PixlBit

It was good while it lasted. For the majority of the previous year I've had the responsibility of cleaning the 5/6th grade building for the school where I work and when an employee came back from her maternity leave at the beginning of the semester, she was assigned that building and I found my workload lessened. I was happy. 

Neither my boss or I was happy to find out that she'd been slacking on the job, doing so poorly that the complaints kept coming in. Last week, he and I had to team up to make sure her building was finished (going behind her, making sure she did her duties, doing her tasks if they weren't; they usually weren't). He told me yesterday that he's planning to fire her the next time he sees her. After that, I have the building back. Yes, the overtime hours will be nice and the softball/soccer season is coming to a close but like I said before: I was happy with a lesser load. I will now be even worthless during the week on the homefront with no energy for anything but sleeping, eating, washing up and heading back for 10-11 hour days. Perhaps my boss will find another employee before the semester is over. Maybe. Maybe not. 

My cable box/DVR's remote control stopped working yesterday, so I couldn't access my dvr list. Shame. I was wanting to get started on the current season of The Americans as well as the recent episode of Game of Thrones. I spoke with a customer service rep and it seems the solution is for my cable provider to ship me a new remote (apparently, there's a new/recent model; my unit is a few years old anyway) which should be here by the end of the week. I have other options but still: grrrr....

Gaming wise, more Far Cry 4 last weekend. I'm still opening up this fucking massive map; it's staggering how huge this game is. For the first time, too, I played some of the co-op stuff with a friend and its a blast. 

I'm sending my rental copy of Alien: Isolation back to Gamefly. I can't take it anymore. I'm a sissy. The last 3 hours I spent with it left me as a nervous wreck. I gotta hand it to the game: it excels at what it wants to do. I just can't see it through. I'll just dream about putting that xenomorph bastard in the airlock and shooting it to outer space. I read somewhere that upcoming DLC lets you take on a facehugger. Uh, no I don't fucking think so. If that was the case, I'd shoot myself into outer space through the airlock.

Picked up Metal Gear Rising: Ultimate Edition and Bayonetta from the PSN flash sale this weekend. I've played the latter on the 360 but I had fun with it so it seemed like an easy choice. I still need to finish MGR. 

Anyway, that's all the news that's fit to print. It was good while it lasted.