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[jazzfish]

Talked to my parents this evening for the first time since Origins. Pepsi, the hyperactive terrier we've had since I was seventeen, had to be put to sleep earlier this week. Couldn't digest food, etc. Sad, but not crippling-sad; she was an annoyingly hyperactive puppy for the two years I lived with her, and as such caught more resentment from me than she really deserved. We started getting along a lot better around about the time I started actually getting on well with my parents, which would be three or four years ago, I think.

Work sucks, and is about to start sucking a lot more: Liz, the fairly cool new assistant manager that I've worked with only a few times, got a real job in Richmond, and is leaving. Emily hasn't decided whether she's really quitting or just dropping back to very-few-hours-per-week. This leaves us with Leigh the manager who's probably an okay guy, Kyle the assistant manager who's a bit of a rules nazi, David who's a slackass and who talks all the time, Janet who's technically a keyholder and is even more of a slackass than David [though Janet is at least capable of shutting up], and Mary who doesn't ever show up to work on time. Well, and me.

Samurai is a rather cool game. I heartily encourage all those with an interest in strategy boardgames to download the computer version from Klear Games and give it a try. Some interface wonkiness, and make sure you play with the Classic ruleset and not the Domination one, but in all pretty good. The AI is decent as well.

I keep meaning to write up thoughts on people from Origins and not really having all that much to say. It mostly boils down to "I'm uncomfortable talking to people I don't know well," really. prog in particular made an effort to engage me in conversation several times, which I definitely appreciated; but I still felt like I was being way more awkward than I should have been. This didn't/doesn't happen in games, though. Give me something else outside of conversation to think about, and it's about an order of magnitude easier. Unsure if this is just having something to distract me or if it's the having something else to focus on. [Also curious: despite having spent an equally small time around both of them, I feel like I know cthulhia a lot better than prog. Probably due to the different nature of their LJs.]

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[cthulhia]

even if a lot of my posts weren't more personal than suits prog's sense of privacy*, I post significantly more often, here, and on shared mailing lists.

people try to make these judgements by overvaluing in-person time, but online time counts as bonding and building too.

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*I am discretion-phobic in some ways, since it tends to wrongly direct the shame, and shame causes people to not tell you're usually better off knowing.

[uilos.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry about Pepsi. She was a very hyperactive little drooly thing, but your parent't place won't be the same without her.

Thanks for the Samurai link.