That includes both the 'classic' party, and the 'modern' party. Both are noisy, lack good music, have lots of people competing over food/drink and take forever to wrap up.

Oh yes, this was a womens tea party, one of the worst kinds; held right outside my window too just to make things worse. Us men suddenly had other things to do, elsewhere ('Split up, surround the site and NUKE IT FROM ORBIT!' was the plan, but Metal Gear was destroyed again…)

Anyway, boring description of Saturday aside, I got nothing done on Saturday, even after they cleared up.

Here's why…

Screwing around with Linux

On Saturday, near midnight, I formatted my Sabayon partition, and decided to try out Fedora 13 (After backing up my documents first, of course).

At nearly the stroke of midnight, much to my delight (I had to refrain from laughing evilly, because we had guests in the next room), the installation was completed and I booted into the OS.

First annoyance: No Nvidia drivers.

OK fine. What wine version does it have?

Aww crap. No wine. I need wine… OK, not really, but it means much less swapping into Windows, I can tell you.

It was then and there that I decided that I was going to switch back to Sabayon as soon as I got the disc back from a friend, but also to try something I'd attempted before (With much failure): Installing Wine manually.

You see, I was offline (My PC isn't connected to the net, which makes using Linux a pain in the ass when it comes to getting software for it).

But I had a Wine package on one of my discs; after digging it up, I started my two hour long battle with not only the kernel, but Bash and SELinux.

Ten minutes in I tossed SELinux out the tenth-floor window. I don't need that sort of security.

Another ten minutes in and I'd gotten Wine working, but only with the su command, as root. Now I'm not one to go and rm -fr / myself, but I don't like hanging around as root for too long regardless, much less run bumbling Windows programs while wielding that sort of power…

Anyway, turns out that the solution to my problem was simple. The problem itself was too. It turned out to be a case of ownership. I had to use sudo to copy the Wine libraries and binaries into the /usr/* folders, and of course, doing so meant that the files and folders I had just copied belonged to root, not me.

Of course, it took me ages to trip over the most obvious command that I had just used that morning while still in Sabayon: chown. Damn I hate it when that happens, but weird shit happens at ~2AM.

Oh, and then Wine worked fine. Except that because of the lack of "restricted" drivers for my GeForce… everything lagged. Even simple programs like TileStudio. Now I'm stuck waiting for my Sabayon disc to be returned…

Anyway… on to Sunday

Which was today, approximately 10 minutes ago. It's midnight again.

Well, after getting to bed at who-the-heck-knows-when, and sleeping until nearly midday and still feeling like I hadn't slept at all, I did nothing besides contemplate why the hell I'd removed Sabayon the night before and why it took me so long to install wine.

Until the evening, where I kicked my creative powers into gear again and continued my favorite little project: Ascendancy.

Guess what? I made another video :3

In addition to that, I made another chiptune:

Code Blue

So my weekend wasn't completely fruitless.

My RPG4D plans

My design document follows:

The plan, as I see it, is to not think about what I'm going to do until I'm able to do something; at which point I'm going to start working away at a frenetic pace (Same as I did with Ascendancy) and generally do what I do best: On-the-spot game-design (I used to love RDC comps).

And with a total of 5 hours work on Ascendancy, which I don't even call trying, imagine what I could potentially do in three solid months.

Now I just hope I can pull it off… :3