It's a little late to Blog (for me at least; on weekdays I'm usually in bed by a very wimpy twelve thirty, one at the latest), but it's been one of those Busy Days you hear so much about.

Mondays are like that - with the busy - and yet I rarely get anything done on Mondays. There are usually meetings, followed by some more meetings, followed by (surprise!) a couple of meetings. If I was President of the World (and you should never, ever discount the possibility that I may one day become...President of the World), I would rename Monday to Meetingday. Because of all the meetings, you see. That tend to take place. On Mondays.

*cough*

Meetings do serve an important function, though, and without meetings there wouldn't be any games. It's not like the old days where two guys could sit in a bedroom and put together a best-selling title. Modern game production is an unholy mix of the creative and the administrative; schedules are drawn up, budgets are projected, tasks are listed, designs are requested...it all adds up to tons of paperwork and project plans that eventually, eventually, go into production. At which point there's lots more paperwork, tracking, follow-up meetings...and so on. But, luckily, a lot of people get to sit in peace and do what they do best - draw, program, model, write, play - while the rest of us go to, yes, meetings.

I actually do get to be creative most of the time, so I'm not complaining. Much. Except on Mondays.  ¶ 00:40