Corporate Development Memo (1/15/2023)

Hi all,

I first want to thank Anais for posting last week, I did in fact arrive back home on Thursday and my family made me take every single possible test they could think of to make sure what happened to me, etc.  I am very lucky I was caught while fainting.

I am reluctant to share many specifics, but basically I have a little thing that causes a particular deficiency and I already have naturally very low blood (usually a good thing of course, but it can cause minor issues) pressure, and I am right now under specific directions for sleep, food, exercise, and a few other things right now to help me get back balanced, etc.  It is not a terminal/life threatening thing at all, but it is something I have to monitor much better as I go really, really, hard when I am working and tend to forget to eat/sleep as well as I should...as a result, I need to ramp back up, but I can't maybe go nuts each and every day as I want, etc.

I am still going to cancel billing for February, nothing changes with regard to how I feel about that issue.  However, to say I lost a good week of work is a very fair statement.  But I'm going to keep going hard, but within reason.  I even snuck in some renders this week after I got home, and the game is now up to 2,791 renders.

I have hired another personal assistant as a full-time 40 hour/week temp that will be all over my non-critical tasks until I recover 100%.  She is a friend of a friend and basically a college student, so her energy and assistance will help me for now.

I think in one respect I was just very stressed that I thought I was losing not only a great employee, but a true friend in Anais.  I don't want to really get more into that other than to say that some things I learned from her perspective were teachable moments for me too.

I am feeling much better now, but I am still quite exhausted frequently and I've been told it will take a bit longer to kind of feel completely normal.  Coming from the perspective of always being super active and even playing multiple sports (golf/tennis/volleyball) quite a bit...I just have to realize I can't go all out all the time.  I'm even a bit sad because I was going to be helping out at a PGA (golf) event and couldn't get to be there, etc.  

Thank you to everyone that sent me well wishes, etc.

I did play a lot of the game while resting, so have a large list of edits/tweaks as I keep moving along.  The dom path I am working on some training scenes and then closing it out, the sub path is actually a bit farther along now.

Last, I am making arrangements for more permanent help for both the game and outside of it.  I realize now with a little rest time...how much I was actually doing day to day/hour to hour with everything.  But now, my parents do too, so they reacted quite strongly, etc.   

I will try and ramp up again a bit this week, but please bear with me as I am going to have to monitor myself a bit more and make sure I rest each day a bit better, etc.

Thank you all, and I will do all I can to get the game out as soon as I can!