Salon post: September 14

[jenett]

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Topic of the week
What are your favourite coping mechanisms when you're dealing with a situation that is not horrible, but is definitely cranky-making.

(We have a researcher visiting at work this week, and I am definitely on the cranky side with him. Today is his last day, fortunately.)

What I've been up to
I am currently rather distracted by the news reports on the gas explosions in northern Massachusetts. (I have good friends in one of the affected towns: they're fine and there were no gas lines in their neighborhood, but no idea yet when they'll have power again.)

Tomorrow, I am going to wander our Town Day with a friend, which will both be amusing and exercise.

(Um, for people where this might not be a thing, basically it's a town-focused street festival. Some vendors, some information booths, library book sale, etc. My town library has beehives on the third floor balcony, and if you buy books at the sale, you also get an entry in the raffle for honey. Performances. You get the idea.)


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Comments

[silveradept]

Often times, the cranky-making situations are things that make other people in my circles cranky, and we can all gripe together about it, or it's something progessional, where my co-works are usually fairly empathetic about having to deal with that particular thing or the way that went.

Failing those things, I have been known to take my cranky out on various pixel configurations through the use of ludicrous amounts of overpowered special effects.

[alexseanchai]

Silver play video game, make BIG boom? :D

[silveradept]

Very big booms. Or soaring past the damage cap to deliver a significant amount of beat down to small-level mooks.

[elisem]

Indeed! Pixel configurations can be such useful places to take that. (I need more pixel configurations, come to think of it.) And booms are oddly soothing sometimes.