RandomPeon's Journal: What do you mean 7PM Korean time?

We're coming up on 20 hours more or less straight working this Korean thing. Went home at 10:30 PM, checked email at 1 AM, saw email from Korean project manager and Chinese engineer, called Korean PM, told him it was not a problem for me to return to the office and work during their downtime period, which will end at 8 AM local time here. I get to sleep then!!!

On the plus side, I'm making a lot of money. Overtime pay is nice. Very nice. It's also kind of fun to be at the center of the crisis, and the person who seems to be doing the most work to move this thing foward. Don't have to worry about anything else for a while and I will apparently get a free day or two off once we get this thing stable enough to de-escalate it a bit.

On the not so good side, it is getting harder and harder to deal with language barrier issues. It's not that I can't deal with them, it just progressively more annoying to have to repeat even the simplest things about 3 times. I'm also probably about to crash, and it gets real lonely here at 2:30 AM. Cultural issues are hard too, I'm not sure I'm not pissing the people in Asia off, but I'm not sure what I can do better.