CatHat: Lets see i roll outta bed at 6 - commute get my butt into the office by 7:30 - turn on the lights, expresso machine and coffee machine. Yeah i'm an early kinda guy - get a triple mocha going - and while i work on my caffine buzz i flip through emails, bug reports and any late PMs and or stickynotes and smokesignals from the night before.

Its about this time Grimm cranks some UO radio when they play a few requested songs for us - we trade war stories or sorts while we kick out the illogic of one problem or two we're currently facing. Usually cresting in some rant about something exceptionally cool or nasty. Work on our late bugs or new things that are primo projects we dont' wanna put down.

Since we're as about as exciting as research scientists to watch in action - we work on art stuff - test hideous things soon to be super good looking things - arts always ugly right up until its gone - thus that whole 'artist don't wanna show his work till its done syndrome' everyone steroptyes.

Then there's some kinda meeting of one sort or another where we pile of to some clasutrophobic meeting room and systematically wear the chairs down as we lean back, get all worked up about what we've gotta do and try not to OD on the white board fumes.

Then back for more 3d/2d applicatison and Game editors, managment software and the like. This is usually followed by lunch, though some kinda sports activity usually rages during lunch - a few of the real gluttons for pain will go for some evil dodgeball - well until someone bans it for the contusions and broken bones it delivers onto the populus here.

Then its back to hitting things hard and doing drive by questions and random 'how the hell is this supposed to work?" drop in on folks. Some flipping through random weird emails sent by other team members.. More 'oh crappp! this broke fix it now' and "dude look at how cool this is" moments.

Usually at this time in the afternoon people I meet are trying to tell if thats a Guiness or a coke in my glass and if its real black velvet i'm wearing. I've usually got the headphones on with an audiobook on - gotta keep up my intake of good books while i work at my tasks.

Bounce around occasionally for a 5 minute break to see what everyone else is up to - strech the legs, crack the back - scowl at the afternoon sun - and then get back to work.. The air is filled with shouts of glee - whining and phrases starting usually with 'dude can you belive this'. Nothing too atypical of a dev environment.

On a rare day a nerf missle will sail over head - though that technology has been suprassed by the invisible 'shockwave' air cannons readily avialible. Things get tacked to walls and off color bits of humor spead throughout the office sometimes. Posters with fake game titles and things appear bout this time occasionally.

I switch to tea for the late afternoon as the acid of stress and coke go together like fire and gasoline - whee - but use the time to talk shop at the kitchen - find out how someones code is progressing or something. Circle glass office meeting rooms to find so and so. Eye the candy machine with interest - check pockets for stray quarters.

Back to building and testing things in game on my desktop - adding notes that little my desk with their haphazzard apprearance. Concept art gets tacked up on the wall or goes onto a dictionary thick stack or previous drawings.

last minute flurry as the evening moves on - getting input and feedback for my final stuff if i can. Pushing things up to servers or whatever with all the approproate notes and history attached.

then its off to the commute again thinking about the job mostly as i drive - get home spend a few hours with the Mrs, the new baby - my cat and dog - cook dinner - spend some more family time -no time for tv during the week, yay tivo - then some online game time for me, a necessity - peer around in my online disguise to see if i spot any of the other DEV folk about - kill me some monsters - explore new places in the world - then hit the Stratics message boards answer emails and PMs - and about mindnight hit the hay - getting ready to start it all over again.

Sorry there's no Helicopters landing in the middle of the quad or cheerleaders, or sumo body suit matches, just went mostly with the USUAL day stuff there. We try to have a decent set of hours and a life - well for a Dev person it is. Have to keep the social and club stuff - tv or whatever confined to the weekends personally. But anywho thats about it in a nut shell. Well, for one artist on our team anyway.