hi guys!
it's been a while since i've been able to spend meaningful amounts of time here: i posted a quick news/opinion piece friday and right now is really the first i've been on here since the previous monday.
work: they apparently let someone go in my department thursday. he sat next to me, and was never anything but helpful to me, never too busy to help the new guy. i'm gonna miss him. i understand the HR reasons for it but i still resent that we just know he's no longer working there: no indication of whether he'd gone because he found another job, or if they were really unhappy about him. i thought he was doing decent work, but then again, i'm not a reliable judge of such things, i suppose. so now that we're short-handed, i'm gonna be under even more pressure to contribute quickly. i'll do my best, of course, but i'm frustrated b/c i want to contribute more--but we're so busy i've been slightly reluctant to ask for help. this is stupid of course, i know, so i need to change my attitude about that. my perception drives my reality, so to change my reality i must perceive the situation differently. i will try to group my questions so i can allow my co-workers to work with fewer of my interruptions.
family: so i got a call friday night from my mother. apparently, my father was in the hospital (sheesh, thanks for the heads-up!) the night before. he was taken b/c he'd gotten a biopsy 2 days previously as a standard follow-up to a procedure he'd had 5 years ago: several polyps were removed from him then, so his doctor wanted to biopsy the region to confirm that things were OK. apparently, that area started bleeding--enough that thursday night, he passed out from blood loss! so that's bad enough, but here's the reason she called: dad decided he was going to play in his club's annual golf tournament saturday!
so naturally, i called. i was surprised my father answered the phone, i was expecting that he'd be weak from his hospital stay (my mother said he'd be discharged friday). he sounded like his usual self, though, and i know how pointless it is to argue with my father when it comes to golf. i swear, some days, the man's such a stereotype: i mean come on, a doctor who plays golf?
now, i know the reason my mother didn't call thursday: she was afraid i'd be worried. and she's right, i would've been, in all honesty. but even so...i'd like to think i'm not such a fragile flower, you know?
friends: so as with most long weekends, we had our friends p & a over. they, along with the mrs, are the players in my D&D game, and we played for a while sunday. i have to say, that went really, realy well. i'm feeling a lot more confident running a game--and i was using the first dungeon i ever designed! the guys seemed to have a lot of fun, so that was cool. afterwards, we played some hat game (a custom variant on the board game cranium because we've long since run through all the cards), and tried out another game, ticket to ride.
ticket to ride is a strategy game: the game board is a map of the US with train routes. the object is to get destination cards and build train routes to make them work, before another player forces you to re-route all over the place (train routes are exclusive, they cannot be shared).
that was actually really, really neat. :>
the past few times they've visited, i've been pretty tired so i was excited to see that things were going strong at 5ish when i called it a night. that might have contributed to why i was awake a bit earlier than i'd ideally like this morning, but hey, it was fun. :>
so...how was your weekend?
ed
silverwhisper posted on Sep 02, 2008
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MissMimi said on Sep 02, 2008....
I went to my little sister's wedding. Very casual and fun -- I've never been to a wedding where some of the guests wore shorts and sandals. :) It was great fun to visit with family members I don't see very often. And I even behaved during the ceremony when I had the incredible urge to laugh and roll my eyes.
Glad you had a good weekend. It was nice to see a blog from you in my Users list.
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evil_twin said on Sep 02, 2008....
I'm glad your father is okay and that you had a fun weekend :-) My weekend was really good. We went camping and had a blast!
-evil_twin LA
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uniquely-ironic said on Sep 02, 2008....
sounds like you had a decent weekend. I'm sure you needed it what with the new job stress. -
GrapeKoolaid said on Sep 02, 2008....
My weekend?
It was spent with knuckle-dragging, window-licking, mouth-breathers sifting through mountains of garbage. By that, I mean I worked. :D
Such is the exciting life of retail, you know?
Some things have happened in your absence in SC, though. I'll let you find out for yourself.
Nice to read that you've been well.
Oh and I know how your pop feels about golf. My pop feels the same way. As for myself, I had given up golf about a year back, but I'm thinking about taking it up again. The reason why I gave it up is because I've been golfing for almost 20 years and I still can't make the ball go straight. It's more a source of frustration than relaxation for me. I'm more fit to play mini golf, I think.
Perhaps a trip to the driving range is in order...
