So I've finally emerged from this tunnel of work I've been confined by for the last week. I've designed and field-tested two iterations of a photocopier interface, an iteration of an online banking site, created a six-page feature proposal for a meeting with General Motors this afternoon, written two essays on the previous week's readings, and designed a (imbo) kickass dice game for game design and put it through more than eight iterations.

For next week I need to put my copier through another three iterations, my bank site through another one (both using high-fidelity prototypes), run my nearly-perfect game through another three iterations, and call dice wholesalers to discuss volume pricing to determine the final in-store target price for my game to assess the viability of self-financing a small run to seed to local game stores, and possibly find a distributor.

Oh, and my sidekick but the dust yesterday evening, with the 'LCD screen of mayhem' but apparently coughed that dust up in the night because it's working fine again now.

So now I have a similar workload to last week, only I have a full week to do it, and not the two days I gave myself last week (except for the game which took up most of my cycles). There was Buffy and it was Good. My new TiVo is on its way and will probably arrive today (oh yeah, sorry to the folks who are lusting for my old TiVo. This one's going to Mom. (Hey Mom, you've got Tivo!)

My Dad's birthday party is this Saturday and I'll be there in spirit.

It snows pretty much every day but I'm still waiting for that big snow that will make snowmen and sledding the inevitable order of the day.

Our guest speaker at last night's seminar at one point asked, "who else is sick of the cold?" and I was surprised that as most of the hands made for the sky, mine was not among them.

And in the midst of all this, I plan to start production code for Fury 4.0 tomorrow. I've got a lot of changes I'll be rolling in to one release, so expect that to take up a lot of my (ahem) extra time for the next couple weeks.

Hey, how you doin'?