How to win the lottery
So I was flying out to California to record VO for Halo Wars.  That’s not a necessary part of this story, but it’s cool and ego fulfilling to say that.   :-)

I had a car take me from the airport to the hotel and my driver was Russian.  He was quite talkative and spent quite a little while trying to get Internet radio going from his Treo into the car stereo system via a tape deck adaptor before discovering the simplicity of old fashioned always on mass broadcast radio.

But his big thing was that he had cracked how to win the lottery.  He said that he was terrible at math but that one night he just thought about how the lottery worked and the answer just popped into his head, “it’s formula is easy as adding two plus two!” he declared.  There was one small problem stopping him from being a millionaire though, “all I need is programmer to program computer with formula” (say all of this with a Russian accent), “then kaboom, I’m in”.

Kaboom didn’t sit well with me and we didn’t talk much the rest of the ride.  I never mentioned that I was a programmer or that I had a different take on the lottery being possible to formulize.  But Dimitri, wherever you are, I hope you found a programmer to help you out, I hope you’re in.

And apparently it’s true.  LA is FULL of stories.

Graeme.

The State of Graeme
Well.  It’s been a while.

I think this blog became known mostly for how to get blood stains out of furniture but it’s time to start blogging again.

I switched over and blogged the Phoenix (Halo Wars) team about everything.  That is, everything from the game, to the house, to Roque, and so forth.  In the end, I think they mostly wanted to hear about the game but blogging is something that helps me get the day in order so I need to still have the outlet.

We moved house.  Actually from July 25th until November 10th we remodeled our new house and then moved house but we moved house a half mile down the road.  They say the only thing you can buy in Texas is a view and so I got one of those overlooking Lake Ray Hubbard.  Back in Oregon we used to sit out at night and watch life go by in the valley below and I really missed that.  The funny thing is that this is actually the first house Lori and I purchased together.  She got the house in Oregon and I chose the one here in Texas initially.

All I can say is that being 41, having a house full of stuff, and moving do not go together.  Lori has put a great deal of effort into making the move smooth but between the remodel, the move, and the game it has been a very stressful summer and fall.  It’s getting there now, we’ve moved, I still own one too many homes, but we’re at least not looking at drywall and wondering where the contractor is today anymore.

Today is the day I start blogging again. Really.