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Dress rehearsal, Celeste, etc
Apr. 10th, 2022 02:12 pmThis week was more typical than last week. I felt a little overwhelmed on Monday, when it was confirmed that I'm definitely going to be deposed again, but I had time to work on the prep for that. I also worked a lot on a design document that hadn't been mine, but had gotten stuck, and I stepped into a coauthor role in order to shove it forward and carve off a piece for one of my SWEs. And then on Thurday evening I stepped the hell away. There's a bit of a jazzy swing to the 4-day workweek, in which it goes fast for four days and then slow for three on the rewind/recovery. I'm getting better at riding that wave.
On Friday we tried to calculate quarterly taxes for Q1 2022, faffing about with printed IRS forms because Turbotax isn't ready for 2022 taxes yet. Doing the quarter-by quarter method (instead of the "estimate the whole year and then divide by four" method) we don't actually owe any payment for Q1. The bug would, if filing alone, but my withholdings cover that amount and more. So again being married is strange, but that chore is done, regardless.
My hair is green now, because of Saturday's dress rehearsal for the student show. Makeup takes 35 minutes; I timed it. The run went fine (two small bobbles, neither one fatal to the act) but, with about 20 people there, it was wild and adrenalizing to hear them applauding so loudly at a few points. Augh. Two of these I was expecting, but the third is the loudest and it happens right when I'd like to be concentrating. Not sure what I was thinking -- it's a slow transition into something hard, so people can see it coming, so of course they holler and clap in encouragement. Well, now I know and won't be startled during the real thing.
In finishing-things-up news, the bug and I finished Myst V on Friday (I was pleased that what I wanted to do was indeed what the game designers considered the "good" ending), and Helios and I finished Story of the Eye. Oh; in amusing news we were also playing Celeste this morning, and in the midst of a debate about how a level could be possible his kid asked very sincerely "Are you guys having fun?" and we cracked up laughing. Because good question, child. That said, we got to a part where we learn that the ghostly deadly mystery matter clotting up this whole series of levels is in fact someone's anxiety given physical form, and wow. That was a moment. It's a truly fabulous metaphor, and I'm starting to see why people love the story and theme of this game.
On Friday we tried to calculate quarterly taxes for Q1 2022, faffing about with printed IRS forms because Turbotax isn't ready for 2022 taxes yet. Doing the quarter-by quarter method (instead of the "estimate the whole year and then divide by four" method) we don't actually owe any payment for Q1. The bug would, if filing alone, but my withholdings cover that amount and more. So again being married is strange, but that chore is done, regardless.
My hair is green now, because of Saturday's dress rehearsal for the student show. Makeup takes 35 minutes; I timed it. The run went fine (two small bobbles, neither one fatal to the act) but, with about 20 people there, it was wild and adrenalizing to hear them applauding so loudly at a few points. Augh. Two of these I was expecting, but the third is the loudest and it happens right when I'd like to be concentrating. Not sure what I was thinking -- it's a slow transition into something hard, so people can see it coming, so of course they holler and clap in encouragement. Well, now I know and won't be startled during the real thing.
In finishing-things-up news, the bug and I finished Myst V on Friday (I was pleased that what I wanted to do was indeed what the game designers considered the "good" ending), and Helios and I finished Story of the Eye. Oh; in amusing news we were also playing Celeste this morning, and in the midst of a debate about how a level could be possible his kid asked very sincerely "Are you guys having fun?" and we cracked up laughing. Because good question, child. That said, we got to a part where we learn that the ghostly deadly mystery matter clotting up this whole series of levels is in fact someone's anxiety given physical form, and wow. That was a moment. It's a truly fabulous metaphor, and I'm starting to see why people love the story and theme of this game.
