As Rorschach might say, “Huurrrrmmm.”

• First thing, some emails about finalising the sketchbook. We have a few more due to come in, so we’re going to up the page count. Awesome.
• A day late, I pick our ‘CrewNC Sidekicks’ from the application. We were thinking about going for four, but go with five in the end. You can never have enough gophers…
• Decide today’s the day to announce the final artist line-up at the MiniCon. Finally I get to publicly confirm that David Nakayama is making the trip over to join us – David was the official artist for a lot of issues on the City of Heroes comic, so we’re really excited to have him coming.
• Lunch is in our new staff room – Monkey Ranch – and is officially ‘band practice’. As in, Rock Band. And someone (Me) needs practice on vocals; Nirvana’s In Bloom starts me badly. I get a bit better during a Clash song, quite enjoy My Sharona, and then actually do pretty well on Wonderwall – but that isn’t saying much.
• Nip out for coffee and more player meet planning. Already we’re giving the Sidekicks tasks.
• Have to get back for a 4pm conference call, but it gets pushed to 4:15pm, which gives me time to…
• Check out some lovely videos of Aion: The Tower of Eternity, which our community guys have captured and want to use as part of a ‘demo-on-video’ for the MiniCon. Dang that game looks good.
• I look at a slide Spaff’s done for the Big Secret project. It involves Ghostbusters, as many of our references do. Everything in life is better with Ghostbusters. Therefore said slide is awesome.
• Caffeeeeeeiinnneeee kicks in from the coffee, just as the phone rings. I talk with a US colleague for about 45 minutes about Dungeon Runners and what we can do to promote it; we have the same thoughts on lots of stuff, which is great.
• Get off the phone at 5pm knowing lots more than I previously did about DR… quickly resolve a couple of queries about Draw the World Together with Chris.
• Check out some of the responses to the artist announcement – specifically the reaction to David coming. One particular response is worth quoting: “Ohhhhhhhhhh I think I just wet my pants”. I do, in fact, LOL.
• Design t-shirts for the MiniCon. The Sidekick ones are pretty cool but seriously, we want to own the TaskForce: Omega t-shirts that we’ve got for winners. They are, in Spaff’s exact words, ‘dope’. (They may also be ‘fly’.) Consequently, Chris and I design TaskForce: Omega crew shirts just for us, because we can.
• I start to checkout and buy said t-shirts aaannd… my password disappears and suddenly I can’t log back in. ROCKJAW ANGRY. ROCKJAW SMAAAASH!

Ahem. Which necessitates a trip to the gym and some aggressive exercise.