Whirlwind of work: The pre-E3 crunch

So yeah. I haven't been writing much i know. Turns out i was just really busy. And by really busy, i mean "damn gina".

First, the conclusion to the dentist series. Joe vs The Dentist IV: The Final Cavity. not much of a saga here. Pretty much the same as always. got the last cavity filled and i'm all healthy dental wise now. Apparently he just finished reading a book about the MIT blackjack team and was facinated, so spent the whole visit talking about that.

Why was I so busy? In 2 letters: E3. Well a letter and a number. There was a bunch of things we had to get right so we could present at E3. Everything from adding new things to fixing bugs that came back from the testers. I spent two full weekends in a row there and during the week between i put in at least 11-12 hrs every day, some days over 16. Yeah, it sucked. But everything got done and the game made a pretty solid leap forward. Not that there's no work to do now... yeah, got plenty of that to do.

Overall, the extra hours don't bother me. I knew it was comming and it was only for just over a week. There are other times during the year, and well the two days before I left for E3, where i did almost no work and just hung out all day. I can leave work early if I need to, or come in late. I think it's a pretty fair tradeoff, and still a fun job. During work on tuesday afternoon we ended up playing a game of settlers of catan in the confrence room, because reallly... why work :-) Sadly people had to leave before it was over, but it was fun anyway. Also on wednesday, Khoi brought in the DVD for TMNT2: the secret of the ooze. One of my classic childhood favorites, so we grabed lunch and brought it back to the office and watched it with lunch. Good times.

Keep your internet tuned here for the next update gentle blog readers... E3 and LA post to follow soon.