the brothers crow

Don’t haze me, bro! It’s like I’m joining a digital fraternity or something. As a new pledge of the blogosphere, I know I’m not meeting my quota, but I’ve been really busy lately. I would convert to a 28-hour day, but then I’ll only have 6 per week and Irene would kill me for cutting into the weekend.

Here are 10 Reasons Why I’m Too Busy to Blog:

1. Moving offices at Aerva. Not addresses–we’re staying in the same building–but we’re relocating to a larger space. The logistics of the move are complicated, especially because we’re heavily involved in other concurrent projects, such as…
2. Preparing for the Digital Signage Expo. This is our big show of the quarter. We’re assembling cool schedules and new interactive applications, a process that involves me and a number of our other engineers. It’s fun for me to work on content because I don’t get to pretend to be a designer very often.
3. Fixing my Mac. Dealing with random software crashes is much less fun. It’s not excessive (yet), but since I switched to Mac last April, I’ve become a bit spoiled. I’ve gotten used to the stability of OS X applications, so when QuickTime, iTunes, Flash and a few others started to “unexpectedly quit” often, I was offended. I take care of my open source and development tools personally, but I expect Apple and Adobe to just make their stuff work.
4. Valentine’s Day. Irene and I have a hard time thinking up new gift ideas. She spent some time in the Mac Store trying to find something, but decided that a gift card would be most appropriate (she’s right, I have to go in anyway because my laptop’s burner is on the fritz). I spent forever trying to find decent, affordable Celtics tickets, but in the end, the chance to have the right to buy them was the best I could do.
5. Post-Patriots loss illness. Speaking of sports, I’m still trying to forget about the Super Bowl. I’m not saying the game made me physically sick. It’s just that I had an awful head cold that was in full effect by half-time. I didn’t get over it until Wednesday, which is also…
6. Cowboy Bebop night. As mentioned in a previous post, we’re hoping to do a panel on this particular show at the upcoming Anime Boston. Side-note: I just realized I love everything Shinichirō Watanabe has done.
7. Bleach, every night. On evenings when I’m not writing code or hanging out with Irene, I’m usually watching Bleach. Back in December, I got tired of waiting for Cartoon Network to start showing it again, so I’ve been marathoning episodes off bleachstream.com.
8. Team Fortress 2. Raf seems to get me into things that eat a lot of spare time. He introduced me to both Bleach and Team Fortress 2, which has all but replaced Unreal Tournament for me. As of yesterday, I had clocked over 20 hours as an Engineer (I like building turrets).
9. Music? I try to sit down with my instruments a little each week. So far this year, it’s been more of a nagging thought than a hobby, but I need to get back into it. Maybe it’ll become more regular when Mike gets back from Japan, since we tend to be more productive when jamming together.
10. Sleep? Is four hours a night healthy?