Tuesday is, of course, production day here at the paper. The last weeks have been rough, as the salespeople have seriously overloaded the production staff with full-page full-color spec ads for accounts they probably won’t be able to land; incorrect runsheets giving us faulty information about the existence, size, and placement of ads; and major changes made at the last minute, after the last minute, the day after the last minute, and “you understand that the printer is printing these pages now” after the last minute.
None of this is unusual in the printing industry, of course, but the last weeks have been unusually ridiculous. My stress levels were so bad last week, that I had stomach pain for the next three days. So, last Wednesday I went to my boss and explained to him that: a) I was no longer working more than 13.5 hours straight on Tuesdays, and that b) I was no longer going to kill myself compensating for the careless work of others. I had more of a leg to stand on with “b” than one might expect; I’m the only one here who knows what’s really going on and how to fix it when it breaks, so if my work burns me out completely, my boss has a real situation he’ll have to deal with.
I think it was worth it. I’m tired this morning, but I’m not wild-eyed, wired, and shaky, and my stomach hurts only a little. Lunch ought to handle that.
raininva is going to try to score some MechWarrior: Dark Age starter sets today for us to try out tonight. Anyone want to come over and help us try out a new miniatures game?
Hurrah for a good stand! Start threatening to print everything in Norse if they don’t straighten up! 🙂
Anyone want to come over and help us try out a new miniatures game?
Ooh, ooh…oh, wait. You’re 300+ miles away. It’s just as well; Alex would probably try to eat them anyway. 🙂
Navahjo. Print it in Navahjo.
You know, Impink was telling me there’s a Mac program that prints things in all sorts of dead/obscure languages. Why stop at just two languages? He could print them in all sorts each week. 😀
Hmmm… it just occured to me that I have the necessary fonts to print in Sindarin Elvish… I’d want a good transliteration program, though, just so I could point out that it still reads correctly.
As to the Alex reference, it occured to me that the new larger, colorful, vinyl Mech figures are far more kid-friendly than the old lead ones. Cool, we can start Alex on his gaming
addictionhobby as soon as he can read the dice.