Midlife, sleepy, game

[flexagon]

I ran across this in The Atlantic as a rule of thumb for navigating midlife: "Gather friends in your home and feed them, laugh in the face of calamity, cut out all the things––people, jobs, body parts––that no longer serve you."

I have been doing that last thing! Lion remains out, job remains on the chopping block getting a beady stare, body part is scheduled to depart tomorrow. It's vaguely upsetting that work has been enjoyable the last week or two; I've been pitching an idea that I like, and it seems leadership might also like it and actually let me work on it. Of course I've also been working late again, the last week or two. Just when it gets more fun, it gets less sustainable. For the moment I'm seeing how good I can make things in the next six months -- if January's rolling by and the equation has shifted, I can always act accordingly.

On the additive side, I seem to be playing A Monster's Expedition again after getting stuck and abandoning it for months. All it took was replaying the first little bit with Helios, and that jogged my mind into remembering how the puzzles work.

One of my vaccinated co-workers got covid and recommends against doing the same. Well, all right... I'd been on the fence but maybe it's best to skip the whole experience. /s

Comments

[elbren]

yea, as a vax'd person, i'm wondering whether it'd be better to come across delta now, when i most likely wouldn't notice, rather than later, given the need for boosters and the (very sensible) public health priority of getting more of the population fully vax'd on the primary sequence.

[meat_and_breath]

What about adding body parts that do serve you?

[flexagon]

Hell yeah, I support all self-affirming transformation.

(Am secretly a transhumanist but don't tell anyone)