I know.. Thank goodness I am off this weekend.  When I got home from work this morning I slept until noon then got up and crossed the road to where my son his lady and daughter and step daughter live. To the party they had today my wife and I got to play with our granddaughter. Went back to bed for two hours. Got up again to get my roleplaying fix playing a mean high priest working to crucify Jesus.  Being played by my son.
What is funny is I do feel more rested though I wouldn't be surprised if I still slept well tonight.

I work 12 hour shifts as well, and they do make for a long week.  Luckily I only work 4 days in a row.  :)

But sleep is a good thing, and it's always good to get as much as possible.

Right now my week looks only be 40 hours, and my regular schedule and site. Thank goodness, it may change but since my week starts on friday, and my regular schedule has weekends off, at least I have had some rest in.  The Major does normally try and keep my hours down if possible since earlier this year I ended up in the ER with heart issues. but since I've been given a clean bill of health and actually answer my phone or call him back..  [that annoys my wife]
  he does call me if the schedule is in a bind.

Good for you, you need to keep an active life but realize that too active is bad, so you decide when you can and will go work

as long as you listen to your body, you won't end up in ER again, and your wife will remain happy

also you roleplay a highpriest that is trying to crucify jesus? Awesome

When I had a job, I used to be the person to be called in when others were sick, because I like working, I almost had a break-down once when my boss decided to fire my colleague and not hire a new one until a month and a half later, so I was basically working for 6 saturdays in a row, and I just wanted one saturday free, and if I'd demanded it, she told me I'd have to work one 8 hour shift without break or possibility to use toilet

I sorta broke down crying as soon as I came home that day

I got up again, worked the saturday and then went out and got wasted. I was not a good worker that day, just angry all day.

Later I found out it's illegal in my country to work more than 3 saturdays in a row...

In.. at least my State if you are a security officer they don't have to give you lunch or restroom breaks.  Sort of.. what most don't realize is that it says if you have a "traditional security job" you don't need those beaks, Why?

Because a traditional security job assumes you can eat at your post and go on random patrols [so using the restroom then]

I will be happy if she stays out of the hospital, see had issues with cancer last year.  but one of the issues was good, the cause them so early that the had trouble finding numbers to let them know what they could get away with not doing.  she is free now but the effects of the chemo still bother her.

one would assume security is the one job that needed lunch and bathroom breaks in a switch-manner, ergo one is watching as the other is away on toilet

no idea if it is called switch... But you know, never not watched

ah, good that she is cancer free, the chemo effects will heal and then she will be alright

happy for you and her

I had breast reduction surgery in february, and it failed, in an odd way... so I walk around with a gaping wound in my chest, that takes forever to heal

no ability to work, it's driving me nuts, cause I can't really go outside either, too much risk of infection

That switch of would work if the contract was for multiple officer coverage at a time or if the clients management will cover those breaks or patrols. Plus if coverage is 24/7 then there are often long periods when there is no management to cover patrols and breaks. In some sites the whole point of security is to cover times when no one else is there.
  The chemo affects are getting better, she is a dental assistant and those affects included numbness in the extremities. Unfortunately what improvement means at this point is that now when the Doctor makes her spend to much time on here feet.. It hurts.

damn, I can see that it'd be a pain, I hope she will heal soon and be without pain

maybe even look into using some jewelry with magnets in them, my mom had cancer radiation and surgery recently, and her doctor told her to use jewelry with magnets in it, to help with the side-effects

of course she took too many magnets, like on both arms and necklace, which caused some dizziness, so now she removed the necklace and only has the magnet bracelets

and it's interesting to see, how work places work, everyone seems to have different ways to do it

Unfortunately, I think magnetic bracelets has been disproven as having any benefits besides perhaps a placebo effect.   I'm surprised a doctor would take them seriously.

My own job is all about "security comes first", so that always trumps breaks and other comforts for the staff.    A state agency can be their own kingdom, so they can sometimes feel that they can make their own rules.   It's a bit frustrating at times.

Well the term  placebo effect doesn't, mean necessarily no effect or an illusion of an effect.  but may mean that those effects it does have are triggered by the mind.  but even then the term is used on something that appears to start out to do something then falls off. that is then assumed to be an effect of the mind.

