Today I learned:

• When two roads diverged for me in 1995, the road not taken would have led to interesting things.

Just ran across a game preview for Iron Man, pretty sexy. Then I realized that the development team was none other than Secret Level in San Francisco, now Sega of America’s premier studio in the US.

I was with the company back in 1995 when we worked out of the basement of a rented home in suburban Maryland. At they time they were known as HyperImage. Me writing MFC map editors for an Atari Jaguar game, and they living off cup of noodles. My how far they’ve come! When I was asked to continue working without pay (along with the rest of the startup), I possibly should have stuck it out.

• The economy is hosed.

Just decided to peek between my fingers and check out how my 401k is doing. Holy spiral staircase of doom Batman! I’ve lost 8%!! of my retirement savings in less than a month! Oh dear. Time to retrofit the mattress for a change purse. I’ll be working until I’m 80.

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