Is it narcissistic of me to chip in on that? I would totally hang that on my wall :)
I took a week long vacation, just before that my coworker quit. When I returned my department manager got fired. I am now the only person in my department. I meet with management in a couple hours. I expect the company to offer me a raise (finally) and her position. But I'm not happy, I think they mistreated her and that it was wrong for them to fire her. Sadly I expect the same sort of heavy workload and lack of support if I take the position. For the time being I want to take the position if it's offered, but negotiating terms is not going to be fun. I hope I'm ready. I'm nervous as hell.
Keep in mind: You will never have as much leverage as you have now. If they don't offer you enough to stay, they lose all institutional memory of the entire department. If they don't treat you well enough to be happy, they will have to scramble to find someone to replace you when you inevitably move on. No matter how shitty the promotion, it's still a promotion and looks great on a resume. Share your concerns (politely) and come up with the amount and conditions that will make you stay. Ask for them. Buddy of mine switched from a small boutique agency to CAA; his wife was insistent that he ask for "fuck you money" because she knew he'd burn out after a few years and they needed enough of a cushion he could take a few years off after that. He got "fuck you" money.
For 6 months 10+ employees have been told "raises are coming "with no delivery. Two months ago I was promised I'd get a raise, that never happened. Today I was offered a promotion with an even smaller raise than was negotiated before. After more discussion where I raised my concerns about the position and we more clearly defined my job description, two things happened: 1) I accepted the job and insulting raise with the promise of an employee and slightly less insulting raise within 60 days. 2) I came to the conclusion that even if both of those promises were kept I would more than likely not be working for the company longer than 60 days. There are other reasons for wanting to leave. I've been keeping my eyes open for a while now for other job opportunities, now I'll be actively looking for another job.
Very true. I'm going to go update my resume, and set a reminder!
Are you gonna do anything special to get yourself ready for the negotiation? I only ask because I recently read an article about how the 15 minutes at the negotiating table have a disproportionate on the rest of your life as opposed to most other 15 minute periods. Best of luck. Don't be nervous, they need you like you need them.
I have been reading up on salary negotiation and asking for advice a lot recently. This is one of the first jobs where I've had the opportunity and motivation to work hard and grow in the company. I feel as if I've held my own pretty good so far. The problem is that negotiations go well and raises are promised...for a later date. Then magical unforeseeable issues pop up and raises have to be put on hold.
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that was an april fool's joke. Then I legit finished. Then I went back and changed it. Then I stopped. Changed it again. Now I'm going to change it again like the growing fungus that is my relationship with this site, so too does hubskina grow along with it or something I don't know
I am reconciling myself to the idea that I probably need to break up with my boyfriend. Tomorrow, I must remember to buy tickets so my dad and I can go see PAUL SIMON in concert together this summer. My dad is the reason I got into Simon and Garfunkel, and his birthday is in May, so when I was thinking of who might be interested in seeing Paul Simon with me, I realized my dad would be perfect. When I give him his ticket I'll give him some big old story about my vivid memory of "the day I started hearing music," which involves him putting on a Simon & Garfunkel record on his OG record player, and me hearing "Cecilia" and suddenly going "What IS this awesome stuff?" and my brain snapping it all together at once, this is music, and that moment was the first time I encountered music and paid attention to it and "got" it as other than background noise and scene-setting. I am also looking into volunteering at the WXPN music festival this summer, which will be in July. If I break it off with my boyfriend tomorrow night, I plan on using it as a springboard to "quit [local college town]" for 30 days (along with alcohol and weed) and push a Change in my life. I haven't gone 30 days without smoking bud in a little over 3 years. I want to take a detox of both these things anyway, but I find it is easier to make such initiatives "stick" when you tie them into other life events or decisions. For instance, I had a toxic group of friends many years ago that I needed to quit. Right around the same time I was moving out of state. When I moved, I simply dropped them all without comment, and it was a lot easier to drop them by using the move as - I guess a lever or something - to help make the drop/no-contact happen. It'll be easy to avoid [local college town] and my bar immediately post this break-up because I won't want to run into him, or drunkenly text him and make backwards steps. But it sucks to break up with people, and it's painful, even if you want to do it or if it's the right thing to do. So I'm not committed to tomorrow. But...it's coming. I cannot deny it anymore, that the end is coming. Edited to add my first non-paint-by-numbers painting (in progress, not complete, but surprisingly, happily, more okay than not): 
New to Hubski. Been stressing out for the last few weeks or so because I realized that I've been in a new city for more than 6 months and haven't really made any friends beyond work. Trying not to be too hard on myself, because it's my first time being alone in a new city and I've always struggled with social anxiety, but decided yesterday to be more proactive about things. I remembered that when I was in college I broke out of my shell by being active in online communities, so I'm starting small, commenting here, I guess. Hi everyone.
