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toxicTom: ...
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!

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Stilton: There you go, complaining that I change my avatar too often and then wanting me to change it back! I got bored with the first one because he looked like an idiot, the second one looked annoyed to have those two huge things growing out of his head, and now I find one I like and you'd prefer me to change it back.... I mean, what is a Viking to do? Maybe I should keep changing it every few days until everyone's happy....
Would you have kept the first one if the snow still worked? I miss that snow :-(

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AgentBirdnest: I'm actually a bit surprised that there aren't any places open in the middle of the night where I live. A college town, with 10,000 stoned kids... Seems like night pizza would make great money... They usually close at 9pm though :-\
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adaliabooks: Well that is odd, we do really well on an evening and I would have thought a pizza place would stay open till at least 10 or 11pm...
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.
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moonshineshadow: *big hug* I never thought the first one looked like an idiot. But if you feel that way ok... I take back that you should change the current one back of you promise not to go on changing your avatar all the time. Deal? :D
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Stilton: Hmmm.... I'm not sure.... What if I get bored with this one? I like a bit of variety in my life, you know. That's why I collect games. Too much of one thing leads to restlessness, at least for me ;-)
How about a compromise? You do not change the avatar anymore and I will not complain about you changing your user title so often :D
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EndreWhiteMane: *** Notice: NO gifting please! **

Has anyone played Toonstruck or the new Grim Fandango yet?
Fun, stupid, meh, opinions?
*giggle*
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EndreWhiteMane: *** Notice: NO gifting please! **

Has anyone played Toonstruck or the new Grim Fandango yet?
Fun, stupid, meh, opinions?
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ddickinson: *giggle*
*big hug* you are so evil ;-)
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moonshineshadow: *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.
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adaliabooks: Sorry you've not been feeling great.

And that's awful about your wife, I've worked on temporary contracts before and the wondering if your going to be kept on or renewed at the end is dreadful. And it can be very difficult to find other work if you know your not going to be. I hope she's able to find something.
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.
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ddickinson: 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*
I like hugs! From people I like that is - which is why I say thanks! :-)
Post edited March 10, 2015 by toxicTom
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Stilton: Hmmm.... I'm not sure.... What if I get bored with this one? I like a bit of variety in my life, you know. That's why I collect games. Too much of one thing leads to restlessness, at least for me ;-)
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moonshineshadow: How about a compromise? You do not change the avatar anymore and I will not complain about you changing your user title so often :D
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...)
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EndreWhiteMane: Has anyone played Toonstruck or the new Grim Fandango yet?
Fun, stupid, meh, opinions?
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?
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moonshineshadow: How about a compromise? You do not change the avatar anymore and I will not complain about you changing your user title so often :D
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Stilton: 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...)
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
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ddickinson: 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?
Says someone with no public wishlist...
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ddickinson: 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?
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"
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toxicTom: 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.
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...
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toxicTom: Says someone with no public wishlist...
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.
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