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Weird day off
Nov. 2nd, 2021 06:26 pmThe company that bought my employer earlier this year has Election Day as a company holiday. This makes sense for the parent company, because it's based in Boston, where most people still stand in line to vote, but it's weird for Oregon, which converted to all-absentee voting in the 1990s. So today was basically a random day off with none of the festive activities that would be available on a more popular holiday.
I have hopefully put it to good use. I've finished up the slides for a talk I'm doing at Kumoricon, completed the anime post for this week, and printed out some bits and pieces I need for running the game I'm hopefully running.
This last part included a small adventure trying to get the adventure's custom map printed at the local FedEx Office. Calling them to confirm some vague language on the Web site about custom paper sizes, they confirmed they had a printer capable of printing things up to 36" by anything. At the store, it turned out the machine is self-service, except not when it needs to be rebooted and is out of 36" paper. After about an hour of them fiddling with it and more reboots, when I finally got a chance to try printing something, it worked great.
I was originally told it would take about 15 minutes to get the printer up and running, so I took a stroll up and down the strip mall the store is in. In the time since I last visited there it has accumulated practically a whole row of dessert stores. There's been a Cold Stone Creamery since forever, but it has lately been joined by Nothing Bundt Cakes, Crumbl Cookies, and Menchie's. I got a cookie at Crumbl since I've heard so many good things about them. It was good, but I'm not sure it was quite $4 per cookie good.
I have hopefully put it to good use. I've finished up the slides for a talk I'm doing at Kumoricon, completed the anime post for this week, and printed out some bits and pieces I need for running the game I'm hopefully running.
This last part included a small adventure trying to get the adventure's custom map printed at the local FedEx Office. Calling them to confirm some vague language on the Web site about custom paper sizes, they confirmed they had a printer capable of printing things up to 36" by anything. At the store, it turned out the machine is self-service, except not when it needs to be rebooted and is out of 36" paper. After about an hour of them fiddling with it and more reboots, when I finally got a chance to try printing something, it worked great.
I was originally told it would take about 15 minutes to get the printer up and running, so I took a stroll up and down the strip mall the store is in. In the time since I last visited there it has accumulated practically a whole row of dessert stores. There's been a Cold Stone Creamery since forever, but it has lately been joined by Nothing Bundt Cakes, Crumbl Cookies, and Menchie's. I got a cookie at Crumbl since I've heard so many good things about them. It was good, but I'm not sure it was quite $4 per cookie good.
