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What do you plan on doing with all the rope and that ballgag in you hands?
Time to chime in with my first journal of the new year! :D
First off, Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a fun night and a good following morning, hangover free. ;P
So, there's good news and bad news. I'll start with the bad so we can end on a high note.
The bad is that I wasn't kept on past seasonal, so I'm out of work again. :(
I thought I did a good enough job to stay on, but it seems pretty clear that it wasn't good enough. I thought I was working pretty hard and being available and responsive to whatever they needed from me, but I'm guessing the quality of my work wasn't up to speed.
As much as it pains me to be jobless again, I'm sort of glad I didn't stay on. I got a cold feeling from that place or at least I got a cold shoulder from most everyone there. There were a few people I was able to get familiar with, but there was a very corporate air about the place as well as this sense of I just didn't seem to fit in with anyone there. I got the impression I wasn't very liked and I'm not sure why. I wasn't very talkative, but that was mostly because I was focused on my work and I'm just normally pretty quiet. When some people started talking to me I was receptive and engaged in conversation, so it's not like I went out of my way to not interact with people or was dismissive. It just felt like there was something about me few people liked and I think it didn't have as much to do with my work as the result of my now lack of employment would suggest.
Anyway, it's probably for the best. The overnight thing was messing with my sleeping habits. I'd rather be asleep for a few hours by the time the sun starts to rise, which was the time I was getting home. :P
The good. Well, there really isn't anything good that's happened, aside from having some money to preserve me for sometime until I can find work again. Only problem is I'm seeing a trend here that I think without some serious education, I may not be able to find steady work anymore. I can't seem to keep up with what's demanded of workers these days. I'm left wondering what to do now or where to go. Community college looks to be the best long term answer, but I've struggled with school before and I can't seem to motivate myself to get into a working habit. I don't know if I need an easy answer or path from here on, but something that resonates with me and that feels natural for me. Aside from writing, I don't really know what that is or what I can do with it.
So, for now, I'm just thinking of what to do next. Search for work, try to go back to school, both, there's nothing that jumps out at me as a must do, aside from school and I'm not nearly as confident in that as I'd like to be.
On the plus side, perhaps the only real good right now, is that I have time to write again. I'm a bit distracted with some new games right now, mostly Lego Lord of the Rings. Very fun game, but a bit too glitchy with a few details that should have been tested or thought out more. A game that could have been so perfect if more time and attention to detail was put in. When you keep interrupting the player with gameplay cut scenes just to show you there are more enemies coming and panning the camera to show you nothing then you should know you messed up and left that unpolished or the player has to restart the level because of a glitch you missed that causes your only means of getting to an area in order to fully complete the level to prevent you from doing anything because all controls have locked up and you get stuck. The sad state of many videogames these days all for the sake of profits. A less stressful game is a better game, and I mean stress due to glitches and poor choices in gameplay elements. Fixing these will give your game a better rating and likely sell more copies because more reviewers and critics have better things to say. I don't know why this is hard to understand for many gaming companies and developers. Since when is cutting corners is a good thing?
Anyway, writing will commence again once I'm satisfied I'm done with Lego in Middle-Earth, which I think will be pretty soon.
I also managed to get a 3-Month X-Box Live subscription again, but I don't have anything recent to use it with, except Halo 4 that I got for Christmas. I'm not nearly as familiar with Halo online as I am CoD so, I might not be using it anytime soon. :P
Otherwise I'll probably be replaying Mass Effect, having just got the 3rd installment with a collection a friend of mine got for me for Christmas and the DOOM 3: BFG Edition I just had to get for myself even though I have the first X-Box version. XD
I want to get Black Ops 2 eventually, but it will have to wait awhile. For now I just have Black Ops and MW2 (Had to sell MW3 along with some other games I liked). Anyway, I have something to keep my spirits up for the time being aside from the love I get from you guys.
Oh, and at least one of you already know this, but I bought a new pair of shoes recently, mostly because I signed up for a shoe site and it offered a one day offer for half off that I couldn't pass up. $20 too. I'll get around to showing them off soon. Very sexy and kinky. ;D
I was also able to get my HP computer fixed (the one I bought about 3 or 4 years ago that crashed on me 2 years ago, forcing me to go back to my Dell from almost 10 years ago, which is now on it's last legs) and it's not only working pretty smoothly (minus the sticky left mouse button I should have also gotten fixed) and the screen has been fixed too! I no longer need a monitor for it, though I could still use it for movies since it's a bigger screen. I'm thinking midnight showings in the IMAX line for big movies could be pretty fun now. ^_^
So, despite the set back, there are some silver linings, but a big gray area of what to do next too. All I know is I don't want to spend a whole year not doing anything but looking for work again. Not fun at all. >_<
I hope things are better on your end everyone. Feel free to comment and discuss. ;)
First off, Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a fun night and a good following morning, hangover free. ;P
So, there's good news and bad news. I'll start with the bad so we can end on a high note.
The bad is that I wasn't kept on past seasonal, so I'm out of work again. :(
I thought I did a good enough job to stay on, but it seems pretty clear that it wasn't good enough. I thought I was working pretty hard and being available and responsive to whatever they needed from me, but I'm guessing the quality of my work wasn't up to speed.
