You hear that, Mr Andersen?

Whoops, I might slip down.

I realise, reading yesterday's rant today, that I probably had very low blood sugar at the time. I've tried to avoid the tedious details of my work, on the grounds that very few people really care about FileMaker, and would much rather read about dumplings. On the other hand, very few dumplings play as large a role in my day-to-day job as FileMaker, so I'm afraid I'll have to beg your indulgence if it occasionally makes an appearance.

Played Nobilis with the usual suspects last night. Jenni helpfully pointed out that half the cast of Working South of the Border is living in my flat - more than half, if we recruit Sok. For those who don't know, WSotB is a roleplaying game that was meant to be somewhere between Due South and The Greatest American Hero, but as an ensemble show: the players are low-tier Canadian superheroes guarding the Canadian consulate in Chicago. It is run in a deliberately TV-style format - one session is an episode, we have a pre-credit sequence which usually sets up the story, a couple of ad breaks, recurring sets ("Hey, it's the warehouse again!"), and even a theme song ("Sweet Home, Chicago"). The tone is light comedy/drama, and the players (Giffy, Margie, Jenni and Jon T.) have been excellent at running with this. I've done two series - the first was six episodes, the second was twelve (including a double episode, a "the group as a rock band" episode, and a musical). Whether or not a third season gets green-lit will depend on how much spare time I get.

The Nobilis game was fun, as usual - everyone more than willing to get themselves in a whole heap of trouble. I got home about 10pm, and went almost straight to bed; I'm a bit tired at the moment, but I think I'll be recovered enough by the time the festival rolls around. Weirdly enough, I watched a doco about sleep deprivation and car accidents with Margie just before moving into the flat, which I'm putting down to coincidence rather than foreshadowing. :)

Speaking of foreshadowing, I was chatting to one of the Production people, and they seem enthusiastic about moving me down into Production land to make it easier for them to Set My Priorities. I think that, as noisy as the Systems room is, I'd get even less work done if I was that accessible to Production. Forcing them to climb a couple of flights of stairs is probably a fairly efficient filter of "this will only take you five minutes"-type requests. But then again, I'm sure I can find plenty of upsides to being around the production people. See? Not missing lunch turns me into a much more upbeat sort of person.

Speaking of getting things done, I've managed to get through about half of my "must do before leaving" list; since I've got a whole extra day to go, I'm sure everything will be fiiine, just fiiiine.

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I'm not sure how I'll be handling the whole update issue once I finish work, given that I won't have a cable modem for quite some time. I guess I might ring up Paradise and arrange for a month's worth of dial-up access. Time to listen to some more of that snazzy on-hold light jazz. Woo, and hoo.

(At least it's not Vivaldi, eh, Ellen? :)

Posted by svend at July 14, 2004 5:47 PM