Hang Out and Post

[Wembly]

Meh. I think it'd be lame if not being able to do Nova Defender costs me a trophy. That'd mean that after all my work at beating AAA in other games, I'd get a worse trophy than somebody who did all the easy Abigail challenges :/

I'm pretty sure that as long as you submitted a score that is above Abby's score by the end of the month, it will count as you beating the challenge even if you challenged AAA. That's how it was last year. So that would mean you would get a silver not just a participation metal.

[jumpingbeans]

Yeah, that's what I think too. And I still qualify for a gold trophy!

[antiaircraft]

Seems like Daily Dare discussion is hard to get away from at this time of the year. xD I'm waaay too busy to tackle my Daily Dare backlog at this point, but I hope I'll eventually be able to knock down enough challenges to qualify for a gold trophy. :yes:

[Spritzie]

I'm trying to keep up with everything the best I can. Hopefully I'll have some time for today's challenge. But if how this morning has been so far is any indication of how the rest of my day will be, I might not have time at work today.

[antiaircraft]

Busy day at work Spritzie? Are the tape backups exploding? xD

[Spritzie]

Yes! We had a robot freeze that had to be rebooted. Then we're trying to get new tapes labeled to fill a pool we're super short on. o_O

[antiaircraft]

Wow, sounds like quite an interesting start to the day. xD So you have robotic systems to handle the tape archives? That actually sounds like a really neat place to work. :P

[Spritzie]

Haha yeah. The request for the reboot came in after I'd been on shift for 1 minute. Then a minute later, a request to swap 5 tapes. Then load tapes to initialize. Then remove them. Then add more. Then do my daily tape rotations.

 

Now I'm done, so I have to do my reports.

[jumpingbeans]

Wow. It makes me glad I don't work.

 

 

Anyway, I felt sick today-freezing, wobbly legs- so I stayed home. And was freezing. :(

[Spritzie]

Nah. It's actually fun. I mean, I'm still here, on TDN and Neopets. Anywhere else, I might not be.

 

Awww. I'm sorry you're sick. :(

[jumpingbeans]

Thanks. I'm feeling better now, but it was absolutely horrendous this morning.

[Spritzie]

Mornings have this horrible habit of being... absolutely horrible. I eagerly await the day when anything before 11am is out-lawed.

[jumpingbeans]

....I'm actually a morning guy. Get up at 6:04AM. Go to bed at 10PM. No late nights, just early mornings.

[Spritzie]

I get up at 5am, 4 days a week, 5:30am, 2 days a week, and the last day, I get to sleep in.

[jumpingbeans]

I sleep into about 8 on weekends.....bright and early on weekdays. Especially Mondays and Tuesdays, where I have band practice 7:30AM

[Spritzie]

I only get Saturdays to sleep in. Sunday, it's 5:30 for work. And even though I'm completely off of work Thursday and Friday, I still have to get up at 5 to pick up the husband.

[jumpingbeans]

Really? That seems odd. Usually Sunday's the rest day. Meh.

[Spritzie]

My work team is 24/7/365, so someone has to be here all the time. With my shift, I work Sundays.

[jumpingbeans]

I've always wondered: which day is cut off leap years? :P

 

You work at like a computer/technical place, right?

[Spritzie]

Leap years are a day added, not cut off. On a leap year, there's a 29th of February.

 

Yes I do. :yes:

[jumpingbeans]

Oh....I thought you might be closed February 29th. :P

 

My hypothesis is correct! Eureka!

[Spritzie]

Nope. We're never closed. Even the week between Christmas and New Years that the company closes, my team has to be here.

[jumpingbeans]

.......Why do people have to be there every hour of every day, though?

[Spritzie]

Because we monitor the backups for a really large and important company (if there's an issue or an outage, it's a HUGE deal) and someone needs to be onsite in case anything goes wrong.

[jumpingbeans]

Oh. I guess that's a good reason.

 

I'm just glad school isn't like that.