welcome to the weekly how’s your week going thread
this thread is a pretty straightforward and relaxed one for giving updates on how your week is going and chat like that. nothing special
on my front: last week was total chaos, so hoping for things to calm down this week because it is completely fucking up my groove; unfortunately reddit is not making that easy. this is also not ideally timed for my emotional state. anyways, read book 20 for the year (America City by Chris Beckett). on book 21. maybe i’ll marathon through a bunch of these in between keeping the site from being on fire
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Very good! Just found this community, learning to navigate the site a bit (so far it’s nice and straightforward). Made some onigiri for the first time with scrambled egg filling. Came out decent!
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My partner lives in the US, and I’m Canadian. It’s been stressful for both of us to pay for visits and to be constantly saying goodbye. I need to get a stable income, then we’ll be able to live together. We’ve been working on an indie game together, and I hope it’ll do well. Our Steam page just went up, which feels really nice.
I’m rooting for you!
My wife and I decided we will start trying to get pregnant. we have not, because we live check to check. shes 41 now, and we are just getting older so why not take a chance?
Self love, and self compassion are new concepts in my life this week. I typically rely on repression, and pushing how I feel down. I aim to replace my coping technique from repression, to a more positive and healthier self love.
Like a few others here, this is my first comment and I look forward to new possibilities and new friends, and I hope you have a great rest of your week.
Good luck with trying for the baby! Have a great week.
My company is hosting our big event of the year towards the end of the month. We’re expecting about 600 people this year. While we’ve been preparing for the last several months, the stress and worry didn’t hit me until today. We have three weeks until we ship our stuff out to the event center and I’m in charge of the logistics. And there are worries that not everything we need will arrive before ship via freight.
I’m also unveiling some new software for some of our volunteers to use at the event. I have no clue if this is going to work, but from my admittedly limited testing with coworkers, it seems like it will. If it doesn’t work, that’s OK, we can revert to an older system on the fly. But I really want it to work, because I think it’ll be a better experience for the volunteers, attendees, and my coworkers. Plus I don’t want to have wasted all this time researching and setting this up.
On the plus side, last week my event manager and I met with the AV rental company. We were able to knock off $25,000 from the initial quote by getting rid of stuff we didn’t need and by deciding to run some AV stuff ourselves. Didn’t feel so bad about splurging on upgrades to my train/plane tickets after that!
This is my 17th edition of this particular annual event. Yeah, I’ve been with the company that long. Anyway, it always comes together and our attendees are always greatly pleased. If there are issues behind the scenes, our attendees never see or know about them. We have several veteran staff who’ve helped run this event more times than me, So any stress and worry is generally overblown. But we still never want to rest on our laurels.
Regardless, I’ll be happy on July 2, because the event will be over!
It’s been good so far. We had thought one of my cats had cancer, but we got a call from the vet yesterday and it turns out she doesn’t, so that’s excellent.
I’m trying out this timer app to try and keep myself on some kind of schedule. So far so good!
Doing well, thank you for this thread. I’m having a bit of career crisis as I don’t know what job I want to get next. Tired of tech and feeling lost haha. I’ll figure it out :)
Don’t discount the trades! I am very happy in my programming job, but if I ever found myself out of work again, or burt out on the career, I would definitely heavily consider moving my skillset that way!
oh cool, our landlord is finally fixing the fucking hole in our bathroom ceiling (has been there for like an entire ass year). nice of them to eventually get around to it, i guess
to give you guys some perspective this wasn’t a little hole either. they had to take out an entire, probably 2ft by 2ft, square panel of the ceiling (there was a leak upstairs which fucked everything up). we’ve been living with that just casually above the bathtub for an eternity. very stupid, and landlords should not exist
did they just ignore you when you emailed/texted them about it or say “il be right on it” only to never show up either way thats an asshole move on their part
the landlord here is a company as far as i’m aware that just took over the complex. they recently began some outsourcing of calls to our front office and they aggressively do not give a fuck–which is also how it was with the company they bought it from except they didn’t do outsourcing, they were just incompetent.
so its effectively gone from bad to worse huh id much rather something not be fixed out of incompetence than just feel like im screaming into the void im guessing theres no chance of finding a better place either?
