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Saturday, June 06, 2009 10:28 AM

God, has it been that long since a blog post?

Well, yesterday I became unemployed... I'd like to blame the economy personally, because that's the only way "You're the best programmer we have... and we have to let you go." makes any mental sense, but whatever.

My problem now is three-fold:

1) I wasn't a full-time employee; I was an independent contractor. Which means I don't have the luxury of two weeks pay. My salary went from "moderately well paid" to "NOT paid" in less than a day.

2) I have two family birthdays coming up next week: son on the 12th and wife on the 15th of June. We *were* planning to go to Disney World for five days; now I just don't know. I can't face either of them at this point, to be frank.

3) I don't have anything saved up. Yes, I might have been making reasonable money, but it's because I had to. And mixed in with several unexpected issues we've had in the past few months there has barely been enough to go around in the first place.

And for the first time in my life I have no options when I'm out the door. I've been fired many times before, but each time I had the contacts and knew the people well enough that, if I got fired in the morning, I was able to get a new job by end of day with little or no difficulty. That's not the case here: I have no options, I have mobody waiting for me with open arms.

What does this mean for our big game? Well it's still going to happen, of course: hosting's paid through July, and I now certainly have enough time on my hands to put more work in to it than anticipated.

Will it be out by Spring's end? Most likely not... I would like to use the video game developer's mantra of saying "when it's done", but many of you out there might not get the significance of that. The game's coming along fantastically, and we have numerous talented individuals working on it, but it's far from being "just right". But I continue to ask that you trust us when we say that it *will* be worth the wait.

Finally, this puts my planned trip to ARGFest in serious jeopardy. I have a plane ticket, sure, but there's no way I can go anywhere until I've settled in to something long term.

In any event I'd like to thank everyone for their continued support. A lot of you asked "is there anything I can do?" Well... pray if you are so inclined. Beyond that, there's not much more I could ask for from you, but thanks nonetheless.

Posted by David "Nighthawk" Flor on Saturday, June 06, 2009 10:28 AM

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Posted by Tresbien on Saturday, June 06, 2009 10:50 AM

You and yours have my prayers and hugs, too!

Posted by Jacks on Saturday, June 06, 2009 10:37 PM

You and your family are in my prayers. I really hope things get lined out for you very, very soon.

Posted by Arcas on Thursday, June 11, 2009 1:51 PM

Sorry to hear about the bad news.

Posted by NataS on Sunday, June 21, 2009 7:35 AM

Might be a blessing in disguise.... Hope your new job is 100 times better!!!

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