Late Night with Patrick Johnson Jr.

I should get into late night talk shows with that title ;).

But I jest and digress, It's four thirty in the morning and I have no clue why I'm still up... Making strides of production late into Sunday, which I'm proud I did get my lazy self up to do something. Today is Monday, and it's back to the grind for me at College, not that there's anything wrong with it (Seinfeld quote #1). I think if I have a lab in OpenGL I'm going to head to the open lab and stamp some code down to the virtual paper (like what I'm doing now, except this isn't code and why in the hell am I doing this still? haha). Things are looking up from here if I can keep up and not get dragged under the water current that is called life.

I'm in a stand-still point in Software Development, with the possibilities that might be in my favor. As you might of garnered from earlier posts (if not let me inform you of it) my discontent of a team partner in there. He has some form of complex, and this is why I believe it.

• Wouldn't listen to the rest of the teammates, even when we listened to him, (in his mind) it was ((his way > our way) && (his way != our way) && (his way == best)).
• In design of the project, dishing out the responsibilties, he overstepped his bounds, started trying to talk his way into doing what other people were assigned. Much to the discontent of the instructor and his "teammates." (as of now this term is now used lightly and with much laughter after the fact).
• Combative and arrogance, I swore one time if he ever took a dump in a room he could live with it because he was proud of it, but alittle too proud (everyone every now and then has to acknowledge that theirs just kills the nose hairs and the sense of smell). Every step of contemplating design it was his way is better and no compromise.
• Started going on with tasks and inflating the percentage, I remember when he told me the shell of the application was 1% of the project, then it jumped to 2%. If I kept talking with him I think he would of talked his way near 100%, that is something he was probably aiming for anyways. A few short days later he says he's doing the graphics system, which isn't all under his authority.

I've worked with the guy in the past, he's a tool, an asshat, an (insert your name here). He challenged the instructors, and he challenged just about anyone and was so abrasive about it, that he had the appearance of coarse sandpaper. I also think he installed propaganda with the teacher this past Friday to convince her to let us all do 3 individual projects of the same type... I asked him a few key questions and I'd get the defensive "Why does it matter?" He also admitted that he hates team projects and likes working alone, and was excited if it went his way (like he always is, as it's always about wins/losses with him :rolleyes:). I sure hope he knows that there is no one-man dynamo in programming anymore, the lone gunman theory went with the way of the Commodore 64 (and Sega's console production days). I know that this is suppose to be a team project, and him trying to get this to pan out in his favor is like saying, "I'm not in the team anymore." Which could make it a 2-man team, and that's fine by me. It's his doing, I hope he's satisfied and can suck it down after-the-fact.

OpenGL is fun and intersting and I'm starting to get full ideas for Missile Command if I dare attempt it (other priorities first). I'm also got the urge to go back to Six Flags (this Season Pass is nothing to me if it's not being used :P). I've been using my time to build coasters and rides in RCT 3, alot of fun. In other game related development, this project might be the right moment to unleash my first fully realized game on the world, on their senses. If I'm to do this software development project by myself, I'm going in with the intent to get a positive buzz. Which I will carry that momentum with my slap-happy self into my Final Project where I'll only get better.

In other news... I'm happy to say that life is going well. Aside from the distractions, life's been good to me so far, and yada, yada, yada... (Seinfeld reference #2) Here I am typing on my blog. If anyone is out there... Can you hear me?

Class starts in 3 hours, and I'm needing to get ready to head out into the world once again, because I'm out there Jerry and I'm loving every minute of it! (Seinfeld reference #3).