!! summer vacation !!

Woke up late after watching Vikings until 12:30.  Yes, I finally figured out how to use my television... for the first time in over a year.

Went to have coffee with a friend and work on my new cover letter focusing on gaming analytics. Drank cappuccino and had a croissant while signing up for my first aws account to begin learning what Amazon calls "Machine Learning," "Big Data Analytics Options on AWS," "Cloud Watch Metrics and Statistics (Elastic Load Balancing Developer Guide)."  If "we're" prepping for non-proprietary bare metal, "we" should be looking into the big boys and what they're trying to do.  I strongly suggest getting your reading in at both AWS & Microsoft's Azure.  Microsoft only has a two week trial of their cloud services through Azure, whereas Amazon has a feckin year.  Jeff Bazos is brilliant.  Brilliant.

I'm also trying to pick up the language of gaming analytics.  So far I've found some amazing blogs and white papers.  The language is similar to what we get from marketing, and the business side, but you know my focus will be on performance and load balancing.  But here are some links from "what I learned in school today" (while drinking cappuccino and eating croissant)

http://www.ninjametrics.com/blog/video-game-analytics-101-basic-definitions
https://developer.ninjametrics.com/Help/Glossary
http://blog.gameanalytics.com/blog/squeezing-more-juice-out-of-your-game-design.html


Walked the family to Camp Long and back.  The rhodies are in bloom along with the iris and so many other spring flowers.  I won't bore you with yet another set of garden pictures.

I've also been preparing for my first set of "real" interviews.  One of the most difficult things I've come to learn is that data sets, and data complexity large enough to keep me interested are not widespread yet.  Only a few companies have the capital, the interest, and the foresight to capture enough to keep me from boring myself to glassy-eye-edness. 

So, I am beginning to focus down and I'm out here in the sun drinking a glass of wine on a Thursday afternoon.

Life is good.  I think I'll go get laid while I'm at it.  Daaaaviiiiiddddd!!!