This is going to sound terrible, but I'm still trying to figure out what my interests actually are.
That doesn't sound terrible that sounds exciting ! So many possibilities ! I would just start trying stuff, find a local art store that does classes, or even better those painting events they have at bars. Do you enjoy the outdoors ? Dancing ? Cooking ? Many yarn stores or cafes have meet ups for knitting if you ever want to try that.
For fearing of stinking up the pub, I'd like a stiff drink. I think it's official. I think I'm depressed. It's been three months of seesawing emotions and steadily feeling more and more like shit. I'm at a bit of a low. And I'm hedging with "a bit of". It's remarkable how my perception of the quality of my life has little relationship to how my life actually is. There are so many objective measures by which my life is fucking awesome. Instead, I feel that my ambitions and confidence are disappearing. What happened? On another note, it's fascinating to me that I have a serious reservation about sharing this with you guys. It's like I don't want to entangle my digital friends with my real life problems.
My sister just started this book on mindfulness which basically details an eight week plan for mindfulessness training. One of the first things it recommends doing in the first week is changing chairs. So instead of sitting at the normal chair at your table, in a cafe or anywhere sit somewhere you wouldn't normally sit. Sometimes we get so stuck in routine we stop noticing everything around us and we end up feeling disconnected. Something that might help change your perspective if you're stuck in a rut or help somebody else who would also like a stiff drink.
I have Mindfulness in Plain English on my list. I do believe there is a form of salvation within the Mindfulness school. I guess I should move it the front of the list, then.
I've heard good things about that book, great place to start ! I think mindfulness just helps add something else to life when we are stuck in a regular mundane routine. I'm sure you can think of those comics showing somebody doing the same boring thing everyday (getting ready for work, sitting in traffic, working at a desk, traffic again, home, bed). Mindfulness just adds a little something else to the day.
I think I have a lot of control. Short of quitting my jobs, I more or less control what happens in my free time, today or next month. It's just a lack of will. And imagination. That's the scariest part. The ideas that used to take such hold of me now seem... greyed out. Not greyed out by circumstances, but because the feedback I seem to be getting from the universe is so discouraging. And the fact that these discouragements seem so effective is even more discouraging. I don't know if that makes sense. That said, I'm about to go on a run. I try to follow a rule that if my brain is sending me waves and waves of funk, to get up and move. It helps sometimes.
I am deeply and personally aware of this feel. I wouldn't describe myself as 'playful.' Creative, sure, in some senses more than others. I have goals, I have things that I want to do, things that I enjoy but it's all dead-fucking-serious. Not sure how to address it though. Hope the run helped.The ideas that used to take such hold of me now seem... greyed out.
I meant like as an item on a drop-down menu. Where the system says the options are unavailable. And you kind of accept because it doesn't feel like there's anything you can do about it. In retrospect, that metaphor was not very fleshed out.The ideas that used to take such hold of me now seem... greyed out.
Makes sense. Personally I sense it as a.... Vibrancy, I guess is the closest word. I might not always notice when I feel it/experience it, but I definitely notice it's absence. I find the computer analogy kind of comforting actually, because it means that things can (With enough consideration and thoughtful effort) eventually be made usable/accessible.
When I am feeling depressed the following two things happen, both of which I suspect are similar to what you (both) are describing - 1) Know the phrase, "Not a fan"? A common idiom used to express a negative emotion or feeling, but not intensely negative - more like a passive or background dislike as opposed to active and impassioned. When I'm depressed, I find I become "not a fan" - of myself, of anything I can do or create. None of it passes muster or can live up to my desires or expectations or hopes. Everything simply falls short, and I feel "not a fan" of my work (/myself). 2) No matter what options I have in front of me for "things to do," nothing is appealing. It is similar to "not a fan" in that nothing is overtly off-putting - I'm not like "Oh god no I would never do that!" - but I simply have no desire to do anything that I could do, even things I regularly enjoy and such. I guess I feel these things are similar to "greyed out" and "lack of vibrancy" because both of you seem to be talking about how things may remain present, or visible, or seem within reach or ability or grasp - but faded, diminished, lessened.
