Work, pirate raid, and a few projects

Greetings from the library, where I sit at my desk and manage my multitude of matriculated minions. Actually there are only two of them, but at least I have minions. Being an Evening Supervisor is pretty relaxed, which is good; the only downside is that three times a night I have to go around the entire building and count the number of people, divvied up by various areas. It's for "usage statistics" or something frivolous and corporate like that. My theory is it's to keep me from doing nothing but sit at my desk and surf the intarwebs for six straight hours, so it might actually do me a favor. It's a decent amount of walking.

The search for a second job is still a big fat zilcho, though as usual I still have a few leads left to explore. I am taking it at a kind of leisurely pace, because let's face it - getting rejected 8+ times in a week would be kind of bad for the ego, even if it's just because most places don't seem to be hiring at the moment. I blame the economy, or something.

More shenanigans have been borne of WoW: one of our buddies was quitting for Tabula Rasa (which looks more interesting than it has any right to, from an I-can't-afford-it standpoint), so we gave him a farewell Pirate Raid. I think my writeup came out pretty well. There are even Pokémon jokes at the end, and overall it's at least marginally accessible to people who don't fritter their time away online excessively. It actually made one of my guildmates ask if I did this kind of a thing for a living. Nerd commentary? Please, be a real profession someday. Soon.

Another guildmate and I are in the early stages of designing a browser-based space strategy game. Think the Fleet Game, only with less nobody-wants-to-play-it-itude. And computer-based, like it would have needed to be. We're looking at a pretty standard planetary expansion model, with technology and ships and whatnot - nothing revolutionary, but a chance to take our own stab at the genre and for him to learn a new programming language (Ruby Rails, I think? Maybe just Ruby). I'm not going near that end of things. We're in the early design stages, but I'm pretty excited, so perhaps expect more about it in the future!

No beer reviews because my booklet from the event is at home. Maybe that'll be impetus to post again before another three weeks go by.