RL things I love
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Since I mentioned it here earlier... I can share a story from my sci-fi setting with those interested. Just message me.
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@auspice Is it okay if I use the setting to make a MU?
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The cover and release date for the book I'll be published in was posted.
Pre-orders on the 15th! And maybe I'm biased, but that is a damn fine cover.
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Beckett's Jyhad Diary backer copy dropped today. I will be over here reading for a while...
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I went to the NaNoWriMo kick-off here in Austin last night. It was a huge event. I was an ML for the city I lived in in SC for 6 years and I think we got like, 30? people at most for events. This was at least 100 people at its peak.
Other than the two people who pulled the 'I have you cornered now let me tell you, person I just met, intimate details about my life,' I had a great time. Ended up mostly talking with two ladies at my table (one from New Zealand; oh the accent) at length.
One of them was saying how she loves writing the slice of life moments in the course of her novel. We discussed how the day-to-day life of Tony Soprano is what made him lovable as a character, for example.
Her favorite, apparently, is how people do their laundry. To her, it says a lot about a person and a lot can happen in the course of doing laundry (the laundry room on BSU proves this >.>).
It got me thinking how fun a collection of short stories about people doing laundry could be to write.
The hungover college student in the dorm laundry room...
The new mother...
Military members after a battle...
The business woman trying to get coffee out of her blouse...It'd be silly and I doubt anyone would want to read it, but it'd be fun to write.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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I am officially down 5 pants sizes from when I started working this job a year and a half ago (and by officially, I mean I am not having to wiggle to zip the pants up). Between activity levels, far less stress, and healthier eating (both in terms of what I eat, and also how I eat it)...I've just steadily been getting better. Is pretty cool.
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@auspice said in RL things I love:
Her favorite, apparently, is how people do their laundry. To her, it says a lot about a person and a lot can happen in the course of doing laundry (the laundry room on BSU proves this >.>).
Can vouch for this. My first character on BSO met some of the most important people in her life hanging out in the laundry room.
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@sunny said in RL things I love:
I am officially down 5 pants sizes from when I started working this job a year and a half ago (and by officially, I mean I am not having to wiggle to zip the pants up). Between activity levels, far less stress, and healthier eating (both in terms of what I eat, and also how I eat it)...I've just steadily been getting better. Is pretty cool.
AWESOME!
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@sunny said in RL things I love:
I am officially down 5 pants sizes from when I started working this job a year and a half ago (and by officially, I mean I am not having to wiggle to zip the pants up). Between activity levels, far less stress, and healthier eating (both in terms of what I eat, and also how I eat it)...I've just steadily been getting better. Is pretty cool.
Teach me your magic plx.
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@gingerlily said in RL things I love:
@sunny said in RL things I love:
I am officially down 5 pants sizes from when I started working this job a year and a half ago (and by officially, I mean I am not having to wiggle to zip the pants up). Between activity levels, far less stress, and healthier eating (both in terms of what I eat, and also how I eat it)...I've just steadily been getting better. Is pretty cool.
Teach me your magic plx.
Cut back on soda and junk. Eat less more often, and especially breakfast. Get enough sleep. Reduce stress levels. I also went from a sedentary job to a fairly physically active one. Mostly I think it was the more sleep and the less stress, mostly.
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@sunny said in RL things I love:
@gingerlily said in RL things I love:
@sunny said in RL things I love:
I am officially down 5 pants sizes from when I started working this job a year and a half ago (and by officially, I mean I am not having to wiggle to zip the pants up). Between activity levels, far less stress, and healthier eating (both in terms of what I eat, and also how I eat it)...I've just steadily been getting better. Is pretty cool.
Teach me your magic plx.
Cut back on soda and junk. Eat less more often, and especially breakfast. Get enough sleep. Reduce stress levels. I also went from a sedentary job to a fairly physically active one. Mostly I think it was the more sleep and the less stress, mostly.
Wait eat breakfast especially or especially eat less at breakfast?
Reduce stress levels..hahah!
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@gingerlily said in RL things I love:
@sunny said in RL things I love:
@gingerlily said in RL things I love:
@sunny said in RL things I love:
I am officially down 5 pants sizes from when I started working this job a year and a half ago (and by officially, I mean I am not having to wiggle to zip the pants up). Between activity levels, far less stress, and healthier eating (both in terms of what I eat, and also how I eat it)...I've just steadily been getting better. Is pretty cool.
Teach me your magic plx.
Cut back on soda and junk. Eat less more often, and especially breakfast. Get enough sleep. Reduce stress levels. I also went from a sedentary job to a fairly physically active one. Mostly I think it was the more sleep and the less stress, mostly.
Wait eat breakfast especially or especially eat less at breakfast?
Reduce stress levels..hahah!
Eat breakfast especially. Do not miss that one. It will make the rest of your body work better.
