One of the pet peeves I have that will probably never change is needing to poop less than thirty minutes after getting out of the shower. I had this happen today. I got nice and clean, which included my butthole, and was still enjoying the shower fresh feeling when the bowels made an unscheduled request.
I didn’t really feel like taking two showers back to back so quickly, so I didn’t. If only I had delayed my shower about an hour, I would have been more clean throughout the day.
It snowed on Sunday night, which was surprising, since it’s March and we usually don’t get a lot of snow in that month in Vancouver. Luckily, it wasn’t a lot of snow and the subsequent rain on Monday morning washed it away pretty quickly.
I would say it’s been colder than expected recently as well. I believe the low tonight is -4 degrees Celsius which is chilly for this city. For comparison, the low in Toronto tonight is supposedly 8 degrees. For Vancouver, the freezing weather is going to stay until Friday at least. This weekend is when we’re supposed to move the clocks forward, signifying the approach of the spring season. I hope the weather cooperates with that.
Last week, my employer announced that they will layoff 5% of their workforce or about 670 people. Some of those losing their jobs have already been told but for some unknown number, it might take up to 30 days for them to find out.
Just to get it out of the way, the odds of me losing my job are probably very slim, but you can never rule out anything when it comes to business. Instead, we should focus on the fact that for the majority of the people who are getting laid off, their ability, skills, and intelligence had nothing to do with them losing their jobs. I have no doubt some of those people could actually do my role better than I could. My point is that sometimes, I guess most of the time, in the games industry, a person getting laid off has nothing to do with how good they are as a game developer. That’s the part that makes it so frustrating. Your career sometimes hinges on sheer luck.
I don’t know where all of this is going. I read somewhere that just barely three months into 2024, we’re already reached half the number of people laid off in the video game industry in 2023. How many more people can lose their jobs before we see just a handful of games released in a year?