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Turned in the TV edit of the Gameshelf yesterday. At just over 27 minutes, it's a little more than half as long as the original version. Some parts were harder to cut out than others. Removing my lengthy analysis of Star Control 2's cruelties was painful, but it bought me several minutes, and I kept the pointer to the player's guide I wrote which goes over the same points.

Also made a promo that I should hand over tomorrow when I show up to help crew I will share that as a curiosity the next time I'm at home. Also the promo I threw together yesterday evening, which I oughtta give SCAT tomorrow.

Even when I'm fully efficient with it this show eats several days out of each month, which I should feel antsy about given that I'm allegedly in insane-startup mode. But it makes me so happy, on so many levels. It tickles my ego, it's a great creative outlet, I can involve my friends, I get my money's worth out of this G5 I bought for no good reason last year, and I continue to thrill at gaining levels in a class that's still new to me. I mean, TV production, what the hell. Even a year ago today I could not have predicted that I'd be doing this.

Also the fact that I'm actually doing it. Two full shows in the can and more to come. How different this is than my usual pattern of starting something initially exciting and then wandering away when I hit the hard part, or seeing it through to completion, but absolutely hating it by the end.

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It occurred to me yesterday that I can publish my "the gameshelf"-tagged posts to the show's homepage, and *poof* give the show a blog, with comments. I know LJ has an API for exporting journal content... I'll siddown and figure it out sometime soon.

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Mailed out the first wave of seed-funding begz0r letters last weekend, and quickly found some interest, which is good. It took me several weeks to become totally convinced that the step was necessary, which overlapped with the weeks I spent rewriting the letter.

At our business meeting last night jtroutman cautioned us to create a budget for the next few months before actually accepting a dollar, so that we don't take too little or too much -- either is bad, for different reasons. This led into a conversation about relocating the other two guys to Boston and finding a common work space for the three of us, since we're supposed to be an insane startup right now, and instead we're still treating it more like a normal full-time job that we all telecommute into or something. JLT is all about taking care of this now, and we are presently mulling over our options. The whole gang will likely converge around my house this Saturday to mass-ponder in person.

I've called my parents in the interim, and my mom suggested an interesting idea: make a work area by gutting my living and dining rooms, declaring them to be office space, and furnishing them appropriately. Not only would this save us on office rent (and the hassle of finding a short-or-no-lease space), but it would make a nice little personal tax break for me. (Giving me more money to pour relentlessly into this foolish venture, to be sure.) It still leaves the other two to find personal space elsewhere, but it's not hard to find subletting like that, I don't think...