So, hi.
Lots and lots of things are different since the last time I updated, back in November. I’ve left my old job at The Startup and started at a new one. Without going into any detail, there just wasn’t room there for what I wanted to be doing, and not a lot of hope given that there ever would be any room.
So here I am at Gold Tooth Creative, which is funny for two reasons:
1) It’s one block from where The Startup first landed in Vancouver.
2) The position I took over opened because the current admin left to go… to… The Startup.
Small small world, lemme just say. Maybe a little TOO small in certain corners, which is why I’m surprised when I see people literally TRYING to make it even smaller.
At first I felt like I’d been brought into some sub-wing of the mafia (with “this is a friend of mine/ours” and “this is my associate”) but it turned out it was more Napoleonic than that, sadly. Maybe even Nero-esque.
Just so you don’t think I’ve been ignoring all y’all, I read most of your blogs, and follow you on Twitter, or Facebook. Kids are well, house is fine (I’ll tell you the story of my wife and I totally destroying fixing the toilet with only one call to my dad and a shower of sparks from a dremel tool to show for it.)
Work at the new place ramps up and down, so that’s good. There’s firefighting, and then there can be downtime. Some of that can even happen a few times over the course of a day. Good flow to get into. You can’t work in panic/freakout/blamestorming mode all the time every day, or you’ll end up with an eyetic like mine. Wonder if me almost losing my fingernail had/has anything to do with it? Hm… Ponderables. More Windows, scarier Mac stuff, minimalist renderfarm stuff (getting to know Rush vs. my days of working with Deadline at PrimeFocus.) The usual kinds of work. This studio is three years old, and going from where Conversion Works WAS when I left at the 9 month mark with 50 staff and everything’s still cowboy-mode to where these folks ARE with their plans and ideas and sneaky tricks. Nice to see they’ve matured here, and it won’t be cult of personality stuff.
Been wanting to write some escapist fiction lately. Like, literal escapism stuff. Running. If you see something show up with the category “NoNotReally” or similar, that’ll be what that is.
Originally published at Gecko Bloggle. You can comment here or there.