Visions of Max Payne are pirouetting through my head. Max is the hero of a wonderful new videogame I bought on Sunday (and promptly lost the rest of the weekend to). Other than taking a couple of hours off to play Dave some more tennis, I stayed indoors and sent Max after the bad guys with John Woo-like deadly grace. Fabulous game, wonderful graphics, will no doubt become the inspiration for a few more schoolyard shootings by troubled teens…<\/p>\n
The project has been getting more and more busy. I’m already worried about my camping trip, scheduled for the last week of August. It’s in the plan, it’s extensively documented, but my team is understaffed, and so… I’m grimly hanging on to my belief that I’ll get to go, but gearing up for a major guilt trip from Hermes, the overall tech lead for the project.<\/p>\n
Current plans for the FlexLeave (my favorite topic):
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– home for October and November
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– December in England, back for New Years in Toronto
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– January skiing (maybe some of February, too)
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– March, April trek around the Meditterranean
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– May, June in Toronto (lovely spring!)
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– July choir trip to St. Petersburg
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Back to work in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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