This week was monstrously busy at work again, doing a lot of stuff for the Ignition visit, fixing the big printer (a skill I didn’t know I had) and doing the hunt for someone to replace me. Trawled through resumes, made lots of calls, and had a few interviews. One has really impressed me with her ability to get organised, general intelligence, abilities and willingness to learn the more game specific stuff, so unless a better candidate shows up, I’m going to recommend hiring her. Tomorrow I go in for the last few interviews, then it’s up to Barrett to do the interview for the guy I couldn’t see before I left.

Other than work this week, I watched Kill Bill Vol. 1 with Anastasia, talked to people online, watched Tin Man (which I thoroughly enjoyed) with Lea and Anastasia, had a fun playing cards and drinking sake night and just generally did all the usual stuff.

The other thing of note is that this weekend I took my last trip down to Tampa. Anastasia and I had dinner out with her mother and a friend of her mother’s at Side Berns on Friday, we had lunch with Anastasia’s father and his wife on Saturday, I got my hair cut again… we had dinner with Jen and Josh that night out at Channelside, too. I got to see Jen’s engagement ring (those two just looked extremely happy, which is all good) and then we went to watch Beowulf 3D, which was also very cool. I talked some business stuff while I was there and we went out to the Village Inn and saw Jess for a while as well. This morning Anastasia and I went to her aunt and uncle’s to see everyone over there, then drove back to Gainesville before just chilling out together, folding some laundry… generally enjoying our domesticity. All in all it was a pretty good trip down.

This week was really, really busy. I spent about two and a half times as much time at the office as I’m supposed to, including recording a few new lines for the tutorials. Clearly further cementing my ability as a talented voice actor! ^^;

I got told a lot of complimentary things about my abilities and that I would also be doing the initial filtering and initial interviews for my replacement, which will be somewhat novel. I haven’t really conducted interviews before, but the first part I should be able to handle without any issues. Looking through emails, resumes, winnowing them down, making calls… I’ve done all of that stuff before, but usually passed it off at the end of that to someone else for the actual interview process. Should be interesting, anyway.

The only other thing really of note was that today I drove out to Orlando to pick up Jim and Vijay, a couple of the bigwigs from our new parent company, Ignition Entertainment. Both really nice guys, spent a long time chatting with Jim as I somehow managed to overshoot Gainesville on the way back and the whole trip took about an hour longer than it should have. I got them to their hotel ok in the end, though. ^^;

Also sat down with Anastasia and Lea to watch Robin Hood: Men in Tights again tonight – love that movie. Love it.