Just got through a 4 day weekend on the tail end of the post windows XP ship week.

The first event of the week was Jawadk's group collaberation event. It was pretty depressing in some of the lessons that could be taken away from it. The one good lesson learned or need to learn is that I need to be flexable and not get depressed. I need to focus on the positive and move on.

The next major event of the week was the company meeting. Other people have comments about that, but it seemed to be a place to see everything the company is working on come together. Some of it was cool some of it was okay. The Talisker WinCE release looked cool. The pland for eHome looked positive. It reinvegrated my enthusiasm for an XBOX slightly. The football title looked really cool. It was intresting that ballmer felt it was important enough to mention that the right way to go after Linux is rebuild the Ms developer communities. I suspect this is going to be a difficult thing. I should give some more thought to this in a different entry.

Friday I had off, but I went in and did my playtest for Munch's Odyssey. This was the first time we got to see some of the videos for the game. It was an amazing difference... The game suddenly seemed funner. Some day I should really get into the building process of such a game. As a deep play game tester, I've seen bits and peices which I thought alone weren't great, and now finally that I can start to see the whole package I'm much more impressed.

Friday Night was Misha's birthday party. I drank a shot of everclear. Didn't do much other then give me a scrachy throat. Misha had a high school friend in town from new york, Crystal. Crystal's friends came to the party and went skinny dipping in misha's pool.

Saturday was pretty cool. We went to Morgan's parents place on Whidbey Island. There we ate fresh crab and went on thier sailboat. Cool folks. Morgan made some logan berry pies (which she does professionally). It was good.

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Check out Neil Gaiman's American Gods
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