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[CortJstr]

Does this store have an "As Seen on Table Top" shelf? If not, why is your store so shitty?

[jay-ell]

Does this store have an "As Seen on Table Top" shelf? If not, why is your store so shitty?

Actually, this came up in conversation when we were talking about the new direction Boss want to take with the store. There was talk of whether or not it is legal for us to link to TableTop videos via our facebook page (I don't see how it couldn't be; BFF is going to use her paralegal skills to find out for sure) and then offer in-store demos of the games Wheaton features the following weekend.

Boss wants to do away with dealing with Games Workshop and minigames in general; the markup is so infinitesimal that he finds it not worth the hassle. Some of the regulars mightwill complain, but there is another stoe in the area that caters more specifically to minigamers, and Boss doesn't mind losing business to them. Boss wants to court the Magic players, who are the store's bread and butter, and also promote more of the German-style board games that are becoming more mainstream these days. Which means lots and lots of Days of Wonder, Rio Grande, Mayfair, etc. Right up my alley, in other words.

[CortJstr]

By minigames you mean war games and such that use minis?

I'm anxiously awaiting the mail today because I should be getting my copy of Village (2012 Spiel des Jahres Kennerspiel Winner). The lady also bought us the first expansion for Kingdom Builder (2012 Spiel des Jahres Winner).

[theinevitable]

Ugh, probably have strep throat.

[jay-ell]

By minigames you mean war games and such that use minis?

Yes. Warhammer, Star Fleet Battles, Mallifaux, the whole shebang.

[wombat]

Sometimes I don't know what the fuck y'all are talking about and I'm cool with that.

[theinevitable]

Got off work just in time to go to the after-party for the World Naked Bike Ride STL. Lots of people I know were naked/topless/wearing something that only covered their downstairs junk. I got pressured into stripping down to my briefs. So that was fun. Danced around and got sweaty. Tomorrow: big moving day. I'm sure it will be 100 degrees.

[side_show]

That reminds me, I forgot to mention the beach I went to was nude, which made it extra nice. 

[theinevitable]

Update: not 100 degrees, just raining.

[jay-ell]

Sucks for you, inev. It's hard to say what's worse -- rain or heat. Either way you're screwed.

Today I'm gonna realize that...I am a 33-year-old game store clerk. This was not really my plan when I applied to graduate school. But then, I guess it was not Wombat's plan to shovel shit at a zoo when she started her PhD, either, and that seems to have turned out pretty well.

Apparently, when Mom told Dad about my new job, his response was an eye roll.

On a related note, my BFF had been unemployed for over a year until we both got offered jobs at the game store. Even her sister hasn't been able to get her a job at the bookstore she (the sister) manages. Is it conceited to think that my applying for the job and emphasizing our friendship sealed the deal on this job for her?

She seems to be cursed when it comes to jobhunting (she's great on paper and always gets interviewed but apparently bombs the interviews, because she never gets an offer), whereas I have never interviewed for a job that I didn't get. I apparently interview very well, because there have been at least two occasions where the hiring manager made me an offer on the spot and cancelled his other interviews.

So maybe my interview karma balanced hers out, because I'm sure Boss is smart enough to realize that he really couldn't offer the job to one of us without hiring the other. I think she is just as qualified as I am and that we are so much alike in so many ways (but with slightly different skillsets) that hiring us both is almost like hiring one employee, because we collaborate so well. And I think that she brings a lot of things to the table that I don't have (like accounting skills) and that between the two of us and Boss (who has already started soliciting ideas about how we can improve the way things are run) we can totally jam out with our gams out. For these reasons and others, I would not have accepted the job if he hadn't offered the other open slot to my BFF.

So is it bad to think that she probably wouldn't have gotten the job if I hadn't co-applied? Not because of her skills, but because of her horrible rotten luck with jobs?

[pmcd9]

It's only bad if you tell her that.

[jay-ell]

It's only bad if you tell her that.

It's definitely worse if I tell her that. But I feel bad just for THINKING it.

[wombat]

Maybe instead you should feel good about being her lucky charm?

[theinevitable]

An unpleasant human tendency: when my completely irresponsible roommate chastises me for leaving the front door unlocked, my impulse is to scream at him about all the times I have had to take care of shit he fucked up. When, really, that has no bearing on whether it was dumb to leave the front door unlocked. Because clearly it was.

[littlefallsmets]

Today, I am in Day Three of Having My Damn Laptop In The Shop Again.

Today, at least, I got to borrow my girlfriend's laptop briefly to say hello.

Hello.

(I am going crazier than usual without a laptop.)