crankyoldman | Three heads are better than one

Ah, the synergy, it is intense. Minions are cool, we've taken over the game room for our plottings and awesome. Soon we will have real desks, and in a few months when we've purchased the room across the hall and the programmers have been shuffled over there (they likes their quiet, precious) we will get the awesome large desks again. I'm also getting a new minion on Monday, and a couple of high school kids are going to be sub-minions for us all. New minion is an instructional designer type, we'll see how that goes. Hopefully it'll turn out synergistically like with the current minions (I am the bridge between all modes, it's an awesome position to be in). Am a little hung up on writing teacher guides (why is it harder to write for teachers than for students?) but overall it's been a good day. Already have new problem ideas just from whiteboarding, may be doing some scribbling on my own. Tomorrow is the staff meeting so hopefully I'll be able to learn the names of the people I don't recognize around here (mostly programming minions, from what I see).

When the parents are back in town I intend on taking pictures of our game room takeover. And my crazy book stacking that will likely freak my parents out. Mwhahahaha. They should know better than to leave me alone, I get the urge to declutter. I also owe Sev some fashionista pics.

Speaking of declutter, I finally got the majority of my library on LibraryThing (as I use GoodReads for books I am currently reading/want to read/review). Most of it is derived from this ancient excel file of ancient that I started back in junior high to keep my sister from stealing my books and not giving them back (because I'd cataloged them). I'm doing some serious soul-searching and deciding which ones I really want to keep and if some are just kept because some relative got it for me and I barely skimmed it. Some books are also packed away (I have a couple of shelves in my basement room, atm, but they don't fit all my books) and a whole stack hasn't even been entered (mainly gorgeous illustrated fairytales and folklore... yes I totally have more) and a few that I've taken to work (MY GOD MY SPACE BOOKS ARE AWESOME).

Um, yeah I've collected a few books over the years. Prolly got about 50+ that haven't been looked through yet. My sister's got about the same, though with a less nonfiction and folklore and sciencey bent and more towards Literature with a capital L (she has given me permission to borrow some as long as I put them back in their alphabetically labeled box... for serious). Our parents used books as a means to bribe us a lot, and there are some fabulous little indie bookstores around. XD

I'm thinking in particular I may lose some of my pocket-sized books and see if I can find similar ebooks for those subjects instead. It'll still fit in my pocket, as I have a Palm Pilot. XD I have a real thing for anthologies, and I'm definitely keeping those. Who knows. Crazy crazy upheaval time.

~Cendri

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It really is sweet that you have minions. XD

It really is sweet that you have minions. XD

And good that you're getting more space! Sounds like your little group is getting crowded and going to be busy a good, long time. And it's so declutter time, dude. Hopefully I'll find the time to do it myself.

:) Hope your parents don't freak out too bad. Maybe it was all a plot to GET you to declutter

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I know a lot of it is cutter but it’s still neat you were able to keep your favorite books from younger years. Mine either died from wear or belonged to the library. Some did survive to the grandmother library, actually its weird a few of the ones that.

Good luck at your meeting.

Well, there are still a bunch of books that were library books and all that... I have a lot of relatives in my extended family, and in particular an aunt without children of her own who likes to send me very awesome books. She's always fed my mythology obsessions, and got me all sorts of interesting books. I'm only keeping a handful (I'd like to see other kids get a good life out of them) but the handful I'm keeping are special.

My family consists of hoarders who are just now recovering from not throwing anything away, so. I'm doing a lot of mailing out of things this week. XD

~Cendri

Back when I was little my mom was anti-clutter. Twice a year we’d have to go through all of our toys and other belongs and weed them down to whatever the allotted amount was. Books also don’t last long with five children sharing them. So yeah, having the special ones still around is pretty neat and different for me.

Also your aunt sounds pretty awesome.

Don’t break yourself getting rid of things. ^^

There are days when your capability impresses me hugely, Cendri. This is totally one of them. Your minion stories (and wow, the crew is growing!) never fail to bring a smile to my face.

G'luck with the crazy upheaval time, and your parents are amazing for bribing you with books! I totally intend to do the same with future hypothetical children. A million years from now, that is! ^^

Oh, well, thanks! Capability is a learned behavior. I think by now I've had a decent amount of fuckups to warrant some awesome.

SO! Since you sent me a lovely package ALL THE WAY FROM JAPAN is there an address I can send something to you? I might have something to send you. ^^

~Cendri

I think by now I've had a decent amount of fuckups to warrant some awesome.

Haha, fair enough. I can understand and respect that, Cendri.

Also, I love mail, so of course, if you have something, I'd love that! I'll post my address in a separate comment; thank you!

Sweet. And I will probably write up a review when I read Dubliners, as I intend to read books this summer. It's sitting in my "To Read" stack!

And I screened your address comment so people won't stalk you. XD

~Cendri

...Stack? Good luck with yours - I've started to send parts of mine home, but it doesn't seem to ever get shorter! What's next on your list?

Thanks for screening. My original idea was to delete the darn thing immediately, but LJ was being petulant. I've had my share of stalkers already this year, and would like to evade further individuals! ^^;;

Well, there's a reason I have comments set to email alerts and have an email notifier; quick responses if need be. Much less interruptive than IM and still pretty close to real time.

And next on my stack is The Difference Engine since it's a library book with a due date. I'm halfway through Warrior Queens and The Seven Basic Plots. Mostly done with Dungeons and Desktops.

I have a tendency of reading several books at a time, because I love nonfiction so much. But the plague of most nonfiction is it's something you have to read in bursts, lest you get bogged down.

I keep a pretty accurate account of my book stack here. (http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/119592)

I love the internet, it helps me keep track of things so much better.

~Cendri

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