Got to go home from work early today thanks to the incredibly random paid holiday system we have. Apparently the day after Thanksgiving is also a paid holiday, even though we're open, and even though there is no other point in the year where we have two consecutive days of holiday, not even at Christmas. I'd never noticed before because previously if you didn't work that day the time just went into "holiday reserve" and you could take it later as vacation. Not this year. If you didn't work Friday, you got paid holiday time that had to be made up elsewhere in the pay period. So I took 3.2 hours off today, and went home less than 2 hours after I'd shown up. Yay me.
Considered using the extra time in my day to drop by the Source (local "things fans buy" store. Anime, manga, comics, graphic novels, SF DVDs and books, CCGs, wargames, board games, roleplaying games, fan culture magazines, soundtracks to fan-type stuff..) and pick up Fell #3 and maybe another Maelstrom booster, Spycraft starter, or one of the new preconstructed decks for Vampire: The Eternal Struggle (featuring the African vampires)...but ultimately decided not to. I'll be able to get a ride by there tomorrow, so no point spending a bunch of extra time waiting in the cold and snow for a second bus.
Instead, I went home and watched today's Netflix DVD: a Hungarian movie called Kontroll, a surreal little comedy/allegory/whatsit about "controllers" (ticket-checkers) on the Budapest subway system. Filmed entirely on location, with no special effects. Real trains, real people just barely not getting squashed by them in a couple of moments. It was quite weird. Exactly the sort of thing I enjoy.
Considered using the extra time in my day to drop by the Source (local "things fans buy" store. Anime, manga, comics, graphic novels, SF DVDs and books, CCGs, wargames, board games, roleplaying games, fan culture magazines, soundtracks to fan-type stuff..) and pick up Fell #3 and maybe another Maelstrom booster, Spycraft starter, or one of the new preconstructed decks for Vampire: The Eternal Struggle (featuring the African vampires)...but ultimately decided not to. I'll be able to get a ride by there tomorrow, so no point spending a bunch of extra time waiting in the cold and snow for a second bus.
Instead, I went home and watched today's Netflix DVD: a Hungarian movie called Kontroll, a surreal little comedy/allegory/whatsit about "controllers" (ticket-checkers) on the Budapest subway system. Filmed entirely on location, with no special effects. Real trains, real people just barely not getting squashed by them in a couple of moments. It was quite weird. Exactly the sort of thing I enjoy.