That was my last day at Backbone. I’ve got 12 days until I start at the new job, and I’m looking forward to tidying up the house, cooking, and taking it easy for a bit. Had lunch with some of my co-workers, and it was fun. I’ll miss working with many of them, but honestly, there’s a lot I won’t miss at all.

I’m really looking forward to the new job. Obviously, a whole new set of challenges, problems, personalities, what have you, but I think it’s going to be really good.

There’s this whole Playstation Home announcement that’s been floating around – rumor that at the GDC, Sony’s announcing a Mii-like framework for achievements in Playstation games. While I think the announcement, if true, sounds awesome, I’m a little disappointed, because a couple of my friends and I had come up with this a couple months ago, and I thought that it was the sort of thing that XBL would absolutely have to have.

As it is, I can’t say I have a lot of faith that Sony will really pull it off all that well – their network-related stuff has been incredibly ham-fisted thus far. But maybe this is the core of a really novel online framework. Given that I think the underlying idea is totally awesome, I hope they get it right.

Also, today marked a week at <213.5 lbs, averaging 213.47lbs, mostly because this morning, after a night of temakisushi, I wasn't, shall we say, on the lower end of the scale. Still, a day or two "off the wagon" is fine, as I plan to hop back on it, and work my way down to 200 even or less by the end of the year. I just need some sort of motivation to get there. ;)