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I went over to my friend’s house to play Rock Band last Saturday, and had the following interaction with his two-and-a-half year old daughter Zoë:

Zoë, pointing up at my head: Russ! Where hair?

Russ: Uhh, I don’t know, Zoë. I guess it’s all gone.

Zoë: Bald?

Russ, struggling to be heard over the laughter of those nearby: Yep, pretty much bald.

Turns out she had been playing The Sims with her dad, and had learned that babies (who have no hair) are called bald, and made the necessary association. We clarified through experimentation that she did in fact understand that her dad was not bald, and that I was bald. She then got quite a case of the giggles out of touching my primary bald spot when I bent my head down.

I know it doesn’t seem like it, but she’s adorable, really.

Couple of quick updates from the past few weeks:

• We (sorta) finished the last project I was working on. We’re currently waiting on translations, but in the meantime all work on our side has stopped aside from bug-fixing. Since no scripting bugs have been found, that means I’ve been able to take a bit of time off to rest and recoup from the final crunch. I haven’t gone to work at all this past week except for a bit on Thursday and Friday, and that was more for fun than for work. I’m hopeful that the translations will come in soon, we’ll get them implemented, and we’ll get this thing outta here.
• I had a thing going on with a girl for a time, but I don’t anymore. It’s fine… these things happen, y’know?
• I was asked on Thursday to help out with a project that’s just getting off the ground while I’m waiting for my team to be assigned our new project. The cool thing about it is that it’s a big Top Secret deal. Apparently studio-level NDAs don’t apply to this project, so I’m not even allowed to talk about it with most of my coworkers; one of those “I can tell you, but then I’d have to kill you” sorta things. It’s not a project that I’d really like to be on for the duration, but I’m excited to be working on it for this short time.
• For that matter, I’m excited just to have something to work on again. As much as I loved taking time off, I was really getting bored. I know it sounds strange to have a paid week off and WANT to go back to work instead, but that’s how it goes. I love my job, but it’ll also be nice to be working regular hours again (or at least as regular as my hours get ).