Archive for October, 2008

03
Oct
08

Update

Ok so I know its been awhile since ive written anything. Its been very busy the last week or so.

We will start last Wed – The Director of the studio back in Orlando came out to visit us. He took us out to dinner and a nice place downtown called D’Agastinos. Really nice but typical expensive food, kinda left a lot to be desired. Afterwards it was over to the bar across the street to shoot some darts.

Thursday night it was a Rock Band Tournament at a bar downtown. We had about 50-60 people show up and overall we had a really good time. The bands were set up on a stage with lights and everything, it was pretty legit. After that it was down to another bar (notice a pattern?)

Friday i had to take Erob to the New Orleans airport so he could pick up his wife from Orlando and drive them out here. The drive to New Orleans is pretty easy, and you get to cross part of Lake Ponchartrain (12 mile bridge). Unfortunately the airport is right on the edge of New Orleans so i didn’t get to see very much of the city. Hopefully in the next couple weeks ill be able to get there and spend some time.

Since Friday is a half day we decided to go play some Golf. We got a couple reccomendations on where to play, and one was suggested as being “pricey.” We decide to look it up and see what the greens fees were…$36! Back in Orlando its tough to get on a crappy executive course for $36. This course was very nice, and i hate everyone that lives on this course because they have some of the nicest houses ive seen here.

Ok so here is where things get fun. Sat i picked up the director of the Orlando studio at his hotel and we came back to my place to watch the Gator game (yeah were not going to talk about that). That afternoon we left and headed to campus so that we can attend the LSU v Miss St game. Once we got to campus it was crazy with the number of people there. We had been invited to a private tailgate at a beverage distributor’s tent. Free Beer, Free Food…sweet. Also we were invited to the Chancellor’s private tailgate in one of the buildings on campus. Free Beer, Free Food…sweet. After a couple hours of tailgating we headed into the stadium, where we had tickets to the LSU Presidents’ private box. I didn’t know until we got there that there is only one private box in all of LSU’s stadium. As soon as we walked into the box the man who gave us the tickets came up and introduced himself. Shortly there after the President of LSU came up and introduced himself and talked with us for a few min. He spent quite a bit of time telling us that he isn’t very good at Madden and his son was begging him to go to the game so he could come talk to us. The seats were amazing, right on the 50 yard line, oh yeah Free Food, Free Beer…sweet.

Sunday i was actually able to rest :D

This week at work I’ve felt like i haven’t done anything but get packages and unpack new stuff. We have a huge bay full of new toys. 64 Monitors, 48 PCs, 70 Game Console Test Kits, Cubicles, power supplies, etc. Today was a truck full of supplies from our old studio that took nearly 2 hours to unload. I’m so excited that next week we get our first group of testers. First it will make things seem a bit more normal, second it will be useful to have some other people to move equipment around :)

Its late and i need to head to bed, hopefully ill keep up with this a little better.




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