Common questions

Every now and then I get a "what are you up" to IM. Many of you ask me the same questions which means I’m not doing a good job of staying in touch. Maybe this will help.

Where do you live?
I moved back to Chicago. For those of you keeping track at home, this marks the 4^th city I’ve lived in the last two years. This one looks like a keeper though. Chicago is awesome. Tons of stuff to do, plenty of restaurants and bars, and I can watch all my favorite sports teams for free on TV. Only complaint is the girls. It wouldn’t kill them to run a little more, and cut back on the deep dish pizza.

What do you do?
I work as a programmer in the video game industry. In the last few months I’ve worked on two games that will hit stores shortly.

My first game titled Zathura comes out in October. It's a kids platform jumper based on the movie that comes out around the same time.

The second game I'm working on comes out mid-2006. Unfortunately I'm not allowed to talk about it since the game is still in the R&D phase but it looks awesome. I highly recommend giving it a play when it comes out. I’ll add more information about this as soon as they allow me to divulge the details.

What do you do outside of work?
I go to the bars. A lot. You can find me at Duffys for $2.50 imports, the Apartment to see the Lincoln Park trixies, and anywhere else the Chicago crowd wants to take me.

I also play basketball Monday and Thursday nights, and tennis whenever anybody is up for it.

Family stuff also takes up a pretty good chunk of my time now that I live near the majority of my immediate and extended family again.

And then there's fantasy baseball. I finally got serious about it again this year. After failing to do the draft or managing my team for the first 6 weeks, I've gotten the boys up to 3rd place. My goal this year is to take home the championship, and slowly but steadily this starting to happen.

Do you still travel a lot?
Of course! So far this year I've visited the following places:

• Japan (Tokyo, Osaka, Okayama, Kyoto, Hiroshima… and everywhere else where there were little to no whities)

• Florida (Marco Island, more blue hairs then you shake a stick at)

• Cedar Point Amusement Park (home of the tallest and fastest roller coaster in the world)

• Philadelphia, PA (the Liberty Bell is overrated, the cheese steak is not)

Dating anyone?
Usually I just ignore this question because nothing good ever seems to come out of it. I'm feeling candid tonight though so here you go.

Currently I date Alina. Here's a picture of her. She's studying to be my meal ticket.

Are you getting married anytime soon?
No.

When are you going to grad school?
As soon as you are willing to fork over the money to pay for it.

I thought you wanted to live in New York?
Chicago’s cleaner and way more reasonable…. at least that’s what I keep telling myself. Someday I’d like to rock the east coast. When that’ll be? I don’t know.