I have become Pestilence - Destroyer of Obstacles in Yards. I have become Derek - Master-er of the Great Color Pie of Life. I have become Glorb - Ruler of the *Unintelligible Alien Speak* Race.
Life is funny when it happens to other people. This month, my neighbor taught me that lesson by having their very full recycling container blow away in medium winds, and then their car alarm blare at 4 AM because a tree branch called it a racist name. Life's a hoot when there's glass between you and the goofs.
Especially after last month wherein I was very much stuck in goof soup. It was very nice to open the metaphorical window and cycle some air. Apparently, I gave the goof to the neighbors too, which is what we call in the biz a goof-two-fer. Now that my belly hurts from laughing at neighbors, it was another month of chugging along at that fabled seventh gear only redheads know about. I caught up to myself, surpassed myself, and slapped my own ass as I lapped myself. Insert reference to that one Captain America scene here. No, not that one. Yes, that one!
Grandma's Coloring Book hit someone of a crossroads this month where I had to full steam ahead no matter what, but I did have the decision of whether or not to put it into this next Steam Next Fest. As I've come to the edge, I'm leaning more and more towards waiting for the one later this year for two reasons: 1. It ain't there yet, and 2. Getting it there will be a bit of a squeeze in the next few weeks. I don't want the demo to come off as a rush-job, and I don't want it to fall into the same ocean as the million other demos that'll hit around that time.
I've struggled a little to help that game find its voice in this early iteration. The long-term vision is still intact, and the game mechanics present will be a nice little taste of things to come, but compressing some of those snippets into a 20 minute demo is leaving my head-scratching hand a little tired. I think I found it within the last few days, but there's a level of polish that'll be needed that makes me meh on my current self-imposed demo-line. Plus, well, I've been having great ideas for Project Cube, so....maybe I make my life that much harder by working on that one again? Maybe? No objections? Groovy. 
I (mostly) jest. I don't need another big mofo on my back...EVEN IF PANORAMIC DIRECTING HAS FINALLY CONCLUDED!!!!!^!%!$!$!!!!! What a thrill! All that remains is editing and releasing, which allows me to move onto my next project with all the pep of a nerd skipping to school to avoid their broken home. Timelines still need to be calculated, but all winds blowing in the same direction, we're looking at an early Summer premiere to coincide with Panoramic's official end.
So, yeah - while one show drifts off to the Gray Havens, the other rises like a Stephen Colbert sequel script in the East. That leaves that window for more projects pretty firmly closed, but in a way most...groovy indeed. 
The window that's truly opening for more opportunities is on the writing side. My "write a fiver's worth every day" mission has been hilariously successful and violently effective. I've demolished all resistance. The outlying villages and supply lines lie in ruins. My enemy...decimated. Now, I have plenty of other things to write/edit/re-write/put away/re-edit/be "done" with, so that train won't be completely retired, but with my push, I have four scripts that I'm very confident presenting my glowing brilliance through. Das ist gud, ya?
Nein! Well, sort of - having a library to choose from when the books in said library only need a tweak here or there is an entire universe different than building books from scratch every week. So variety of confidence equals good, but we're not done here yet and I hate not being done so put that cake down and get back to work! April may very well be a nasty transition period where I have to test the very limits of my multi-tasking capabilities. That's more of a warning for me than anything else. You, keep doing your thing. Me, keep finding more things to do. Savvy? No, no - groovy? 
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