My reserve of happiness
Ahhhh.... ☺
So, there you have it. My addiction is laid bare for all to see.
Actually, I pretty much only eat one a day. These were €0,30 a pack cheaper than the supermarket, and for the moment, buy one and get something like 60% off the second. So I bought one. And another. And another...
In total, in homage to a certain book, there are exactly eighty four Mars bars. I may have had to eat one or two to make it be eighty four. ☺
Couple that with numerous types of pasta, and you can understand why this is my reserve of happiness.
Work until you die
The reason for this (and don't do the maths, I spent rather a lot on Mars bars - but in my defence I'd be buying my daily Mars anyway so might as well benefit from an offer) is because I found out that - at work - we're running behind schedule so it is extremely likely that the non-worked "bridge" day of the 10th of November will be cancelled, and for extra screw-you points, if we're working the 10th then we'll also be working the public holiday of the 11th. This will be imposed and not voluntary.
Turns out that they are having trouble finding people. Who would have thought, that if they offer the fewest peanuts they can manage, the trained monkeys will go hang out someplace else? I mean, really, who could possibly have seen that coming? 🤦
For the moment it isn't planned that any Saturdays will be worked. We are already working an extra hour a day (so 40h weeks), adding more may cause it to become heures supplémentaires - though since we are annualised to work 1607h/year rather than 35h/week (because we have calm periods and busy periods) it gets hard to work this sort of thing out. Either way, I can foresee that come Christmas break I'm going to have a bunch of extra time in hand and be one of the living dead...
...which is why I stocked up on feel-good chocolate. Can you blame me?
Epic diss track
I think one of the strangest things I've watch recently must be this video by Kurzgesagt.
If you haven't heard of Kurzgesagt, it's basically a team of animators and graphic designers that "explain stuff" in a fun cartoony way. They tackle things head on, such as a recent video Why Does Fentanyl Feel So Good? that doesn't take any side regarding addiction, but simply explains how and why people can get addicted to cocaine, and how fentanyl changes that addiction. Purely informational with no axe to grind, which makes it pretty interesting viewing and helps to explain how people get addicted to such things; and as a side effect of explaining what happens next, is also a pretty effective anti-drug video.
Or some fascinating things about human sight, including Why Your Brain Blinds You For 2 Hours Every Day (oh, and most of what you see isn't real, it's patched together by your brain from things you did see).
A fairly common theme of Kurzgesagt is cute videos with birds, that will give you an existential crisis or two before calming you down and reminding you it's not all so terrible. Usually. But not always. They couldn't put a positive spin on What Happens AFTER Nuclear War?, for obviously grim reasons. Or, to quote the video: If you have more people than calories, then in a few weeks, you don't anymore.
At any rate, it's an entertaining series of informational videos with brightly coloured birds tackling those sorts of questions one might want to know the answer to but not know who or how to ask.
So it seems to me to be extraordinarily bizarre that these animators and designers got together to make a ten minute video insulting a fish. No, really, it's a lovingly crafted video about the ocean sunfish (aka Mola) which is, in their opinion, the dumbest animal alive. And they'll explain exactly why in those ten minutes.
I can't help but wonder if the derpy dumbarse upset somebody's holiday, because this whole - ten minute long - "YOU SUCK!" video feels personal.
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| C Ferris, 11th September 2025, 13:09 |
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