Initiate next phase

The tracks of my life change yet again but this time they turn back slightly.  On May 15th, I start my new position as Unreal Game Developer at the Virtual Heroes division of Applied Research Associates in Raleigh, NC.  I've already moved out of my apartment in Texas and now I'm staying in Charlotte with my parents until my stuff arrives in Raleigh (hopefully by Thursday).  The biggest reason for the move was I was tired of being out in Texas by myself.  Well not "literally" by myself, I had my uncle Vasu and his family and I had some great friends.  But it was too disconnected from all the family I have here in North Carolina.  I couldn't really see myself settling down in Texas in the long term. 

Now that I'm back in NC, I feel like I need to make up for lost time and spend as much time with family as I can.  I have big plans for the future, so heres a breakdown:
- Buy a house
- Develop an artificial intelligence program to run the house :P
- Give it emotions, just kidding!  NO EMOTIONS!
- Install touch controlled thin-client machines in each room
- Setup a server in the control room (basement?) to control the house
- Build an iOS application to remotely login and control the house (TODO: security)
- Most importantly!  Get a very good security system!
- Oh and get a hybrid car that also has that AI in it :P

I think its very doable but will take a lot of time and more importantly, money.  I need to plan way ahead if I want to pull this off.  I believe I CAN pull this off, but I need to learn a lot about smart-homes and AI. 

I better get started...
-Me

For reference, here is my last "track-changing" post:
http://priyesh.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-youse-doin.html (yea I know not the most informative title :P)