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It has been a hot minute since my last blog, and while this nerd is happy MST3k is getting a full 12 episodes (for better or worse, we'll have to see) real life marches on as I saunter ever closer to my thirties. I still got a while to go, so we'll cross that bridge when we get to it, I just hope I'll be able to grow a proper beard by then, but I'm not optimistic looking at my older brother.
Beard or no beard (No beard), it has been two months-ish since I started my new, non-emailing, non-phone calling, non customer facing job and it is everything I thought it could be and more. Officially my title is, "Tech Lead, in Tech Support," though this is a bit of a misnomer. In reality I spend most days assigning work to other teams as their customers caused issues in our system, so that is the lead bit.
They did move us to one of these swanky, open format offices on one of the floors my company occupies. It is more distracting than anything, but I'll take it over taking phone calls, and yes those are walking desks with treadmills about 5 meters from my desk. It is annoying.
My work phone has rung probably 5 times in two months, and I've gotten 5 or so emails relating to my old job; beyond that I've hardly spoken to anyone who doesn't work at my company during the day and it is brilliant. Work stress is at and all time low, and work money an all time high, though it is still not that high but I got time to rectify that. Small downside, I am back to hourly, small upshot, I can make overtime again and this isn't strictly enforced so it is more in name than in practice, I'll chalk it up to a professional ebb and flow, the karmic will of office politics if you will. Onto less businessy matters.
On a gaming note, I picked up the Steam Controller in the hopes that it would open up some of the Steam library I've acquired over the years, (and Fallout 4). It has thus far actually been a really fun and done just what I hoped it would.
No second joystick, two touchpads, I'm a controller hipster for the time being. Have you even played Fallout 4 on the Steam Controller? It is so much warmer
For better or worse, I'm sure we've all had those games you buy on Steam, or Origins, or Uplay, or G2a or whatever and the port just blows. The example of this I had was the first Tomb Raider game for PS3 from 2013.
I may just have been too drunk, but I could not get past the introduction to this game with a keyboard and mouse for the life of me. Since early November, I've put away or re-beaten at least five games I didn't enjoy to their fullest with Mouse and Keyboard, and have logged 50 hours in Fallout 4 with the thing. I'm a happy customer though, it is a pretty niche little device and requires a fair bit of time sunk into it before your brain realizes your right thumb doesn't have a joystick.
I haven't tried it on a game like Starcraft yet, but I used to know that Protoss Master in WoL who played with an Xbox controller, so maybe I'll mess around vs. and AI. Could be fun. I think I could learn to use it well enough to 15-15-15 all in someone in placement matches (and pray to god they don't get a baneling nest).
On a final note, and much to the chagrin of my fiancee, we continue to to trudge towards adulthood. Savings accounts (wedding and house), IRAs, 401ks, and squirreling away money, changing banks have all been covered in the last two months.
It can all be a bit daunting, the prospect of becoming boring adults though she is more worried about it than I am, to be honest. I'm very content to make dinner at home and Netflix ad infinitum, but I think that is a good dynamic to have; strike the right balance early on between her making me leave the house to do the , and me putting a dent in the hundreds of hours of TV I have on my watchlist that I need to finish. This list just keep growing, and growing it will never stop.
Beyond that I'm pretty sure she is sick of hearing me talk about Star Trek Enterprise and hearing the theme song to that series (There will be a blog on that coming up in 2016 if not sooner). Until then KBB has been gracious enough to endure my PMs about Captain Archer and all things Trek.
Did I mention I became an Uncle in September as well?
More to come on my aging and growing sense of mortality and wasted youth soon, and I'm sure wedding planning, house buying BS, grey hairs, up into the welcome slide into senility when my being crotchety will be socially expected if not accepted.
Thanks for the read TL.
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Nice blog brah. Just turned 27 and it blowsssss.
Edit: It's not all that bad I 'spose 
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On December 17 2015 01:21 farvacola wrote:Nice blog brah. Just turned 27 and it blowsssss. Edit: It's not all that bad I 'spose
You know how that Blink 182 song goes, "Nobody likes you when you're... 27...." Pretty sure that is right. :p
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Congratz man tjmaxxx! I'm glad the abl gang is still kickin it
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On December 17 2015 01:31 ThomasjServo wrote:Show nested quote +On December 17 2015 01:21 farvacola wrote:Nice blog brah. Just turned 27 and it blowsssss. Edit: It's not all that bad I 'spose You know how that Blink 182 song goes, "Nobody likes you when you're... 27...." Pretty sure that is right. :p
You mean thirty-three!
