Time And Chance

I’m an uncle!

I was invited to Royal Holiday’s year-end dinner party the other day, and now we’ve had our own party. Here are a few random pics from both.

Royal Holiday reserved the Obsidiana ballroom at the Royal Pedregal Hotel (coincidence or design?) to host their annual Christmas party. It was nice of them to send an invite –though I did spend 8.5 months of the year with at their offices, so it’s all appreciated. Traffic was murderous, but expected: with everyone (Sinergia included) cramming their own parties in the weeks prior to Christmas, the city has been a huge gridlock through mid-December and onwards. That didn’t deter the RH partygoers, however, and one of the remote Developments manager actually drove the three hours from Queretaro to make it there.

Food was interesting though a bit artistic: huge plates with a smattering of meat and generous sauce. After dinner, the company president (I think?) came up to host the traditional raffle. This being Royal Holiday, they didn’t hold back with the prizes! They worked their way up from iPods and DVD players to HDTV screens and a few round-trips to RH sites –a cruise included– and even a surprise car. Sadly, none of the prizes went to the poor, neglected IT department, but with about ten thousand people in the Call Center and Sales, simple law of probability was against us.

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To give this blog its proper initiation, here’s our feature presentation:

Song of the Phoenix, Prologue and Chapters 1 & 2

A new update, God willing, coming up next week. Also, more His & Her Katamari in the near future.

Well, look who’s gone and gotten himself a website.

There’s not much to see here or on my website yet, which is something I’ll work towards correcting in the upcoming weeks. But I’m getting ahead of myself, so first things first.

My name is Jorge A. Pratt, and I am (at the moment, at least) 27 year-old engineer from Mexico City. Don’t let the exotic name and rugged good looks deceive you –I’m as much of a good ol’ fashioned geek as the best of ‘em. How much? I like videogames, for one, and Japanese animation and comics. I also enjoy reading. A lot. From standard fare like Terry Pratchett and Michael Crichton, to more offbeat authors like Mark Z. Danielewski and Glenn Kleier. I also have a lot of love for writing. I’m only dabbling with fanfiction right now, but I hope to graduate to original material in due time.

There’s plenty more to say, but I have to save some material for future posts. This is my first blog, after all, so I plan to make it count. In the meantime, stick around!