There was a mandatory meeting at work last Friday where we told that the entire department would be laid off in June.

The old positions were going away, but there were going to be replaced 7 new full-time positions. The 70+ members of the department will have to reapply for these 7 positions that are also open to outside applicants to keep a job

"There is a war going on for your mind" by Flobots: (awesome professional flash graphics show of the lyrics)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo_UoYf7mmY

"Defend Atlantis" by Flobots: (works well as an song for Awakening)

How am I supposed to know what to do if I don't know where to go?

Here's some photos from my trip to Melbourne, Australia last week:

This was where we played (they didn't play in a hotel):


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The chapter  "is officially and immediately dissolved into" the domain.
The domain is "is officially reduced in status from domain down to Independent Chapter within the" Region.

Snark does not pay. Harassment tactics to get dissenters to quit will not be rewarded. None of pernicious intent shall pass. Mission accomplished.

While reading www.tvtropes.org (you will lose hours!), I came across a game called Schadenfreude.

"The only rule: whenever anyone loses at anything, you win. It's worth it just for the looks on the other people's faces ...
"Dangit, I just lost the game."
"I win."
"IT DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY!""

The ANST on final write-up for the national Silver Ladder-focused proxy that ran this week, to wrap up a year's worth of plot:

"We're currently over 12,000 words (37 some odd pages double spaced. I told you 4 was the TLDR version), with roughly 66% of the assembled PC's mentioned at least somewhere in the write up. I expect that number to jump ( Read more... )

My games are exploding like firecrackers on a string ( Read more... )

From http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/2008/08/12/10-things-you-can-stop-worrying-about/

Here's the wrap up from the above blog link (which is a summary of a longer version from the New York Times Science page, linked from that page):

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I can't put my finger on it. There are all kinds of metaphysical questions, yet there are more answers to them then there are questions themselves. How does one figure out what is right, useful and constructive?

Using the path of what feels strongest to you isn't enough for me, because I can be quite good at deceiving myself. Deceiving yourself is ( Read more... )