My normally 15 minute or less commute took 35 minutes. In that period of time I watched 2 people go off the road, 1 guy hit a deer, and 2 of my research patients called to cancel their appointments for the day. To everybody in Michigan, yes, it is still winter. Yes I know it was 60 and sunny on Saturday. Mother Nature doesn't give a damn.
amazing. that still sounds better than DC in the winter time though. in preparing for snowzilla, they ignored a midweek blitz of like... an inch max and some people were out on the road til like 4 am. love it
It's currently 12:43 am here. Feeling really depressed lately, don't know why, just a funk. Missing michigan a lot. Send vernors, send JDilla, send me Detroit Comedy, send me Detroit theater and arts. My wife and I haven't made a commitment to living here, but an "open arrangement" of 3 years and I am already feeling a pull to go back home. Honestly, I think I just miss my friends.
You're in Xi'an, right? Go hit muslim street and buy a bowl of those spicy little potatoes and post a picture here and tell me how amazingly delicious they are (because I found them amazingly delicious and crave them often). I know that didn't offer much in the way of a solution for homesickness... but hey - spicy potatoes are a nice distraction!
I was in Xi'ian, back in Shanghai now. I did hit up that Muslim street though and GODDAMN that was some good eats. I wish we would have taken more pictures on that street but I had this lamb sandwich thing that I still think about and some pomegranate tea. It was like the perfect amount of salty and sweet. So many great smells.You're in Xi'an, right? Go hit muslim street and buy a bowl of those spicy little potatoes and post a picture here and tell me how amazingly delicious they are (because I found them amazingly delicious and crave them often).
I went hiking this weekend and found snow. It was nice, almost a relief, to find winter after the abysmal showing we've had locally. It was overcast but still beautiful. 
GOOD / BAD The dishwasher is in / apparently it took out the floor on its way out, such that we now need to pour concrete pilings, saw out 6" cardeck and rebuild which is only going to be a few (more) thousand dollars The rig is up / Windows 10 doesn't support LAG, Netgear LAG implementation doesn't actually work, and Euphonix will happily let multiple rigs talk to your control surfaces but buried in the fine print is the fact that they can't be mixed languages so my Mac/PC setup is dead from the factory I got paid my retro from The World's Most Awful Gig / But they paid me less than 10 cents on the dollar (seriously - my hourly wage went up $14 and somehow they argue they overpaid me by $67 on a 90-hour paycheck) so they still owe me over $8k and I'm now in negotiations with IATSE Int'l to sue them for retaliation I de-rednecked the back yard by chipping maybe two cubic yards of brush and fallen branches / But I've still got another cubic yard to go and whatever was in my nose is now in my throat and lungs We're waiting for one more vendor (the countertops) to submit a bid and then we're ready to break ground on the business / But our contractor's son has pneumonia, his dog died yesterday and the city opened a Permit Hellscape before us because our landlord questioned their "mandatory asbestos inspection fee" on the grounds that, well, there wasn't a lot of asbestos being used in construction when the building was built in 1988 On the plus side, we're credentialed by one of the two big firms already, with the rest in process, and my wife has her first client even though the building itself is no closer than it was six weeks ago. And while I'm tempted to chip the rest of the bullshit in the back yard today, maybe I should do something relaxing, like try and get my head back in the book I didn't quite finish writing last June.
Meeting kleinbl00 was easily the least weird part of my weekend. Shaved my beard, left the mustache for a night and then shaved that too. Thinking I might grow it back though, kind of felt like I was rocking it. oh also finding a new apartment is really fucking hard.
My dog has really bad frito feet right now. My wife doesn't notice. I don't know which should concern me more, the fragrant essence of my dog's feet or the apparently sudden lack of functionality of my wife's nose. I'm in a social circle transition right now that seems to be driven more by physical proximity than shared interests. I don't know if I should feel one way or another about that. I recently read that books only last through 10-20 readings before they start to fall apart. I wonder how hard it would be to make sure my books last me my lifetime. I wonder which is easier to maintain, a physical collection or a digital collection. PlaceboEffect needs to get his butt back on Hubski. The bum. Randomness.
I'm in a social circle transition too, though mine is driven by changing interests and habits, which is good. It's been kinda weird and awkward at times, but it's fun to get to know new people better I think. Learn their quirks and habits, and connect at a new level. It's interesting, and I'm learning a lot about myself too in the process. If there are just a few books you are really worried about, look into getting higher-end bindings of them. Most classics and stuff will have at least a few well-bound editions. If you have any unique ones, you may be able to find a local bookbinder to get them into something more lasting for you.
