This week I made the general decision to stay in New Zealand after Christmas until I head to Japan, which was by no means easy to do. There were a lot of things that factored into this choice and certainly the financial consideration was a significant one. Although the flights aren’t nearly as expensive as I had thought they would be, when I look at my finances I don’t know that I can really justify flying back again, particularly with no regular guarantee of work, since my work permit for the US runs out at the end of December and I wouldn’t be able to continue my work as a production assistant. In some ways the money thing seems silly, like I shouldn’t be basing these kinds of decisions on that, but it plays a part whether I like it or not at the moment. So anyway, that was probably the biggest decision about what I’m doing with myself that I’ve made in a few months.

Monday was Veterans Day here in the US, which means that Anastasia got the day off school but I still had to go to work. Work this week has mostly been a whole lot of emailing candidates and other people that send in their materials to be considered. I also had to set up an account with Dell for acquiring our new computers, do a bunch of testing, and write up/edit a bunch of contract paperwork for the transition to being Ignition Entertainment rather than as Artificial Studios. On the web front, I’ve done some work on the sushi site, I’m making good progress there.

When Anastasia and I did some grocery shopping on Wednesday, we somehow managed to leave a bag behind at the store… which we then went back and got the next day, so it was all fine, just a bit annoying. On the way home from work yesterday I tried to pick Anastasia up from school and failed… instead of being where she usually is at that time, she was slightly different and so I ended up missing her completely. Oops!

Today I’ve done some web-work through the morning, looked some stuff up for my boss and dropped Anastasia off at work. A good chunk of work today was spent figuring out what to do for our moving company… we’re shifting offices next week before Thanksgiving, and after dicking around for a month or so and not doing anything with the contacts that Barrett looked up, Jeremy tells us to make it happen within the day (or at least by Monday) or there’s hell to pay… what the hell? Well, I sorted out a couple of companies to come look at the place and give us quotes on Monday (ballparked over the phone first) and arranged for people to be here when they were here if I wasn’t going to be. Although I’m not expecting any pats on the head for getting it right…

Anyway, got all that sorted, did a bunch of play testing and then went home to do a bit more web-work before embarking on Anastasia and I’s weekend. This coming Monday is our four year anniversary, so we’re spending the weekend on and with each other, which will be lovely. I’ll post more on Monday.