Archive for May 11th, 2008

Well at least it’s getting closer to being back to normal. Since midnight of Sunday after Visalia Faire (back on the 27th of April), we’ve been nearly at it 24 hours. For the first week it literally was 24 hours a day with 18-20 hours on, and a few hours for some quick sleep on a broken rotation.

It was fun, really. Both being able to work on a really big title, and also to work with a team that is both cool, and also one that never once got bitchy or angry no matter how exhausted we all were, but rather we just got more slap-happy.

Work can suck an awful lot with all of the internal politics and ineptitudes with communication between departments, and differing (and often competing) marching orders. But what makes sticking with it really worth it for me is that I love the team that I get to work with. It was commented on as being a rock star team (no pun intended regarding Grand Theft Auto), but really is a group that has it’s strengths in each person, everyone steps up, and it just gets done.

But for now, things look like they’re improving with GTA. Now the db’s are running at 100% cpu, so there’s that to deal with, but at least we’re ahead of the curve there at long last. Though I’m still poked fun at for the names of my processor apps and some of the odd little messages and errors that they spout out at various times (e.g. when you telnet into one of them, it will randomly protest being bothered because it really should be doing something more productive than answering the users questions).

A great team makes the rough times so infinitely more bearable, even when the suckage is great.

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A while ago I’d gotten to catch a movie that I wanted to recommend but then hadn’t gotten around to doing so. That movie is the 2007 release of “The Man from Earth” – a science fiction film in the purest sense, and without a single special effect. A great ensemble film that effectively takes place in a single living room while at the same time covering most of history.

This one, if you like films that make you think about, and open up for great conversations afterwards, give this a try during your next netflix order.

Here’s the trailer:

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