4047: Reminiscence
I "finished" SGP Presents at last, which I would like to say means I've gotten a lot of work done on its replacement... ugh =_= Somehow the day goes by and I don't know where it went!
I am still plugging away at daily sketches, which is where I'd like to say the day went, but I haven't been starting them until dinner-ish and finishing the next day's just after the next day starts [read: still no buffer]. So...? Not sure about where those missing hours are =( [doesn't help the one I'm working on at the moment and am stuck for how to correct is maybe a little more complicated than it deserves to be]
What follows is part of the draft I dallied on that I'm not going to bother editing, just because I need to post it or delete it already:They released my much-coveted Noil on the 9th as a FB-credit item, so back to the Crowdflower for shitty tasks! 'cause FB still isn't getting money from me.
One option? Guess I'd have a serious beef if that one was marked wrong! Not sure why I even bothered looking at the link... oh, waitTHAT'S why =p
The fun one is "Environmental Assessment in Practice [Book]"--clicking the link brings up this:
I'm mad that the Crowdflower task I actually became so accustomed to doing that I got all 100% isn't there anymore. I mean, yeah, they're technically all temp jobs for fake money [unless you happen to own a FB-based company that accepts said fakenmoney 'cause it converts to real moneys], but I feel obligated to buy all the Petpets for the Petpet acheevo [and, they kinda deserve SOME money for all the trouble they've gone through].
Thing is, the other tasks are shit like "Is this spam or not?" Which seems easy enough, but I got this entry:original source
S&W M29 & Colt Trooper Mk III here....both with 6" barrels. You guys are better than me....my range is 25-30 yards. I have trouble consistantly hitting the vitals at 50 yards.
Never shot a deer with a handgun, but I've taken two rams and two hogs off of preserves with them.....the last hog was well over 300lbs and taken with a cast bullet load from my .44 (LEE 245 grain SWC-GC).
The bullets that I have had great accuracy with and liked to shoot are no longer being made...they were the Speer 3/4 jacket SWC HPs (225 grain in .44 and 146 grain in .357). Currently I am working up a 158 grain JHP load for the .357 to take it's place. I have a heavier (240 grain) load for the .44 using Hornady's XTP HP that I will use, as well as the 245 grain cast round.
Never had a chance to shoot a .41 magnum....always was interested in the cartridge (I have a penchant for oddball or underdog cartridges), but I never got a .41. Originally, was was supposed to buy a S&W 57, but when I went to buy it, the store had sold it already.....and the M29 was there in it's place, so it came home with me instead.
Not spam, eh? I don't know a lot about hunting, but that totally reads like a real person post."DING! Some of your answers were not what we expected.
"You answered, NOT SPAM, but the correct answer was, SPAM, for these reasons:
"'The original post and site indicate that this is spam.'"
Adebuh? >=O I see no spam in there. WTF, DUDES. Do you read your own test questions before you make them as such? If that's spam, apparently the whole Internet is spam.
Which would make total fucking sense.
I still haven't done enough to buy the Noil, but it's not limited-time like the Ghostkerchief was [which I pretty much only got for the Crazy Petpet Lady or whatever achievement hinted at in the stalker bar, not because I appreciate having all this unsellable junk cluttering up my Vault]. Anyway, I guess that's a better topic than most things I could be talking about going on in the news, stuff that I "should" write about for historical record, because otherwise future generations will forget things like that the GOP relies on us forgetting that they fucked up and are the ones actually responsible for things they blame the Dems on [or, whatever is the argument about politics, but that's the one I came across].
I dunno. I found out someone's unofficially calling us--the "us" that is the sub-generation of not-quite-Gen-Xers but not-quite-Millennials[-Gen-Yers]--"Generation Catalano". Haha, whut.
[Granted, I saw half of one episode of My So-Called Life, so I really don't know how apt that really is except that Claire Danes thought Anne Frank was "lucky" because she got to be with and kiss this guy she liked.]
