more boxes / new-work

[jazzfish]

Boardgames easily fit into the twenty-three-ish bankers' boxes they came in, with I think two leftover boxes, so that's nice. (The counting's a little weird for games: three of the boxes are not quite twice as long as standard bankers' boxes, one game [OGRE Designer's Edition] comes in its own packing box, and there's still a couple of large-but-not-OGRE-large games to be packed somehow.)

My game library's been shrinking for years. I'm getting pickier about what I keep, and what I might want to play, and what I'm willing to teach over and over again. A few years ago Joe Huber wrote something to the effect of "these days I ask myself 'Why should I keep this only Pretty Good game' instead of 'Why should I get rid of this Pretty Good game,'" and that's an attitude that's stood me in good stead.

So: boardgames fit onto two full-size Billys with an extra shelf, and there's still a bit of room for more. I'm pretty happy with that number / volume of games, I think. It's generally speaking the ones I actively want to play.

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I am slowly adjusting to new-work. It helps that India doesn't observe DST, so starting this week and lasting another, what, eight months?, my early-morning meetings will start no earlier than 7AM instead of no earlier than 6AM. (DST is still the devil, though. Blargh rant timechange rant blargh.)

Not that I'm doing any actual "work," it's all training and HR and such. That may change this week with the team meeting tomorrow; I guess we shall see.

In other news, my previous workplace paid me a full paycheck for my last pay period there. The payroll guy is not responding to me or to the HR person who I initially contacted about it. I suppose it's possible that my leftover vacation just happened to exactly be the number of hours to make up a full pay period but I suspect someone screwed up. At least I didn't get paid by them for this most recent pay period.

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Sound of Music was mostly good and I want to write more about that but my brain has been mush.

Comments

[shanaqui]

Eek, that mess-up with the full paycheck sounds like a pain. I'd say it's their responsibility to handle their mess-up, but you never know what stupid things people will try. Good luck getting it sorted out!

Glad you're adjusting to the new job -- are you looking forward to getting through the training stuff? I always find that period so frustrating.

[jazzfish]

It is annoying, but I've told them about it (repeatedly), so I'm of the opinion that it is Not My Problem. (I'm also telling my bank to cut off their direct deposit/withdrawal access as of Friday.)

I am SO MUCH looking forward to getting through the training and on into doing Actual Work where I can feel vaguely competent and like I'm getting something done. I dislike this feeling of flailing around and not knowing anything and not having any sense of completion or accomplishment.

[shanaqui]

Sounds like a good plan! Ugh.

Yeaaah, that would drive me nuts. Here's hoping the Actual Work starts very soon, then!

[reedrover]

Yay for packing. When we moved we bought a gigantic Box Throne system, so we've had less pressure to remove games we don't play or only sorta-like, but it's a good thought to have.

[jazzfish]

Hm. Partly for me it's a matter of space: I'm moving into a 500sqft apartment, so space is quite limited. But there's also, mm ... I don't like Stuff, I guess. I am philosophically opposed to having things around me that just take up space, that I don't use and have basically neutral feelings towards. I dunno. I usually attribute that to growing up military and having a yard sale every couple of years before we moved, so we weren't moving as much stuff.

[sartorias]

You are the first person I've seen who finds DSL a help rather than a stressor.

[jazzfish]

I want to be clear that DST is The Worst and I hate it and wish everyone were on standard time all the time. This is literally the only advantage I have ever had from DST and I would trade it in a heartbeat.

[sartorias]

Definitely The Worst.

But even the worst can benefit one person every so often. Glad it was you.