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polydigm
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I hope that sorts itself out soon Bonny.
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aquagoat
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I'm doing fine, Poly, the sun is shining.
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I'm doing fine, Poly, the sun is shining.
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Today I had my first day being question master. That is going to look cool on my resumé! 
Also had a wild trip through my company's study platform Studytube, where they put all our trainings. Studytube is a company that offers not just web
space, but also online learning. Most of it is neither interesting or on my level, but as of yesterday I have my theory forklift driving certificate.
Also there is a great training about preventing burn-out.
Then a very long-awaited e-mail came in, four months later than expected. It was the mail from the makers of the nefarious AIVD puzzle, letting me
know I had scored 26.5 points,giving me a shared 137th place out of 469 entries in one of the hardest puzzles of The Netherlands. I aim for the top
half, but I'm also in the top 30%.
Aside from Corona the big delay was caused by a question:
"You have 100 points that you can divide over 10 envelopes, number 1 to 10. Envelope 1 contains €1, envelope 2 has €2, etc. Your envelope score is
competing against 1 opponent at the time, the person who puts the highest amount of points on the envelope wins it. Every contestant plays every
contestant. The top 50% get 2 points, the 50-75% get 1 point, the rest 0. There are also bonus points for the winner and the top 10%."
I'll never know what possessed them to do that. It's not like they make money out of that.
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Finally found me a copy of 13 Dead End Drive! It was never released in The Netherlands, so it's the German version.
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Rough day at work today. I'm finding out that of numerous colleagues the contract hasn't been extended, which is terrible since it means I'll never
see them again. In some cases they were good friends who didn't say bye.
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aquagoat
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Ha, ti's the kind of problem in the business you work in, there's a big turnover.
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It's weekend, hurray!
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polydigm
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Sorry to hear about your lost work friends Bonny.
With that AIVD puzzle I’m not sure I understand your last point about making money.
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It's embarking on a huge enterprise for the sake of it. It reminds me a bit of the time I dug into Gabriel Knight 3's subtitle files. Every line of
the game had its own subtitle file and there were over a thousand. Took a month. From these I reconstructed the Gabriel Knight 3 Screenplay - it's
huge! Other than just being head-over-heels in love with GK3 I had no motivation whatsoever to do so.
There were 469 puzzle entries. If every one of those 469 plays every single opponent, how many games are played?468 + 467 + 466 + 465... +3 +2 +1. I
make that 109746 games to be played in total. Unless the game masters were particularly interested in the mathematical side of it and wanted to try a
real-life version I don't know why they'd want to put themselves to comparing so many puzzle entries with each other.
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Of course, a very large triangular number.
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Now we will have to figure out a way of going through life without Morricone... 
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Will be visiting my boyfriend again today. Am even thinking of staying longer with him, which I can now that the logon codes have changed.
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Just spent a few days in Lille, visitin ex-girlfriend anda few members of her family, went to a few restaurants, etc, etc. It was a pretty good
week-end.
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Just got back! Was great to be able to spend some more time with my bf, and just him (last time I visited him was a social visit to pretty much all
his family).
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polydigm
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Good to see you guys have been enjoying yourselves.
I’m doing alright except for RSI in the middle finger of my right hand and pain In my left jaw joint. They both seem to be subsiding.
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All was going well after our trip - sure there were some nasty moments, like when I had to take a very extended route due to works on the railroad,
when the Great British Bake-Off that we had been looking forward to watching together for days - had been cancelled in favour of a racism debate, when
my favourite MythBuster (and celeb crush) Grant Imahara passed away and when the computers at a company my BF does work for, malfunctioned and BF was
tinkering PCs for a night, and the minigolf trip that couldn't happen because the owner hadn't cleaned the tracks, plus real bad nights of sleep due
to bad bed, but all in all it was good fun. We ended up watching The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, played Tantrix a couple of times, napped in the day,
went for a few walks and cooked together.
Less than 24 hours after leaving BF the high of the visit was crushed when I had to call a very nasty customer who is honestly the first client in 2
years to call me names. I broke down ten minutes before the end of my working day to the point that my team manager offered me a week of holiday - in
the high season after Corona it is so impossibly busy I never imagined that would happen, but they fear I'm approaching burn-out. So do I bytheway. A
week from now I have a week off.
So, past few days... I watched a lot of Mythbusters, played a lot of music and consulted my BF if we can meet again that week.
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polydigm
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Bloody hell, Bonny, my last couple of days have been a cakewalk in comparison. I think we should stop trying to outdo each other, it could end up
pretty dangerous. 
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Been doing some amateur sleuthing at work, it seems to be paying off in that I got a pat on the back from one of the bosses. It's relating to an
individual that has scammed our company way too many times.
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aquagoat
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Damn, Bonny, that week off is gonna do you good, I'm sure.
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