[[I dunno about that, though I get the point of that scene, yes.]]
[[[though I dunno about being defined by Jared Leto]]]
So time is this impalpable thing now, where I used to be clearly in touch with its passage due to work, and I have a decreasing grasp on it to where if I'm entering the new year and still have nothing, I have absolutely no idea what I'll do.
My brother has been a little critical of my job efforts, which seems hypocritical given his as-far-as-I'm-aware shaky job history post-service, but I don't post this crap every single day. I just like to vent once in a while, release this depression I have over waking up and realizing yet another day has passed without progressing in any particular direction, work out this crushing despair when the phone rings and they want me to jump through more hoops over something that's not even a week of work but DAMN IT I NEED TO GET OUT OF THE HOUSE even if it's insulting that they're bothering my references for this assignment that's apparently so negligible that they can push it back two weeks because they haven't cleared at least one of the THREE of us they're hiring--wait, why not clear ONE person and it would be nine days, significantly less hassle?
I am still looking, that's not the issue. I'm not ordering someone else to get me a job, either. It's the dealing with the tiny frustrations that accumulate as a result, and the fact that this is "supposed" to be some easy thing that I'm just not trying hard enough to do correctly. Yes, because jobs--like relationships--are something that are successfully gotten entirely through my effort alone. I went to the store and picked Charles off the shelf, got him a new collar and food, and took him home with me.
[well, more like went to a meet, but same thing]
If I had enough to never NEED to look for work again, that might be different, but I have too much self-doubt and decreasing faith in The System to believe I can just draw all day and sleep all night [well, more like the reverse, but you get the idea]. I have only not "caved" and gone back to retail because I'd rather draw, and because I can afford not to go back, not because I'm necessarily opposed to it. [Note: really need to rewrite that link, but the jist of it stands--I might still happily be in retail if 1. they hadn't kept giving me permanent overtime, and 2. I got used to wanting time for my side projects.]
Anyway, that's ANOTHER hour that vanished, apparently >_< so GREENS
I am still plugging away at daily sketches, which is where I'd like to say the day went, but I haven't been starting them until dinner-ish and finishing the next day's just after the next day starts [read: still no buffer]. So...? Not sure about where those missing hours are =( [doesn't help the one I'm working on at the moment and am stuck for how to correct is maybe a little more complicated than it deserves to be]
What follows is part of the draft I dallied on that I'm not going to bother editing, just because I need to post it or delete it already:They released my much-coveted Noil on the 9th as a FB-credit item, so back to the Crowdflower for shitty tasks! 'cause FB still isn't getting money from me.
One option? Guess I'd have a serious beef if that one was marked wrong! Not sure why I even bothered looking at the link... oh, waitTHAT'S why =p
The fun one is "Environmental Assessment in Practice [Book]"--clicking the link brings up this:
I'm mad that the Crowdflower task I actually became so accustomed to doing that I got all 100% isn't there anymore. I mean, yeah, they're technically all temp jobs for fake money [unless you happen to own a FB-based company that accepts said fakenmoney 'cause it converts to real moneys], but I feel obligated to buy all the Petpets for the Petpet acheevo [and, they kinda deserve SOME money for all the trouble they've gone through].
Thing is, the other tasks are shit like "Is this spam or not?" Which seems easy enough, but I got this entry:original source
S&W M29 & Colt Trooper Mk III here....both with 6" barrels. You guys are better than me....my range is 25-30 yards. I have trouble consistantly hitting the vitals at 50 yards.
Never shot a deer with a handgun, but I've taken two rams and two hogs off of preserves with them.....the last hog was well over 300lbs and taken with a cast bullet load from my .44 (LEE 245 grain SWC-GC).
