The Joys of Winter
Wheee. There's nothing more fun than getting up at 6 a.m. on a very blizzardy monday morning to drive through treacherous conditions to a job site where you'll have to freeze your ass off. In case nobody can tell I'm being sarcastic and unfortunately I experienced this exact joy this morning.
To fill in the backstory the Company that I worked for called my house on Friday afternoon. This is the same company that hasn't called me for any work in about 2 1/2 months. I had figured the construction season was winding down, but apparently I was wrong. Anyways they called looking for my Dad, but he was out of town working for a different company. So I spoke to the big boss and he asked if I could return back to the same site that I had worked at a couple of months ago. I think mainly they asked because it was easier for them. Every plant work site has a really boring orientation and test you have to go through before you can work there. Most of it's common sense, but I guess they have to cover their ass. I had already gone though the orientation so they wouldn't need need to waste time waiting while someone else got trained.
It turns out though that we had the time to waste this morning as we sat around in the trailer waiting for stuff to get organized so that we could start working. This disorganization appears to be the norm for the construction biz, and I cringe at the thought of all the money wasted. Then as it turns out there was to be no work because someone had neglected to send dust filters for our masks which we needed to enter the furnace where our work was supposed to be taking place. We poked around for a little bit, set a few things up, listened to a guy complain that they should have heaters inside of there (a good idea in my opinion, but a little impractical), and then we went home. So I probably shouldn't complain too much as I really was only expsed to the weather briefly. To top the disorganization off, no one really has any idea how long this job is supposed to take. I heard a week from the big boss while someone said they thought it would be about two weeks. After looking at the job though the Foreman said it should only take 3 days at the max. Guess which estimate I'm hoping for.
Back to my weekend though and happier topics. Because my dad was away I decided to take my mom out for dinner and a movie with Shani and my sister as well. Of course I completely forgot about the Infernal wake that some players from Paradise were having at Jekyl's that night. For dinner I had decided on the new greek restaurant that had opened on the southside here recently, Koutouki's Taverna. It's a somewhat famous place already as it's opening was featured in a show on the Food Network called Family Restaurant. I never watched it, but I guess it was one of those kind of reality shows about the hurdles of opening a restaurant.
The building it is in now used to be a Smitty's, but you could never tell it now. It's decorated very beautifully, and it reeks of greek ambience. The food was pretty good as well, with most of us at the table agreeing that we preferred Yiannis more. I guess they still had to pay a lot for all the frills as the food was pretty pricey. It seemed like you had to pay extra for every little thing. The homous was seperate from the pita forcing you to pay for both. It's just occurred to me now, but I wonder what they'd do if I went in there and just ordered the homous and then sat there eating it with my fingers. I don't mind an expensive dinner like that once in a while but some of it seemed a little unneccesary to me.
After eating we went to the theatre, where we debated about what we were going to do. My mother and sister were a little leery about seeing a movie so late so they decided to just go home. In my sister's words "the old ladies need to go home for sleep." So Shani and I saw Aeon Flux which wasn't terrible, but it wasn't so great either. Thinking about it now I'd lean more towards the terrible side.
Saturday afternoon I played D&D with the group I haven't played with for a while. The intro wasn't bad, but we'll have to wait and see how that goes. Then came Saturday evening and the much anticipated Paradise Lost game. It was an interesting game for me with a lot of the internal roleplaying going on, and a lot of the angst.
A constant song was being played over the angelic symphony that healed the emotional pain of those Fallen who were not so evil. Unfortunatly for the really evil characters like mine it caused them emotional pain. Tempest doesn't have so many bricks in his sanity wall as it is so he really couldn't afford to lose any. As a result he was grouchy, and angsty all night. This was made worse by the appearance of the stuffed monkey which was given to one of the characters by an angel. The Divine all insisted that it was harmless so to prove a point Tempest tried to destroy it with his powers. Of course the monkey couldn't be destroyed and the power got reflected back onto Tempest breaking all of his fingers backwards. Luckily a member of his murder reacted quickly calming him down with her powers or he would have flipped out. So it was a pretty ignoble defeat made worse by the amount of talk after that, that centered around the monkey. If he wasn't so calm at the time he would have started yelling at everyone to just shut up already about the monkey.
Then there was a big emotional moment with some big heartfelt talk with another character. It was either really sweet, or sad, desperate, and co-dependent. Time will tell on that I suppose. But either way it's an exciting development. Tempest is moving to the point where he's not just an evil jerk doing bad for its own sake, as he realizes that there is a real hollowness to it. He was trying everything to get the Divine to react to something he did, even if it was a negative one he would have been happy.
