Gone to America

I’ve just come back from the World Premiere of Anita’s show “Sometime Soon”, and it’s really great! I heartily recommend everyone reading this who’s in NYC to go see it. It’s showing as part of the Urban Pop Festival, and it’ll be showing this Monday, Tuesday and …

I’ve just come back from the World Premiere of Anita’s show “Sometime Soon”, and it’s really great! I heartily recommend everyone reading this who’s in NYC to go see it. It’s showing as part of the Urban Pop Festival, and it’ll be showing this Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 7pm, and on Saturday at 9pm. I’ll be stage managing the Saturday show, so that’s the night to go if you want to see how Anita deals with missing music cues and surprising lighting changes. The show is about 45 minutes long, and tickets are $15. The theatre is pretty hard to find, but don’t give up. It’s on the fifth floor of 750 8th Avenue, between 46th and 47th streets.

I’m still working. Monday may be my last day. No, for real this time! Or Tuesday…. The online trailers for the game are out now, and the official website has just been launched. I hope this completion means that Jungle Fever by Chakachas will now stop blaring out of the edit suites in the office, and by extension be allowed to leave my head.

Leave my head! Leave it!

And I’ve posted my review of I, Robot. Enjoy. Still not sure about the Google ads. Do they bother anyone?

Just a nominal, minimalist post. Monday wasn’t my last day. Neither was today. Tomorrow? Possibly, possibly… I’ve adopted Google Ads. They will appear between the first and second posts. It’s just an experiment, really – I don’t expect to earn much. And, in closing (my that was short), here is …

Just a nominal, minimalist post. Monday wasn’t my last day. Neither was today. Tomorrow? Possibly, possibly…

I’ve adopted Google Ads. They will appear between the first and second posts. It’s just an experiment, really – I don’t expect to earn much.

And, in closing (my that was short), here is an article which might help to illuminate for all you non-gamers out there why it’s so cool for me to be working on the sequel.

Oh, and I’ve finished Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow and purchased Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. I’m on a colon kick. And I went to see I, Robot, which I haven’t reviewed yet. But I will! I will!

Normally, that post title would have referred to my vision, in the context of drinking. Now, I use the word to describe the way all the days seem to be meshing together, with little to distinguish one from the other. Such is work. It’s still going, by the way. The …

Normally, that post title would have referred to my vision, in the context of drinking. Now, I use the word to describe the way all the days seem to be meshing together, with little to distinguish one from the other. Such is work. It’s still going, by the way. The latest consensus seems to be that Monday will be my last day, but I’ve long since stopped taking that kind of thing seriously.

This has been the longest interval between posts in quite a while. I see a lot of blogs that are basically lists of links that the authors have found interesting, and I think to myself “my blog won’t be like that”. But now I understand. Those people have jobs, too. I’m not saying that I’m just going to start posting lists – interesting sites belong in the links section up above (I’ve added a “Gamery” section), and not in posts. But I have come across a few interesting articles related to my current employement.

The controversy begins here and here, and is discussed at length here.

I do have an opinion about all this, and, unlike those who are writing or arguing at the moment, it is actually based on knowing what happens in the game. But I’m severely constrained from expressing it. You’d have to meet me in a bar and get me drunk. Or wait until the game comes out (October 19th).

Although even then I might be circumspect. I know which side my bread is buttered.

Seen and reviewed: The Village.

First of all, I must apologise. I am lagging behind on all sorts of things, social and otherwise. Emails have languished unanswered in my inbox for unheard of lengths of time. Vaguely interesting things have gone unblogged about. Comments have been left to fend for themselves.

I’m not saying that …

First of all, I must apologise. I am lagging behind on all sorts of things, social and otherwise. Emails have languished unanswered in my inbox for unheard of lengths of time. Vaguely interesting things have gone unblogged about. Comments have been left to fend for themselves.