The bullets that I have had great accuracy with and liked to shoot are no longer being made...they were the Speer 3/4 jacket SWC HPs (225 grain in .44 and 146 grain in .357). Currently I am working up a 158 grain JHP load for the .357 to take it's place. I have a heavier (240 grain) load for the .44 using Hornady's XTP HP that I will use, as well as the 245 grain cast round.
Never had a chance to shoot a .41 magnum....always was interested in the cartridge (I have a penchant for oddball or underdog cartridges), but I never got a .41. Originally, was was supposed to buy a S&W 57, but when I went to buy it, the store had sold it already.....and the M29 was there in it's place, so it came home with me instead.
Not spam, eh? I don't know a lot about hunting, but that totally reads like a real person post."DING! Some of your answers were not what we expected.
"You answered, NOT SPAM, but the correct answer was, SPAM, for these reasons:
"'The original post and site indicate that this is spam.'"
Adebuh? >=O I see no spam in there. WTF, DUDES. Do you read your own test questions before you make them as such? If that's spam, apparently the whole Internet is spam.
Which would make total fucking sense.
I still haven't done enough to buy the Noil, but it's not limited-time like the Ghostkerchief was [which I pretty much only got for the Crazy Petpet Lady or whatever achievement hinted at in the stalker bar, not because I appreciate having all this unsellable junk cluttering up my Vault]. Anyway, I guess that's a better topic than most things I could be talking about going on in the news, stuff that I "should" write about for historical record, because otherwise future generations will forget things like that the GOP relies on us forgetting that they fucked up and are the ones actually responsible for things they blame the Dems on [or, whatever is the argument about politics, but that's the one I came across].
I dunno. I found out someone's unofficially calling us--the "us" that is the sub-generation of not-quite-Gen-Xers but not-quite-Millennials[-Gen-Yers]--"Generation Catalano". Haha, whut.
[Granted, I saw half of one episode of My So-Called Life, so I really don't know how apt that really is except that Claire Danes thought Anne Frank was "lucky" because she got to be with and kiss this guy she liked.]
[[I dunno about that, though I get the point of that scene, yes.]]
[[[though I dunno about being defined by Jared Leto]]]
So time is this impalpable thing now, where I used to be clearly in touch with its passage due to work, and I have a decreasing grasp on it to where if I'm entering the new year and still have nothing, I have absolutely no idea what I'll do.
My brother has been a little critical of my job efforts, which seems hypocritical given his as-far-as-I'm-aware shaky job history post-service, but I don't post this crap every single day. I just like to vent once in a while, release this depression I have over waking up and realizing yet another day has passed without progressing in any particular direction, work out this crushing despair when the phone rings and they want me to jump through more hoops over something that's not even a week of work but DAMN IT I NEED TO GET OUT OF THE HOUSE even if it's insulting that they're bothering my references for this assignment that's apparently so negligible that they can push it back two weeks because they haven't cleared at least one of the THREE of us they're hiring--wait, why not clear ONE person and it would be nine days, significantly less hassle?
I am still looking, that's not the issue. I'm not ordering someone else to get me a job, either. It's the dealing with the tiny frustrations that accumulate as a result, and the fact that this is "supposed" to be some easy thing that I'm just not trying hard enough to do correctly. Yes, because jobs--like relationships--are something that are successfully gotten entirely through my effort alone. I went to the store and picked Charles off the shelf, got him a new collar and food, and took him home with me.
[well, more like went to a meet, but same thing]
If I had enough to never NEED to look for work again, that might be different, but I have too much self-doubt and decreasing faith in The System to believe I can just draw all day and sleep all night [well, more like the reverse, but you get the idea]. I have only not "caved" and gone back to retail because I'd rather draw, and because I can afford not to go back, not because I'm necessarily opposed to it. [Note: really need to rewrite that link, but the jist of it stands--I might still happily be in retail if 1. they hadn't kept giving me permanent overtime, and 2. I got used to wanting time for my side projects.]
Anyway, that's ANOTHER hour that vanished, apparently >_< so GREENS