I should be running off to bed soon here though. I hear it's going to be even colder tomorrow. Yay!
To fill in the backstory the Company that I worked for called my house on Friday afternoon. This is the same company that hasn't called me for any work in about 2 1/2 months. I had figured the construction season was winding down, but apparently I was wrong. Anyways they called looking for my Dad, but he was out of town working for a different company. So I spoke to the big boss and he asked if I could return back to the same site that I had worked at a couple of months ago. I think mainly they asked because it was easier for them. Every plant work site has a really boring orientation and test you have to go through before you can work there. Most of it's common sense, but I guess they have to cover their ass. I had already gone though the orientation so they wouldn't need need to waste time waiting while someone else got trained.
It turns out though that we had the time to waste this morning as we sat around in the trailer waiting for stuff to get organized so that we could start working. This disorganization appears to be the norm for the construction biz, and I cringe at the thought of all the money wasted. Then as it turns out there was to be no work because someone had neglected to send dust filters for our masks which we needed to enter the furnace where our work was supposed to be taking place. We poked around for a little bit, set a few things up, listened to a guy complain that they should have heaters inside of there (a good idea in my opinion, but a little impractical), and then we went home. So I probably shouldn't complain too much as I really was only expsed to the weather briefly. To top the disorganization off, no one really has any idea how long this job is supposed to take. I heard a week from the big boss while someone said they thought it would be about two weeks. After looking at the job though the Foreman said it should only take 3 days at the max. Guess which estimate I'm hoping for.
Back to my weekend though and happier topics. Because my dad was away I decided to take my mom out for dinner and a movie with Shani and my sister as well. Of course I completely forgot about the Infernal wake that some players from Paradise were having at Jekyl's that night. For dinner I had decided on the new greek restaurant that had opened on the southside here recently, Koutouki's Taverna. It's a somewhat famous place already as it's opening was featured in a show on the Food Network called Family Restaurant. I never watched it, but I guess it was one of those kind of reality shows about the hurdles of opening a restaurant.
The building it is in now used to be a Smitty's, but you could never tell it now. It's decorated very beautifully, and it reeks of greek ambience. The food was pretty good as well, with most of us at the table agreeing that we preferred Yiannis more. I guess they still had to pay a lot for all the frills as the food was pretty pricey. It seemed like you had to pay extra for every little thing. The homous was seperate from the pita forcing you to pay for both. It's just occurred to me now, but I wonder what they'd do if I went in there and just ordered the homous and then sat there eating it with my fingers. I don't mind an expensive dinner like that once in a while but some of it seemed a little unneccesary to me.
After eating we went to the theatre, where we debated about what we were going to do. My mother and sister were a little leery about seeing a movie so late so they decided to just go home. In my sister's words "the old ladies need to go home for sleep." So Shani and I saw Aeon Flux which wasn't terrible, but it wasn't so great either. Thinking about it now I'd lean more towards the terrible side.
Saturday afternoon I played D&D with the group I haven't played with for a while. The intro wasn't bad, but we'll have to wait and see how that goes. Then came Saturday evening and the much anticipated Paradise Lost game. It was an interesting game for me with a lot of the internal roleplaying going on, and a lot of the angst.
A constant song was being played over the angelic symphony that healed the emotional pain of those Fallen who were not so evil. Unfortunatly for the really evil characters like mine it caused them emotional pain. Tempest doesn't have so many bricks in his sanity wall as it is so he really couldn't afford to lose any. As a result he was grouchy, and angsty all night. This was made worse by the appearance of the stuffed monkey which was given to one of the characters by an angel. The Divine all insisted that it was harmless so to prove a point Tempest tried to destroy it with his powers. Of course the monkey couldn't be destroyed and the power got reflected back onto Tempest breaking all of his fingers backwards. Luckily a member of his murder reacted quickly calming him down with her powers or he would have flipped out. So it was a pretty ignoble defeat made worse by the amount of talk after that, that centered around the monkey. If he wasn't so calm at the time he would have started yelling at everyone to just shut up already about the monkey.
Then there was a big emotional moment with some big heartfelt talk with another character. It was either really sweet, or sad, desperate, and co-dependent. Time will tell on that I suppose. But either way it's an exciting development. Tempest is moving to the point where he's not just an evil jerk doing bad for its own sake, as he realizes that there is a real hollowness to it. He was trying everything to get the Divine to react to something he did, even if it was a negative one he would have been happy.
I should be running off to bed soon here though. I hear it's going to be even colder tomorrow. Yay!
posted by Eman at 8:30 PM
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Yes, I meant that one. And yes it was very sweet.
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