Clearing the mental registers
Latest reading / writing progress: Finished a re-read of Tom Clancy’s Red Storm Rising, which is like The Lord Of The Rings of military thrillers; long and complicated, but internally consistent and plausible and worth the read if you can stick it out. Trying to read Terry Pratchett’s Men At Arms or The Truth, but I keep stalling in the early pages of each. Last year, Witches Abroad did a much better job of sucking me in.
Wrote a bunch of flavor text last night, and a few hundred words for “Cat Out Of Hell” over the weekend. Also figured out what the MacGuffin should be for “That Goat Doesn’t Belong To You”, making it more a part of the story and slightly less of a MacGuffin.
Our Lord of the Rings CCG is addictive, and I’m not saying that as an employee, either. raininva keeps killing me at the Bridge of Khazad-Dum, though.
I got honked at on the way to work this morning because someone mistimed his sudden acceleration and wasn’t able to cut me off as he’d planned. I guess he was trying to say, How dare you prevent me from being rude to you!
I did nothing for Mardi Gras last night, continuing a tradition I’ve maintained as long as I can remember. I will probably continue that tradition next month in a few months for Cinco de Mayo too. But at least Card Night will probably be a go this weekend – MarsCon and sicknesses have put a damper on the last few.
Just discovered NeoOffice, the OS X port of OpenOffice. Basic MS Word / Excel functionality, for free? I knew this had to suck… except it doesn’t. Now I’ve got it installed on all the machines I use at work or home.
And that’s Wednesday morning.
I usually ignore Cinco de Mayo in March, too. đŸ™‚
Durrrr.
This is why I need calendars around me at ALL TIMES. Otherwise I wouldn’t even know it was… um… one sec… Wednesday.
Sorry, it had to be said. đŸ™‚
It’s good to hear that you’re enjoying your writing and the games your company makes. I’m still having tons of fun here, too.
Our company makes copious use of OpenOffice. It is kinda nice to have the basics only for those who don’t need the whole shooting match.
You have a cool job – it’s the kind of job I’d want if I’d been doing any programming in the last decade. (Besides FlieMaker and scripting.)
I just used NeoOffice to finish a spreadsheet of card flavor text – I swear it was a more pleasant experience than Excel would have been.
I loved Men at Arms, and one of its sequels, Feet of Clay.