PPM wrote to All <=-
Hello everyone, I have decided to log on again after a while. How is everyone doing? Are you guys excited for new years? Any music you guys like?
Thank you,
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I just started playing around with BBS's again and using QWK again. So
I am going to say hello back.
Am I excited for the new year? Well that a tough one. On the one hand, yes I am. After all a new year is sort of a blank slate. Nothing is set
in stone. On the other hand, I am older and have more days behind me
than I days going forward. That thought alone is enough to give pause. Plus, I am not looking forward to seeing more of the same. In many ways,
I am going to take a page for my wife favorite artist Morrissey and his lyric to "Stop watching the News". Of course that's just me and
everyone's mileage may vary.
On the other hand, I am older and have more days behind me than I days going forward. That thought alone is enough to give pause.
Hopefully, I will be hanging around here.
Hello everyone, I have decided to log on again after a while. How is everyone doing? Are you guys excited for new years? Any music you guys like?
not looking forward to seeing more of the same. In many ways, I am going to take a page for my wife favorite artist Morrissey and his lyric to "Stop watching the News". Of course that's just me and everyone's mileage may vary.
At any rate, have a wonderful New Year. Hopefully, I will be hanging around here.
On the other hand, I am older and have more days behind me than I days goin
forward. That thought alone is enough to give pause.
I'd rather hit Rewind, but I'd settle for Pause.
Dumas Walker wrote to NBLADE <=-
At any rate, have a wonderful New Year. Hopefully, I will be hanging around here.
Happy New Year to you also, and I hope you enjoy your return to BBSing.
;)
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Hello everyone, I have decided to log on again after a while. How is everyone doing? Are you guys excited for new years? Any music you guys like?
It was a 386sx-16 with 4mb of RAM with a 40mb Hardrive. It had a vga card it. I upgraded
it to have one of the first multimedia upgrade kits (aka Sound Blaster Card, CDROM drive, and
Windows 3.0 with multimedia extensions).
Hello everyone, I have decided to log on again after a while. How is
everyone doing? Are you guys excited for new years? Any music you guys
like?
Being in Germany, I have prepped my camera for fireworks mode, and hopefully will be able to capture something interesting around midnight, when a fifth of the German population lights off fireworks that aren't legal in most places.
I find it annoying when I still hear people set off exploding fireworks late at night a couple weeks after the holiday..
I find it annoying when I still hear people set off exploding fireworks
late at night a couple weeks after the holiday..
I know the feeling!
Get this one, we had some idiots in the neighbourhood setting off fireworks on Christmas Eve.
Hello everyone, I have decided to log on again after a while. How is everyone doing? Are you guys excited for new years? Any music you guys like?
I am not sure there is a time in my life I would rather go back to.
Thanks I hope to enjoy it. It certainly brings back memories of when I got my first PC. Hell the funny thing is I can still tell you the stats for my first PC (but not any machines after that).
Re: Screaming into the void
By: PPM to All on Tue Dec 30 2025 06:24 am
Hello everyone, I have decided to log on again after a while. How is everyone doing? Are you guys excited for new years? Any music you guy like?
I'm hoping the new year will be good. I was laid off from my job in September, so the end of the year has been a bit of a downer, having to look for work. I recently had a few interviews for a job I applied for; the last one of those was just today, and I feel like it went well, so hopefully there will be good news regarding that.
I had no idea that you lost your job. Sorry about that. With your skills, you shouldn't have any problems finding the right job, no matter how long it takes.
Once you do, you are sure to have a Happy New Year. Praying for you, bud.
niter3 wrote to nblade <=-
Aging sucks.... :/
Mortar M. wrote to nblade <=-
Re: Screaming into the void
By: nblade to PPM on Tue Dec 30 2025 10:52:00
On the other hand, I am older and have more days behind me than I days going forward. That thought alone is enough to give pause.
I'd rather hit Rewind, but I'd settle for Pause.
Hopefully, I will be hanging around here.
I'm glad I'm sill just hanging around.
Dumas Walker wrote to MORTAR M. <=-
There are individual times/experiences I might be sentimental about but
I must remind myself that there were also many experiences at those
ages that I really, really am glad are far behind now.
deon wrote to PPM <=-
New years is just another day for me. They all seem to blurr together.
Mortar M. wrote to Dumas Walker <=-
shops that were starting to pop up in the area. It would be another
year before I owned a computer; a T/S 1000. I would love to
re-experience that wonder, that excitment of something totally new.
Agreed. I spent the first half of 2025 watching my mother decline swiftly with lewy body dementia, in the back of my mind I'm wondering how many years I have until what seems like an inevitable decline.
People are now advocating not working like gangbusters in your later life, instead retire more reasonably and enjoy life while you can.
Travel in your late 50s instead of your late 60s/early 70s, you'll enjoy it more and your quality of life will be better. Makes sense.
As I get older, I find myself getting more nostalgic, looking back on times of my life. I find it fulfilling to know I've had some great times, and see them as passing - an intersection of the right people at the right time. It's not expected to go on forever, you need to enjoy the moment. I did, mostly. I was always more of a "the journey is the reward" type.
That seems fairly common. Where I am, I don't even know where people are buying fireworks during New Years.. I don't recall seeing many places
I find it annoying when I still hear people set off exploding fireworks
late at night a couple weeks after the holiday..
As I get older, I find myself getting more nostalgic...
