With Fall now upon us, and updates to this blog few and far between, I figured I'd write something...anything, to keep this thing going.
First off, we feel it's just about time to get back into the house hunting and start looking to move out of my parents' house, which I don't know if I even spoke about on here, but in brief, we were running into some financial issues and started to get overwhelmed, so we moved in with my parents for a while to get back on our feet. We've now been there for about a year and a half, and are at the point we are ready to get back on our own... for numerous reasons.
We have a meeting with a mortgage lender tomorrow to start getting the process flowing of how much we can afford and then will go forward toward checking out houses. We would really like to stay in the area we are in, but if an opportunity arises we will weigh all the pros and cons and see where we end up.
It's exciting starting to do the house hunters thing, but I certainly dread the actual moving process, so we'll see how that goes...
In other news - the Kids are doing good, besides the usual illness that seems to plague them, things are on the up and up... Sydney is getting smarter by the day, starting to do spelling and is very good with her numbers... I'm a very proud papa. Kenzie is also developing well, saying more and more words everyday and understands things as well, we can tell her to 'throw that away' or 'put that in the sink'... and she rushes off to either discard trash or throw her dirty silverware in the sink. So cute!
In other (Gaming) news -- I haven't had the amount of time I'd like over the last half of Summer to really have fun with VR, but occasionally I'll pop on the headset and play some Beat Saber or VR Chat or a couple other games. Still tons of fun, just not enough time in the day.
I've actually gone back and got quite into PUBG again, they have (and still constantly) update the game and optimize it, so as it stands right now, it is smooth, no network lag, better graphics and all around more fun. Been having a blast playing it again and I have to thank Dan Gheesling and Team Unity for inspiring me on this front, since they also got back into it somewhat recently.
Oh yea, back to VR... there was just another OC6 conference (Facebook's Oculus Conference) and the Oculus Quest is getting all kinds of interesting updates, including Oculus 'Link' which (soon) allows users to thether the Quest to their PC to expand the game library and play PCVR games. That is pretty huge, and almost makes the Rift-S obsolete...almost. They are also aiming to include 'hand tracking' into the Quest by next year... we'll see how that comes along.
Suffice to say, anytime there is major news in the VR world, I do get a bit excited and decide to play a little more VR, so I'm already counting down the hours until I get off work and can jump into my 'Oasis' tonight. Oh and I got Jen playing Beat Saber the other day too, she was impressed... I also think I'm going to get my parents (namely my Dad) a Quest for Christmas. He has been loving his Oculus GO, and I think it's time for him to get an upgrade. He's ready.
Other than all that, Halloween is coming soon, which is always fun... can't wait to get Kenzie out for trick-or-treating... she went last year, but obviously had no clue of anything that was going on... she still probably won't really get it, but at least she's a little more aware this year. Syd is excited as usual, and she keeps changing her mind on what she actually wants to be... so we'll see where she lands with that!
With Halloween also kicks off the holiday season, which is always a whirlwind, and throw our Disney vacation into the mix in November and we'll be busy little beavers the rest of the year. Oy Vey!
Also, Trump... the DS still keeps trying to take him out, but are desperate and sloppy in their attempts and thankfully the public is waking up, albeit slower than I'd like. #Trump2020.
Let's Go!