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Lucytorial said on Sep 02, 2008....
*Laughing at Grapey* hole in one???Worked the real weekend and my weekend started with yet another hand job meeting. Can't complain really, the weather is gorgeous, life's fabulous and I haven't had a hangover for ages so yeh pretty good. Oh sex was nice too. **grin** at least I'm getting it. -
skald said on Sep 02, 2008....
So your dad played golf. He seems to be strong minded and I hope he is O.K.
Seems like you had fun with your games.
My weekend was O,K , grandchildren here as usually, son moving and so on.
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silverwhisper said on Sep 02, 2008....
mimi: your sister got married? that's great, did you have fun? :> i'm kinda curious re: the urge to laugh & eye-rolling, though--?
kyle: thanks, man, i had a great time. i don't have the time to read your blog entry just now but i do see it's on the featured list--as usual with you. :>
u-i: yeah, i definitely needed it--thanks!
grape: o, i saw that already. GS, huh? i'll confess i had an inkling. :> i don't get the golf thing, but then again, i'm sure tons of people don't get the RPG thing, either. it's all good. :>
tobi-lee: er..."hand job mtg"? and yeah, having sex is good--no, great! as i'm sure will come as exactly zero surprise to you: me likey the sex! :D
skald: he's very strong-willed, actually--and come to think of it, so's my mother. hm. :D but yes, he's OK, thank you, skald. and i did have a lot of fun, thanks! i saw you have a blog entry about moving, will try to read soon! :D
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Lucytorial said on Sep 02, 2008....
Ed ~ sometimes I swear you are only 25 yrs old. *-} as for the hand job meeting, its called marketing prostitution, sell an idea to a smoozer who can make or break you, kiss ass but don't give the happy ending away. -
silverwhisper said on Sep 02, 2008....
that's OK, sometimes people who know me IRL swear i'm only 20. :D
ah right...OK, i really, really like that expression. :D
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Eilan said on Sep 02, 2008....
The weekend was okay. We celebrated Little One #4's fifth birthday and #2 had an extracurricular activity. Otherwise, it was pretty uneventful.
Although this week started out okay, it's shaping up to be a gigantic clusterfuck--the worst week, in fact, I've had since the week my grandmothers died. And, no, I really don't want to talk about it. :(
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Miccah said on Sep 02, 2008....
My weekend was stupendous. So much to share, so little time, silver, do you remember me? The three F words? Could not remember old passwords, anyways, life bounces and so do people. Faith is a big word then and bigger for me now. Hope I get a chance to share it in detail with you. I never forgot you or your words. Till then, Miccah. -
gingersoul said on Sep 02, 2008....
Ed...i am glad to read your dad is doing fine. I understand why your mom didn't call you...same reason why my mom didn't want to call me when my dad got sick...she didn't want to worry me.....moms!...
So.... yes.....moi....disappointed?....lol.....
You had an inkling, eh? Don't believe you, fish-smasher....:-D
My week end has been nice...relaxing, a b-b-q with my friends, shopping, haircut, a new book to read and Soulcast. Oh, and that special one at the phone....*wink* -
queenparanoia said on Sep 04, 2008....
glad your weekend is kinda okay.,.. well i meet some high school friends last sunday which is fun!!! -
the_infernal_optimist said on Sep 05, 2008....
I'm glad your dad is alright, ed. :) And that your dungeon was working well -- how cool!
I moved this weekend and was without internet until yesterday evening. I won't comment further on how all that was.
[twitch]
Glad to be here now! :-D
~Infernal
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silverwhisper said on Sep 05, 2008....
eilan: egads, i'm sorry the weekend sucked total ass! :<
miccah: hey, always good to see you again! :D of course i remember you! and of course i'll be listening. :>
GS: yep, i did have an inkling--although i did shrug it off in favor of my (erroneous) guess. ah, well--what can one do? :>
sis: oo, i wanna hear more about seeing your old school friends!
infernal: i'm glad too, thank you. :> and yeah, the dungeon working was teh awesomeness. :D holy crap, you went a whole frigging week w/out the internet?! is that even possible?! :D
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queenparanoia said on Sep 06, 2008....
it was okay. we had fun... you know how girls are... ;-) -
silverwhisper said on Sep 06, 2008....
are you sure that's something you wanna let people speculate about? :D
ed
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