{"id":58,"date":"2005-07-15T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-16T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/?p=58"},"modified":"2005-07-15T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-16T02:52:00","slug":"first-week-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"First week. *crunch*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished my first week back at Ensemble, and I have to say it feels pretty good. This is a company where the employees are treated as assets and not office supplies. Actually in many ways the employees treated almost like family, though a slightly dysfunctional one.<\/p>\n<p>My time this week has been spent solely on the Single Player Campaign; I have already played most of the scenarios twice on the happy path and am not starting to play them in the non-expected ways. I have come on to the project at the end of the dev cycle and of course this was a week of twelve hour days leading up to a milestone. It has been a bit tough not seeing my wife in the evenings, but the fact that even after a few days I am feeling vested in the project makes the late nights worth it.<\/p>\n<p>One the gaming front, I download a free 10 day trail of Dark Age of Camelot. I figured its been a few years since I played it, and I might as well see what they have done to it. So this weekend I am going to give it a spin.<\/p>\n<p>*Glances at the clock* it is time to get myself on the way home or at least I think it is. *sigh*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished my first week back at Ensemble, and I have to say it feels pretty good. This is a company where the employees are treated as assets and not office supplies. Actually in many ways the employees treated almost like family, though a slightly dysfunctional one. My time this week has been spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}