But work has its perks. I got my bonus check on Monday. I already had the money from the check, as it was direct-deposited into my bank account last Friday, but having the check-stub is nice... I guess. My supervisor's supervisor always hands out the bonuses personally to us peons, so I try to know when they're coming out so I can make sure I'm clean-shaven and not wearing a shirt with any logos or words on it those days. Not that I'm not allowed to be scruffy or pimp out Street Fighter moves, mind you, I just prefer to appear to be professional the very few times the guy is around.
I'd mentioned how I might be moving to Des Moines to my supervisor last week, and apparently he mentioned it to his supervisor, so when the guy came around to give me the check stub he brought it up. Turns out he lives just north of DM himself. He mentioned the 1 1/2 hour drive he has to make every day and, you know, how much it fucking sucks. Oh noes. Driving. I nodded and laughed politely in the right places, shook his hand, and waited for him to walk out of the area so I could safely begin that day's battle in the unending war between myself and the invisible, intangible work ninjas.
So, about that "might." I probably will move to DM, and the only reason I won't just give a 100% answer is my natural abhorrence to absolutes. S'that damn skepticism of mine. I've been sort of bandying around the pros and cons in my head for the last couple of weeks, and while there certainly are cons the pros are really too damn good for me to end up passing this up. Well, here, I'll just lay some of them out:
Pros - Things that start with "pro" are always good. Like "prostitution"
- Around friends. (M&M) Except for Karl (whom I see rarely anyways) I don't currently live near any of my friends.
- Des Moines stuff. Well, you know, comic shops, Gamestops, decent restaurants. I have to travel at least 25 mins to get to a Wal-Mart currently for fuck's sake. Not that I really want to shop at Wal-Mart or anything.
- Save money. From the sound of things, I'd be saving money renting from Martin. Saving money = teh win!
- Stuff. If you've been to Martin's house, you know what I'm talkin' about here.
- Better job opportunities. ...I would imagine.
Cons - Bad, evil, horrible things. Example: "conservatives"
- Privacy. I don't think this will be a major problem, it's not like I wouldn't have my own room or anything. But still, going from living by myself to living with others (even pretty cool others) is kind of con-ish.
- The driving/job situation. I'm actually pretty content with my current job. I don't want to do this for the rest of my life, but I make pretty good money, have some sweet-ass benefits, and don't have to deal with a lot of shit. Having to drive an hour+ every day to get to the job would be kind of uncool, though.
- Visitors. Since it's not technically my place, and because other people live there too, I wouldn't be able to just bring people over to talk and do shit randomly anymore. Well, I could but it'd be really goddamn rude. Currently, if I want to hang out with a co-worker or a friend, I can tell them to just show up or bring them home with me in the case of meeting them while out and about. If I want to have "some people over," I might have to clean up a little bit but that's it. No more of that. Couldn't invite people to stay the night anymore, either. Of course, since I live with 2 of my friends, this seems a bit of a moot point (not like coworkers are going to drive to DM randomly to see me either). I know Martin wouldn't say anything if I did but I know it's assholish to do these things, so I wouldn't do them.
- Smaller space. I think my apartment is about the same size as Martin's house. Certainly, it's bigger than 1/3 of Martin's house. That bedroom is certainly smaller than my current one. Not that I need a lot of space, it's just sort of "eh, that kinda sucks."
- Moving. It sucks! You know it does, don't deny it.
Obviously, I've been thinking about this a lot.
Not nearly as much as this wackiness I discovered last week, though. I think I mentioned it to a couple of you in passing last weekend, but here's some concrete info:
OS Girls Wiki - Most of the links on the wiki don't work, and the ones that do are usually in Japanese... And may contain some "naughty" stuff. Nothing major, but probably not work safe.
:aside: a wiki, in case you didn't know, is like an interactive encyclopedia. It's getting pretty big on the 'net now. I mostly know about it from the Evo Wiki which is about biological evolution and is updated quite a bit from some IIDB members I'm friends with. Essentially, someone puts up a page on a subject, and anyone can come along and edit/add things to it. It saves all revisions (although you browse to the most recent one) so that someone can't just pop in and erase everyting and put up insults (which has happend to Evo Wiki a few times) irreversibly. There's wiki's about goddamn near anything, I add "wiki" to my googles a lot anymore - can get some interesting results. :end aside:
If you don't want to follow the link, the basic gist of it is that in Japan, some anime/computer geeks designed cute female anime-style mascots for each computer OS. The girls are essentially 'embodiments' of what the OS looks/acts like which makes for some amusing (to computer geeks) jokes. It's all unofficial of course, I doubt Microsoft would approve of Windows ME being a clumsy, none-too-bright housekeeper or Windows98 being a cute little girl.... Who sometimes rides around in a little walking box labelled "Win98SE." Of course, some of them (Win XP Pro, Win2000) are just fearsome. The Linux (demonic penguin girl - no, not that kind of penguin Dave) and Apple (OSX looks stoned, heh) jokes flow freely as well. There's OS Girls (unofficial) comics, websites, and even flash animations floating around out there.
Ah, from that great land that came up with bukkake and tentacle porn.
I love the Japanese.
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