Getting to meet new people is always amazing. I think it's one of the best parts about life. It's just weird though, because for some reason I feel like I'm undervaluing my already established relationships, which couldn't be farther from the truth. I dunno how to explain it. It's not like I'm trying to find replacements for my old friends or anything. I'm just hanging out with different people all of the sudden because we live closer together and/or it's easier to line our schedules up. I know rebinding is a thing. Chances are it'd be a lot easier than trying to hunt down digital copies of everything, though probably just as expensive. I'd be half tempted to do it though, down the road if I decide to make that a priority.
It is not hard to learn how to bind books, FWIW. It is time-consuming, in that there is a lot of "Do this, then wait," but it is not actually difficult, nor expensive when one goes that route. Alternatively, you could treasure the impact that repeated readings make on your books and view it as a physical manifestation of your emotional connection with the book. I don't know, I am not expressing myself well. I will say I just re-read my copy of Christine for like, the 3rd time. It was used when it came to me and now the first 100 pages are essentially looseleaf, but I like it that way. The book feels well-worn and loved. It feels like a copy that I have cared about for a long time. No one could ever mistake that copy for their copy; it is clearly mine and mine alone, different from every other copy of Christine out there due to the wear and tear it's experienced, a fair amount at my own hands. Sure, I can't hand it down, but I don't plan to. Eventually I think I'll re-purpose the pages into art somehow. I think it's cool.
Digital. By far. I have scans of a few paystubs that were eaten by silverfish. Those scans currently exist on five different computers and two phones, backed up to Dropbox such that they're always synchronized, with the past dozen versions of those files (should I choose to edit them) readily available to me on any device I can log into. Dropbox could be swallowed by the sun and those files would still exist on six sets of non-volatile flash memory and one spinning platter, the former of which will last theoretically forever the latter of which is as good as the bearing grease sealed in an argon environment. The silverfish damage, on the other hand, happened within six weeks.
I fucking hate silverfish. I hate pests. I have blocks of cedar and bay leaves on each shelf to deter pests such as silverfish, moths, etc. Does it work as well as mothballs? I dunno. 15 years in though, and no bugs, yet. ::knocksonwood:: That said, just the thought of bugs fills me with worry. All of my books are kept in a very dry basement. On the upside, mildew is not an issue. On the downside, it's a bit too dry, so I need to run a humidifier sometimes to prevent the spine glue from drying out. I wonder if there is a legal, easy, free way to get digital copies of all of my books. My comics especially.
Comics are the hardest part of digitizing a library imo. Usually you'll end up just torrenting some cbz/cbr because a nice soul was kind enough to take the time to scan it and upload it, whereas the manufacture of the comic (who can no longer make money on it, or doesn't realize they can profit twice from it) can't be bothered.
Yeah. About 70% of my collection is graphic novels. I've collected a lot in the span of 15 years. Seeing as how that's the majority of my collection, it's a bit of a hurdle to overcome. It really is a bit much to tackle. One of the interesting things though is that Valiant, my favorite universe, is slowly republishing a lot of their stuff from the '90s. They seem to see the value in their old properties and are embracing them. The second biggest chunk of my collection actually happens to be antique books. Digitizing them kind of defeats some of the purpose. That said though, as each month passes I'm more and more considering getting rid of that part of my collection. Taking care of them is a bunch of work and responsibility. It kind of takes some of the fun out of collecting them.
We had to leave our apartment for three days while the fumigated the entire building (30 units) for termites. Packed up all our food, moved the aquarium and plants to the clubhouse, the whole nine yards. The silverfish didn't give a fuck. It's interesting. I purge books like a mutherfucker. I recognize that nearly every book I own I've purchased used, and that publishers and authors have no secondary market participation, and that from an author's perspective, buying the book used is the same as torrenting it. Yet I pay for Kindle books because I like the convenience. I like being able to sync between two kindles and a phone, I like being able to read samples, I like being able to check them out from a library and read them on my device, I like knowing that my notes and bookmarks are preserved across the cloud. More than that, I hate that trade paperbacks are so crappy these days and that the best cover in the world is likely to curl, but that I can pimp the shit out of my Kindle and suddenly my wretched digital no-book-feel book not only feels better than a shitty paperback, it SMELLS awesome. My one regret is that they discontinued the DX. The form factor of the DX dusts the fuck out of the little kindles. And they'll probably stop selling those soon, too, because they sell hella more Fires. Sux.
