A year of change

The past year has been a year of change, and this one is going to be one as well. After the next 5 months of civi­lian ser­vice — ending on the last day of April — I’ll have a looong vaca­tion before I begin to study. I still have to figure out where I’m going to do just that. My duties at the Red Cross are really star­ting to bore me, I feel like I’m just was­ting my time. I guess I’m really in need of a break, because I’ve only had a hand­ful of days off since August…

Happy New Year 2007… It’s crazy most of this cen­tury is over alre­ady! The new year began with a party, per­fectly orga­ni­zed by my cou­sin Oli­ver and his girl­fri­end Bir­git! Usually at this time of the year, we would just go watch the fire­works at a local casino and not much more, which was get­ting a bit unamu­sing. But this time they wan­ted to do some­thing about that and kill the „boring New Year’s Eve whale“! About 15 people came and had a lot of fun play­ing parlor-, board and card games, eating really well, launching fire­works and of course drink! I must say it was a full suc­cess and hereby want to thank them and ever­yone who atten­ded for making the event some­thing spe­cial!

As my par­ents force me more and more to think about the future and the study, I began to actually do that. Shortly after Christ­mas, I spent an ent­ire day sear­ching for inte­res­ting col­le­ges. At the end of the day, I showed them some prin­ted descrip­ti­ons and time­ta­bles. When they wan­ted me to sign up for one of them, I hesi­ta­ted. The col­le­ges I had found had to do with mul­ti­me­dia, design and com­pu­ter sci­ence. I sud­denly wasn’t sure whe­ther I was going in the right direc­tion, it was all going a bit too fast. Since then, I’m thin­king about what I really want to do, asking mys­elf ques­ti­ons about the true dreams I have and the ones I had pre­viously. Is film cut­ting just a hobby? Do I really want to work in the field of web design? Why was I always inte­res­ted in crea­ting video games, but never really tried? Can I give up pro­gramming and just do some­thing that is purely crea­tive? What about the other way around?
What I know for sure is that I won’t stay in Kla­gen­furt. I’ll pro­bably move out, maybe live in the area of Vienna, have my own apart­ment or share one with some­body else. So there are end­less new pos­si­bi­li­ties, and I’ve just begun to give them a chance. When I find out what I really want to do, and found a col­lege or uni­ver­sity that seems fit­ting, I’ll be ready for the next era.

Let’s move on. Our legal copies of Win­dows XP arri­ved during the holi­days, and I reinstal­led my PC on the new hard dri­ves. Now I’m enjoy­ing the full power of my new sys­tem! I tried out some games that I got months ago, and this time they feel like „next-gen“! Need For Speed: Most Wan­ted runs smoothly at a reso­lu­tion of 1280x960, Tomb Rai­der: Legend looks just as awe­some but still is a bit laggy with the hig­hest set­tings. As for the qua­lity of the gra­phics, see for yourselves:

I made a list of pro­jects I want to com­plete this year… It’s long. As for one that was released a short time ago, the BRG Vikring Board, has nearly been com­ple­ted. I still need to work on the blog that comes with it and some other details. I also need to com­plete one or two art­works I’ve worked on for too long.