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Oct. 22nd, 2024 09:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davemerrillWow, that's a long time between posts. Let's see. Got the rear shocks done on the car. Visited Boston and saw the MAD Magazine exhibit at the Norman Rockwell museum. Anime North went great and we're doing the Halloween show this Friday. Gundam III is in theaters and we're seeing it this Sunday.
Attempted to get out to the beach this summer, but every time we went the weather didn't co-operate, it was either bizarrely windy or raining or cold. The idea is that we'll just visit one of the public pools in the winter, dang it.
I put together an Anime Hell Treasury Edition, a big zine filled with all the Anime Hell flyers from the past decades - at least, all the ones I could find and identify which show they were from. I brought them all to Anime North and sold out of all of them in about a minute, which was... I knew they'd sell, but that fast?
Neil gifted me a new Linux PC that I haven't switched over to yet, but none of our PCs will handle Windows 11 so... good bye Windoze, I guess, at some point. My work has officially switched over to being fully run by the new employers, a Canadian printing company instead of our previous owners who were the Canadian branch of an American company. The plant that has merged into our plant was union, so we're all union now, I have a union card and pay dues and everything. So far it is OK, our hours are a little less, we get a little more money, benefits are better and are all paid for. We didn't get the kind of wild increases the press guys got, because the union was like, we aren't really sure what digital operators are. We renegotiate our contracts in June and there will be some negotiating, to be sure. Our department is way behind on raises. Before COVID we were always told "once this merger is done" or "once this reorganization is done" or "things are tough right now, so here's a one percent raise," and then COVID hit and we all basically took pay cuts for two years, and then COVID went away and we went back to regular hours but inflation started slapping us in the face. Anyway, this is all talk for next June.
AWA is in December and I'll be down there for the con and a few extra days to see friends and family and then we'll be here for the holidays proper, and then 2025 here we come.
Yes, I have voted already. Fingers crossed.
Attempted to get out to the beach this summer, but every time we went the weather didn't co-operate, it was either bizarrely windy or raining or cold. The idea is that we'll just visit one of the public pools in the winter, dang it.
I put together an Anime Hell Treasury Edition, a big zine filled with all the Anime Hell flyers from the past decades - at least, all the ones I could find and identify which show they were from. I brought them all to Anime North and sold out of all of them in about a minute, which was... I knew they'd sell, but that fast?
Neil gifted me a new Linux PC that I haven't switched over to yet, but none of our PCs will handle Windows 11 so... good bye Windoze, I guess, at some point. My work has officially switched over to being fully run by the new employers, a Canadian printing company instead of our previous owners who were the Canadian branch of an American company. The plant that has merged into our plant was union, so we're all union now, I have a union card and pay dues and everything. So far it is OK, our hours are a little less, we get a little more money, benefits are better and are all paid for. We didn't get the kind of wild increases the press guys got, because the union was like, we aren't really sure what digital operators are. We renegotiate our contracts in June and there will be some negotiating, to be sure. Our department is way behind on raises. Before COVID we were always told "once this merger is done" or "once this reorganization is done" or "things are tough right now, so here's a one percent raise," and then COVID hit and we all basically took pay cuts for two years, and then COVID went away and we went back to regular hours but inflation started slapping us in the face. Anyway, this is all talk for next June.
AWA is in December and I'll be down there for the con and a few extra days to see friends and family and then we'll be here for the holidays proper, and then 2025 here we come.
Yes, I have voted already. Fingers crossed.
