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[Vector]

Gratz, hope she heals well from the delivery.

[JoshuaFH]

Gratz, hope she heals well from the delivery.

I hope so too.

I realize that the joyous occasion is a little stained with my pessimism, but it's really all I could think about today.

[Vector]

Nah, it's OK. The joyous occasion is also stained with the blood clots she's gonna be passing for a while LOL. Life happens and is messy.

[MrRoboto75]

yeah, the next generation of my family tree is starting to bloom.  Step-sister had a kid last year, and my brother is set to be a dad next year.  Sis's kid went by with no problems, good kid that's growing fast.  I'd worry about my brother's wife, as she's rather ball shaped, but so far I don't think there's anything amiss.

Everyone's progressing in life but me, but I digress, this isn't the thread for that.

[Rolan7]

Logging off from Discord for a few days.
I've been kinda busy again, and my Discord got to 9+ notifications (despite me being "Away").  A lot of those were probably a certain server that insists on doing @here 3-4 times for each livestream, but eh.  Once I left it at 9+ and "Away", I hit a certain kind of zen.

I took care of real life business with a lighter heart.  Like - it does suck, because I do know from my phone that some of those messages are from people I care about.  But it's just so nice that it's not my first place to go.

Also I rapidposted a lot of really fun things to anti-Vaxxers on the Vuukle comment section of a webcomic I like, which is hella more fun.  This must be what Twitter feels like.

[None]

Sometimes, you just gotta fight dirty with the sludge of the world. Sure, it's probably not productive, or harmonious, but sludge isn't asking to be harmonious, either, eh. Watch out for flammable bridges but godspeed all the same.

I started my new job this week! It's been a lot of funneling modern software development jargon into my head and learning about a monolithic sales platform the company is developing for. Remote is probably a good choice for me, since I've become a fidgety, neurotic fuck, which is only on display a scant few hours a day. There's some grief about the software with 'this feature is fucked, is it supposed to be?' and 'this feature in the environment is incomplete/fucked/ can I test the fucked-ish feature I'm supposed to respective of that?' but still I'm learning hard and learning fast and bah gawd I've got a paycheck coming again soon.

I'll be happier still when expectations/metrics are clearer about my work as a new hire, but I know I'm asking poignant questions about the job/environment and am kind of the point of advice for the other new hire that started when I did, so I must be taking on okay, right?

Unrelated to that, I bought more houseplants and bought some chemical warfare to bring down on the fungus gnats that have plagued my abode. Feckers got into my potting soil, which explains why only specific plants are plagued, but I'm finally getting on top of the menace! The African Violet is flowering again! The chrysanthemum is producing one or two stupid flowers and it's wonderful! The catnip's been cut down to a fraction of its size so it regrows proudly, I've got a new bushy buddy and a tentacular succulent, the basilfriend cutting from my friend went to root real hard, and the patriarch pothos bestowed upon me a breakage-turned-cutting-turned sproutling that I hope grows into a mighty more-than-two-leaf specimen.

I did lose one green-purpley leafy boy for general reasons, but I know a little better about pests now and wish it a sunny afterlife. Green thumbs aren't earned without the carboniferous carcasses of a few failed houseplants, eh?

[MaxTheFox]

Logging off from Discord for a few days.
I've been kinda busy again, and my Discord got to 9+ notifications (despite me being "Away").  A lot of those were probably a certain server that insists on doing @here 3-4 times for each livestream, but eh.  Once I left it at 9+ and "Away", I hit a certain kind of zen.

I took care of real life business with a lighter heart.  Like - it does suck, because I do know from my phone that some of those messages are from people I care about.  But it's just so nice that it's not my first place to go.

Also I rapidposted a lot of really fun things to anti-Vaxxers on the Vuukle comment section of a webcomic I like, which is hella more fun.  This must be what Twitter feels like.

I'm always hovering around ~10 notifs, most of which are random pings on servers I don't even read regularly and then I mark them as read.

[Iduno]

https://twitter.com/milsurpmonkey/status/1446484035824410629

Very entertaining art.

