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[Frumple]

... ebook reader, maybe? Can't think of much physical books offer over those, barring the whole battery-life thing. Some of them even have that neat little setup where you basically turn the pages (run your finger across the screen) anyway.

I'unno. Nowadays most of what I miss when I'm reading physical text is a bloody zoom feature. I'm used to reading at around 180% zoom these days

Spoiler: something like this is nice (click to show/hide)

Get a physical book of length with text that size and you probably need a trained gorilla to carry it around for you.

A nice grey text on blue background or something (yellow on black, etc., so forth, so on. Darkling has a soothing color scheme.) is really much nicer than most physical texts, too... least seems to be easier on my eyes, anyway. Digital copies tend to be so much more... malleable... than physical ones. You're a lot more likely to be able to adjust things to taste, often with very little effort. S'nice.

... still a bit of a bibliophile, though. Lot more comfortable throwing books at people than I am the computer. Decent book can take the hit at a solid velocity and maybe tear the cover at most. Computer falls to pieces at that sort of impact.

[Vector]

Real books don't take time to render, though =P  Plus, you can often also remember the "depth" it's into the textbook, if not the page number or general topic.  Spatial reasoning, remember!


EDIT: Oh man I need to scrape my life off the floor PDQ.  Man.

[Pnx]

Just realised that my classes start next monday... Which is sort of a happy thing, except that I also just realised that means I have to work on getting up at 9 in the morning, versus my current schedule of only getting up once it's no longer morning.

[Frumple]

... yeah, scheduling woes. Two days of week, up at five-ish AM (out of house from ~7 until ~3, 4 PM). Two other days, largely need to sleep until like noon+ (gone from 3ish till after 6 one day, after 9 the other) -- or at least catch a midday siesta -- just so I'll be conscious for necessary late afternoon/night stuff. It has been... unpleasant. Only first week of it, too

Kinda' wish it was just up at five all the way through, really. I'm very, very much not a morning person, but... you get used to that. Very soothing, waking up with a few hours to kill in the early morning. Casual morning ablutions, leisurely breaking of fast, perhaps an hour's doze or a bit of reading or whatnot... it's all very relaxing. Sets a nice tone for the rest of the day. Sometimes the tone even stays that way!

[MadMalkavian]

I think it's kind of sad that the first thought that crosses my mine whenever I am near someone in the 18-35 demographic is one of suspicion, distrust and doubt, especially when that's my demographic. I'm working on dealing with it but at this time it's just not something I can get past.

It's going to be worse with college back in session because I have to walk through the university campus just to get to half of the places I need to be on a given date, and doubly so with how the university I live near is renowned as one of the top party schools of the 1980s, something that the students seem to want to repeat with every semester.

I'm going to need a lot more caffeine in the coming months.

[Truean]

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[Frumple]

... maybe "take initiative" translates into "poisoned cookies for the supervisor"?

[Pnx]

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How do they even stay in business if they're so crazily inefficient? I mean it seems like they're systemically trying to get you to do as little as possible.

[LordSlowpoke]

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How do they even stay in business if they're so crazily inefficient? I mean it seems like they're systemically trying to get you to do as little as possible.

new boss probably has a vested interest in crashing the company, so that's what is happening.

[Vattic]

Truean: It sounds like you have the worst luck when it comes to employers. I'm still not sure how some of the bosses I've had even got their jobs.

[MadMalkavian]

I think I have influenza. I'm fatigued, nauseous and experiencing several other unpleasant symptoms as well. It's alright seeing as I get something like this maybe once or twice a year. Might as well get it over and done with.

[Putnam]

Mild sad: my 68 hour Oblivion playthrough appears to be succumbing to save rot. It's crashing really often now. Well, it got a good 60 hours past what it did back when I used quicksaves and autosaves.

[Pnx]

My best friend just got in touch with me, saying she wasn't going to DnD any more. Apparently two of the other players in the group complained and said that they didn't want her in the group any more.

She says it's something to do with some arguments regarding one of the player's misogynistic behaviour, I didn't see the few times we've met, but apparently he's in the habit of regularly making very misogynistic remarks, and she's taken offence to this and has gotten into a few arguments with him about it. The other player that complained is basically his heterosexual life partner (they live on the same street and have known each other for ages).

I'm pretty frigging pissed about this, and debating if I still want to go to this group.

[Lagslayer]

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Welp, my new boss may very well be very crazy, and I may have to quit, because of that. Nobody else has been at the place more than a couple months and I'm starting to see why. Also, everybody (but one person) quits that job, spectacularly. They don't even resign; they just walk out the door, never to return: attorneys, secretaries, everybody. The only person who has stayed is the boss' right-hand.... She's next to impossible to work for. If I'm gonna stay, it's workplace abuse like even I haven't been subjected to before and that's saying something.

Boss is actively sabotaging my productivity, because I literally can't do ANYTHING without express review or approval that NEVER comes. I can't send a 2 sentence letter without it being subject to multiple reviews and drafts.... I take example motions that the righthand man has used, filed in court, and won on, and use that as a template; Boss, goes, nuts says it is completely illogical and has no logical layout. Keep in mind, a judge granted this and it won after the other person in the firm filed it.... "See the examples and templates," I am told. Either what I'm using was the template or there is no template (I ask around for one, and nobody knows what to tell me). No wonder I haven't got anything done and there's a stack of things awaiting approval.... I can now see why everybody quits. I basically shut down my small little firm to work here. Shit.

"You need to get on the ball and take initiative...."  Holy shit, what? No, that's not what's going on. I haven't been there long, but I've been pulling 12 hour (from clock in to clock out) shifts for this person. I worked a 10 hour shift on my birthday for this person. Additionally, I had my own firm, and if I didn't do something, there was literally nobody else to do it and it didn't get done. Boss is not supervising/approving my work to send out/micromanaging the crap out of everything. It doesn't make sens that I'd go from being completely independent to lazy as heck. Something doesn't add up and it isn't me.

I don't suppose talking to her about it would do any good at this point?

[LordSlowpoke]

So I figured I might as well look into a thing that eluded me, namely shipping. I'm horrible at pairing people together to the point of my mind going blank when trying to think of why one would or wouldn't work, so it might have been a good experience if I didn't learn everyone is shipped with everything, the least canon/logical reason the better, and I'm not going to the docks today or ever. Guess it's back to anime for me where the tropes are defined and it's not like I like it or anything, baka.

Fucking forum kraken tried to eat my post, too.