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I want more Addams Family in my life.

I've been waiting for a Hallie for a while. Antonie's got a list of tattoos she needs and Hallie does 'em all mafia-style. >.> So Yay!

I've had some sort of stomach bug flu thing since Saturday (either that or some RL shit I'm dealing with has made me feel like I do) and yesterday I got into work and my boss asked me to proofread an email he had to send out.

An email announcing that they were cutting hours by 30%, project-wide.

"But I'm hoping not to cut yours at all!" He assured me.

My team, however, with their families and such, aren't in similar boats. And the "you can find spots on other projects!" isn't really a consolation when it'd be a $2-3/hour cut. So I spoke to the HR guy. He was already going to be talking to upper management about ensuring local / in office people can work those other projects and get the pay bump (to at least $12/hour). I tried to press how much it's needed.

I mean, the downside is there's less flexibility (work from home is work any time. Work from office is work when the office is open and it closes at 8p CST mostly because they couldn't talk me into being there later), but I'm doing what I can.

Why are they cutting hours? Oh because they pushed everyone to work harder and solve more tickets per hour. We did. So there's fewer tickets in queue and the client decided they don't need as many people working. So basically, we're being punished for doing a good job. I expressed worry this would happen. Repeatedly. For the past couple weeks. I was told there was no way it would.

I wish I could quit and not end up homeless. It's a bad sign when your job reaches "makes you physically ill with stress"

@thenomain said in How much Code is too much Code?:

@auspice said in How much Code is too much Code?:

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TOO MUCH BOOB.

Said no woman with chronic back pain ever.

(Look I am one of them, but at the same time... I love boobs. It's a hard life OKAY.)

@Tinuviel said in Tinuviel's Playlist:

Involved in MVA. Will be inactive for time being.

Unacceptable.

(Get better soon!)

@three-eyed-crow said in Pineapple on Pizza:

A good white pizza with spinach and garlic is fucking amazing and a frequent go-to of mine on the couple meatless days I do a week (these are never particularly healthy days, and so I enjoy them all the more).

I am all about white pizza with spinach and garlic.
Add chicken and I am totally sold (but am perfectly happy without!).

@ashen-shugar said in How much Code is too much Code?:

@auspice said in How much Code is too much Code?:

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TOO MUCH BOOB.

This is where 'sigh... unzips' is used, right? I'm new to this.

@rucket said in Pineapple on Pizza:

@auspice Papa Johns had promotions for whenever the Redskins won a game, so one Monday when I was hungry af, I decided to put in an order. Ended up the promotion was 8 toppings but alas, Papa Johns only allowed a max of two of each topping. So I had 2x bacon, 2x pepperoni, 2x ham, 2x sausage. It was a real dumb pizza lol.

Sometimes you just need a meatitarian pizza.

@lithium said in How much Code is too much Code?:

When your code forces actions upon my ooc comments, it's to much. Code making me exclaim, yell, etc, on ooc channels... just, blarg. Why are you making me emote of an OOC to say WB so that I'm not /yelling/ it? Come. On.

Many years ago, on Hogwarts MOO, if you used more than three exclamation points in a row (!!!) on a channel, you got booted.

...I kinda miss that tbh.

Stephen Hawking, renowned scientist, dies at 76

@derp said in System dealbreakers:

@thenomain said in System dealbreakers:

@derp said in System dealbreakers:

@thenomain said in System dealbreakers:

@auspice said in System dealbreakers:

YOU TOO COULD BE A WASTE MANAGEMENT PRINCESS.

I have my next WoD concept.

I'm afraid you'll have to fight me for it. puts up his dukes

Tell you what. I'll take the concept to Werewolf, you can have Changeling.

Only if they can either be BFF's or mortal enemies.

ETA: If we can get @Ganymede to throw in with a similar Nossie concept, we could do wonderful and terrible things.

I love you all.

@lisse24 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Tinuviel @Auspice @Packrat

Pretty sure that Tinuvial's connection matches mine, sitting here in the suburbs of a decent-sized U.S. city. Why yes, I do have Comcast, why do you ask?

Yeah, I had Charter when I had mine like that.

And then I tried to get ATT's UVERSE because everyone around me sung their praises and OOOH'd and AAAH'd over how AMAZING they were!

Download speeds of .5-1.5Mbps for more than Charter cost.
I called. Had a fit.

"Well, that's your own fault for living so close to the business district. They get preference over residential customers."

Shit you not, that was their response. And then they tried to penalize me for backing out of the contract. After they, y'know, had guaranteed me certain speeds for the rate.

It was actually the first time I ever yelled at reps over the phone.

@sockmonkey said in PBs You Haven't Had a Chance to Use:

I'm in love with Grace Gummer on Mr. Robot. She has such a great face.

And the scenes with her glasses on? SUPER CUTE.

@sparks said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@sparks said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@auspice I feel you on the migraine complaint today. So much.

The HVAC and florescent lights make me want to cry today.

Florescent lights are the fucking worst.
How have we not gotten rid of the things?

Why do we have lights that make noise?

Most... most people don't hear them.

those lucky assholes.

@rnmissionrun said in How much Code is too much Code?:

This is what killed my interest in 8th Sea.

Anything that forces a player out of the game in order to access information vital to successfully playing that game, is a very bad thing. Save this for when the browser has completely replaced dedicated clients.

I'm sorry it killed your interest! We're doing our best to make the wiki as well-organized as possible.

Like @Tempest said, it's easier to put it on the wiki vs. in a bunch of news files. It also is easier to keep updated, rather than going 'oh no, we updated it in one spot, but not the other!'

Is there a way the 8th Sea wiki could be better organized, maybe? I'd be happy to pass along feedback on that front to Onijegi.

Trolling a sexist on Twitter. They rarely realize that I'm not going to just run off in tears just because they said 'You're just playing victim!' or 'You're just full of hate!'

And despite telling him twice -- twice! -- I'm just trolling him...

... having him continue to try to argue with me.

Buddy, I'm bored and you're an easy target. A cliche one, following the 'neckbeard gamer on the internet' rulebook, but an easy target all the same.

He gave up after I replied to his 'you assumed my gender, hypocrit'* with 'I'm sorry, miss, you're right. That's my fault for being familiar with Adam as a masculine name, but we can continue with your preferred gender, m'lady.'

*His misspelling, not mine.

@misadventure said in Hobby-related Resolutions/Goals for the coming year... ?:

@arkandel It's in Irvine, that's the nightmare.

So what you're saying is you need to be transferred to the Austin office.

@aria said in RL things I love:

B-b-bbbut @Auspice ! You made his boner sad.

That's practically a war crime, you heinous bitch!

I was actually going to ask him if he kept coming back because he was a masochist and I was helping him get off.

But really, he deserved it. I told this guy twice -- twice! -- I was just trolling him and he kept cycling through the 'you're just a hateful person!' 'you're just playing the victim!' 'you're just projecting!' playbook.

and then when I went 'I can't take it anymore, it's hypocritE with an E! I know dictionaries are heavy, snowflake,' (continuing on the 'you assumed my gender,' theme,) 'but there's this thing called Google where you can look up words.'

he switched to 'typical, going after grammar when you have nothing else.'

But he blocked me before I could explain I was going after his inability to spell and grammar would be going after his poor use of sentence structure and punctuation.

@faceless

Looks like a Union fella to me.