On a non-busy week, I will work 6 days each week. About 8 hours at the office when I get in near noon and then another 2 to 8 hours at home depending on how busy I am.
This week is busy mainly because I'm involved in more projects than I would expect. We need more managers, more developers, more graphics designers, more business development people, more IT people. We just need more people in short. But interviewing takes time I don't have either. And when it comes to hiring management level people, it's hard to find people who are realy sharp on the tech market, can do things on a shoe string budget, and have a good business background. So our management team is all working pretty serious hours right now.
Here is a typical day this week as an example (yesterdayish).
| Time |
Activity |
| 9:00a |
Wake up, shower, get dressed |
| 9:30a |
Skim express email account for emergencies, check main websites |
| 10:00a |
Eat breakfast, play with remaining home kid |
| 10:30a |
Ride bike around neighborhood |
| 11:00am |
Go to work |
| 11:30am |
Do office rounds (go around and see how everyone is doing) |
| 12:00p |
Lunch |
| 12:30p |
Go through express email, answer easy emails. |
| 1:00p |
Meet with large company about bundling one of our products |
| 1:30p |
Check over forums on PoliticalMachine.com, try to help customers with tech support issues. |
| 2:00p |
Radio interview regarding The Political Machine |
| 2:30p |
Meeting with bank regarding purchasing new building |
| 3:15p |
Meet with builders of new building |
| 4:00p |
Check AI code in The Political Machine to see if AI is causing endorsement crash report. |
| 4:45p |
Meet with IT team regarding WinCustomize v4 |
| 5:15p |
Update Stardock websites for IconX, write news articles |
| 5:45p |
Check contract status on Natural Desktop |
| 6:00p |
Conference call with big company about licensing product (3pm pacific time) |
| 6:30p |
Test Right-Click internal beta |
| 7:00p |
Read through bwardell@stardock.com email (typically around 300 non-spam email per day) |
| 8:00p |
Work with Mason on GalCiv 2 intro music |
| 8:30p |
Check GalCiv 2 cut scene daily progress, make suggestions |
| 9:00p |
Go home |
| 9:30p |
Eat snack, watch Tivo'd stuff, play with kids, tuck them in. |
| 11:00p |
Remote desktop in and make sure all of the day's express email that don't require long answers are dealt with |
| 11:30p |
Try out new build of Blog Navigator, go on JoeUser.com, make posts, respond to articles, etc. |
| 12:00a |
Visit forum on Neowin, make posts/respones, etc. |
| 12:30a |
Check out other non-Stardock websites |
| 1:00a |
Do SDTV Video on DesktopX |
| 1:30a |
Try to get people to know how cool DesktopX is on various sites. |
| 2:00a |
Go through WinCustomize, monitor ratings on WindowBlinds skins, moderate some skins, etc., make posts, news items |
| 2:30a |
Try out some new DesktopX widgets, report bugs found. |
| 3:00a |
Be glad that GalCiv AI coding hasn't started since this is an easy day. |
| 3:30a |
Read book before bed (reading Kingdom Come - super hero book) |
| 4:00a |
Sleep (sometimes this is as early as 1am depending on the day) |