming. I hope everyone really likes the game as I think its a really fun and well balanced RTS game. I’ve started my own twitter feed, and you can catch up on some of my adventures there, but its mostly just my opinions about current events, movies, and games.
So whats up with me? I’m currently building up vacation time for my visit to the home country, the Azores Islands with my family in late July. This will be my first time out of North America and I’ll be putting my application in for my passport later this week. I’ve been trying to teach myself Portuguese and its coming along alright. I have a series of CD’s that claim to tech European Portuguese instead of the much more popular Brazilian Portuguese but my Mom was having trouble understanding me when I tried my newly learned Portuguese words on her. So hopefully after my trip I’ll have some basic conversational skills.
Alright, geez, I’ll update my blog-o-journal thingy, you people are crazy. I’ve been super busy with my new job and my new apartment and trying to move all my stuff (which by the way is still not completely moved yet). As many of you already know David, Jason, and I have moved into an awesome apartment on Wilshire Boulevard, not that far from UCLA. Work has been awesome and intense, I’ve learned so much in only a month at EALA, and I’m going to learn so much more in the coming months. Working on RA3 has been incredible, I’ve always been a fan of the Command and Conquer series of games, so getting to work on one of them is quite a treat.
A home-warming party is in the future, so keep an eye on your email box for that evite if you live anywhere remotely near us. Can’t give a date yet since I’m not sure when we will be finally getting furniture for the living room. The management at the building we are living at right now has been doing a lot of renovation work to the elevator and hallways, which is turning out awesome, but the process was making the place look sort of crappy. Downtown Westwood is quite a cool place to hang out, and its impossible not to find something to do on any given night in LA. I really look forward to showing off my new place to all of you guys. Maybe I’ll even post pictures of it at some point. Catch you guys later! 
It was a week or so ago that I signed an offer for my new job. I’m going to be working for EA LA in the Culver City-ish area and I’m looking around for apartments in the Santa Monica / Westwood area. Lots of expensive possibilities and I’m going to try and see as many different places as I can in the next week before I start at my new job. I can get long winded in these rare blog posts, so I wrap it up with a forecast for housing awesomeness with a chance of partial pimpness. Its going to be fun, check back soon to see where I end up.
So most of you that would be reading this have heard that THQ shutdown the studio I was working for a couple weeks ago. Since then I’ve been in contact with dozens of people via email and phone about a new job, been to a couple interviews, went to the craziest party yet, and went to a couple filmings of The Price is Right.
For the job situation, its looking more and more like I’m going to be moving to LA soon. There’s only a couple studios in the Carlsbad area that I am considering working for and they are taking their time getting back to me. No one in the bay area has contacted me yet, so moving back closer to my parents is becoming less of a possibility. So apart from trying to not move, or trying to move closer to my family and a couple dear friends, another major goal of mine is to get a job at the same studio as some of the incredible people I’ve worked with over the last couple years. Its very hard to coordinate our efforts, but we have been able to attend interviews at the same studio on the same day and we are sharing all the information we find with each other. So the fingers remain crossed and I’m excited for what the future holds.
Meanwhile, some of you might of watched the Superbowl last weekend. I had the privilege and pleasure of going to Scottsdale, Arizona for four days leading up to the big game. A friend of mine had tickets to this party being put on my 944 magazine. (It’s cool, I never heard of it before going to the party either) It had a lot of celebrities and we watching live performances by Fallout Boy, 50 cent, Wyclef Jean, and Velvet Revolver. We saw Paris Hilton, Snoop Dog, Dennis Rodman, Terrel Owens, and a bunch of other famous or important people that we didn’t know. We tried to get tickets for the big game on Sunday morning, but the “cheap seats” were still running about $1000 each so we drove back home and watched the game in Carlsbad. Really, this party deserves its own blog posting, but you’ll just have to ask me about the rest of the trip. It involved a lot of Trump vodka, and David can tell you all about that.
Finally, we are almost back to the present. On Tuesday I attended my first ever game show filming, and its one of the best game shows of all time, The Price is Right. None of the people I was with were “called down” but we had a blast and Drew Carey is a really funny guy. His is awesome during the commercial breaks when they are moving equipment around and needs to fill time with the audience. They do this whirlwind interview process where they get a good look at you and ask you where your from and what you do for a living to decide who gets called down. We will be bringing more energy to that part of the game next time and hopefully one of us will get picked. No one played Plinko while I was there anyway, so it would have ruined my life-long goal of playing Plinko, you can’t appear on the show again after getting called down for ten years.
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