I know you can highlight, leave notes in, etc, a Kindle book, but there's one thing I don't think you can do which just struck me: can't get an ePub signed, can you? I purge a lot of books but there are some I can't ever purge or replace with a Kindle edition and I was trying to think what those were, and why they couldn't be replaced/made digital. So far signed copies, and the ability to get copies signed, or inscribed with a personal note, stand out the most. I guess we could go back to autograph books.
This so much this so much. When I moved I purged an entire lifetime of books. My kindle though? I was able to keep with every book on it and read it while traveling. Fuck paperbacks. (But also fuck vendor lock in which kindle really doesn't have a problem with but sort of does).It's interesting. I purge books like a mutherfucker. I recognize that nearly every book I own I've purchased used, and that publishers and authors have no secondary market participation, and that from an author's perspective, buying the book used is the same as torrenting it. Yet I pay for Kindle books because I like the convenience. I like being able to sync between two kindles and a phone, I like being able to read samples, I like being able to check them out from a library and read them on my device, I like knowing that my notes and bookmarks are preserved across the cloud.
Neither have I, it's more of a feeling of dirtyness that I know I can't transport my kindle books from one ecosystem to another without decrypting the drm. It's been fine because Amazon's kindle has been the best thus far, and I have no problems with their ecosystem. But hey you never know what crazy device might come out tomorrow!
Well, it looks like my contract here is not going to be renewed, since the manager is taking the team in a different direction and no longer need a copywriter/storyteller. Negotiations were yesterday with my agency and the company. I got rave reviews from everyone. Too bad I'm good at things they don't need, and I want nothing to do with where they are going. (Direct sales.) Got the plumber scheduled to take out the old, falling apart, 50-year old pipes, and replace them with new stuff next week. That'll be $3k. Starting negotiations with gardeners to build out the new back yard design. Probably going to be $10, all told. But needs to be done before we host the Rehearsal Dinner the night before our wedding, on July 9th. Meeting with the clothing designer to make my wedding get-up. Old friend who used to be a man and now is a dead sexy woman. Should be interesting. And costly. (Guessing $700 or so.) But, the wife now owns her home 100%, so getting a loan for all this isn't gonna be a problem. Paying for it will be. If I don't have a job. So... yeah. I'm thinking about money right now. A lot.
Ugh I know this feeling, I'm applying to jobs as well. Constantly working on improving my chances (i.e. learning and working on interview skills) helps me not fall into a pit of despair. Even if the eventual job offer is partially the result of a bunch of random processes, the illusion/feeling of progress makes the whole endeavour feel a bit less hopeless. I've come up against the ol' Dunning-Kruger effect so many times though. oh shit I didn't know I should have been doing that all along etc
I loved Mike Birbiglia's Sleepwalk with Me show. It was very very good - I actually saw it in NYC. I also saw another one-man show called something like "my girlfriend's boyfriend" something like that. What's playing? I doubt I can get to NYC in mid-March - but you never know. By the way galen I love my finger eyeball PUPPET. So wonderful. I need more. I need a dozen. Send me your source and I'll mail order.
I am so jealous of your Birbigs experience. This is his new show, Thank God For Jokes. I found you this: http://smile.amazon.com/Assorted-Googly-Monster-Finger-Puppets/dp/B00IEDWRHO/
I'll get a hesitant round for everyone, because I might actually have money for the next four years. I heard back yesterday about a wonderful full-ride (plus some extra stuff) scholarship from my third pick school. I have to fly out there towards the end of March for some interviews and dinners and what not, but I'm a finalist at least. I'm glad my hours and stress from writing five extra essays is so close to paying off. Now I just have stand out from a bunch of other overly qualified candidates. Hopefully even if it's not the full ride, I get a pretty good scholarship still. I've gotten great ones from other schools (to the point where I don't care what the local state college says, because the private schools will cost me less), so unless I get the full-ride, I may go elsewhere. But this is still all very exciting, and it's nice to see my work pay off and finally have a chance to relax. Now the my bragski is done, has anyone ever done a musical? Especially if you've been in the pit orchestra. Tech week is next week, and I'm not sure I'm ready for spending 14 hours at school a week from today. I have next Tuesday off though, so the poor juniors can take the ACT. So more bragski. It's been a good week.
