Yesterday's ups and downs
Office breakfast! YAYYY. Coffee, waffles, fruit, bagels, sausages, the whole deal. All for just $7, and keep in mind I'm still eating leftovers this morning. I love it when our office has some kind of food, it puts everyone in better spirits, which, let me say, really need lifting around here these days. We're all kinda bummed by the lack of staff, and our reps are in battles with management to hire some people and/or pay us more so we're either not overworked, or are being paid for being overworked. They offered us overtime and we were advised to turn it down, stuff like that. guh.
And then! I tutored a kid for an hour and it was fine and nothing particularly exciting happened.
And then I had my weekly indoor soccer game, which I usually live for. This game we had 7 guys and 5 girls, and since teams only field 5 people at a time including a goalie, that meant short shifts for everyone. It was impossible to settle into a groove. Teammates were just always changing which meant people weren't communicating. We did get two nice goals but our breakdowns on defense cost us about 6 goals against, two of which I let in myself. I'm not anybody's star goalie, but when defense people aren't talking and attackers are left wide open, it makes it kinda hard.
The other team had 2 subs I think, which is perfect (one guy, one girl). You can really play and work with your teammates that way. We have a core bunch of people who come to every game and those are the ones I enjoy playing with most because they're more in tune with what I do/where I go and vice versa. When you throw in a couple of inexperienced players, the whole team's cohesiveness goes to hell rather quickly and it makes for an extremely frustrating game.
So I came home and played some online poker, losing all the money I had on the site. Luckily, it wasn't much, because I had cashed out most of my winnings from the night before. My intent had been to improve my mood by taking money from people; instead my frustration took over and I bet too much with crap hands hoping to fold the opponents out (they called), or called too many bets thinking opponents were bluffing (they weren't), chasing too many draws, and not letting go of hands (KK in the hole, an ace appears on the board, and a preflop cold-caller comes out betting. Think I folded? Hell no, I raised. Stupid stupid stupid.) Note to self: Playing poker to improve your bad mood is a baaad idea. Playing poker to improve from good mood to I-kick-ass/your-chips-are-mine mood is a better idea.
So then it was about 12:00 am and I'm there with no money. Luckily I was smart enough not to instantly reload the site with more cash (which costs 8.9% processing fees, so I'm losing already). But I can't go to bed now, not feeling like this. I play Rise of Nations! It's tough to find a game at this time of night, but I eventually find a 2v2. So ok, I'm playing along, and doesn't my teammate quit about 12 minutes into the game. GAH.
Found another 2v2, it was an East vs West map where the two teams are divided by ocean. I managed to establish a city on a tiny piece of unclaimed territory on their continent, dug in quickly (towers, etc) and built military buildings. I had no army so it should have been killed right away. Luckily neither of them saw me coming and they didn't have an army ready. I just pumped out the military units and garrisoned them. One of them attacked me just as I was going up in age so I was low on resources and couldn't upgrade my troops. I delayed as best I could while my troops finally upgraded. He managed to reduce my city, but that just ungarrisoned my troops and I barely defeated his army, which was weakened by attrition and pot shots from city + towers. He then resigned. My partner then had the nerve to message me: "This is going to be easy!" mm-hmm. I proceeded to run over the other opponent, while my partner never got a single unit across the ocean the entire game. (I don't know if he even got any fishermen out there.) So that was fun.
I then played in a marathon rated 1v1. The game lasted over an hour of game time, which is probably 1:30 of real time once lag is accounted for. There was lots of back and forth action with both of us showing grit for not resigning. We both got to Information Age with no winner, and guy decides he's going to use nukes to decide the winner. Personally I don't like to use nukes at all; I feel they're the easy way out, but it's a style thing, I guess. The game does implement a nuclear armaggedon rule so that if 10 nukes get launched in total by all players, the game ends with no winner. Anyway the guy nuked me a lot. It probably cost him a lot of resources altogether to do it, but the effect was devastating to my economy and I eventually couldn't afford enough troops to fight his army back. So I lost, but it was fun.
And then it was 2:00 am, and I went to bed.
And then! I tutored a kid for an hour and it was fine and nothing particularly exciting happened.
And then I had my weekly indoor soccer game, which I usually live for. This game we had 7 guys and 5 girls, and since teams only field 5 people at a time including a goalie, that meant short shifts for everyone. It was impossible to settle into a groove. Teammates were just always changing which meant people weren't communicating. We did get two nice goals but our breakdowns on defense cost us about 6 goals against, two of which I let in myself. I'm not anybody's star goalie, but when defense people aren't talking and attackers are left wide open, it makes it kinda hard.
The other team had 2 subs I think, which is perfect (one guy, one girl). You can really play and work with your teammates that way. We have a core bunch of people who come to every game and those are the ones I enjoy playing with most because they're more in tune with what I do/where I go and vice versa. When you throw in a couple of inexperienced players, the whole team's cohesiveness goes to hell rather quickly and it makes for an extremely frustrating game.
So I came home and played some online poker, losing all the money I had on the site. Luckily, it wasn't much, because I had cashed out most of my winnings from the night before. My intent had been to improve my mood by taking money from people; instead my frustration took over and I bet too much with crap hands hoping to fold the opponents out (they called), or called too many bets thinking opponents were bluffing (they weren't), chasing too many draws, and not letting go of hands (KK in the hole, an ace appears on the board, and a preflop cold-caller comes out betting. Think I folded? Hell no, I raised. Stupid stupid stupid.) Note to self: Playing poker to improve your bad mood is a baaad idea. Playing poker to improve from good mood to I-kick-ass/your-chips-are-mine mood is a better idea.
So then it was about 12:00 am and I'm there with no money. Luckily I was smart enough not to instantly reload the site with more cash (which costs 8.9% processing fees, so I'm losing already). But I can't go to bed now, not feeling like this. I play Rise of Nations! It's tough to find a game at this time of night, but I eventually find a 2v2. So ok, I'm playing along, and doesn't my teammate quit about 12 minutes into the game. GAH.
Found another 2v2, it was an East vs West map where the two teams are divided by ocean. I managed to establish a city on a tiny piece of unclaimed territory on their continent, dug in quickly (towers, etc) and built military buildings. I had no army so it should have been killed right away. Luckily neither of them saw me coming and they didn't have an army ready. I just pumped out the military units and garrisoned them. One of them attacked me just as I was going up in age so I was low on resources and couldn't upgrade my troops. I delayed as best I could while my troops finally upgraded. He managed to reduce my city, but that just ungarrisoned my troops and I barely defeated his army, which was weakened by attrition and pot shots from city + towers. He then resigned. My partner then had the nerve to message me: "This is going to be easy!" mm-hmm. I proceeded to run over the other opponent, while my partner never got a single unit across the ocean the entire game. (I don't know if he even got any fishermen out there.) So that was fun.
I then played in a marathon rated 1v1. The game lasted over an hour of game time, which is probably 1:30 of real time once lag is accounted for. There was lots of back and forth action with both of us showing grit for not resigning. We both got to Information Age with no winner, and guy decides he's going to use nukes to decide the winner. Personally I don't like to use nukes at all; I feel they're the easy way out, but it's a style thing, I guess. The game does implement a nuclear armaggedon rule so that if 10 nukes get launched in total by all players, the game ends with no winner. Anyway the guy nuked me a lot. It probably cost him a lot of resources altogether to do it, but the effect was devastating to my economy and I eventually couldn't afford enough troops to fight his army back. So I lost, but it was fun.
And then it was 2:00 am, and I went to bed.