Life in 3D

Done… for now.

Well the semester has ended and the wife and I get something of a break before the next one begins in February.  It hasn’t been a great semester though, we lost a very special member of our family, our cat Quazo; we both got the flu – TWICE; we have both been slammed by work and by school, plus the holidays are coming up again and, once again, we can’t afford to go home to visit either of our families.

This isn’t a post to whine, it’s just stating the facts.  I really wish I could go and see my family.  I have a nephew who is five that I have never met and a niece I haven’t seen since she was small enough that I was able to carry her on my shoulders.  I miss them.  I miss my brothers, my sister and my parents.  They are the only family I have next to my wife and every year I don’t see them is another year lost.  Sure, we keep in touch but it’s different than actually being there.

I can’t complain though, this is the path I chose.  I’ve always been wandering.  Out of high school I went into the Navy and traveled the world.  After that I moved from California back to New Mexico, then I moved to Seattle, then Ohio and now California again.  Something has always kept me moving around and looking over the next hill to see what is there.  It’s not a bad thing, but there are times I do wonder how things would have been different if I had stayed home in the first place, but as my wife likes to remind me “If you didn’t do the things you did, then you wouldn’t be who you are and you probably wouldn’t have met me.”

She’s smart that way.

You would think that with the end of the semester I would have some down time but, sadly, no.  I have some freelance work coming up, I have thesis project stuff to work on, and I have work at the bookstore as well.  So, not a lot of rest going to be happening around here but that’s OK as long as it eventually leads to getting a job doing what I’m in college in the first place for.

Speaking of which, here’s a shot of what I have been spending my time on.  There’s a HECK of a lot more to do on it, but I think I can have most of the modeling that needs to be done wrapped up by the end of January.