[Akura]

Been a pretty good day money-wise for me. Was informed of a raise(everyone got one), and the quarterly bonuses for Q3 and Q4 were doubled(will be getting the Q3 bonus next paycheck, haven't earned Q4 yet). Although the company is ending quarterly bonuses next year, at the end of this year, everyone who has been there 2+ years will receiving a $500 bonus(on top of the last quarterly bonus). I don't actually know if that's going to be a yearly bonus or a one-time thing.

I also received part of over $40 I found in the pocket of a pair of jeans, which is a fairly high amount for finding money(if found money is over $10, the person who finds it receives 25% up to $100 received), and a rarity for me since I'm one of the last people to handle the clothing and I generally don't have time to search pockets.

[Rolan7]

Congrats!  That's a pretty nice bonus for people who stuck around.  Interesting found-money policy, too - makes a lot of sense, rewarding someone for doing the "right" thing.

I'm always hovering around ~10 notifs, most of which are random pings on servers I don't even read regularly and then I mark them as read.

It's mostly that one dang server that pings 4 times over the course of a single show - and does 2-3 shows per week.  Dang it, if their content wasn't *actually quite interesting* I would have left ages ago!  Or done a full server-mute.  It would be so nice if they would just ping once for the start of a show.  But nooo, they have to ping @here for pre-announcement, actual start, after-show questions... ugh.

And despite what the Discord manual says, being set Idle does not prevent the @here notifications.
Sometimes I do want to see the show - I wish I could just get one notification for it.

Sometimes, you just gotta fight dirty with the sludge of the world. Sure, it's probably not productive, or harmonious, but sludge isn't asking to be harmonious, either, eh. Watch out for flammable bridges but godspeed all the same.

What's great is that it's a clean space, unconnected to the rest of my online presence.  So I was able to go HAM without worrying about anyone else seeing me.

And in full "berserker" mode I reached out so many times that one chud actually backed off and gave me kudos for treating him as a person.  Yay?  (I sorta like that unironically.  No one has a responsibility to do that, except maybe people like me)

[Snip]
Unrelated to that, I bought more houseplants and bought some chemical warfare to bring down on the fungus gnats that have plagued my abode. Feckers got into my potting soil, which explains why only specific plants are plagued, but I'm finally getting on top of the menace! The African Violet is flowering again! The chrysanthemum is producing one or two stupid flowers and it's wonderful! The catnip's been cut down to a fraction of its size so it regrows proudly, I've got a new bushy buddy and a tentacular succulent, the basilfriend cutting from my friend went to root real hard, and the patriarch pothos bestowed upon me a breakage-turned-cutting-turned sproutling that I hope grows into a mighty more-than-two-leaf specimen.

I did lose one green-purpley leafy boy for general reasons, but I know a little better about pests now and wish it a sunny afterlife. Green thumbs aren't earned without the carboniferous carcasses of a few failed houseplants, eh?

(❁´◡`❁)

[LordBaal]

Congrats to everyone!!

[martinuzz]

I also received part of over $40 I found in the pocket of a pair of jeans, which is a fairly high amount for finding money(if found money is over $10, the person who finds it receives 25% up to $100 received), and a rarity for me since I'm one of the last people to handle the clothing and I generally don't have time to search pockets.

This makes me curious as to what kind of job you have.
If I could get 3 guesses, they'd be

1) industry that recycles old clothing into pulp for things like paper production
2) sorting center for hand-me-down clothing charity
3) The Soylent Corporation

[Rolan7]

My guess was a thrift store dealing with donated clothes.  I think Akura may have said as much, and also I've done some volunteer work at an "interfaith" church version and it sounds about right.

(It's something my dad got into.  It was nice to fix up discarded electronics, and then get first dibs on abandonware game CDs/manuals/boxes.  We got a discount on clothes, too, though I was too shy to really use that much)

[Akura]

Yup. Thrift store.

[martinuzz]

Nice, making a living while trying to do something nice for the world