Jenny Cr

People do not know how to talk to a grieving person who's comfort is routine and occupation. They want me to take time and not do my work when my idle mind is the thing that terrorizes me.

I get this is not standard, but the more I am fixing computers, the more I am calm.

I am too introverted for RTO. I can't do the 30+ minutes of chatting right at the start of the morning. I hate meetings taking 10 extra minutes to get everyone in the conference room. It's dumb that people are now walking into my office to ask after an issue I could fix remotely in 15 seconds.

All amazing, all highly recommended!

In comics, I read several volumes of Hell Boy, Cat + Gamer, and Cosmoknights.

Highlights include The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar, Blood Over Bright Haven by M. L. Wang, and Labyrinth's Heart by M. A. Carrick.

To be fair, it's otherwise been an incredible reading year so far

The Spellshop is my first DNF of the year at 33%. The main character's inconsistency was insufferable and all of the character development was 1 step forward and 2 steps back.

I've decided to personify my ennui as a French Jenny. She's sitting in a Starbucks in Paris and saying "This is bullshit" between drags on an unlit cigarette.

You shouldn't be forced to play games you hate and communicating likes and dislikes is more mature than suffering in silence.

Having fun playing a game should be more important than quantity of games played.

Game stores don't support board gamers as much as Magic or Warhammer because board gamers in general aren't adequate support for game stores.

Kicking a player out of a group for being good at games (and otherwise a good sport) is unreasonable.

Things I have been downvoted for saying on the board games subreddit:

Putting a chess timer on a singular player at the table would be very rude.

I am back to quickly being able to do IPv4 subnetting by hand. It's an utterly pointless skill, but one that is essential to the #CCNA for some gods forsaken reason.

I am already into the reduction of plastic involved in board gaming. The fact that more games then include tuck boxes just makes it better.

And now I owe them $3600 because my health insurance doesn't cover dental until the 12 month mark.

In other news, a surprise, urgent root canal now qualifies as one of the worst 4 hours of my life. The novocaine wore off twice. The anesthesiologist accused me of lying about which tooth hurt. They had to drill out the first replacement filling they put in for being too small.

Eating anything when one of your teeth is a slightly new shape is... uncanny.

I need a canned script to restart print spoolers. #IT #helpdesk

Soft cats, warm bed.

Not controversial, factually correct.

My Facebook account is now deleted.

I'd almost exclusively been trawling the marketplace and mirroring my Instagram uploads by the end there. The On This Day function was nice for nostalgia, but nostalgia isn't worth it.

Not sad to see it go.

It's not lost on me that both of these are about minority cultures being subsumed by cultural hegemonies that want to steal the unique power they have and the people caught between the two belonging to both and neither.

Emily all the way

My TBR list has too many series finales on it, so I am crossing some of them off. Listening to the audiobook of Labyrinth's Heart and reading A Desolation Called Peace.

These Thunderkiss beans always pull a bit fast with my current setup, but still make great espresso!

Orchid stole my office chair but I didn't have the heart to move her.

Helpdesk Pet Peeve: Resolving a ticket only to have the user reply thanking you for resolving the ticket, opening the ticket again.

#IT #helpdesk

Morning paper birb vibes.

Shouting into the void. Will the void shout back?