The house echoes now.
Practically everything is in boxes. Most of the furniture is gone. And our footsteps and voices bounce back to us from naked walls.
The computer will be the last thing unplugged and packed, first thing tomorrow morning. And when it is, I’ll be going black for a while.
See you on the other side!
Here’s my schedule for this week and next:
Sunday: Drive 13 hours or so cross-country to Denver. Well, almost to Denver. About 2:00 AM the wife and I give up and find a hotel.
Monday: Go the rest of the way to Denver, look at apartments. Discover, to our groaning chagrin, that the large, reasonably-priced apartment we had in mind was rented over the weekend. In fact, most of the places we’d planned on visiting don’t have openings until the middle of July or later. Finally find a place on the bus line: two bathrooms inside, a pool outside; the girls will be pleased.
Tuesday: Visit SOE, have some lunch with the guys there, then wander up to Boulder to poke around. It’s a beautiful area, with houses for sale well outside our price range. (The first one we look at is going for two million dollars; the second is only half that, but we decide to stop looking.)
Wednesday: Drive back.
Thursday: Finish packing. Panic as necessary.
Friday (today): Finish packing. Panic as necessary. Oh yeah, try to wrap up that contract gig.
Saturday: Finish packing. Panic as necessary.
Sunday: Finish packing. Panic as necessary.
Monday: Load the truck.
Tuesday: Drive to Denver (or close enough).
Wednesday: Unload the truck.
Thursday: Realize we forgot something vital in Minnesota and make a bunch of panicked phone calls.
Friday: The girls arrive, and our family is whole once more.
You know you’re a game design geek when you have three heavy boxes labeled “Game Prototyping Materials.”
Who else would move game boards, glass beads, cardboard chits, and hundreds of cards from a dozen dead CCGs cross-country?
Can a person go on hiatus? Or is that strictly for an on-going program (like a TV show)?
I’d look it up, but don’t have the time. The point is, I’m going to be pretty inaccessible for the next few weeks. I started to say that I was going on vacation, but since this “vacation” entails packing everything I own, cleaning everything I don’t, and driving thousands of miles, the term doesn’t quite seem accurate.
While on hiatus, I will try to read my e-mails, but can’t promise that I’ll reply to them until the hiatus is over. Heck, I can’t promise to reply even then, since once I hit Colorado I expect to be swamped with unpacking, getting set up, and finding my vocational bearings. We’ll see. Please be patient.
And here we go…
I’ve been lying low for the past few weeks, partially because I’ve been swamped to never-before seen levels, and partially because I was waiting to make the following announcement:
I’m moving to Denver. I’m going to be helping develop online games for SOE. And yes, I’m pretty thrilled.
But there’s the packing. And the painting. And the endless hoop-jumping necessary to sell a house. So don’t expect a lot of updates here in the next few weeks. I’ll be checking e-mail, but otherwise probably keeping my head down.
Wish me luck!
