Student "edition" found at {thoughts dot com slash typed no space out no space loud slash blog}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

More lessons learned from games, after the semi-big news yesterday about something to which I invested a whole lot of time the past weeks and given up on after the time to enjoyment ratio was not paying off.

This time it is about teamwork. There are settings in games for easy and difficult play for a reason.

If you are part of a team in a cooperative multi-player game, do not be so arrogant as to choose a challenging setting.

Because if it turns out that your teammates are having an easy time and you are floundering, then you would have wasted their effort.

Particularly if typical of a game there is a way to reset and restart the stage or level and you try several times. Worse if it is a game that is physically demanding and not just button mashing.

@@ What is worse than boycotting the Christmas party last year? For me it is finally attending the Christmas party this year, only to stay for the dinner and not for the rest of the festivities.

That is just plain selfish. I do not care how far you live. Do you do that during graduation? No, you stay until it is finished, regardless of how late it ends, and its venue is as close as the party.

@@ It is funny. It was supposed to be a fun party, and in some aspects it was. It is just that the behavior of some people is really such a buzz-kill-joy. They can really spoil the mood of the evening.

I am talking about not just what I posted here but also in the student accessible version. Here you are trying to do people a favor and instead their stupid pride gets in the way. And you try to make things right by offering to give them a gift again, but no, they want to pay for their share.

So what it: that they do not want to be obligated to anybody? Then pay it back or pay it forward, but do not refuse.

And guess what, that was such a classic I put that last paragraph up in the micro-blogging sites again.

Well, these people certainly killed my Christmas spirit, for now. It may take a little payback to get the Spirit back.

@@ On to other things, running out of what to right just to wrap this post up. Ah, I forgot to mention that the dean almost made me miss the Christmas party, after having said that classes happening simultaneously are not excused. As it turns out, I was the only one with a class at that time.

Thankfully, it was a consecutive lab and lecture class, involving the same students. So we just switched the time schedules.

The one-and-a-half hour lecture class, which we are supposed to finish until the end, we had in the afternoon.

The three hour lab class, which may dismiss as early as an hour afterwards, we had after the lecture class. So we were done by the time the Christmas party started, no rules broken, no need for a make-up class.

Session 2879 is set until Monday rolls around again. Class dismissed.