Kind of in a holding pattern on work… Waiting to see what, if anything comes of the
Madigan Combine trying to get all pay to State workers stopped while we are
without budget. Should be thrown out,
but of course IANAL per usual… Seems odd
that she’d do this as presumably it is part of her job to protect the State
from lawsuits and there would be a number of fairly powerful Unions asking the
hard questions about Federal labor laws and the requirement to be paid, etc… But who knows I guess. But in any case it does seem to be driving a
wedge into the budget talks. Seems very
unlikely that we’ll have a budget for the State for another year. Since I now have a theoretical budget and I
know where the cuts will have to be made…
Well, drawing up the list of things we do so that the Department can
decide what we stop doing. Also seems to
have scuttled my plans to refill the line of one of my people who is
leaving. He WAS retiring in November,
but I was able to convince him to stay on a bit longer. Hate to see that much talent and
institutional knowledge walk out the
door, but… Does seem to be the way
things go at the University unfortunately.
At this point cuts are pretty much going to have to be in the salary
lines. In theory we were going to have a
mid-year raise… Well, I say “we” in the
general term, not me. Not really a big
deal I guess as I got a raise when they corrected my title. So, that ALMOST made up for the far below
average raise I got last time when I was stuck between Departments… ‘course that would be why I am so dead set against
making “agreements” between units at the University. It leaves the people affected in the middle
with neither side really covering them when something goes wrong or when
something HR related needs to happen.
Having been caught between like that I can say it sucks. Eh, enough of that, all a bit negative and
nothing can be done about it at this point.
Gaming… I picked up
the new captured Rebel TIE… Looking forward
to running that. Should be interesting
at least. I think there are a fair
number of things I can do with it…
Running with the Ghost for a Lothal Rebel theme just feels right at
least J… Otherwise I am playing with some Mindlink
builds… I REALLY want Cobrabane to work,
so I have one with him, Fenn Rau and Manaroo…
Fun and a win quick or die trying sort of build. The TIE Defender/Bomber build was successful,
but… Frankly boring to me. And since I’d rather have fun than worry too
much about placing in the top 4 of the event…
Well, the fun builds I think are where I go back to.
Armada… Had a game
this evening. Have to say it was the
most frustrating one I’ve had. Boring as
hell too… No fire between ships at all,
just a few fighter stands dying, mostly mine.
Mind, my opponent did NOTHING illegal, it just felt like the rule
interactions were just bad… Escort
meaning I could only fire at that, but if I did I took damage from the fighter
it was protecting due to its special rule (named pilot). And the Intel to make my Fighter Heavy and
moving the one that was Engaged a millimeter to cause the damage that the Pilot
ability causes… Nothing to be done
really J The Rebels do have some tricks I suppose, but
when the game is won or lost on technicalities it is just a lot less fun for me… Why I think X-Wing is where I’d be placing my
focus into…
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