Friday: vacuumed and did laundry after finishing the second half of my Newbold sandwich. I wasted time in the same way I did yesterday, though I also got back onto a bit of a The Beginner's Guide kick. I made cheeseburger soup for dinner, and we ate it while rewatching the last episodes Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, since that's been Julie's preferred distraction while she solves puzzles. I got to bed a little earlier tonight. I did not get myself to work on my project today.
Thursday: the work week resumed. We finished the potatoes with roast pork and played Civ VI, me in the office and Julie in the living room. First game we tried barbarians on in an inland sea map, and the excess space meant we were heavily besieged. I called for a restart less than 30 turns in. Second game was no barbarians on a pangaea-style map, and while things started fine with some nice mountain ranges protecting my eastern borders and heavy commitment to exploration, three nations declared war on us in rapid succession. I wrote my long blog post from yesterday.
We’re like six people short in my department, and as soon as we hire replacements, more folks quit or are fired, so the workload isn’t improving. It’s the beginning of the year, so we’re moving directly into tax time, which means a ton of people who never bothered signing into online banking when we first converted are now trying to get set up, AND all the people who complained about the platform and stopped using it are coming back to continue complaining and ask why their specific requested features aren’t available yet. The extended wait times make them all angrier, which means they have to spend the first five minutes of every call shouting about the wait time and asking why we didn’t bother picking up faster, which means the other people on hold aren’t getting helped any faster. All this frustration we're confronted with makes the work experience even more unpleasant, so folks are more likely to quit or do such a bad job that results in their firing, so it’s a vicious cycle that we haven’t been able to escape for eight months, now. It’s exhausting. Coinciding with these issues, I keep getting pimples in weird places like the rim of my nostril or the inside of my ear, and I can’t stop bothering these sites and scratching the skin off. Most of this is probably just misplaced aggravation that I can’t get FFXIV yet. I’ve had two dreams on the subject so far, so I seem a bit preoccupied. Trivial annoyances are vexing.
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I so enjoyed playing Why Am I Dead At Sea that I wrote a review of it!
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I played Zaratustra's Eversion, though I still haven't finished on my own. I also posted a review explaining why I didn't love Monaco as much as I wanted to.
Steam:
Sid Meier's Civilization V - Battlefield Earth
Sid Meier's Civilization V - Charming. Really.
Sid Meier's Civilization V - Island Hopping
Sid Meier's Civilization V - Rising Sun
Sid Meier's Civilization V - The Alexman
Sid Meier's Civilization V - This Desert Life
Saturday: hung out with Jess and Courtney and their partners for Just Dance, among other distrctions. We stayed up late partying.
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PRENATAL FETUS TIME, BAYBEE