BusinessCasual Review: Making the Old Game New

Relatively gentle day at work today. Couple of voicemail messages, couple of installs, some pretty easy emails: no heavy lifting involved. It was the kind of day I could get used to. If I were staying. Speaking of my new job, they require a drug test before the first day of work. All the labs they contract through for that service close at 4 or 4:15 for drug tests. I get off at 4, so I asked to jet 5 minutes early to get that taken care of. I got there JUST as the receptionist was removing the sign in clipboard. She grudgingly let me sign in, but was sure to make her displeasure known. Hey, I know I’m clean, but if I gotta pee in a cup to make the monies, that’s exactly what I’ll do.

I got out just in time to get Clara and head home. I got home about five minutes before D did, so I got the oven warmed up and put dinner in. DeAnn and I watched Clara terrorize the cat and run around the living room, picking up small toys and putting them into her basket. Then she would run to another container and empty what she had into it. Colin asked to go out to play, so we let him run off and set his dinner aside for him when he got back.

After putting Clara down, we settled in for our static night. Our linkshell claimed Fafnir for the second night in a row (go go!), so we were a little late getting started. We still got a decent session in, though. We had a discussion about what to do with our static, since we’d come under fire lately about doing this during events. The general consensus was that we’re getting burned out doing what we’re doing on our current main jobs. In trying to find something new and exciting while at the same time being relevant to the LS needs, we were going to have to invest some time and effort. This time has to come from somewhere, and the only times we have are evening, during events. Hence, in order to keep the game fresh and interesting, some event has to be bypassed temporarily so we can invest that time into development. We might, however, be open to suggestions from leadership on a better night, but as of now, we decided to keep the schedule unchanged.

Tomorrow is Friday, and I’m the one that has to stay the last hour. Dunno what’s planned for tomorrow night, but if nothing is going on, then Keri and I will probably campaign, or she’ll play FF8 while I fish or something. Whatever we decide, it will involve being together and celebrating the coming of the weekend. ^_^/