John Zeitler

Folks, I don’t know if you were aware of this, but I’ve got a pretty full schedule ahead of me. Now that I’m feeling better, I have a lot more ambition to try to resolve some of the projects that I’ve set out on, the biggest one being the XNA project. I made a post in the forums today about how the updates to the Xbox Indie Games system would improve the service (foremost among those improvements: review copies to send to game websites!), and the entire setup has me far more psyched to do this than I had been before. Plus– well, I did say I wanted to have something out in Q4 ’09/Q1 ’10, and it is the end of July. On top of that, I also started thinking about the traditional fall projects I occupy myself with: October has been the gaming-rush-thingy that I usually do, and November is (of course) NaNoWriMo, so I’ve got the next four months booked pretty damn near solidly with “work”. (This also includes the D&D campaign I’m running monthly, and any other obligations that may come up.)

So, what this basically means is that this weekend is pretty much my last set of “days off” for the foreseeable future. I’m prepared to spend it relaxing and doing as little “productive” as I possibly can. Think of it like taking a deep breath before diving into the ocean; that’s certainly my perspective, aside from the fact that I can’t actually swim, so the metaphor falls apart and LOOK NEVERMIND JUST GO WITH IT. I intend to go out exactly once this weekend, and that will probably be Saturday lunchtime to the Hokkaido buffet (considering my trip out last weekend was spoiled by the fact that I still hadn’t regained my full, monstrous appetite).

The majority of what I do over the weekend, then, will consist of varying tenses of the verb “to read”. Because dammit, I like to read.