The State of the Khan
Sunny today, and very cold (-7C / low 20s F this morning); the sky is a dusty plastic baby blue, like a long-forgotten rattle in the attic, and frost limns one side of all the rocks and blades of brittle green grass strewn across the hardening ground.
The shades in my office are half-lowered to reduce the glare on five peoples' dual-monitor setups. The work I'm doing on this project is rather more that of a producer than a game designer; so far, I like it. It changes every day, there's always some new issue to which the team must respond quickly and well, and I don't have time to get bored, which is key.
Food in Germany is stodgy as all get-out, but for the most part very tasty, and breakfast and lunch and coffee and afternoon cake are all free at work. The tram system is A-MA-zing; it goes everywhere, for not very much money. The selection of restaurants is quite impressive, and so far we've had a few very nice meals. We've found some import places and some Asian grocery stores, so we have a fair amount of variety in our culinary options. Food and booze are absurdly cheap here; rent is not.
I have spent most of today dealing with German beaurocracy, but that is a topic for another post, once my blood pressure lowers a bit.
The shades in my office are half-lowered to reduce the glare on five peoples' dual-monitor setups. The work I'm doing on this project is rather more that of a producer than a game designer; so far, I like it. It changes every day, there's always some new issue to which the team must respond quickly and well, and I don't have time to get bored, which is key.
Food in Germany is stodgy as all get-out, but for the most part very tasty, and breakfast and lunch and coffee and afternoon cake are all free at work. The tram system is A-MA-zing; it goes everywhere, for not very much money. The selection of restaurants is quite impressive, and so far we've had a few very nice meals. We've found some import places and some Asian grocery stores, so we have a fair amount of variety in our culinary options. Food and booze are absurdly cheap here; rent is not.
I have spent most of today dealing with German beaurocracy, but that is a topic for another post, once my blood pressure lowers a bit.