People suck. As do I at logic games.

[sarea]

Happy birthday to my cousin, who is officially an adult today! Dude, I'm so old. I still remember when I used to change his stinky diapers. O.o

Another day, another online game to suck at. Do any of you play Sudoku? Or at least know what it is? I first heard about it from kstanley when she whipped out a puzzle and showed it to me and Jade when we were in New York. I remembered it the other day when I was bored, and found this place, which provides thousands of free puzzles for you to try and work out. Let me just repeat: I suck at it. My fastest time on the Easy level is almost 14 minutes. It's all, "91% of people were faster than you." *facepalm* But that's okay, I keep playing, and I'm improving. :P Edit: 8 min, 14 sec. Woohoo! Only 65% of people are faster than me! 7 min, 16 sec.; 55% still faster than me. :(

I have been extremely unimpressed with the people at work lately. I seriously wonder sometimes if some people should just never interact with other people. Let's see, what's happened:

1) During a weekly team meeting (general assembly of about 35 people), our GM started to do his goodbye appreciation to a member of our team who's leaving. He's been here for 7.5 years. Anecdotes were told, praise was heaped, etc. In the middle of it, someone else pipes up, "Oh, I just want to say--" And we all expected him to share something about our colleague who was leaving. Instead, he goes on and on about some work-related thing, brushing off the goodbye as if it were done with. I think the general consensus of the room was, WTF is wrong with you? At the end of his spiel, our GM was like, "So ANYWAY, back to our regularly scheduled program..." and went back to the goodbye stuff. The interrupter isn't a bad guy at all, but dude, learn some social skills.

2) One of our freelancers turned in a story late, because his son had been in a skiing accident and he'd been with him at the hospital for the surgery. He explained this when turning in the story. Business owner's response? "Thanks, I'll look at this and get back to you with any edits." NOTHING about writer's son. OMG take some sensitivity training. Luckily my editor jumped in and said some kind/appropriate words, but it was kinda too late to make up for Dunderhead #1.

3) At the goodbye lunch for the colleague from #1, I ordered fire-seared tuna. It came with two steaks, and I could only finish one, plus a bit of the veggies and rice. The remainder was bundled up into a take-out container. I tossed it in the fridge at work. A few hours later, I was feeling peckish and figured I'd finish the rest of it. Hunted high and low. NO LEFTOVERS. OMG why would you eat someone else's leftovers??? Can you possibly be that hungry? What if I had a cold? Eww. Just EWW. Let's not even get into the total rudeness of taking something that's not yours. The only acceptable scenario here would be if someone mistakenly took my container (it was in a white clamshell box) thinking it was theirs (I saw a white styrofoam box that had chicken parmesan and pasta in it). Otherwise, I'm just like, "........"

I'm having tons of fun with the Valentine's Day stuff in WoW. How do you make those candy hearts? Someone gave me one, and I don't know how he did it.

Oh, I also meant to say that I finally got and finished the last of the Mediator series by Meg Cabot. I really think she's losing her touch. I loved the first five books, and the last one was ... blah. Blah in pretty much the same way Avalon High was blah. Maybe she should stop writing 50 books a year and concentrate on 10, so that they can actually be good. Also, I'm almost done with book 4 of the Cirque du Freak/Darren Shan series. I have a number of questions/comments, but those will have to wait. Work calls. :P

Comments

[akscully.livejournal.com]

The hearts are from a candy bag that you get as part of those adoration gifts. Keep giving love tokens until someone gives it to you. Heh.

Also, stealing food is heinous.

[sydney-lynne.livejournal.com]

Ha! I do at least one Sudouku puzzle a day when I'm on my commute, sometimes several, depending on how hard the puzzle is and how stupid I'm feeling that day. :P That web sudouku site is freaking depressing though, I'm convinced that the people who get fast times on that must have nothing to do except play those games all day.

[ropo.livejournal.com]

I've bought a few of the Mediator series but have to find (or borrow Jade's) the first one so I can start reading. I wasn't excited about Avalon High either. Why is Meg becoming disappointing lately? It's very disheartening.

I tried Sudoku once and thought, "yeah, Sarea would be better at this." I thought I was doing okay at it, but really I think I wasn't.

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Have you been able to read the "Size 12" book yet? I almost don't even want to start it because if it's disappointing also, it might really make me start to feel iffy about her, and I don't want to feel iffy about her. :( I kind of think that she's putting all of her time and wit into her blogging, because she's just as amusing as she always was, there!

I'm improving on the Sudoku, but seriously, the times people who are not me get are insane. I'm like, how could you possibly have figured it out in that short a time. How.

[ropo.livejournal.com]

I haven't started "Size 12" either, for pretty much the same reason, with the added bit that it's kind of a mystery, right? And mysteries aren't really my thing. (Also, I just haven't read *anything* lately so that's probably part of it.) However, I will say this and I hope you don't think it's a spoiler: In her blog she posted a bit from the upcoming "Party Princess," and it was totally funny. So she hasn't lost her touch with Mia, at least, and that gives me hope.

P.S. Sorry to hear about your grandma woes. She was so adorable that time I met her. I hope she gets well soon.

[kellanine.livejournal.com]

OMG I LOVE SUDOKU!!!! Keep working at it, you will get much better!

Also, I'm totally with you on the leftovers thing. It's happened to me too and I think there can be no ruder behavior. :-L

[lissannej.livejournal.com]

D'oh! about work people. I had one of those days myself, but unfortunately I was the recipient of the embarrassment.

I do know what Suduko is but alas have no patience for it whatsoever. And yay for almost done with book 4 of DS! Would love to hear your thoughts.

Before I forget, this is for you and Jade -- we have a new flavour of Tim Tams out. Latte. Interested?

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

I do know what Suduko is but alas have no patience for it whatsoever.

LOL! I love your honesty. I'm not even sure my DS thoughts are coherent enough to share with other people at the moment. Once I'm actually done w/ book 4 I'll write something up, though, and you can read it and chortle in glee at how dumb and ignorant and off base I am.

Oooh, I love lattes and coffee-flavored things. Jade doesn't like coffee so I'm not sure about her. However, I still have cookies from your last batch, so don't make an especial shipment! (It drives some of my friends crazy re: how slowly I eat things. All I have to say to them is: I still have cookies, and you don't.)

[lissannej.livejournal.com]

Mwahahaha. I'm hopeless with crosswords and whatnot because I get all impatient when I don't know what an answer is, lol.

I can't wait to see what you're making of DS, I know I was totally off base with some things! (okay, almost everything).

You still have cookies? Jeez, woman. It's not like I can't replentish them every couple of months or so, so you don't need to obsessively hang onto them ;) I shall get you some latte ones as I'm not sure if they're limited or what.

[kstanley.livejournal.com]

I am actually a bit slower on that web version too. It has something to do with having to type in the numbers rather than write them. But honestly, I've moved on from the 9X9 sudokus. I found a whole book of 16X16 ones, (in addition to #s 1-9, they include letters A-G), and THESE are hard. I mean I can't even finish the so-called easy ones.