Yeah... 5 months since my last post on here. Oof. I don't think I've ever gone that long between posts before. I guess there just hasn't been a lot going on for me as far as "real life" goes -- it's all been just going to my job and working on various stuff on the computer, for the most part. I don't see friends nearly as often as I'd like, and it's a really depressing thought that so many of them are going to vanish after this semester is over (and even more within the year or so after that.) I've gotten to see several people recently, but it still never quite seems like "enough," especially when there's still so many friends I really
want to see but I never really get the chance to. I hope I'll be able to keep in touch with people better than I have up to this point... not hearing from people for months at a time is pretty awful (and seems even worse when they're people I could easily just walk over and visit!) and I'd really rather avoid that in the future if at all possible.
Anyway... job has been going okay for the most part. I've made some progress toward finishing those training videos I need to get done before my pay can get bumped up to $8.00 an hour (it's at $7.50 an hour right now), I think I only have one video left to go now... though it is the longest of them, supposedly in the range of an hour and a half. I'm kind of dreading summer, though, after hearing about how insanely hot it gets in that store when it's very warm outside. Hearing that it sometimes gets into the freaking
90s inside during the summer almost makes me glad that my hours will be shorter over the summer... I'm definitely going to have to start applying to other jobs soon, specifically jobs at places that
actually use their freaking air conditioner rather than setting it to 78 which... doesn't actually cool the place down that much, especially with all the heat blasting out from the oven and the pizza-heating racks. I mean, it's an improvement over 80-82 that it would get up to without the AC on at all, but still not great, and apparently when it's really hot outside even turning the AC on is not enough to keep it within "actually a tolerable indoor temperature" range. 95 degrees is
not within that range... heck, 95 isn't even tolerable when you're outside unless you're in a swimming pool or something. And apparently when the AC broke last year, it got up to
115 degrees inside. And stayed that way for months because it took them forever to get someone to fix it. Yeah, if that happens I'm going to have to find somewhere else to work because I'm pretty sure I would be in actual danger if I tried to work in those conditions (even the 90s might be in "Eddie is in danger of overheating and dying" range, really, considering how bad that one day of 80-82 degree temperatures in there was for me.) I've got an application for Subway, but I'm going to have to check the place out a little more and find out how they do their air conditioning (I'm assuming it'll be saner than what Papa John's does, considering that Subway has indoor seating) -- I don't want to have
two jobs where I'll be roasting alive all summer, after all. I'm actually seriously considering giving Wal-Mart a look, since I know they keep it pretty cool in there... I've heard Wal-Mart isn't too fun to work for, but this is going to be a summer job rather than something long-term so if it sucks I can always quit when my Papa John's hours start going up again when the college students come back in the flal. XD
The warmer weather hasn't been all bad, though (it's actually been pretty nice aside from work-related complications!)... I've been going on walks a lot more often lately, sometimes more than once in the same day when I'm off from work. I had already explored Buena Vista from one end to the other (walking all the way up to Food Lion in one direction, and way out past city limits to the "old fences and grassy fields" range in the other), and I'm pretty sure the flood wall is pretty much the far end of Buena Vista on that side, but now I've walked up to what may be the
highest point in town. And I took some pictures, which I'll post here now:
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| Source of all water in BV that doesn't come from the Maury, perhaps? XD |
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| Most contradictory signs ever. KEEP OUT, STOP, WELCOME! |
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| The view from the top of Buena Vista. |
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Oh, and back in February I made another OHRRPGCE game -- this time one based on Teekee, that fat, goofy gray stripey cat who's currently living back at my mom's house. The game isn't
finished but it is playable and even beatable, since it's going to have multiple story branches with different endings when it's done (currently only one is reachable... not counting a couple of "bad ending" possibilities, anyway.) It was made for one of Slime Salad's many OHRRPGCE game-making contests, and came in second place (though I get the feeling that if one specific voter hadn't put the game at the bottom of his votes solely for "I was too lazy and/or not-smart to figure out how to get past this point" reasons I would've won. Heck, I would've tied for first place if I had switched my own votes around slightly.) Here's some screenshots:
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| No random encounters -- Earthbound/Mario RPG-style wandering enemies instead! |
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| Obligatory in-battle screenshot. Teekee vs. the dreaded demon-beetles. XD |
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| The Big Humpty Star nose-vacuuming Crocowilliam. |
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| Hmm, what's that mysterious stone arch here for? |
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| A cat's take on human toilets. |
I've also been drawing more stuff than usual lately, as you've seen if you've been looking at my Facebook uploads... or my other blog... or my Deviantart account. Yeah, I put stuff all over the place now. XD And here's one more place, though I'll only be posting one picture this time... I actually painted something for the first time in months recently!
That's the girl with the fish-sword that I came up with a couple years back, except now she's actually colored in (the original drawing was black-and-white... and I had no idea what kind of color scheme to give her. Whoops. XD Thankfully, my first attempt actually turned out
really well!)
And I've also continued trying different kinds of beer. Yep, this is the point where some of my Mormon friends may want to tune out, so I've conveniently plunked the beer portion of this post behind a thingie you have to click on to expand it if you're reading this from my main blog page! If that thingie doesn't work, well, this is the last bit before I start talking about beer, so if you don't want to read about beer, pretend the post ends here. XD
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