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My new job is a fairly laid back place (casual dress, people hanging out, loosely defined hours). I regularly go in at 7am or 7:15am so I can get off early every day (4-4:15). Lately, I've been taking short lunches here or there so I can get off early on Fridays (around 3-3:30).

On Fridays I almost always have nothing much to do. We have one meeting but it isn't really necessary I go. I don't do anything in these meeting and everyone there just wants to get through it quickly to start the weekend.

So far, my boss hasn't said anything about me getting off early. But I worry that maybe it is a jerk move? I get my 40 hours every week. Should I ask him if it is cool that I do this? the first few times I did get off, I would ask him and he was just go, "Okay." or "I don't care."

Just get the fuck outta there. Especially in light of this:

Should I ask him if it is cool that I do this? the first few times I did get off, I would ask him and he was just go, "Okay." or "I don't care."

I would really say that you just don't need to worry about it at all. Also, just out of curiosity, what industry/area?

Manufacturing. Mondays-Wednesdays are my busiest days. Thursday is finishing up the last of my work. And Friday is just a nothing day except for that one meeting. I wish it was customary that people were payed by the work they do and not hours.

I'm facing some 40+ hours in my car, with no radio. I'm not really a fan of audiobooks, but I love radio drama. Anyone got any recs either online, or available on CD?

Podcasts good? How do you feel about horror? Both We're Alive (one of the best produced podcasts about a zombie apocalypse) and Wolf 359 (the inhabitants of a space station monitoring the start Wolf 359 get up to some hilarious, harrowing, and dramatic adventures). We're Alive starts dark and Wolf 359 eventually gets dark.

Podcasts are absolutely fine! I'm really not into horror on film, but I'd probably be okay with it in audio format. I'll check them out :D

Some other ones are King Falls AM (starts comedy gets more dramatic, two DJs in a weird town), SAYER (think Portal meets Star Trek), Uncanny County (every episode is different with a loose narrative between them).

I listen to a ton of podcasts if you want more recs. But those are the only story ones.

I'm mainly looking for stories, and I guess it's time I get off to google to find them :) Thank you for the recs!

if you look up Relic Radio they have a bunch of podcastrs that are old radio shows/recordings from the 40s and 50s, and they s9me pretty good & corny shows (I listen to one that sounds limje Vincent Pryce opens a bootleg Twilight Zone, it's hilarious!)

I listen to Casefile (true crimne) while at work. If you want at least 3 hours of listening, I recommend Parts 1 to 3 of Silk Road episodes. The narrator does such good job I feel like I'm watching a suspenseful m9vie (but I'm just listening!)

There's always niche podcasts if there's particular things you want t o hear about...

Gooid luck & safe driving!

Thank you ♥ I'll check them out!

Jeff Wayne's The War Of The Worlds if you don't mind musicals. It's my favourite adaptation of any book ever.

https://www.amazon.com/Jeff-Waynes-Musical-Version-Worlds/dp/B0009MAPUO

Musicals are A+

Thank you for the rec :D

Anyone have any advice for actually managing to sleep when you're in a lot of pain? I really need a good night sleep tonight as I haven't slept well all week. But the only thing helping pain is my heating pad, and can't leave that on all night.

What kind of pain?

Combination of cramps and back pain.

Oh, that's a shitty combination.

What I usually do for really bad cramps is take a midol and a sleep aid at the same time, then lie down with one of those heating pads you have to warm up in hot water wrapped in a clean tea towel - it'll lose heat over time, so you don't have to worry about burning yourself the way you could with an electric heating pad. The heat eases the cramps and gives the painkiller and the sleep aid time to kick in, so there's a better chance of getting to sleep and staying asleep.

How about some Tylenol PM or something else that knocks you out? Otherwise, as an insomniac:

-Light exercise a couple hours before you go to bed (even just a walk around the block, but not too late so you don't rile yourself up at bedtime)
-Chamomile tea
-Hot shower
-Quiet dark room
-Melatonin
-And if you need it: benadryl, ibuprofen PM, and/or Nyquil. better to take with a small light snack.

I sleep with a heating pad. It automatically turns off during the night. If yours doesn't, perhaps look into one that does.

I have three. Two automatically turn off. I just always thought you were never supposed to sleep with them still on because of the fire risk.

As someone who has done this many, many times, you definitely can leave a heating pad on all night. Most of them automatically shut off after amount of certain time or if they hit a certain temperature, so I say go for it.

Really? I've always been told you never do that because it is a fire hazard, even with the auto shut off ones.

I've done it for years without a problem. And honestly, oftentimes my pain was so bad that I didn't care what the risk was if it meant I'd have any kind of relief.

I found audio books help. Those little half hour fairy tales Audible sells? The rhythm of the voices is very soothing, and the story provides a welcome distraction.

Short version: The local anime society kiiiind of looks like it's going down in flames. I'm trying to decide if I should bail now or stick around and try and help.

Long version: I've hung around on the periphery of the local anime society, which organises the state's only anime convention, for years. This year, I decided to get involved, and joined the committee... and discovered the following:
1) The new President has 0 experience, and has taken no steps to actually perform any of her duties as the President
2) The society is thousands of dollars in debt
3) We can't book a lot of our usual spaces because of flooding across the state earlier in the year
4) No-one has a coherent plan for getting us out of debt
5) The Treasurer quit a couple of weeks ago, so we need a new Treasurer, and no-one wants to be treasurer for a society that's deeply in debt!!!
A N D (drumroll)
6) The Vice-President, one of the most experienced members of the committee and one of the people everything relied upon, just quit.

In my opinion, we need to either cancel the con or scale it waaaaay back so that we don't spend money we don't have, and we can focus more on smaller fundraising events. But IDK. Maybe the whole thing will just implode and I won't need to think about it any more.

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