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Woo, such a Halloween week!
I was in Chicago most of last week for training, which was both difficult and boring. Well, maybe not boring to me, but the stuff I'm learning does not make for exciting journaling. It'll make me a more valuable employee, but it's a niche technical skill related to an ERP/accounting system, so... yeah. Not exactly a firefighter or astronaut. I'm probably doing three more weeks of training! before the end of the year, too, which will make the holidays interesting.
The one thing of note: screw hotels that put their televisions in "hotel mode," which disables auxiliary inputs. It's to keep you from hooking up your own computer or video games or whatever, and renting from them. I'm such a dork that I borrowed a computer monitor from our office to hook up my PS4. :)
On that note, I finished Mafia III, and wow what a great story. Good game, a couple of technical issues, but just a great story.
Anyway, we had our usual Halloween blowout party. Tons of great people (including several I don't see often enough), amazing decorating and food and drinks by Jen, neat costumes. It was really warm! and I think that tamped down the drinking a little, so it was slightly less raucous than usual, but not so less-raucous that one of our neighbors didn't scream off his balcony at us at only half past midnight on a Saturday ("take your orgy inside it's one in the fucking morning!") and call the cops on us. The cops showed up looking kind of bored and embarrassed and cranky at having been called on a bunch of adults with a fairly sober homeowner. (I won't overlook my privilege, being a white homeowner probably made things go even smoother.)
I was in Chicago most of last week for training, which was both difficult and boring. Well, maybe not boring to me, but the stuff I'm learning does not make for exciting journaling. It'll make me a more valuable employee, but it's a niche technical skill related to an ERP/accounting system, so... yeah. Not exactly a firefighter or astronaut. I'm probably doing three more weeks of training! before the end of the year, too, which will make the holidays interesting.
The one thing of note: screw hotels that put their televisions in "hotel mode," which disables auxiliary inputs. It's to keep you from hooking up your own computer or video games or whatever, and renting from them. I'm such a dork that I borrowed a computer monitor from our office to hook up my PS4. :)
On that note, I finished Mafia III, and wow what a great story. Good game, a couple of technical issues, but just a great story.
Anyway, we had our usual Halloween blowout party. Tons of great people (including several I don't see often enough), amazing decorating and food and drinks by Jen, neat costumes. It was really warm! and I think that tamped down the drinking a little, so it was slightly less raucous than usual, but not so less-raucous that one of our neighbors didn't scream off his balcony at us at only half past midnight on a Saturday ("take your orgy inside it's one in the fucking morning!") and call the cops on us. The cops showed up looking kind of bored and embarrassed and cranky at having been called on a bunch of adults with a fairly sober homeowner. (I won't overlook my privilege, being a white homeowner probably made things go even smoother.)