I’m not saying that work is to blame – far from it. All this money is very nice, and I’d like some more of it, please. But being unsure as to exactly how long the job will last has a downside. Basically, I’m putting things on hold rather than scheduling them around work. I’m operating under the assumption that the job is temporary, and will end soon, enabling me to get back to my life as it was. If I knew that the job was going to be a longer term proposition, then I could work around it – start planning to do things in the evenings or weekends, rather than waiting until I’m free entirely, and so forth. But I can’t get a straight answer! This is, of course, because they don’t know themselves.

I don’t know… I used to be able to work and have a life as well, didn’t I? I have obligations! I find myself, once again, a lazy person trapped in the career of a workaholic.

I’d like to be able to plan a bit better because I just bought myself an Xbox with my first paycheck (as well as paying rent, obviously), and I’d really like to be able to calculate how much serious gaming time I can put in. I went for the Xbox over the PS2 because it seems to be better in many ways, and I already have a Playstation, albeit in Dublin. (I trust it’s sitting serenely exactly where I left it, and not being abused by, say, any uncles or cousins).

I suppose I should point you to Julian’s new favourite blog. I really don’t mind that he has a new favourite. Really, it’s fine. It doesn’t bother me at all.

Not at all.

And Daragh is coming over to visit in September, to which I look forward. I hope I have enough free time to hang out a little. (Of course, we all know that by then I’ll be unemployed again and whingeing about it).

Come to think about it, I owe him an email.

I know the email updates haven’t been working. I may have fixed it, and this is just a test. Sorry if you’ve missed anything. I’m using Brian Groce’s plugin, by the way.

I know the email updates haven’t been working. I may have fixed it, and this is just a test. Sorry if you’ve missed anything.

I’m using Brian Groce’s plugin, by the way.

It looks like my job may be winding down – they’re running out of work for me. I was hopeful it would last longer, but I can see there won’t be anything for me to do after a couple more days. Oh, well- the sun shone, I made hay, ...

It looks like my job may be winding down – they’re running out of work for me. I was hopeful it would last longer, but I can see there won’t be anything for me to do after a couple more days. Oh, well- the sun shone, I made hay, and I think there’s a good chance they’ll get me back if they have another crunch.

I’ll have made enough money to stay for a two or three more months fairly comfortably, and I think I’ll buy myself a PS2. Working on this game has reminded me how much fun the old ones were. Yeah, that’ll help my productivity.

But I won’t be at a loose end. I have low budget feature to do the sound for over the next three or so weeks, and I just got a call about another one that I might get to do in six or seven weeks’ time. I’m glad I didn’t leave (my flight would have been tomorrow). All the meetings and stuff from the beginning of the year are starting to pay off. I even got a letter telling me that my Green Card will be arriving in a couple of weeks. Woo-hoo! This is good, because the stamp in my passport expires on October 6th, and it would be complicated for me to travel if I didn’t have the Card itself.

A couple of weeks ago I went to see a Flamenco show. I’m not a big dance afficionado (I went along because somebody else couldn’t make it and a ticket became available), but I enjoyed it immensely. It was very impressive. Man, those dancers are incredibly healthy – I’d‘ve been on the floor after about the first two minutes.
I just wanted to get that on the record for my future biographers.

I’d also like to plug this book, simply because I’m enjoying it so damn much. The Amazon reviewers don’t seem to be as enthusiastic about it as I am, so… Oh, they’re just wrong.

I don’t know what it is, but I nearly reached the bandwidth limit for this site last month. I guess a lot of you are reading, which is nice, but if the limit gets exceeded I’m gonna have to start paying more for hosting. Hmmm… A mixed blessing. Maybe I should quit with the doodling – I’m sure the extra downloading the image files require has something to do with it. And a lot of requests for PayPal related pages that don’t exist from some host called SagoNet, which I’ve now banned. If you’re on SagoNet, and you were legitimately reading this site, then you can’t anymore. I’m sorry. Of course, my apology is wasted because you can’t read it. Oh well.