A year?!
Reminds me of back in April 2021 when the building’s chiller unit died. So no AC. It was unseasonably hot during that time, peaking into the upper 80s/low 90s F (~30-33C). Overnight, the temps were still pretty elevated, especially since this was in the middle of the city, which meant lots of heat radiating off the streets, buildings, etc.
It took the apartment managers like 4 weeks to get it fixed. People were starting organize protests. Our apartments ended up on the news.
They did buy me a portable AC though. And they gave my brother and I like half off rent for the month. Still sucked. Thank god I don’t live there anymore, since that wasn’t the only issue we experienced.
Hopefully you were able or will be able to wring some concessions out of them for them waiting a whole ass year!
Hopefully you were able or will be able to wring some concessions out of them for them waiting a whole ass year!
haha, no. what we we gonna do, move? there’s no housing around here that’s affordable, and we barely afford this place as is. we did get a new dishwasher, but that was incidental and also a thing they broke and didn’t fix for like six months.
Meh. Not great. First I had a sleep study wherein I did not sleep at all, and now I’m trying to install some software I need to do homework and it is absolutely not cooperating.
National Novel Writing Month, the big event in November, has two smaller events in April and July called ‘camps’. I finished my first novel (that was started during NaNo 2021) in February, and took some time off after I finished it. But now with the July camp looming, I’m scrambling to get the outline and character sheets done in time to start my sequel come the 1st.
No idea if I’ll get done in time, but I really hope I do. I really want to participate in this event.
So, my week? Crazy and busy but productive.
I really appreciate this reminder that nanowrimo camp exists because I always forget and honestly it sounds like a good idea rn.
I used to forget all the time too before I really decided to buckle down and start writing for real. I have dates two months in advance for all NaNo events yo remind me that if I hadn’t started prep yet, it was time to get going. Those are set for the next fifty years.
I always forget about the camps but I tend to have motivation issues during the November event. Maybe this is the year
I hope you do choose to participate. Just remember, if you don’t reach your goal, you still succeeded. Writing any amount of words is infinitely better than writing zero words.
I wish you the best of luck!
I appreciate it! Gonna think of an idea and flesh it out in the camp in July to hit the ground running in November. Best of luck to you as well!
I’ve done NaNoWriMo a few times in the past and it was so much fun! Do the camps work the same way just with a smaller word count goal?
They are for setting your own goals. If you want to write non-fiction, short stories, or anything at all, you set your own word goals and hammer them out.
They’re much smaller events but I really enjoy the lower stress challenge.
this weeks proving to be an interesting one thata for sure ive set myself up to learn laravel to help set up a wiki for this site as talked about on the discord while simultaniously needing to go deal with some personal problems wich will have me dunning around the city a lot wel see how it works out
idk, i’ve been stuck between a rock and a hard place for awhile but this weeks been rougher than usual. Weirdly I’m feeling hopeful for the future though, maybe it has to get worse before it gets better.
I was just approved in the community, so still exploring.
My university exams are going on so I have been busy with that and only 6 days left before my college life ends (temporarily at least) and it’s daunting for me how adult corporate life would be. I am already making a list of things to do in vacations like joining a gym, starting to read a book that was pending since past several months(any readers of Red Rising by Pierce Brown here??), learning guitar and so on…
I am over all the place, but happy.
Oh man I remember that feeling.
Every time my life has moved on to the next phase things have just gotten better. That doesn’t mean there aren’t bumps (sometime serious giant bumps) along the way or the stuff that came before wasn’t great too but I feel that each new part of my life just enhanced everything that came before. This is a feeling that I know is shared by most people I know too.
I hope that’s the same for you and that everything goes well as you move into “adult corporate life”. Try to turn that daunting feeling into excitement as the new bit starts!
Been a little difficult. Trying to just take one day at a time.
I have been reading This is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nichole Perlroth. It’s a book about modern cybersecurity.
I have been mainly getting up, working (from home) and going to bed.
Not too great, honestly. I’ve been sick ans unmedicated. However I made myself look food at work and had a day off to relax today and so that was cool. One more day of work and I’m off for another two as well!
