#384 - Dragging my Butt

Another early day in order to get to the studio.

I got a good night’s sleep, so it didn’t hurt so badly as it should have. Last night, I ordered an extra onigiri with our meal and I packed that into my bag for my lunch. The ride to the train was easy enough with only a little bit of construction to make it uncomfortable in the area where they are basically building a brand-new street and a bridge.

I got a great parking spot at the station, nice and close, and was at the train platform in a few strides. The train arrived in a few minutes. It was an all-stops train, but I wasn’t in any rush to get to the studio. My plan was to listen to the Dune audiobook and relax for the entirety of the ride. I needed a nice, relaxing start to my day. And that’s exactly what I did. The noise-cancelling earbuds did their thing, and I was contented to listen to the narrators.

I was one of the first people off the train, and I took my usual route along the Esplanade. The weather was very cool, and I wore a spring coat to stay warm. I stopped at the Berkeley Café for a sausage, egg and cheese croissant and then made my way to Starbucks to treat myself with a Chai Latte. It’s a bit expensive for a non-alcoholic beverage, but I felt like I deserved it.

I got straight to work doing an analysis of an upcoming show. We call the meeting a post board launch. It’s a chance to ask for more designs and to clarify things in the story board. We also get to figure out what department should handle certain tasks. It took me about two hours to go through everything. That included stopping to talk to people in the studio and answering some questions.

At noon I stopped and ate my onigiri with some colleagues and friends in the cafeteria/kitchen. We chatted for a little while, but we all went back to our desks early because we all had work to get done.

I switched tasks, setting up some meetings with the team that runs our tracking software for tomorrow to work out some bugs. I tried to set another meeting with our IT department to get more render farm machines and to talk about the upcoming need for more machines as our studio starts to take on more projects again. We can’t have multiple shows using one or two render computers. Things would come to a grinding halt.

When that was done, I did more approvals until the meeting started.

I asked for a lot of new assets in this episode, and I think our design team nearly fainted with all the requests I made of them. And of course, I wasn’t the only one asking them for things.

I felt the meeting went well and I was much more comfortable with what we needed to do going forward to get the show done.

I ended the day learning some of the tasks that our revisionist does. She has different pages setup for her in the tracking software, and she showed me her process so I could do it if needed as well.

I ended the day by completing a few revisions and stayed a bit later than usual. The walk back to the train was great. I listened to my Dune audiobook the whole time and continued to do so on the ride home as well. The train home was another all-stops machine, but again, I enjoyed the time listening to my audiobook. The time flies when you are perfectly entertained.

I got home and neither Robyn or wanted to cook so I ordered some Thai food from a place around the corner, and we both enjoyed our meal. There was enough left over for another two or three meals. I was ready to go upstairs and watch some TV. I’d been away for over 13 hours at that point, but Robyn wanted to get some groceries, so I went with her and we picked up a few things. We had some friends coming over then next day, so we needed some snacks anyways.

By the time we got home and put away the groceries I was more than ready to relax. We put on two episodes of Neagley, which is still just okay. Not sure why my writing teacher thinks it’s so well done. I get more of a kick seeing all the local places in Toronto on the screen.

We were both tired and more than ready for sleep after the second episode ended. However, I had twenty minutes left of the Dune audiobook as well as the next book in the series to start. So, I listened until about midnight before I lost interest. I’m not so sure the second book is going to be as good as the first because of the way it was written. But it’s too early to tell at this point.

But that’s all the energy I had left for the day. I grabbed a tart cherry pill and some magnesium glycinate to make sure I got a good night’s sleep.  I was sure I would be dreaming about Sand Worms, but I fell asleep really fast knowing I still had one day of work left before the weekend.

Night all.