I am really sorry to hear that. I hope you feel better soon, and I really hope that your wife is able to find some other work, or that the work changes it's mind and renews the contract.

I'm not sure if you are a hugger or a waver, but have a big hug for you and your wife. *big hug*

Good day Tom, Stilty, Blob!

Would you have kept the first one if the snow still worked? I miss that snow :-(

Maybe it is to discourage the stoned and drunk college kids from driving? I dunno... It is a pretty quiet town; almost everything closes at 9pm.

*giggle*

*big hug* you are so evil ;-)

I couldn't resist :-). *return hug*

I am really struggling with not just gifting lots and lots of games. But I am trying to be good about that this year, as it seems to make people feel bad as I am difficult to gift back.

Thanks for the empathy!

Sadly, temporary contracts are becoming the norm around here. Especially in areas like health care, education and social stuff the only people I know that have unlimited contracts are those of "old stock", with contracts dating from 10 years back. A friend of mine works in the social area - mainly helping under-educated lower class kids finding apprenticeship after school. He has to move every two years because after two years it's either calling it quits or translating the contract into unlimited (by German law). And finding a new job just in the same city is pretty hard. He very good with what he does and has lot of experience under his belt, that's why he always manages to find something new.
It's been like than for almost 10 years now. Of course he has no family of his own and doesn't accumulate a lot of baggage... I don't know how long someone can endure this mercenary life, but I see it's slowly getting to him.

It's a bit better in my area, especially for one with my expertise and experience. Here it's mostly the other way round unlimited contracts with long cancellation periods - for knowledge and "being in the project" are invaluable - so I'm rather fortunate.
I like hugs! From people I like that is - which is why I say thanks! :-)

So... if I don't change my avatar, you won't complain about me changing it ....

Is that a compromise?

(I'm playing Devil's advocate here, by the way...)

I have played Toonstruck back in the day, and if you're remotely into p&c adventures and wacky humor and don't mind SVGA resolution - just get it - you won't regret it. I was literally laughing to tears in some scenes.

So, just a randomly innocent questions *turns and smiles at Moon*. But what would your top 5 games be on your GOG wishlish? Which games would you really like to play that you don't already own?

You see it is a reasonable compromise, since you are changing your user title frequently already and I have not started complaining about it (yet) :P

Says someone with no public wishlist...

I'll give you the same answer I gave Crow a few days ago.
"List is up to date as well as reasons why games are there. But nothing has high priority since I have enough games to play already in my backlog"

It's pretty much the same here, that's why I'm self employed now. It's not always easy, but at least there's no worrying about contracts (or bosses to please!)

Problem is I can't really see it getting much better anywhere... if people become so used to temporary contracts that they are the norm there's no real reason for big employers not to continue using them and stop having to take people on properly.
I worked in a Citizens Advice Bureau (not sure if you have anything similar over there, basically just help people with benefits, debt, employment and legal issues etc.) for about four years and I've seen some pretty horrendous treatment of people by their employers, and more often than not there is so little you can actually do about it because the law is on the employers side...

Rather someone with no wishlist. Hard to make it public when I don't have a proper wishlist done. But if you insist, I will include a screenshot of my GOG wishlist.