Ready for It To Be Over

I can't wait for the DCDC convention to be over & done. I'm so tired of having to play nice with drama queens publicly stamping their feet and squealing about how evil we are for not telepathically intuiting their every need.

I understand now why smaller clubs implode and longtime veterans vanish from sight after running a convention: it's too emotionally demanding to not call out the psychos and nutjobs on their destructive behaviors after it's all over, because then we look like the unreasonable ones. It's easier to just walk away.

If I could, I'd tell them to go f*** themselves, they're asking far too much from people who have lives outside of committee work, real jobs in the real world and must devote our time & energy to actual problems rather than their imagined ones.

Sadly, I'm a core staffer and consider myself a professional so I will restrain myself for the next 30-odd days, suck it up and move on. I refuse to let the sociopaths destroy everything accomplished thus far. At least I now know the names of the bigger drama queens and can make a point of avoiding them entirely once this entire event is over.

The joy of public service and volunteering is vastly overrated.

The World This Weekend

cuyahogarvr has been under the weather the past couple of days but is recovering nicely.

Saturday had beautiful weather which I celebrated by going to an indoor computer sale to purchase a new 22" monitor. Woo hoo! Oh, and cleaned up the twigs & branches in the front yard which have accumulated over the winter.

Sunday was a lazy day of cleaning up the office a little before going out to see "Watchmen" at the Uptown Theater in the afternoon. I liked the movie a lot although the extreme and periodically graphic violence were a little much from time to time. Still, I give it four stars out of five.

Alas, an early evening to bed was cut short by an unexpected bout of insomnia probably directly related to DC Diamond Circulate stuff. I'm running on half-energy at the moment with a C2 class coming up later ce soir... I hope I can squeeze in a brief nap to recharge before embarrassing myself on the floor.


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The World This Weekend

cuyahogarvr has been under the weather the past couple of days but is recovering nicely.

Saturday had beautiful weather which I celebrated by going to an indoor computer sale to purchase a new 22" monitor. Woo hoo! Oh, and cleaned up the twigs & branches in the front yard which have accumulated over the winter.

Sunday was a lazy day of cleaning up the office a little before going out to see "Watchmen" at the Uptown Theater in the afternoon. I liked the movie a lot although the extreme and periodically graphic violence were a little much from time to time. Still, I give it four stars out of five.

Alas, an early evening to bed was cut short by an unexpected bout of insomnia probably directly related to DC Diamond Circulate stuff. I'm running on half-energy at the moment with a C2 class coming up later ce soir... I hope I can squeeze in a brief nap to recharge before embarrassing myself on the floor.


March is question month. Got a question for me? Leave it here (screened).

Tonight's C2 Class

The class tonight went well, especially since it has been two weeks since the last. The entire floor --three squares-- was rusty through the first tip but we warmed up soon thereafter.

New calls this week included "3x1 transfer the column" and "reverse crazy." Neither was especially challenging --I think we could have easily handled an additional new call or two-- but there's no rush to an arbitrary calendar deadline.


March is question month. Got a question for me? Leave it here (screened).

Tonight's C2 Class

The class tonight went well, especially since it has been two weeks since the last. The entire floor --three squares-- was rusty through the first tip but we warmed up soon thereafter.

New calls this week included "3x1 transfer the column" and "reverse crazy." Neither was especially challenging --I think we could have easily handled an additional new call or two-- but there's no rush to an arbitrary calendar deadline.


March is question month. Got a question for me? Leave it here (screened).