As much as it pains me to be jobless again, I'm sort of glad I didn't stay on. I got a cold feeling from that place or at least I got a cold shoulder from most everyone there. There were a few people I was able to get familiar with, but there was a very corporate air about the place as well as this sense of I just didn't seem to fit in with anyone there. I got the impression I wasn't very liked and I'm not sure why. I wasn't very talkative, but that was mostly because I was focused on my work and I'm just normally pretty quiet. When some people started talking to me I was receptive and engaged in conversation, so it's not like I went out of my way to not interact with people or was dismissive. It just felt like there was something about me few people liked and I think it didn't have as much to do with my work as the result of my now lack of employment would suggest.
Anyway, it's probably for the best. The overnight thing was messing with my sleeping habits. I'd rather be asleep for a few hours by the time the sun starts to rise, which was the time I was getting home. :P
The good. Well, there really isn't anything good that's happened, aside from having some money to preserve me for sometime until I can find work again. Only problem is I'm seeing a trend here that I think without some serious education, I may not be able to find steady work anymore. I can't seem to keep up with what's demanded of workers these days. I'm left wondering what to do now or where to go. Community college looks to be the best long term answer, but I've struggled with school before and I can't seem to motivate myself to get into a working habit. I don't know if I need an easy answer or path from here on, but something that resonates with me and that feels natural for me. Aside from writing, I don't really know what that is or what I can do with it.
So, for now, I'm just thinking of what to do next. Search for work, try to go back to school, both, there's nothing that jumps out at me as a must do, aside from school and I'm not nearly as confident in that as I'd like to be.
On the plus side, perhaps the only real good right now, is that I have time to write again. I'm a bit distracted with some new games right now, mostly Lego Lord of the Rings. Very fun game, but a bit too glitchy with a few details that should have been tested or thought out more. A game that could have been so perfect if more time and attention to detail was put in. When you keep interrupting the player with gameplay cut scenes just to show you there are more enemies coming and panning the camera to show you nothing then you should know you messed up and left that unpolished or the player has to restart the level because of a glitch you missed that causes your only means of getting to an area in order to fully complete the level to prevent you from doing anything because all controls have locked up and you get stuck. The sad state of many videogames these days all for the sake of profits. A less stressful game is a better game, and I mean stress due to glitches and poor choices in gameplay elements. Fixing these will give your game a better rating and likely sell more copies because more reviewers and critics have better things to say. I don't know why this is hard to understand for many gaming companies and developers. Since when is cutting corners is a good thing?
Anyway, writing will commence again once I'm satisfied I'm done with Lego in Middle-Earth, which I think will be pretty soon.
I also managed to get a 3-Month X-Box Live subscription again, but I don't have anything recent to use it with, except Halo 4 that I got for Christmas. I'm not nearly as familiar with Halo online as I am CoD so, I might not be using it anytime soon. :P
Otherwise I'll probably be replaying Mass Effect, having just got the 3rd installment with a collection a friend of mine got for me for Christmas and the DOOM 3: BFG Edition I just had to get for myself even though I have the first X-Box version. XD
I want to get Black Ops 2 eventually, but it will have to wait awhile. For now I just have Black Ops and MW2 (Had to sell MW3 along with some other games I liked). Anyway, I have something to keep my spirits up for the time being aside from the love I get from you guys.
Oh, and at least one of you already know this, but I bought a new pair of shoes recently, mostly because I signed up for a shoe site and it offered a one day offer for half off that I couldn't pass up. $20 too. I'll get around to showing them off soon. Very sexy and kinky. ;D
I was also able to get my HP computer fixed (the one I bought about 3 or 4 years ago that crashed on me 2 years ago, forcing me to go back to my Dell from almost 10 years ago, which is now on it's last legs) and it's not only working pretty smoothly (minus the sticky left mouse button I should have also gotten fixed) and the screen has been fixed too! I no longer need a monitor for it, though I could still use it for movies since it's a bigger screen. I'm thinking midnight showings in the IMAX line for big movies could be pretty fun now. ^_^
So, despite the set back, there are some silver linings, but a big gray area of what to do next too. All I know is I don't want to spend a whole year not doing anything but looking for work again. Not fun at all. >_<
I hope things are better on your end everyone. Feel free to comment and discuss. ;)
I'll eventually play the Campaign, but I couldn't really get into the online play. :P
Sucks to hear Lego LOTR is buggy, though it seems the Lego name is just being used as a cash cow now, rather then people caring about the quality of the games themselves. You've got great tastes in games though! :D
And shoes. <3 Nuff said. xP
It's not overly buggy. The example I gave was a specific level that for some reason prevented me from switching characters normally and if the other character, who was riding an Ent, had picked me up and I accidentally switched back while still being held be the Ent then I couldn't switch back or do anything, forcing me to have to restart the level. Fortunately the checkpoint system allowed me to start over at the point it last saved.
There's was also a random occurrence during a freeplay where the other character got stuck in a staircase and I had to continue on without him.
But, yeah the came could have been better if not for little things like that.
Thank you. :)
But you haven't seen them yet, so how do you know you'll like them. ;P
And while those don't sound like game breaking glitches, they're still pretty blatant and you'd think they would have been fixed before the game is released. Some people pass off 'polish' as unneeded, but in my opinion simple things like 'polish' can keep a good game from being great.
Anyways! *slinks back to Skyrim and Fallout 3*
Well, take a look. I just posted a pic of them. ^_^
Fortunately on Steam, mods allow you to fix most of them.
And HAWT shoes. <3
Now, don't you feel better having seen them now knowing they're to your liking? ;P