You never know on the beard. At 18 I had more beard than my brother can grow now at 30 (wait, he just turned 31... shit!).
Glad to hear things are going well for a TLer! Keep blogging :D
edit: forgot to say that the controller has an A button so playing protoss should be just fine 
also, have you tried other controllers with steam games in the past? (I haven't looked at the steam one so anything "special" that helps on the PC?)
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On December 17 2015 04:37 y0su wrote:Show nested quote +On December 17 2015 01:31 ThomasjServo wrote:On December 17 2015 01:21 farvacola wrote:Nice blog brah. Just turned 27 and it blowsssss. Edit: It's not all that bad I 'spose You know how that Blink 182 song goes, "Nobody likes you when you're... 27...." Pretty sure that is right. :p You mean thirty-three! You never know on the beard. At 18 I had more beard than my brother can grow now at 30 (wait, he just turned 31... shit!). Glad to hear things are going well for a TLer! Keep blogging :D edit: forgot to say that the controller has an A button so playing protoss should be just fine also, have you tried other controllers with steam games in the past? (I haven't looked at the steam one so anything "special" that helps on the PC?)
I think I'm destined to be patches, I'll hold out hope or just wait until beards depart from pop culture lexicon.
We would joke that Protoss was actually the only race you could play with a controller and get to masters with back in the day. I dunno if you could even pull it off with how fast LotV is any more. To be honest I think the guy just ground out one strategy all the time and made it work. I'll have to give it a go in a glorious return to ladder.
I had a 20 dollar logitech controller that was hella uncomfortable to use. The gimmick with the steam one is the touch pad, it enables you to play some games that are designed for a mouse with a more mouse like input than a normal controller.
You can set the right trackpad to input as a mouse, imitate a joystick, function as a mouse but input as a joy stick, lots of customization for just about everything.
otherwise it is just nice to kick back in my chair with a controller again rather than sitting at a keyboard all the time.
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On December 17 2015 05:14 ThomasjServo wrote:Show nested quote +On December 17 2015 04:37 y0su wrote:On December 17 2015 01:31 ThomasjServo wrote:On December 17 2015 01:21 farvacola wrote:Nice blog brah. Just turned 27 and it blowsssss. Edit: It's not all that bad I 'spose You know how that Blink 182 song goes, "Nobody likes you when you're... 27...." Pretty sure that is right. :p You mean thirty-three! You never know on the beard. At 18 I had more beard than my brother can grow now at 30 (wait, he just turned 31... shit!). Glad to hear things are going well for a TLer! Keep blogging :D edit: forgot to say that the controller has an A button so playing protoss should be just fine also, have you tried other controllers with steam games in the past? (I haven't looked at the steam one so anything "special" that helps on the PC?) I think I'm destined to be patches, I'll hold out hope or just wait until beards depart from pop culture lexicon. We would joke that Protoss was actually the only race you could play with a controller and get to masters with back in the day. I dunno if you could even pull it off with how fast LotV is any more. To be honest I think the guy just ground out one strategy all the time and made it work. I'll have to give it a go in a glorious return to ladder. I had a 20 dollar logitech controller that was hella uncomfortable to use. The gimmick with the steam one is the touch pad, it enables you to play some games that are designed for a mouse with a more mouse like input than a normal controller. You can set the right trackpad to input as a mouse, imitate a joystick, function as a mouse but input as a joy stick, lots of customization for just about everything. otherwise it is just nice to kick back in my chair with a controller again rather than sitting at a keyboard all the time.
