Redwolf's Journal (continued)

I'm pretty reluctant to take time off work due to illness. For one, it's pretty rare that I'm sick beyond a bout of allergies or a cold. Today, though, is one of those days. Ugh.

It does seem to be a financial rule. Did my taxes, got my refund. Yay. 'course, after buying the new tires I've been putting off for six months, trying to find birthday presents for friends who normally don't get any (and three birthdays on the same day is kinda rough), and being warned that I may not receive a full rent amount this month I'm in a perfect position to end up right where I was before when the dust settles. Well... at least I'm not coming out behind right now.

I'm not really sure why it is, but I find myself being more analytical of storylines these days. The sad part is this means some degree less enjoyment on my part due to what I see as technical failings. A couple points have stood out in my mind lately: Internal Consistency Sometimes I say realism, but that isn't actually what I mean. I read and watch plenty of things that have no basis in reality, but I still expect an amount of believable reactions within the established framework of the story. If your supernaturally-imbued protagonist suffers a knife wound that has to be stitched when he returns to human form, that's fine. If he is later riddled with bullets and reverts without a scratch, I start asking why. If there's no answer provided, that's a strike against the story in my book. This also applies to seemingly-sudden changes in things like geography, naming conventions, or the rules of (meta)physics. And while some explanation is usually better than none

So, a power outage killed lights through much of downtown today, not the least of which being at work. For a while, they got up one of the two circuits that services this building, but that wasn't enough to get the servers back online for everyone. Then it cut out completely again. In total, we lost about three hours (9-noon) of productive time because of this all. I've yet to hear any details as to what happened. We have lost one piece of hardware that is (thankfully) fairly easy to work around until a replacement arrives. Whee.