Sort Of Promotion

I actually meant to mention it sooner, but somehow kept on forgetting. My aunt was in town, arrived 2 weeks ago today but just left sometime this afternoon. It was good seeing her again after so long, and I was looking forward to a change of cooking with her being here. But as usual, her archaic values managed to stir a little resentment in me - pretty much everything I don't like about my dad (she's his sister) multiplied exponentially. But on the whole, I was glad she took the time to visit.

Last weekend was pretty much ruined by some douche on Youtube insisting on starting a flame war with me and we just went at each other's throats. I must say though, I'm proud of myself that I didn't turn it into name calling and character bashing ... sort of, lol. But I think we managed to smooth things over.

The key feature of the last few days though would have to be a mini promotion I've gotten at work - not really a promotion in the sense of pay, more like responsibilities. I am now considered compliance trained, meaning I test games for how well they comply with Wii guidelines set by Nintendo which Reggie (lead QA dude) stressed was "very important". If you ask me, if compliance testing as important as he says it is, why don't we have more people working on compliance scripts? There's 198 scripts to get through and only 2 people to do it all. Who knows if there are any more scripts that the shared services testers are doing for us? And not all of the scripts even apply to our game. So it's up to me and Donovan to sift through those scripts, determine which ones we can run, which are in valid, which to fail and which to pass. This, on top of regression, regular scripts and bug writing. They weren't lying when they said QA isn't a glamorous job.

Alex left an hour and a half early today to make it to Pemberton Fest, and Dave's gonna be following tonight. So tomorrow (they cancelled Forget-It-Fridays, dammit), it's just gonna be me, Don, and Adrian working on all the crap we have to get done. We didn't have enough people to begin with and since Alex is gone all next week and Dave will be gone on Monday, it'll be the three of us tomorrow and Monday. Logic would say our production would go down. But I'm determined to keep it the same at the very least. This is our moment to shine as far as I'm concerned, show that we are completely capable without supervision.