We Breathe Gun Powder

It's rather uncomfortable here. The splintered wooden table has little ornamentation left on it's antique frame. My sweaty back is pressed against it and the radiating heat of the recently utilized M16 is pleasantly warming my face and palms. I still have twenty rounds left in my clip, but after that it's slicing time - and you know how much I like slicing.

And here's the soft rattle of someone's Ak47 breathing death down it's barrel. My map lights up with a cute little red dot and I'm on my way, anticipating the encounter with the aforementioned tango, slowly caressing the expanded clip.

HT-Mielas bursts out of a weathered shack, the nozzle of his rifle still glowing red, face painted by the sickly yellowish sunset of a far eastern continent. My nemesis' heart skips a few beats as the realization of imminent lead poisoning creeps into his head.

Today is yet another day of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. There are no computers in this office; there are, however, AK47's, M16's, ballistics, kill to death ratios, air-strikes and UAV's. The crew is completely engrossed in digital annihilation with lunch discussions ranging from effectiveness of stun grenades to the annoyance of helicopter support I dispatch.

Next week the Air Cycle crew is deploying to our bunker for a company to company battle royale... Like puppies into a coal furnace.

• We launched our new site. We wanted to home in more on our core strengths: system building, e-commerce, and custom web solutions.
• ConceptFeedback has grown to a thousand registered users with feature additions every week.
• Launched a new AscenderFonts website with improved usability and a friendlier cart process.
• Marius hooked us up with wireless speakers for the office so now "Barbie Girl" can be listened to while traversing from bathroom to kitchen to working space.
• Majority of the crew here is fascinated by "Getting Things Done" and are not doing much else but figuring out how to get more things done.
• Tomas went to a four day hockey camp where he proceeded not to get all of his teeth knocked out. His hockey knowledge now rivals that of most Canadian citizens.
• We have a team outing scheduled for some paintballing. I fear I will be punished for my efficiency in Call of Duty.
• Weekly code review sessions with Tomas have started. People finally have time to catch up on their sleep.

That's it for now, folks.