Category Archives: Electronic Arts

Feeling Better

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Feeling better today. Not eating as much as I usually do, but definitely more than yesterday. I went in for a full day of work and took a good bite out of my bug count. We are getting down to the wire. There’s only two more weeks of Alpha left.

Word from Jennifer is that Emily is being cranky about her new surroundings. This has gotten us a little worried about next week when Abby and Emily are going to be staying the whole week with my parents. We figure if she gets too fussy, Jennifer can always just drive up to Shreveport and be with the kids.

Jennifer hasn’t sent any pictures from the trip, yet. I won’t post anything until I get some fresh pictures.

No Sleep

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Got in late last night and then was woken up at 7:00 a.m. to the sound of Abby throwing up, so I didn’t get much sleep last night. It was a long day at work and I wasn’t very productive. Abby missed her last day of school today. I stayed with her in the morning while Jennifer went to a meeting at church.

Today Abby said that she wants a puppy. I asked her where she thought the puppy was going to live. She said, “a tree house”. I told her that we don’t have a tree house. So, she said, “in Florida”. I asked her where Grandma & Grandpa lives and she said, “in Texas”. Finally I asked her where Nanna & Poppy live and she said, “in a hotel”.

Abby’s Sick

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Worked late tonight in order to get in a new version of the Radio Show data. It’s a pretty amazing feature and can’t wait until other people can listen to it. The people calling into the Radio Show was finally in so I got to hear myself calling into the Tony Bruno show. That was pretty cool.

Abby’s sick again. It’s too bad because she’s going to miss her final day of school tomorrow. Jennifer has a church meeting tomorrow morning, so I’m going to stay home with her until she gets home.

Happy Fun Spot

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Today Tiburon organized a Madden celebration party at Fun Spot. Jennifer and the kids picked me up from work and then we drove down there as a family. Abby rode various kids rides. She also got to ride with me and Jennifer on the go carts. We had pizza and after dinner played games to win tickets. It was nice to get away from work and visit with the family. It was also nice to come home at a decent hour and go to bed. The next couple of days will feature pictures from today.

Water Day

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Today was “water day” at Abby’s school. She got to go to school in her bathing suit. She said there was a water slide and a bounce house to jump in. Next week is Abby’s last week of pre-school. Next year we are going to be moving her to a school closer to us. She will also be going three days a week for 5 hours. She currently only goes two days a week of 3 hours.

George came by work and I showed him the current state of Madden. I left work early to show George the new house. We ordered in food and got caught up with his move closer into downtown Houston and other mutual friends from school. George and I usually play NCAA football or a baseball league computer game and pass the files back and forth. I felt like we needed to start up another one while he was here, but we just came to the realization that we are both way too busy now a days that we just don’t have time. Hopefully we can both settle down and get back to playing another league in the near future.

Today’s picture is from the Easter Egg Hunt a few months ago.

Going Home Early

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Not much happened today. We had a normal day at work. Since we worked so hard to get the E3 build out, our Development Director let everyone go ahead and go home. I didn’t feel like I got that many bugs fixed today and I ended the day in double digit positive numbers, but if someone tells me to go home, I’m going home.

Jennifer found a solution to the sand in the car problem: go get the car cleaned and have them vacuum it out.

Here’s another picture from yesterday at the beach.

New Features Revealed

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EA has finally revealed more features that are going to be in Madden 2005 this year. The ones that I worked on are: the newspaper, EA Sports Radio, and the e-mail system. All of these features help you keep track of things that are going on around the league while playing your franchise. I’m very proud of all the new features and I think that they are going to be well received. EA put out new screen shots which I’ve incorporated into my Madden 2005 web site.

E3 Push

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Been working a lot this week in order to get our E3 build of Madden 2005 up and going. The game is shaping up great this year. We have to make it look good, since I’ve seen several articles about how Madden is one of the games that everyone looks for when they are at E3.

This morning I stayed with the girls while Jennifer went to a “Spring Fashion Show” with some of the women from church. This was a fund raiser for a church in downtown Orlando and Jennifer said that they were scoping it out to see if this type of fund raiser would go over in Winter Park. Jennifer won a free massage while at the show.

Not a Good Listener

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Abby is showing more and more signs of understanding consequences of her actions. This morning while driving her to school, she mentioned to me that she “isn’t a good listener”. Yesterday, while Jennifer was taking the girls for a bike ride, Abby decided to take off her helmet and stand up in the buggy. Abby told me that she got in trouble and that they had to go straight home. She was sad because sometime she isn’t a good listener. I told her that when Mom tells her to do something she should do it because we don’t want her to get hurt. I think she’s starting to understand.

We had been waiting until the bonus came in to start pest control on the house. Today the pest control company that serviced the people who lived in the house before us showed up at the door. Jennifer figured, “perfect timing”, so we went ahead and went with them. The were giving us a deal for transferring the termite bond from the previous owners.

Another late night at work as we start preparing for E3.

Bonus Day

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Today we got our bonuses for the year at work, or as Jennifer calls it “her salary for the year”. It was really good like always. EA rewards their programmers with really nice bonuses each year.

While shopping at Target today, Jennifer bought some cabinet knobs for the kitchen. While in that isle, Abby found some butterfly knobs that she told Jennifer she wanted. Jennifer asked, “Why do you want these?” Abby’s reply, “I want them for the knobs on my closet.” Pretty good reasoning for a three-year-old, so she bought them.

Today’s picture is of myself getting a very big hug from Emily.