Publish 2000 (Comments from tOAD)

Comments from tOAD 	Apr 27 2000 2:55PM  

So I’m quietly minding my own business when someone from the Community Relations department walks in and says, "You have to do comments from the Dev team this week." The words scramble in the air around my office, and by the time they finally hit my ears and transmogrify themselves into understandable sounds they say, "Let’s go to lunch." I like this. Lunch is nice. My office has a nice surrounding nebula of airwaves that transform things that sound like work into things that I want to do. For example, when Runesabre comes into my office and say,s "Sorry, you’re going to have to do a million things deep in the code today." I hear, "Dude, you get to play with the code." It’s a cool office.

Unfortunately, I’m losing it. My office that is. Well, I’m probably losing it in general, but today I’m losing my office. Or tomorrow. Or early next week. The point is, I have to pack up all my books, pens, pencils, little scraps of paper marked ‘important - don’t throw away’ but with no other information on them, two computers, my stereo, and my basketball, and carry it to a new office. This scares me. What if my new office doesn’t have this cool surrounding nebula of airwaves? What if work actually starts to sound like work? This could be bad.

But at the same time it’s like UO (as so many things in my life are). See, UO is changing, and I think for the better. Renaissance is going to make the game, at least in my mind, very different. I’m excited by this prospect in exactly the opposite way that I’m excited about a new office. I think about the new office and I’m worried. I think about the new Britannia and I’m thrilled. The way players play the game is going to change. And don’t get the impression that I’m looking at this through a rose colored monitor, I know there are going to be some problems. In fact, that’s one of the exciting things about it. When someone comes into this office and says "We’ve got some things to fix." I hear, "Grab a coke and some cookies, we’re in for a wild ride!"

So, with some trepidation I’m starting to put things in boxes, label them so I remember which shelf to scatter them about randomly on, and say goodbye to my old home. But things are actually looking up. You see this morning I had to go check the network connections in my new office and I saw Jalek moving into the office across the hall from me. Someone said, "Hey, you guys can throw the football back and forth across the hallway!" And I heard, "Everything’s gonna be all right."