My goodness, where has this week gone? It truly feels like yesterday was Monday! It’s been another intense workweek, and my brain feels fried. Although it’s incredibly challenging, I’m enjoying the ride. We have an excellent instructor/facilitator, and my classmates are friendly. I’m thoroughly enjoying working from home once again, and as I mentioned, I can’t see myself going back to working out of the house. This morning the Assistant Vice President virtually paid us a visit in our daily huddle. He talked about himself, his history, and we went around the virtual classroom introducing ourselves.
Since my workday doesn’t start until 9:30 am, I allow myself to go to bed later. Once I’m out of training, my workday will be from 10:30 – 7:00. I cannot say that I have too many issues with that since I’ll be working from home anyway. If I were working out of the house, that would be a different story. Additionally, if I don’t like the schedule, I can eventually adjust the hours.
Of course, now that I’m working from home, even the little things that I do, such as popping in to see my daughter, interacting with our dog Bella, or even using our bathroom, are appreciated. Not to mention heating my food. No need to do anything differently since I’m out of the home and outside of formal meetings like the one we had today and the one I’ll have with my manager tomorrow; I can dress in casual clothes. While that’s the case, working from home is not mean I’m lazy. That was never the case with me, and I’ll continue to work the same way. Naturally, you’ll have people that abuse working from home; however, I’m not one of those people.
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The Brain Needs Space title comes from a blogger that I used to follow. His blog had the same name. Daniel was/is a fantastic storyteller, and I was a bit disappointed when he stopped writing. I first discovered him from his older blog called Big Red Kitty. He played a hunter in World of Warcraft, and his pet was a cat. There was a hunter talent called enraged beast, and the hunter’s pet would turn red and be immune to certain effects while it attacked its target, hence the name big red kitty. WoW is an MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game) created by Blizzard. I had many great memories of playing that game for years. I developed friendships and with others who played the game and even introduced my daughter to the game. I stopped playing it as frequently about six years ago, although I would still log on and play sporadically with my daughter and people that I’d developed friendships with over the years. When Activision bought World of Warcraft, I stopped playing as much, and at the beginning of this year, I canceled my subscription since neither my daughter nor I saw any value in the game.
Interestingly enough, I have seen Activision Bizzard in the news recently with numerous allegations of inappropriate behavior towards women and minorities. I’ve followed the story a bit, and it’s interesting to see that some of the popular WoW streamers have also left the game based on the allegations and tepid response from Activision Blizzard. If the allegations are true, I hope those who are guilty are fired and held accountable for their actions, and hopefully, those who step in will start treating all their employees with respect.
Wow! New blog theme. It’s looking good.While I’ve played some computer games over the years, I’ve never had any desire to play any online games against other players.
Few of the bloggers I used to interact with online are still blogging. Interestingly, several of them are still friends on Facebook.I hope your job continues to be enjoyable and engaging.
Thanks. I had to change my old theme, which I had for many years. It was giving me error messages and would not load this website at all. I reached out to my hosting provider; however, I figured it was my theme while chatting with tech support at Hostgator. They got me access to the admin panel. Since I now have time to blog (a great working from home perk) and am slowly venturing out to visit blogs I used to frequent, I believe I’ll purchase a theme (within a few months) that I like. If you have any suggestions, let me know.
I look at MMOrpG’s similar in some ways to Facebook. You got the social aspect; however, you’re actively playing a game together. lol. 🙂 I’ve met a few people that I would consider friends within WoW. I regularly interacted with them over the years. I still keep in contact with a few of them by email. Good times!