I'm starting to appreciate why so few labs do proteomics (well). When things go well, it's 1-2 weeks of work for often extremely useful data that can turn a year of measuring different things based on things the literature suggested to look at to a month of validating results on things no one would have bothered to investigate otherwise. After ~1 year, I have pretty much every protocol committed to memory, and I only occasionally have to look up exact volumes / concentrations. When things go badly, it's months of wasted effort and up to thousands of dollars wasted in reagents alone, not including salary or instrument leasing costs. At this point, two post-docs, a tech, and I have switched out most of our reagents, tried new antibodies, and still the data coming out of each of our runs has been crap. It's a real crowbar in the bike wheels and has thrown off our entire lab's schedule for close to a month now. In the mean time I'm catching up on my readings and trying to take my (one) class seriously. I have the growing suspicion that one of the professors may be the sort of person to take pleasure in ripping apart other labs' works. But I think it only makes me respect them more as I see how much crap makes it into even the top-tier journals of neuroscience. In other news, I climbed my first V3 on Monday! It's nice to see some progression, since I'd definitely hit a plateau since coming back in January. Still have yet to move my body in any pattern even remotely resembling a dance though.
While my proteomics are a little less crazy than yours (only a surface biotinylation assay) I can relate. I always have the feeling the proteomic methods (specially SDS-PAGE) are the least advanced compared to all the DNA/RNA stuff. Of course, this has a lot to do with the instability of proteins and handling but still, it is annoying. Messed up a PCR? no problem, doing another one is fast. Messed up a western? Oh, you don't have enough material left for another one? You had to sacrifice two mice to get enough material for one? The next batch of suitable mice is in 5 weeks? fuck this shit. I was recently invited to try bouldering. Maybe I should try it out. Actually, my room has loft bed with bouldering stuff (no idea how they are called) attached to it. The guy who lived here before used to boulder/climb.
Most certainly. Until you get true peptide sequencing (a la nanopore?) / some method of amplification, there will be huge sensitivity limits to proteomics that will never bring it to the single-cell level. Supposedly new multiplexed staining methods should help with that, but antibody-based readouts have their own set of issues... I'm hopeful for advances in that area next few years though. The mice I've been using take close to four months, plus however many days of gene induction, plus the wait time for this breed, which has been quite a while now. Definitely makes me nervous in picking which assays I run. I've been stuck on whether to throw my remaining sample for a kinase-activation assay, or to save it for more targeted blots... Bouldering is great though! After the first few rounds of forearm death, progress happens pretty quickly. I've been going since September and seen a grade increase ~every two months.I always have the feeling the proteomic methods (specially SDS-PAGE) are the least advanced compared to all the DNA/RNA stuff. Of course, this has a lot to do with the instability of proteins and handling but still, it is annoying.
The next batch of suitable mice is in 5 weeks? fuck this shit.
So I read Falling Free by Lois McMaster Bujold, I thought about doing a full post review but think I'll just slip it in here: Absolutely enjoyed it, and it reminded me a lot of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein as they both (spoilers) feature a middle aged engineer helping start a revolution. The way the quaddies (mutants) were handled is exactly what I had envisaged for my own #worldbuilding idea, so it's quite like coming up with an idea and skipping straight to the finished product! I'd definitely recommend the book and plan on reading the rest of the series, maybe that should be my #moralemenagerie goal!
I completely missed pubski. I didn't even know it was Wednesday. I was in the air or in airports without wifi for hours. DFW-YVR after MIA-DFW after EKW - MIA... well EKW-MIA is only 25 minutes in the air, if it's not too windy and you can even take off. OK, I'm hiding in the northwest for a couple of days. It's not even raining.
I've been on a weird sleep schedule running 3-630pm till 10pm-12am for about two weeks. It's been terrible for seeing friends but awesome for productivity. I wake up with nothing to do but clean, read, and draw and dj, instead of going to work tired, I'm awake and ready to go and in a productive mood. I even have time to run errands after if neccesary. It's been wonderful for keeping me out of trouble too haha. It's easy to stay in waking up that late, and it's been nice for my sense of balance mentally. I'm trying to fix it tonight though. Once I'm back on something regular we'll see if the party animal in me died a quiet death or has just been hibernating haha.
Welcome to insomnia country. Where you can get shit done, but might not see your roommates for a week.
Hey, while everybody's here shootin' the shit, who do we like for webhosting these days? We've been with HostGator for years but lately their service is sucking hard. We're also discovering that if you want to talk to anyone other than the most munchkinish of chat flaks, you have to wait six days for an email.
My agency switched to https://asmallorange.com/ recently because of their price and extremely quick service. Their live chat game is rock solid.
My boyfriend went trough this about a year ago. He was with hostgator and downtime has been aweful since they got bought out by eig. In the end, he went with hostswithlove and says support has been great and the price is pretty good. I don't know so much about these things but good luck finding hosting not owned by eig :(