New beginnings

Following on from my previous and somewhat sinister sounding post, things are starting to move forward in a somewhat zig zagging fashion, but I guess for me the main thing is that they are in a bizarre way moving forward.

New Abode

So first of all, I’ve finally moved in to my new house. It’s slowly getting there although the powers that be like to drag things out as much as they can.

The first of these being when I applied to have Sky+ and broadband installed. I placed the order on the 27th May and while it could have been a very straightforward and painless process, in their wisdom they’ve chosen to drag the installation of all this out so sadly my broadband won’t be installed until the 21st June (yes, 6 days to come out and install the Sky+HD box, a further 7 days to get BT to switch on the phone line and then a further 11 days for them to activate the broadband thereafter, don’t ask why it takes so long,  I haven’t a clue). I just hope my router turns up between now and then.

The furniture that I ordered on the 5th June was initially pencilled in for delivery on the 15th, but then I was informed that it was going to take another 7 days, so my furniture will be landing on the 22nd, and finally after that, my return to my arts course should take place on the 23rd with my son potentially moving in that weekend.

However, once all that is up and running then I should hopefully be able to plod on somewhat better than I have been these past 6 months and finally start to get my life back on track.

New Plans

So with a new start in a new location, what do I have planned for the rest of the year?

New Horizons
Among many things I need to do, one of the first things will be to start pushing forward with Horizon Studios and get my team on the right track again.

I had many big plans for the start of the year which were unfortunately somewhat thwarted on New Year’s Eve with the end of a 20 year relationship and after a long time trying to restore some normality and sanity into my life, that is finally starting to come to fruition and I’m pleased to say the development of a number of projects that we had been looking to work on can finally begin.

Old Business
The original business I started 7 years ago still has some promising areas that, after 20 years experience in various fields I can’t really turn my back on and as such I will be looking at everything I’ve built up over the years and look at what can still be recovered in the current climate and restore those areas back to being profitable.

New Portfolio
For all I quite enjoy writing these somewhat relatively personal blogs, in the future I need to start to separate my personal and professional affairs to an extent, and so I will be tweaking this website a little to present a somewhat more professional outlook and tuck the personal side away in the background. Although in part I guess a lot of my musings have been based on those I read in Luke Halliwell’s blog after the demise of RealTime Worlds, but having looked at other portfolios of game artists I have been inspired to be somewhat more creative in my art and less vocal in my posts.

New Connections
Given the new location to work from and the somewhat altered freedom my new life with my son will give me, I’m looking to start pushing forward and restoring some old connections and making new ones, getting my own name and that of Horizon Studios out as far and wide as I can in the hope of drumming up a lot of potential business and other associates to work with/for.

edit: in closing, I’ll stick some pretty graphics on this at some point in time soon, but at the moment I’m busy trying to recover one of my external 1TB drives (typically the one that has the last 4 year’s work on!!!!) and things aren’t looking good. I just hope that my accounts aren’t sitting on the damned thing otherwise I’m screwed