The last week or two have been pretty hectic, work-wise, and now that the build has stabilized, and I’m bug-free (for the time being), I can take a breather, and figure out what the heck is going on. This week is really intensely busy, both because I’ve got crazy amounts of work, and because two friends are in from out of town. And, we’ve got to do work on our lawn (see Ei-Nyung’s post from a few days ago), on top of moving from one room to another, and dealing with someone working on the house again, and a new housemate moving in as the other one leaves.
It’s been pretty much a rollercoaster week, and it’ll be well into next week before I think I can actually settle in. I think I’ll have a couple days off at the end of next week, but I really wish I had those days now, when my friends are in town. Alas!
On top of being event-hectic, I’ve simply put off a lot of stuff I should have done earlier, like paying bills and the like. It’s weird how much my brain shuts off the outside world when things get over a certain level of hecticness, but unfortunately, things like bill payments don’t really wait for you to relax. Money’s been pretty strange recently, just because of the housemate transition, home insurance, and assorted expenses that piled up recently. I’m trying to cut down on extraneous purchases, and have done so pretty reasonably, but every once in a while, $100 or so disappears in an instant. Frustrating, to be sure. I feel like I’m trying to save, but am constantly pushed to the limit by something or another. In part, undoubtedly, there are frivolous purchases, which must stop, but in another part, it’s just that owning a home is fucking expensive.
*sigh*
Not to mention that bonuses this year are projected to be extremely short, because EA fucked up their earnings projections. I don’t understand why bonuses would be based on *projected* earnings, and whether you’ve missed them, because fundamentally, the development budgets are not. They are, sort of, but it’s so vague that as far as I can tell, the margin of error is greater than the percentage of the budget the bonus pool constitutes. So essentially, some chump in marketing goes crazy with the numbers, as they’re encouraged to, and the developer gets kicked in the nuts because the projections were insane, given the game’s budget and schedule.
That, combined with the stock price tank due to the missed earnings, and I should go shake down the idiot that produced those numbers to the tune of about six thousand bucks. Man, what a help having *that* money would have been.
Ah, well.