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How did it get to be 6pm already?
One of those days.
- Spent the morning tweaking and adding photos, photos and then more photos to a presentation I have to give at Sussex University on Wednesday. Didn’t finish. Finding the right image takes too bloody long sometimes.
- In the middle of that, get the image I mentioned earlier. Jaw literally drops and hangs open for about five seconds. Stunning….
- Lunch with Jen where we both vent about different things… and talk about this blog, as it happens.
- Back to finalise and post details about the ‘Hero Pass’ for the MiniCon, then I duck into a meeting about said MiniCon. As the words come out of my mouth I keep thinking “So much to do, so much to do, so much to do….”
- Get back to my desk to find Forumites frothing about not being able to get ahold of Hero Passes, as the phone at Omega Sektor is ringing off the hook. Try to calm them down.
- And suddenly, it’s 6pm.
“Day ain’t over yet….”
Wednesday? Thursday?
Being ill on Tuesday gave me a feeling of ‘Must get more done!’ all day… and left me unsure which day it actually was.
- Early on, find out that Andrew Wildman’s posted all of the sketches we’ve had done so far for the DTWT sketchbook on his blog! I suggest he take ‘em down and preserve some mystery…
- Figuring the cat’s out of the bag I post a teaser to the COH EU Forums – the Statesman (1930s era) that Ian Churchill did (seen right). I start to wonder just how many of the original sketches I may have to bid on when we put ‘em up for auction. Possibly all of them… and I’ll get beaten by players, I just know it.
- Call Andrew as scheduled to discuss secret stuff. That leads to an internal conversation about that call, more emails and probably a meeting next week.
- Hear our iMacs should arrive next week. Just in time for my hols. Dammit!
- Get a sketch in from Mike – someone he’s drawn before, but in colour and in a style I’d not seen. It’s lovely stuff. I email him to say thanks and subtly remind him he owes me a sketch… but not to hurry…!
- Talk to our PR Manager about MiniCon for a bit, about press we want to get there, etc. Sounds like we’re going to have a good presence.
- Speak to COH’s Marketing Product Manager about Trial Codes. We’re under the gun on getting those done.
- Aero shows me the artwork of a certain… artist that we both agree would be a real coup to have at the MiniCon (aka Player Meet, aka Secret Event). Trouble is, he’s in the US…
- Back to Product Manager to pitch idea of bringing over said artist. Have to take it higher up the food chain, but she agrees it’d be great….
- Call Andy Hannon, Assistant Manager at Omega Sektor, and finalise pricing for the MiniCon, while firming up our meeting with him on Friday. I think I got him on his day off, but he’s helpful as ever.
- With those pricing details in hand, I can finally post some solid preliminary details about the event to the COH EU Forums, and appease the eager players who want to budget for the weekend. Love all of ya!
- Chat briefly with Melissa Bianco at NCNC, to finalise her flight details. Get some goss. Look forward to more….
- Jump onto Skype and have a great four-way chat between myself, Matt ‘Positron’ Miller, Sean ‘Manticore’ Fish and Sean’s wife, Jen, who ‘officially’ is Sister Psyche… it’s recorded for our podcast. Despite some slight technical glitches it works really well and we get some good stuff. I get to ask Matt if he’s a sadist for making the Positron TaskForce… he denies it, but I think we all know….
- Into town later to catch a late showing of Jumper. Quick verdict: abysmal. Longer verdict: book’s better. Still dream about jumping, though.
Loads to do. No time to do it.
Today
At this rate I’ll be writing posts about the future before too long.
- First thing, open up another sketch for our secret Draw the World Together sketchbook project. Is nice.
- Second thing, get the go-ahead from our IT Manager to order new desktops for me and Spaff. New iMacs, baby. One trip to Apple’s online store later…
- Mercilessly tease players on our official CoH forums about the upcoming Secret Event. This isn’t entirely because I just like to tease… we don’t have all the details yet so I can’t spill. It’s good to get people’s blood up though.
- Thanks to an eagle-eyed Forumite, suddenly find out our secret sketchbook project isn’t so secret now, as the Bristol Comic Expo has posted about it. D’oh! Their artist list includes Dave Gibbons, Doug Braithwaite, Ian Churchill and Mike Oeming. Well, at least one of them is in it right now.
- Book car and hotel for Secret Event scouting trip this weekend.
- Go forward, backward and then forward in time (playing City of Heroes! Zing!) during lunch as I do the Orobor.. Oobiedoo… Oreo… I’m too lazy to figure out the spelling of that. The time travel arc, the first one. I love the design of the ‘zone’ you get the missions in. Reminds me of good Kirby Marvel work. Also: want the jacket The Pilgrim wears (for my L34 Blaster).
- Intrepid Editor ‘Stick’ drops off the final cut, burned to DVD, of our behind-the-scenes Memorabilia video while I’m getting attacked by Freakshow (in City of Heroes! Zing!). Have half a conversation while I hit number keys. Thank you, Defiance, for saving my butt.
- After lunch, start to flag from cold.
- Half-finish a ‘corporate history of NCsoft Europe’ which is more dull than it sounds. No wait; it’s not.
- Have a chat with our Business Development Manager about the numbers on a project we want to do. I’m arguing for us to get less money. I am an ass, really.
- Provide false headlines to Spaff for his big pitch. Gotta book that in.
- Video Aero having his brand-new PC pulled apart, as Dell has managed to build it in a very special way so that the drive bay doesn’t open. Inwardly, thank the Lord I’ll be going all-Mac very soon.
- Leave early as cold is beating me up.
Blehhhh.
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