When the company I was first hired on with was bought and turned into the government services division.  I avoided going into that part with it, since historically in the USA biggest black eyes Contract-security ever got was when it got involved with working for the government.

I've been waiting on Rpol for two games I've joined to get started and now within about two days they both start up.

if it works, doctors let people believe in it, and well, it helps with the pain, so it's not doing harm...

weirdly enough, our pharmacists even sell magnetic band-aids, to be placed on the place the pain is, to help quicker, so the mumbo-jumbo makes people rich if nothing else

and oh?

I have these two games, that happens nothing in, we've kept it alive a lot longer than it should be, as the GMs have disappeared...

and then I am in this one game, that had the GM disappear in 2012, and we the players refuse to believe she won't come back

she was the best GM ever... I truly hope she will return

Oddly.. I haven't played in decades but for the relatively short time I've played on RPOL.  But the whole time whether playing or not. I've always spent time developing parts of campaign areas just for the fun of it.

I once took over a game simply because of desperation not to let it end when the GM had RL issues and had to stop.  When I looked for the plans she had I was startled to realize how little reference and outline was online.
I like a lot of background and npc character development but loath story archs.
I did notice in the one I took over in the notes that were there that we completely went a different direction from the expected in a major decision point.

The GM that disappeared was on the verge of making me and one other her co-GMs, but she never did, and we miss her terribly

weirdly enough, no one seem inclined to give up waiting for her either, as it could be petitioned to the site mods to give co-GMship to one of us

but doing that would signal us giving up...

Oh well, some times planned things don't work out as they should

It bugs me to leave a character hanging in mid-air so to speak.  I once create a half-drak in a first edition DnD area who was lawful and whose treasure sense was groups. He considered himself belonging to a whole set everything from a minor noble family, militia skirmisher unit, in possesion of a limited letter of march and reprisal, the nearist big cities thieves guild (enforcer/assassins division) and the son and enemy of a black dragon.
For the sole purpose of tossing him in (with the GMs blessing) into the GMs 3.5 ed DnD game in a different universe. Talk about trama he had to move quickly to the nearest city since the portal trap only took what he had on him.  This included all of his important documentation, and emblems of membership, including militia uniform, "Rat-catches" Hood, and loop trap (garrotte), vengence dagger symblizing his families feud with his father (the dragon) over his birth, and assorted documents including his last mission orders which he now realized was a trap from his father to get rid of him. His his birth certifficate and heraldric documents including the correct form of "bar sinister" for a multirace creature as himself.. etc.
I joined at the beginning of a new story arch of a game that had completed a first.  Left with the party for the mission, then the GM ended up with a set of family issues and a new job.. and that was that.  Corporal John Hearthfeld "Creature" then went into limbo.
Sigh.. that was one of the most intricate and extencive backstory/characters I'd ever done including creating a mental outline of the campaign area he had come from. He got seriously nervous as he slowly trasnlated from a 1st edition halfdrak that looked like half bugbear due to the taint of the spell that his father had used to take the shape of a bugbear. His vision changed, he began to cut up the fingers of his gloves, and started to shed, he never got to the point that he discovered as his scaleds started to harden, that they would turn blue rather then the black his skin hard been meaning that his father hard actually been a blue dragon the mortal rival of the black dragon his family believed to be his father.
And he sits there in game limbo.
On the other hand I have a Noble Forest Gnome who has gone through a couple of incarnations and is now beginning another..  at this point I'm sitting here wondering if I told this story before. At my age you begin to forget who you told which stories.

I've probably been in a 100 games since joining in 2009, and have probably only used a dozen D&D character that whole time, since so many games vanish suddenly, leaving the character without a home.  I have about six that I've probably used in nearly a dozen games each.

Part of the problem is the number of different types of games I've been in. I have started in a couple of freeform (lizardman nest-mother, fox ani-man colonel, Rabbit superhero), in some I've had a character wander around among 3.? DnD games. with one character I had created as a first edition character along time ago, when it was just me and my two brothers playing.  Was translated into a 3.5 game and so intertwined in the game I had to drop due to RL that I left him for another to pick up. I had another person I know still in the game.
  I have a tendency to create odd characters. I played a retired magical assassin Butler in a Maids game that is the only one I have been able to play to the end. I even wrote the happily ever after post on that one.
  In one game system with multiple GMs I had to drop out of two different characters for an extended period of time. When I was able to get back I was happy to discover that I still had the characters in their beginning form but their were no openings in any of the parties at a close enough level to the starting level of those characters.
 Many of my characters have been created to experiment with one kind of character idea or another and translation of that challenge to another system is often like trying to translate a joke from one language to another.
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I always make new characters, but I only play freeform games so it's not... I just don't get the rules for the other games.

