Some days I wonder how it isn't the middle of summer yet... and other days I wonder how quickly the past three months have flew by. Time is weird.

Indeed.

It hasn't helped here that we swing from days in the 80s to days in the 40s.  When I walk the dog at night I never know if I'm going to need to bundle up or walk in my shirt sleeves.

I'm not sure what to do anymore...

Me either. 

I spend so much of my time underwater these days that I think I will grow gills.

I buy my son t-shirts like this from shirt.woot.  He has one of a T-rex that says "Reach for the stars" and the poor thing is just waving his tiny arms.  Heheh.

Yay! He looked at it.

Who?  Not me.

Paul, you should ban yourself from reading too. GET TO WORK ON DEM GAME! (I'm just joking)

By the way, how's everything going? I mostly check in on the blogs, but I haven't seen any new updates lately. I like to read everything you post about, helps keep me motivated about all the progress you're making.

I'm at the bottom of a several layer pile and trying to dig myself out.  jMonkeyEngine recently split out the SDK from the core engine libraries which leaves a huge hole in tool support... a couple of us are trying to shore up some stuff related to that before 'community input' gets too far afield.

Part and parcel with that was that we pushed out all of the engine-related libraries to normal public repos... which meant I could _FINALLY_ do the same to all of my own related open source projects.

It put some of my own projects on hold.

The Muddy Rogue was being used as a test bed to open source and finish some of the same support code that I use in Mythruna.  Things like object scripting, NPC dialogs, base game systems, and stuff like that are going to end up as a suite of open source game libraries.

I'd been using that to sort of bide my time to work on Mythruna over spring break... as I'd planned to take the week off.

However... as it so happens... my wife will be going out of town for the whole week to visit family and the kids and I are going to use that opportunity to thoroughly clean the house back to some normal state.  So I'm not sure how much Mythruna work I will get to do this week.

You guys should really check out the Mistborn series sometime, by the way.

I'd like to support tattoos.  Hadn't really thought about piercings, though.

And... it should be back up now.

Machine has to be updated to service pack 3... and that's probably worth doing so I'm doing it.

I'm going to swap out the graphics card on the server in a few minutes.  Hopefully it won't be down long... if the new GPU doesn't just drop right in then I'll put the old one back, I guess.

The one in my dev system died and the server's card is the same model so I want it for my dev box.

I'll post back when it's back up.

I do still plan to update the trello page when there are things to report.  I've been side tracked with other projects lately.  Mostly we completely changed some things about how jMonkeyEngine was deployed and then I fixed a bunch of my other open source libraries to work better with that.  Some of that is still ongoing.  Even "The Muddy Rogue" is on hold at the moment.

Reminds me a tiny bit of the Seons in the book Elantris.  (Good book by the way.)  They couldn't really attack or anything,though.  Just talk and hang out and stuff.

how is the rope physics coming along? I looked back at the old pages of the general discussion thread and there was a mention of implementing rope as an object in the game, possibly as some sort of climbing device similar to ladders.  
How is that coming along? It would be nice to be able to attach a rope to something above ground and drop it down a deep hole and use it to climb back up.

Still on the list... far down on the list.  But on the list.

Cool.  What song did you play?  Anything we'd know?

Yep, I suck for time.