Finally some time for another entry. Last Saturday night I waited 9 hours for the midnight launch of the Nintendo Wii. It was awesome since I met some cool people and nabbed some great swag. I picked up a Wii and a extra controller. Sadly I don't have a T.V so I haven't opened it yet. My room-mate however does have a T.V and a Wii so I've been playing it on his equipment.

As for my Wii, it's on eBay. I'll get another one when I head back to NYC for Christmas. It shouldn't be so hard to get considering an expected 4 million units to be in stores. This week was only 3 days with Thanksgiving off and Friday off so I've had a lot of time to relax and take a break from all the school work. I rented Call of Duty 3 for the Wii and I normally hate WW2 shooters and shooters in general for consoles. I must say though, I am surprised. COD3 is an awesome game for the Wii. Everything just feels right, the controls are awesome and the immersion is amazing. Nothing is more satisfying than jabbing your Wii-mote forward and having your on screen character doing the same thing knocking out a enemy with the butt of the gun. It's awesome.

Wednesday night, me and my room-mates headed down to EBGames and I picked up a DS Lite. Only 4 days after blowing most of my money on the Wii, I get a DS Lite. I'm officially broke. With my new DS I also got Brain Age, I guess it's something to do when I need to pass time.

School is still going along just as usual. Only a few more weeks to finals and then a much needed break. I went with a friend of my mom who lives around here for a min-thanksgiving thing. It was boring and I didn't understand, well hardly understood, a word anyone was saying. There was food and it didn't come out of a microwave, that's all I cared.

If I find time, I will add more entries. One more thing to note, I was offered a chance to get out of my game team, whose producer I hate, but something in me made me decline. I don't know why, but I did. So since it is my own choice, I am stuck with that idiot willingly. Shit happens in life I guess. I need to work more on my math, if I slip up just a tiny bit, I will fail. I can't take that risk because it is essentially going to decide if I get to relax for the 4 month summer or I get to work my ass off again. I think I need the break.

It's been almost a month since my last post but for good reason. Mid terms were at the last two weeks of October and I spent the first two weeks studying. I just failed the math mid term but since it was so borderline I can still pass.

They sent the tuition bill for the spring semester to my address in New York; so I didn't pay in time but luckily there were no consequences and I got that taken care of. I registered my spring classes but some of the classes I wanted to take were full unfortunately. I only got 19 out of the 22 I wanted to take. I'll be staying over the summer it look like to take an additional 10 - 20 credits. Just to lighten my load for next year.

Despite my skepticism on the first semester team project (Turing test) it's actually coming along quite nicely. It has a 70 percent accuracy rate which is quite nice. I'm debating weather or not to post the finished programs as each semester closes since it may reveal who I am.

Recently I was at Gas Powered games play testing a game called Supreme Commander. Beyond that I can't say much since I did sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement.

What I can say is that tomorrow I will be hauling my ass down to Monolith productions to play test another game. I need to figure out how to get to their offices, I might car pool. Although I don't know anything about it other than it's a console shooter with multi player and is in early concept stages, which means spring 2008 release and a fall 2007 announcement. Although I may be wrong and completely off. I haven't seen the thing yet. But, once I have I'll have signed another NDA telling me to keep my mouth shut. It's awesome to play test games since there's usually soda and pizza.

Class has been going along as usual, nothing really major to note. The project is moving along nicely, it's week 10 and the project is in early alpha stages. The final deliverable is due week 15.

A lot of people have already dropped out. My math class especially has emptied out after the mid term. I'm borderline so I'm working my ass off to pass otherwise I'll be down over $1,000 to retake the class. I'm doing fine in all my other classes.

Other than the two play tests and mid terms, October was uneventful and November seems the same way.