I’m not really in a hurry tonight, but I don’t really have anything to report. I’ve got boxes of stuff I’m moving around stacked up like some kind of trash maze at the moment. My misuse of space over the years really spiraled into a disaster. If I hadn’t always been in a hurry I wouldn’t be in this mess right now, but it is what it is. I’ve sorted some of the things I want to save, but don’t need to have on hand so they can be put in actual storage.

Anyway, I should get back to that. I hope you all have a nice start of your week. I’ll see you on Wednesday hopefully. Until then, remember to get some fiber.

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Crave Built a Maze

If you love what you do you never work a day in your life. Reggie’s sister seems to understand that.

Flip side: one of the surest ways to ruin something for yourself is make it work.

Ask not what your profits can do for you but what you can do for your profits. 89th Rule of acquisition

That sounds familiar. I’m getting my house ready to sell, and while sorting things for boxing up or throwing out/recycling, sometimes I just have to stop and ask myself “why did I ever get that?” If I could live my life over knowing what I know now, it would turn out very different.

Having a fun job is fun. I worked at a arcade in California for a year and that was the best job I ever had, I loved doing the work and interacting with the customers.

My most fun job was a part-time under-the-table gig mixing dough at an artisan bread bakery. Got paid in cash (minimum wage, often in crumpled dollar bills from sales at the baker’s market stand) and all the bread and muffins I could use. Had to get up very early, but was done for the day by 9:00 am, got to run a big Hobart mixer and mess with other fun stuff, and there was NO STRESS unless you backed into an oven or dropped something on your foot!

For years afterward, as the publishing industry circled the drain, I’d often bitch about missing the bakeshop.

HA! How do you like that? Call it out on Friday, gets mentioned in strip on Monday. LOVE it.

And yes, fiber. Very good thing, fiber. Have added chia seeds to my daily meal; I’m right around full RDA at this point. Maybe a shade over!

Cool!
:D

Does Victoria get a promotion if she earns a fungeneering degree?

Ha!

Victoria’s got the right mind. A fun job isn’t really a job then :D

One of my favorite conversations questions is asking what someone’s favorite or first job was. I’ve asked a wide range of people, from retail, writers, artists, engineering, IT consultants, etc. It’s usually jobs like this, working in a little shop of some kind, that seem to be the most fun to work in. My favorite was a consultant who loved his pizza delivery job, it was a chill atmosphere of playing whatever music they felt like on full blast and working with a small team he liked.

Small operations have less room to incubate/thrive in for the kind out-of-touch management that make a workplace hell.

You are more likely to get a manager that has done your job before, knows of its trials and tribulations, and feels more personally obligated to make it less of a pain in the ass if they can.

And they are more likely to tell a customer going full Karen where to stick it.

Granted, one can still get a petty tyrant manager too, but small businesses are less likely to survive their assholery as it inevitably affects the quality of product or service bad way. Just make sure to avoid the ones that are the only employer/service of their kind or at all in town.

I wonder if all the restricted rooms, at the Beary Fun restaurant, have security signs on them that say:

“Paws Off!”
:D

Do you mean, post-ironic?

Instead of: post-ironc?

It is fun, though, to see Reggie say something like: [as long as [you] like it, that’s OK.]

I love this aspect of Reggie, especially given the last few pages.

He’s SO CLOSE to getting it. In some ways he already does, but he often forgets to be mindful like this in the moment with people. Being his sister probably makes him more accepting, and these two have come so very far with each other since they were introduced with *much* more tension between them.

I feel like she’s getting far more honest with him, and he’s mellowed out a lot.

It’s nice to see Reggie making a genuine effort to connect with his sister

2822 Bearable.

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