But I always make a new characters, and some games I have as many as 10 characters, it's hard to interract with oneself, but it rarely happens. so it is possible

I'm partial to unseelie, vampires and witches/wizards

I like bad dudes, okay, I always play the evil

There is very few freeform games on here

I'm in a few freeform games currently, and many are very slow to update.  But Freeform games are very tough to run, though.  I used to run a few as well, and they were exhausting.   :)

I am willing to play any alignment if it fits the character.  I currently have a 5E Golden Dragonborn Noble-knight Sorcerer He is Lawfull Good and basically belongs to a knights order that investigates Noble criminal activity.  Being a noble knight rather than a noble means that instead of lots of pretty money you get a squire and two servants as your companions.

His Noble-squire is a forest gnome, his Dame of Hold-Wardrobe-Bed is a gentlefolk redheaded half-elf, his Mistress of Bed-Board is a goodfolk human. [ie goodwife, and goodman]
  Since we were running so low on players and as this was an experimental game for the group the GM is letting me use even the non squires as active NPCs.  The thing is as I rolled up certain background items I discarded one or two that really wouldn't fit, then got one that was possibly the least possible.  But I hesitated and was lost, his two servants are Wives. My whole character gained a twist, while he is a minor lord [what I'm calling a Jarl]. His relationship in many ways even with the class difference which I am playing up is much more equal.
  So when Jarl Archy' negotiated with the person that was planning to hire them to act as guards for some thing [he needed money because while he gets a living stipend (the Dame holds his pouch as Nobles Never carry money), because he wanted to buy a new mill wheel for the Miller family, the living stipend goes to support his retainers and so is in a different purse which she has and he isn't allowed to use it] I ended up bouncing back and forth among his retainers as different items came up that were their responsibilities in the household.

  I have a relative on rpol who is a computer professional and he had shown me a method of creating a link which would change the portrait and bios' to a certain thing that you set.  so the picture and bio changed in each post, based on who was the main speaker.

This worked fine and I had fun speaking mainly to the DMs character and the one other player,    with side comments in the post among my NPCs and PC.  But just tonight I had the DM ask for our order of travel and other stuff. [which made me think the other stuff was important.]

I ended up in one post having to describe what four persons were wearing what, what weapons they had, and the instructions they got from Jarl Archy as to what to do.

Now do you get the problem, if you look back over this description can you picture what issues I might of had describing that as well as throwing in some expository Dialog.

Sigh.. I may have lost this character to a goblin ambush.  The Dm said that the goblins were rolling really well, and haven't heard much since.
I suspect the Dm is trying to decide how to deal with what is happening. I am in the odd position of being more concerned about the condition of his wives and squire, then I am of my PC Dragonborn since he would himself.  His last act was to light a brush fire in front of or around the goblins on his side of the trail.

Sigh.. May? everything is running slow.
   that character survived but the game is so slow we just have made it up the path.

   Been skimming burn out and just coming up for air.

My youngest Son's young lady just had her wedding shower today my oldest Son and his Lady couldn't make it because His lady's side of the family scheduled a clean up/out day of her Grandmothers house who just died. Their little girl was with us so I took her to church with us, well me; Grandpa "Poe Poe", and my mom; Great-grandma [still working on that].  In the end during the service we actually spent most of it wandering the cemetery learning new names.. I guess from a Norse outlook that means she is learning to claim her right to it as her property.

I hope everything is going well

Well lets see. My youngest just got married within the last week. good.
Not so good my wife just had an MRI, and the neruologist just okay'd her for back surgery. not so good.
Almost the same time as my sons wedding two of my wifes friends who were invited ended up in the hospital seperately with life threatening issues, even more not good.

Other than fried.. We'll have to see.

But I'm glad you're Better, life just hits us sometimes both the bad and the good.
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