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It really does help with metabolism if you eat something, even if it's something small, within the first 20 minutes or so of getting up. If you're not a 'breakfast person', even something like a handful of nuts or trail mix or something that you can snack on shortly after waking up makes a pretty big difference.
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So, I've been Tier 2 / Tech Lead on a small project for almost three years now. And about a year and a half ago, we got a new Tier 1. She has never been able to pick things up and she's adamantly refused to do simple parts of the job (like filling out the tag/detail fields on a ticket before escalating it to me). I've been, all this time later, answering the same questions for her.
She'll manage maybe 12 tickets in 4 hours. The others and myself can do 20+ in 2 hours.
I was constantly having to report her to the PM.
Today he let me know he let her go from the project. It's not even going to affect our workload because she did so little and fucked up so often.
I can't even feel bad for someone losing the hours. It's not a hard project for Tier 1. 95% of Tier 1 is just reading comprehension ('what is the user asking?') and responding with macros / defined processes, or filling out the data fields and escalating to me.
The only other time I've had an active hand in someone getting fired was the guy who kept skipping out on his Friday / Saturday shifts and once, after I had to fill in yet again on short notice, told me: 'Thanks! I just don't want to work when my friends are going out, you know?' Yeah, I sent that straight to management.
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So there's this lady at my workplace who wears a wig and is always dressing in long skirts and blouses past her elbows and I asked her if I could ask her a personal question and followed that up with "Are you Orthodox?" and she said yes and we spent ten minutes gossiping about local synagogues and how Hanukkah decorations in an office are always lacking and I'm just THERE IS ANOTHER TRIBE MEMBER IN THE OFFICE!
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Maybe we need an 'amusing RL shit' thread.
Got to the bus stop and a man offered me his seat on the bench. I took it because I'm still getting over being sick and felt unsteady on my feet. I quickly found out why he was willing to offer... when the other guy on the bench began regaling me with his bowel movements, various STDs he's experienced, and that he was kicked out of AA.
I got on my bus and hallelujah, he didn't budge. Sit down, breath a sigh of relief, look up...
...guy across from me is obviously wasted. He's got a grocery bag packed with wine coolers. He asks me: 'Is this the 320?' 'No, it's the 1.' 'I need the 320.' Another lady tells him he can get the 320 at the transit center. Guy proceeds to spill gatorade all over himself.
He did not get off at the transit center. He was still too busy trying to tie his sweater around his head like some kind of new wave turban.
Then, he proceeds to go around the bus offering everyone snacks from his mystery grocery bag. "No one?!" he proclaims, "but this is the dankest shit! It's better than northern lights and rainbow!" So he's high, too...
Moments later he's on the floor, dumping out his bag and digging through it. There's more wine coolers (some empty, some full), two bottles of champagne.
A little old lady asks what he's looking for. He describes a box then, mumbling before: "... or some bitch's ass-" he looks at the old lady, "...some lady's booty is gonna get beat."
He got off the bus after that, but please man: tell me your life that you are that wasted on a bus at 1pm on a Tuesday.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@auspice said in RL things I love:
Maybe we need an 'amusing RL shit' thread.
Well, if we're doing that... this is my public transportation story.
It was the summer between my first and second year in college as a computer science student, and I was on a train carrying a Visual C++ book I had just bought. It was one of those behemoth, thick as hell books so since I was bored during the ride anyway I was kinda flipping through it when I caught the old guy sitting across from my seat staring at me.
So I pretend I didn't notice but of course he continues to stare... and finally a couple of minutes later he just tells me this, which I haven't forgotten all these years later:
"Are you going to use what's in that book to help or to harm humanity?"
Dude.
- He who takes offense when not intended is a fool. He who takes offense when intended is a greater fool.
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Don't tell me you've been designing computer virii and worms all this time!
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When I was a kid, I often had to take bus trips to various doctors, where I would meet my parents after work. I sat next to this older guy. He asked about the book I was reading, told me he had had a Cherryh in his unit and how to say the name, then told me about being a prisoner of war in the Pacific. I knew a little about WW2 and the treatment of prisoners.
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I am very into Lularoe, a fact on which I somewhat blame @Auspice. The clothing is pretty, once you try on a particular style you can order as many of it as you like in different colors/patterns and will know for sure how it will fit. There's also no price difference for a size S versus a size 2XL, so you don't get that bullshit where plus size clothes cost more due to having more fabric.
I'm hosting an online sale Nov 21st, if any of the ladies here (or men. or non-binary people) want to check it out, send me a PM. To be clear, I am NOT a salesperson, I am NOT trying to lure anyone into a pyramid scheme, I just want to share the pretty. Buy, don't buy, ask questions, lol at my hilariously bad selfies, whatever you want.
"If you stand for nothing Burr, what will you fall for?"
-- Hamilton: An American Musical
