#oneaday Day 181: Hanging in there

I’m still ill. I have just about survived today, with only a little nap after finishing work, but I am feeling pretty rough now. It is not fun, because I have work to do, I have things I want to enjoy, and coughing and spluttering through the day does not make any of those processes more enjoyable.

Still, at least we had a reasonably fun thing to do at work today: tease something for next year! If you happened to miss it, here:

That’s right! We’re doing the Neo Geo! That’s all I can say on the subject for the moment because we’re not revealing the details of this deal with SNK beyond the fact that it involves Neo Geo stuff until early next year, but this is something people have been asking about for a while, so it’s great to finally be able to say “yep, we doin’ it”.

Naturally, because no-one on the Internet is ever unconditionally happy any more, we had our fair share of people moaning about things we hadn’t actually said, but for the most part, the response has been great. Neo Geo games are top-tier retro, and having a bunch of them in the pipeline is great.

Like I say, that’s really all I can talk about on the subject for the moment, because Marketing. Looking more broadly, though, signing an agreement like this only shows how Evercade is going from strength to strength. We’ve got a couple of other big agreements waiting in the sidelines, too, but we’re not even teasing them just yet (although I guess I just did) — you’ll find out more about them next year. All I’ll say on the subject is that between these deals, we should be making a fair ol’ chunk of people happy, and that’s always a nice feeling. As for the people who immediately assume the worst when receiving what should be a highly positive announcement? Balls to them, I say. It’s really not my problem if someone is unable to find happiness in something specifically designed to bring people happiness.

Right. I’m off to bed to try and shake off this cold. I would like it gone by the weekend, as I have another Laura Bow mystery to play — and work Christmas do next week, too!

Shit, that reminds me, I probably better get my Secret Santa pressie sorted, I guess…

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#oneaday Day 180: Post-work lurgi

I think I’m getting a cold. I had one of those situations on the drive home from the office today (a 3+ hour trip) where I felt the “ill” hit. I got one of those annoying coughs where you cough and it doesn’t shift whatever is making you cough, so then you cough more, but it doesn’t move anything, and it’s really annoying and ugh. I really do not want to be ill, but it is the time of year when I often get ill, so.

Also, being in contact with other human beings for once may have something to do with this, too. I don’t normally get ill after a trip to the office — I’m not completely hermetically sealed in my house — but I think I recall one of my colleagues saying that they’d had a bit of a cold recently. If this is their fault then… I will have a good old grumble, but not blame them, because it’s not their fault.

Anyway, with feeling like general dogshit after driving for more than three hours, I don’t have a lot of energy left to write something for today, I’m afraid. So I hope you will indulge me in this particular occasion and just let me head to bed. I will try and be extra-interesting tomorrow — except we all know I’ll just be my usual self. So I’m mostly just making a promise to myself to at least try and write a bit more tomorrow than I have written today.

That’s it. That’s the post. Good night!

1061: Hell from Week

Well, that’s the particularly awful week done and dusted. Sort of. I still have more Shit to Do next week, but hopefully things should calm down a bit from here. We’ll see. I am looking forward to a bit of time off at Christmas to just relax and, you know, chill out.

I’ve been somewhat out of the loop today due to the things I’ve been doing, but I did managed to catch the awful news out of the States today — for those who missed it, there’s been a mass shooting at a school in Connecticut. I don’t know all the details so I don’t want to comment on it, but it’s massively sucktastic. I feel somewhat distanced from it being over here in the UK as I am, but I know enough people in the US for it to carry some degree of resonance for me. Facebook and Twitter are full of messages of support and debates about gun control at the moment. The inevitable arguments are ensuing from the usual suspects. I don’t really want to get involved, but it’s pretty clear that something needs to be done.

Anyway, that sounds an awful lot like commenting on it, and many people have doubtless done so far more eloquently than I today, and will doubtless continue to do so over the next few days. (Fox News, of course, have been quick to blame video games, but fuck Fox News). So I will leave that there.

I am still ill. I drove for two hours after a full day of “civic duty” today and am now exhausted, battered and feeling like utter shite. Andie seems to think I’m a day “behind” her in this plague, however, so hopefully I should improve a bit from here. I hope so. Obviously I’m not comparing my own pitiful physical state to a tragedy which has unfolded in the US, but, well, this week has just been one of those ones that you get the impression the entire world would like to erase from existence.

I’d be fine with that. Also with a fast-forward button. The end of next week would be nice. KTHX.