24 July 2001
Last year: Yup. I'm back.
Work is going to be sooooo boring for the next few days... We're down to the point where all I can do is help Mike test the modules he's building. Just at the moment, that means that I start testing, run into a brick wall, and then have to sit and twiddle my thumbs while he tries to figure out why.
Thank goodness I have my Mac with me.
And the weekly staff meeting is today. I feel the need for a little prayer. Dear gods, please don't let me leap across the table at my supervisor and demand that he stop shuffling papers importantly, as if they actually meant anything. And please don't let me say anything sarcastic to the manager in charge when he asks how my project is going. And please, please give everyone the desire to keep their pieces short so the meeting doesn't run more than half an hour. Thank you.
And I just got an e-mail from my manager asking me to do something more or less impossible. Well, that's good. I always like to start my day off with a little something impossible. It adds character to my day, you know.
Now that we're down to the final stages of the project, I'm trying to brace for the impact of the fact that it just doesn't work the way they want it to work. Nothing would - nothing could work the way they want it to work. But since I'm the official project scapegoat, and my pieces of the project are 95% done, all I can do is prepare for the inevitable.
I'm going to be online even more than usual for the next couple of weeks. I've got five Hall side-sessions planned in the next couple of weeks that I can think of off the top of my head. That's not counting any impromptu sessions that might arise. Plus I've got a session scheduled tonight to help Jeff figure out how we're going to do combat for our play-by-email 7th Sea game, so he can then teach the combat system to Ashby and Karen (who haven't played the system yet) on Thursday.
Yup. Gonna be online a lot for the next few weeks. Not that I'm complaining, mind you.
Random and I spent a couple of his smoke-breaks yesterday talking about Baldur's Gate, and I apparently missed a lot of things I shouldn't have missed. So I'm starting over, and this time I'll take things a little slower. And now that I've learned a little more about how the game works, hopefully that first bit will be easier.
It's kindof amazing how much time one game can suck away. Though I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, having watched Matt play Deus Ex.
Another boring, pointless entry, I know. Sorry, guys. Guess I'd better go get to work on that impossible thing. (Maybe next year I'll be up to two impossible things before breakfast!)
Word of the Day:
etiolate - to bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight; to make pale, to deprive of natural vigor, to make feeble
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- drawing
- Hall stuff
- garden