Weekend Shift Thoughts
Feb. 15th, 2025 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousme Slowly making my way through my weekend day shifts. D&D ended at a reasonable hour but then we stayed up chit-chatting, and I got to bed very late considering it was a work night. I hadn't had the chance to play this particular D&D campaign in several weeks due to a bunch of scheduling glitches and last-minute emergencies for a bunch of us (distributed pretty evenly across the board). We're doing a D&D/gothic horror mashup with Masque of the Red Death, and it's a lot of fun. The nice thing about having a D&D group who are all in agreement that what's important is the story and the character development is that you don't get the unpleasantness of having some players who want to powergame or murder-hobo their way through generic dungeons. You also have the advantage of everyone, including the DM, pulling in the same direction of "what will make the coolest/most affecting story?" We left on a cliffhanger of an entire building just falling off a cliff into the sea. Oops? (It was not the party's fault, for the record.)
There's not much going on at work today. I'm on the Marine desk, and handling an incident involving a grounded cargo vessel that has attracted the attention of the directors, but everything is fully under control, so I've been continuing my catch-up of Critical Role. I've watched ten episodes (I think) since the last time I talked about it, and holy cow, so much is going on! I'm currently watching the live performance from June 15th, 2025. Sam Riegel has made a surprise appearance! I thought Episode 91 was the last I'd see of him for a few months, so it was fun to have him show up. I don't think he'll be here for more than just this live show, but still, it's nice to see his face.
I think the next three or four episodes are a separate story, so I'm not sure if that means Matt will DM for the same characters but in a parallel universe kind of thing, or if a different DM will run the show the way Brennan Lee Mulligan did for the events of the Calamity or Aabria Iyengar for Exandria Unlimited. Whatever they decide to do, I am excited to see what happens. Usually these smaller arcs offer a deeper glimpse into the lore of the world, and I am a sucker for lore.
I still have three and a half hours before I get to go home, and then I have to send out the announcements for Quaker Meeting when I get home. Which reminds me, I need to prepare for my turn at First Day School next weekend. I somehow let myself be roped back in, which is not my favourite thing to do. I always feel singularly unqualified to teach young people about Quakerism when I myself know so very little, even after all these years. When I was the Clerk of FDS Committee I spent so much time stressed the fuck out, and I am not really looking forward to going back to anything remotely resembling that. At least this time I won't be the Clerk, and I've only committed to one Sunday a month, which isn't too bad. Probably what I'll do is arm myself with a whole ton of arts & crafts supplies and try to make the activities as child-led as possible while doing my best to keep it thematically Quaker. There's a lot happening in the world right now, and depending on how old the kids are (it varies a lot), we can gear whatever we're doing toward whatever is on their minds on that day.
We'll see how it goes, I guess.
I did manage to wet block the Hubris Shawl, although it's so big that I didn't have a surface large enough to hold it, so I'm not sure how good a job I did. I did have a sneaky but unformed plan to try to drive to Montreal and back at some point next week, although I don't know how 'd manage that with KK's work schedule. She's asked me to attend a pre-retirement course with her Wednesday and Thursday, and she's planning to be in the office Monday and Friday, and on top of that I have a medical appointment on Tuesday. If KK could switch one of her in-office days to Tuesday I could manage it, but I don't think she will. After that I won't be able to visit my parents for at least another month, which is very sad. Maybe I'll ask for a day or two off in the coming weeks, but there aren't a ton of options on the schedule. Everyone and their cousin is off on courses, which means that there's very little wriggle room for the rest of us to take time off. It kind of sucks, and since I'm the most recent hire, I am last to be considered for everything. *sigh* One of the drawbacks of shift work, alas.
There's not much going on at work today. I'm on the Marine desk, and handling an incident involving a grounded cargo vessel that has attracted the attention of the directors, but everything is fully under control, so I've been continuing my catch-up of Critical Role. I've watched ten episodes (I think) since the last time I talked about it, and holy cow, so much is going on! I'm currently watching the live performance from June 15th, 2025. Sam Riegel has made a surprise appearance! I thought Episode 91 was the last I'd see of him for a few months, so it was fun to have him show up. I don't think he'll be here for more than just this live show, but still, it's nice to see his face.
I think the next three or four episodes are a separate story, so I'm not sure if that means Matt will DM for the same characters but in a parallel universe kind of thing, or if a different DM will run the show the way Brennan Lee Mulligan did for the events of the Calamity or Aabria Iyengar for Exandria Unlimited. Whatever they decide to do, I am excited to see what happens. Usually these smaller arcs offer a deeper glimpse into the lore of the world, and I am a sucker for lore.
I still have three and a half hours before I get to go home, and then I have to send out the announcements for Quaker Meeting when I get home. Which reminds me, I need to prepare for my turn at First Day School next weekend. I somehow let myself be roped back in, which is not my favourite thing to do. I always feel singularly unqualified to teach young people about Quakerism when I myself know so very little, even after all these years. When I was the Clerk of FDS Committee I spent so much time stressed the fuck out, and I am not really looking forward to going back to anything remotely resembling that. At least this time I won't be the Clerk, and I've only committed to one Sunday a month, which isn't too bad. Probably what I'll do is arm myself with a whole ton of arts & crafts supplies and try to make the activities as child-led as possible while doing my best to keep it thematically Quaker. There's a lot happening in the world right now, and depending on how old the kids are (it varies a lot), we can gear whatever we're doing toward whatever is on their minds on that day.
We'll see how it goes, I guess.
I did manage to wet block the Hubris Shawl, although it's so big that I didn't have a surface large enough to hold it, so I'm not sure how good a job I did. I did have a sneaky but unformed plan to try to drive to Montreal and back at some point next week, although I don't know how 'd manage that with KK's work schedule. She's asked me to attend a pre-retirement course with her Wednesday and Thursday, and she's planning to be in the office Monday and Friday, and on top of that I have a medical appointment on Tuesday. If KK could switch one of her in-office days to Tuesday I could manage it, but I don't think she will. After that I won't be able to visit my parents for at least another month, which is very sad. Maybe I'll ask for a day or two off in the coming weeks, but there aren't a ton of options on the schedule. Everyone and their cousin is off on courses, which means that there's very little wriggle room for the rest of us to take time off. It kind of sucks, and since I'm the most recent hire, I am last to be considered for everything. *sigh* One of the drawbacks of shift work, alas.