Hmm... what about using it outside of steam? (Thinking about a remote for a HTPC)
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On December 17 2015 06:52 y0su wrote:Show nested quote +On December 17 2015 05:14 ThomasjServo wrote:On December 17 2015 04:37 y0su wrote:On December 17 2015 01:31 ThomasjServo wrote:On December 17 2015 01:21 farvacola wrote:Nice blog brah. Just turned 27 and it blowsssss. Edit: It's not all that bad I 'spose You know how that Blink 182 song goes, "Nobody likes you when you're... 27...." Pretty sure that is right. :p You mean thirty-three! You never know on the beard. At 18 I had more beard than my brother can grow now at 30 (wait, he just turned 31... shit!). Glad to hear things are going well for a TLer! Keep blogging :D edit: forgot to say that the controller has an A button so playing protoss should be just fine also, have you tried other controllers with steam games in the past? (I haven't looked at the steam one so anything "special" that helps on the PC?) I think I'm destined to be patches, I'll hold out hope or just wait until beards depart from pop culture lexicon. We would joke that Protoss was actually the only race you could play with a controller and get to masters with back in the day. I dunno if you could even pull it off with how fast LotV is any more. To be honest I think the guy just ground out one strategy all the time and made it work. I'll have to give it a go in a glorious return to ladder. I had a 20 dollar logitech controller that was hella uncomfortable to use. The gimmick with the steam one is the touch pad, it enables you to play some games that are designed for a mouse with a more mouse like input than a normal controller. You can set the right trackpad to input as a mouse, imitate a joystick, function as a mouse but input as a joy stick, lots of customization for just about everything. otherwise it is just nice to kick back in my chair with a controller again rather than sitting at a keyboard all the time. Hmm... what about using it outside of steam? (Thinking about a remote for a HTPC)
I've gotten mixed feedback on that, and not had much reason to try it out personally. Sorry bout that.
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Walking desks? Like, you're working on a desk while doing sport?
What the hell
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On December 17 2015 08:16 OtherWorld wrote:
Walking desks? Like, you're working on a desk while doing sport?
What the hell
Part of the trend of open offices and the death of personal space in the work place. Everyone at my company, more or less, has a laptop. So you can hop up there, set the treadmill going at a slow pace, and walk while you do your work.
No one is running or jogging on them, I think they have a speed cap on them actually.
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Cute ass baby. Glad to see life is going well for you man, real life is fucking hard sometimes and they definitely don't teach you enough to be ready for everything when the time comes.
Cool looking office, I wish I could have a treadmill desk!
EDIT: also when i heard about MST3K getting a reboot, you're one of the first people I thought of.
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On December 17 2015 10:54 vult wrote:
Cute ass baby. Glad to see life is going well for you man, real life is fucking hard sometimes and they definitely don't teach you enough to be ready for everything when the time comes.
Cool looking office, I wish I could have a treadmill desk!
EDIT: also when i heard about MST3K getting a reboot, you're one of the first people I thought of.
I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop because I am not used to not being stressed about some vendor that was pissing me off or causing me trouble. Fingers crossed for continued smooth sailing.
The desks are a cool idea, I'd rather have my own desk that I could stand at or raise up and down like I've had in the past at other companies. I can't do my job with one laptop monitor unfortunately, but no skin off my back otherwise.
MST3K HYPPPPPE. So stoked. Highly encourage the uninitiated to watch Space Mutiny on youtube.
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Nice blog as always. Things seem to be going well for you, so keep doing what you're doing.
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On December 17 2015 23:44 Pandemona wrote:Nice blog update Tom! Congrats on being an uncle again. Also having spoken to Yoshi about StarTrek i can only imagine how long and trekie filled lore those pms have been haha. All the best in the new year  On a side note https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLs4MGTTXRUIs the song you're on about ? My dad is a trekkie and he over played this song to hell back years, but i must admit i was a fan of this song haha
It is totally a guilty pleasure at this point and time, the edit for the title sequence is much shorter but never having watched any enterprise and expecting Archer to do something like, "Space...." or orchestral music like DS9 or TNG.
Now, I'll cop to humming along with it at the start of every episode.
We should just cut to the chase and start a ST Discussion thread in Media and Entertainment.
Best to you as well Pande. Start Watching Enterprise assuming it is on UK Netflix, and join the online sensation. so the potential Trek Thread will be more than KBB, Me, Yoshi. That being said, my blog about DS9 is far and away the most commented and viewed blog I've ever done.
On December 17 2015 22:42 Cauld wrote:
Nice blog as always. Things seem to be going well for you, so keep doing what you're doing.
Appreciate it mang, just trying to keep on keepin' on.
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