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[SalmonGod]

Got pulled into another adventure with Uber tonight, dealing with the aftermath of a fight between an abusive boyfriend and a recovering heroin addict.  That was unpleasant and exhausting.

[WillowLuman]

What I thought was seasonal illness has been going on for a week now. On top of the usual cold/flu symptoms I'm getting hallucinations at night and my ear intermittently stops working. The severity of symptoms hasn't decreased overall all week but rather seems to fluctuate

[Helgoland]

Besides, I'm a quiet, introverted person. Winter is when people do things quietly, mind their own business, talk in lower voices, stay home more than they go out. I like that. Summer turns people into pushy obnoxious self-centered idiots.

What? No! Winter is when people gather around the fireplace or pub table, drink, chat, and generally don't move for the whole evening. Since they're confined to staying indoors, the crowds are packed more tightly than in summer.

In summer you get barbeques, outdoor sports, beer gardens, etc etc. The crowds are packed much less densely, and it's easier to wander off and get some quiet now and then.

[martinuzz]

What I thought was seasonal illness has been going on for a week now. On top of the usual cold/flu symptoms I'm getting hallucinations at night and my ear intermittently stops working. The severity of symptoms hasn't decreased overall all week but rather seems to fluctuate

The hallucinations part makes me advise you to see your doctor, or at least measure your body temperature. Hallucinations can be caused by (dangerously) high fever.
Hallucinations without fever are even more worrisome, unless you paid for them.

[ChairmanPoo]

Bill Paxton is dead.

An additional sad is that I can't quite figure out who he is. He seems vaguely familiar, but only secondarily-famous...

[Frumple]

Actor/director, apparently. Was involved with stuff like terminator and aliens.

[hector13]

Game over man, game over! He's a pretty good actor to be fair, he was in Predator 2 and True Lies, among other things, including Aliens.

[Eric Blank]

Job opportunity turned out to be a flop. I suspected something was wrong when I was informed on day three, not one but three, that the orientation and training was unpaid, because they were "teaching us a valuable skill." (Hint: their sales techniques and demo make use of only simple strategies you could learn from YouTube videos or psych/business 101. Its not exactly valuable) I was going to ignore that because the actual pay rate is supposed to be pretty good.
So this weekend was supposed to be a paid extension of that training, where I actually perform the job, doing demos for and selling the product (Kirby vacuum cleaners... Yeah I was desperate) for friends and family, and getting compensated in return. I come back to the office after finishing my demos tonight and talk to the boss, he tells me I didn't call him at the right time for demo #2 there so it didn't count. Like I might as well have been sitting on my ass drinking beer for all it mattered. Because I have to complete three "valid" demos for the training period, and I only did "two" I don't get paid. At all. Like the others don't matter either.

I'm not going back, and I made that clear. And then he tried to throw a twenty at me like that was sufficient to make up for wasting my time and money for six days straight just to pull this crap.

[LordBaal]

My grand dad just died. He was more an dad than a grandpa. He raised me and was the prime example in my life. When he was born planes were made of wood and cloth... he saw so many things, lived so many things and was... well... he was a super great guy. I hope he's in a better place anyhow.

[Helgoland]

*pats the heathen god on the back, opens a beer, hands it to him*

[Skyrunner]

Job opportunity turned out to be a flop. I suspected something was wrong when I was informed on day three, not one but three, that the orientation and training was unpaid, because they were "teaching us a valuable skill." (Hint: their sales techniques and demo make use of only simple strategies you could learn from YouTube videos or psych/business 101. Its not exactly valuable) I was going to ignore that because the actual pay rate is supposed to be pretty good.
So this weekend was supposed to be a paid extension of that training, where I actually perform the job, doing demos for and selling the product (Kirby vacuum cleaners... Yeah I was desperate) for friends and family, and getting compensated in return. I come back to the office after finishing my demos tonight and talk to the boss, he tells me I didn't call him at the right time for demo #2 there so it didn't count. Like I might as well have been sitting on my ass drinking beer for all it mattered. Because I have to complete three "valid" demos for the training period, and I only did "two" I don't get paid. At all. Like the others don't matter either.

I'm not going back, and I made that clear. And then he tried to throw a twenty at me like that was sufficient to make up for wasting my time and money for six days straight just to pull this crap.

Kinda sounds like one of them pyramid schemes.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Yeah, Kirby are known for their financial malpractice, you're frankly lucky it didn't work out. They've entrapped a lot of people.

[misko27]

What? No! Winter is when people gather around the fireplace or pub table, drink, chat, and generally don't move for the whole evening.

Speak for yourself.

Since they're confined to staying indoors, the crowds are packed more tightly than in summer.

Not my experience, but I don't recall the last fireplace or pub I've been near. But "confined" shows precisely where the disagreement lies. This shows that you are a summer person and thus are speaking from entirely different assumptions; i.e. that you are outside in the summer and inside in the winter. I speak from the assumption that being outside when it is cold is arguably as fun, if not more so, than in the summer; not the least reason being that there are so fewer people. And if you are inside in the summer, well there are fewer people there now huh? Amazing how easily I solve the introverts problem.

In summer you get barbeques, outdoor sports, beer gardens, etc etc. The crowds are packed much less densely, and it's easier to wander off and get some quiet now and then.

Where do you live? Is it someplace with a low-population density? Because where I live, a less-dense crowd doesn't actually mean that there necessarily exists a place where you can get away from people. They are everywhere, infesting every spot. Parks are loaded down, and the streets are intolerably hot so you often end up forced inside anyways. Best you can do for quiet is by river, and even that has regularly high foot traffic (usually joggers and cyclists), even in the locations where it is cut off from the surrounding neighborhoods by a highway.

Ah but the Winter? Different story there. Of course, I've walked through the park after dark in the middle of a snowstorm and still encountered foot traffic, so absolute solitude is clearly not a luxury the citizens of NYC can afford. But wintertime is, in general, a much closer approximation than the teeming, sweating, moist masses of the summertime.

[Helgoland]

Hey, I'm actually very much a winter person. Can't stand the summer heat.

I live in a large-ish city, but for barbeques we usually go to the river, walking far enough that we're pretty much by ourselves. There the group usually spreads over a large area, breaking up into little groups of three or four.

[TheBiggerFish]

I am incredibly tired despite getting what I think was a mostly decent amount of sleep last night.  And now I have classes for hours on end.

E:Oh, and apparently there was an assignment I didn't even know existed due today.  Argh...