I suppose this is another one of those things that everyone has happen at some point or another, for one reason or another they feel old all of a sudden. Perhaps it's a song from years ago?
A cartoon you haven't watched in ages? An advert that they've started running again? But for me it seems to be happening more recently.
It started at work, as some of you know I now work with clients from the Job Centre. We have them in for a few months, get them some qualifications, hopefully get them a job so I see my fair share
of turnover in terms of the clients I work with, I've actually been here for about 9 months now (3 as a client, 6 as staff) and as the average course is about 15 weeks long theres none of the clients
still here that I started with. There are so many "inside jokes" that we had when I first came here that now only me and the other staff remember, so many laughs no longer had, so many stories no longer
told.
It doesn't feel that long ago tbh, now that I sit here and think about it, it feels like only the other week I was going to the volunteer party, or that I was going on a field trip with the group. But I suppose
it really has been quite a while, only another couple of months and I'll have been here a year, wonder how long it will feel like by the time I leave?
It's happening online too, going back to Nationstates and realising it's been over five years since I first created a nation there, seeing what my first home region has become, being reminded of using my girlfriends
name on their very first forums. Cybernations too, people who I knew once upon a time, in another life, another time, coming back to the channels I hide in, reading the old quotes, seeing the old faces, looking back
over my career across the alliances. It's even coming up to two years that I've been involved in CN, two years and yet it might as well be twenty for how some things appear to me now...I am I suppose, a man out of time,
out of place, out of life.
Oh well, enough of this old man rambling on, lets have some QoTD.
IRC Quote of the day
Now that I'm in channels with Ataraxia again the competition has kind of died :P
Announcing todays bronze trophy.....Ataraxia/Vlad for 'slots'
Announcing todays silver trophy.....Vlad/Ataraxia/WesVos for 'sitting' - WesVos first entry into the competition
But todays gold trophy goes to.....Ataraxia for 'legs'
This is only the 2nd time in the competition that someone has taken Gold, Silver and Bronze all on the same day and on Atars first day in the competition on less, todays results therefore:
1st Place: Vladisvok with 32 points across 15 showings - up 3 points and 2 showings
2nd Place: Vesta with 22 points across 10 showings - No change
3rd Place: Nici with 17 points across 10 showings - No change
Special Mention - 6th: Ataraxia with 6 points across 3 showings - up 6 points and 3 showings, straight into 6th place in the competition
Vlad still creeping futher ahead of the competition, but what about Atar? Flying up the leader board
Quote of the day
Todays QoTD is brought to you by Titus Livius:
"Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others."
I hope you'll come back next time for another edition of..."Vlad's Musings!!!"