Travel in your late 50s instead of your late 60s/early 70s, you'll
enjoy it more and your quality of life will be better. Makes sense.
to get more vacation time from companies, and I've heard Europeans tend
to travel more. I think it would be good to be able to travel more when you're even younger.
I've often heard people in the US tend to work a lot more than people in some other countries. In countries in Europe, for instance, people tend to get more vacation time from companies, and I've heard Europeans tend
to travel more. I think it would be good to be able to travel more when you're even younger.
Thinking about the common American experience versus the common European experience, in the US I lived in a mid-sized Midwestern city, that was an uncomfortable longer bus ride to Chicago, and not a whole lot else. And, obviously, driving was clearly the most-comfortable option.
In Germany, I live in a mid-sized city, that's a fairly-comfortable longer train ride (well, maybe multiple trains, depending) to Essen, Cologne, Bonn, and if going for more than 2 hours, Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris, and Amsterdam, among others, aren't too far away.
In the US, traveling to anything else was pretty much guaranteed to be a plane ride, if not planning on a multi-day road trip.
It's still fun to visit places in small towns in the US, or see some wide-open places that are less common in Europe, but I think a lot of that wouldn't even strike most Americans as "travel".
I've often heard people in the US tend to work a lot more than people in
some other countries.
I've heard the same as well.
Wonder if they'll ever get the Bernie Sanders 4 day work week to come into place?
I haven't really read up much on that, but if that happens, I'd wonder
if it would be 4 8-hour work days or 4 10-hour work days.
Adept wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
But, while my mom isn't suffering from any obvious big health concerns, our travel plans did wind up being impacted by figuring out how to get around, with my mom being a lot slower than me.
Adept wrote to Nightfox <=-
In Germany, I live in a mid-sized city, that's a fairly-comfortable
longer train ride (well, maybe multiple trains, depending) to Essen, Cologne, Bonn, and if going for more than 2 hours, Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris, and Amsterdam, among others, aren't too far away.
I haven't really read up much on that, but if that happens, I'd wonder
if it would be 4 8-hour work days or 4 10-hour work days.
Exactly, I think that's the catch. It would be more...
I haven't really read up much on that, but if that happens, I'd wonder
if it would be 4 8-hour work days or 4 10-hour work days.
Exactly, I think that's the catch. It would be more...
Traveling is hard, and gets harder as you get older. We just dropped my mother-in-law off at the airport, she's 79 with 2 replaced hips. Sitting for a long period of time is tough, jetlag takes longer to deal with, and
I've seen some airlines have a super luxury option for some of their flights which includes a suite with a bed. I think that could be interesting, thoug I don't think any American or European arlines do that.
Nightfox wrote to niter3 <=-
Re: Screaming into the void
By: niter3 to Nightfox on Fri Jan 02 2026 02:54 pm
I haven't really read up much on that, but if that happens, I'd wonder
if it would be 4 8-hour work days or 4 10-hour work days.
Exactly, I think that's the catch. It would be more...
Some companies already give employees the option to work 4 10-hour days
or 5 8-hour days. If it's going to be 4 10-hour days, I'd rather
things just be left as it is and give people the option. But if it's 4 8-hour days, I wouldn't mind that for more work-life balance.
I've seen some airlines have a super luxury option for some of their flights, which includes a suite with a bed. I think that could be interesting, though I don't think any American or European arlines do that.
Gamgee wrote to Nightfox <=-
Would you mind the 20% pay cut? Also likely don't get
benefits/insurance with only 32 hours per week...
Some companies already give employees the option to work 4 10-hour days
or 5 8-hour days. If it's going to be 4 10-hour days, I'd rather things
just be left as it is and give people the option. But if it's 4 8-hour
days, I wouldn't mind that for more work-life balance.
Would you mind the 20% pay cut? Also likely don't get benefits/insurance with only 32 hours per week...
When I was frequently flying for work, I would frequently go between Frankfurt and Los Angeles. I once wound up in business class, with a seat that allowed more lying than sitting.
And this was on Lufthansa, on one of their 747s.
Not a room, but perhaps _slightly_ more plausible for a normal person to purchase a ticket.
However, I'm guessing that would probably be tremendously hard to justify. Plane tickets, especially beyond economy class, get to be pricey.
everyone doing? Are you guys excited for new years? Any music you guys like?
Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-
Some companies already give employees the option to work 4 10-hour days
or 5 8-hour days. If it's going to be 4 10-hour days, I'd rather things
just be left as it is and give people the option. But if it's 4 8-hour
days, I wouldn't mind that for more work-life balance.
Would you mind the 20% pay cut? Also likely don't get benefits/insurance with only 32 hours per week...
That's another question I've had - If there's a move to 4-day work
weeks, would that also mean benefits would change? Maybe they'd change
it so that 32 hours per week is considered enough to get benefits. And one might imagine it would also imply a pay cut, but perhaps a law
would say companies should allow that without a pay cut - though I
think that would be highly doubtful.
I imagine some people would consider taking a 20% pay cut, though, if
it meant more time to spend with their families or more time to themselves. I probably wouldn't, but I don't think there would be anything wrong with allowing people to do that if they want to.
That's another question I've had - If there's a move to 4-day work weeks,
would that also mean benefits would change? Maybe they'd change it so
that 32 hours per week is considered enough to get benefits.
She manages payroll, and if the deadline is on her day off, she's working. An event happening? She's working.
On-call jobs suck. I knew an IT guy that worked like that. Server crash at 3am, he's off to the office.
Cutting employees back to 32 hours (vs 40) is a common tactic so that employers/companies can *AVOID* having to pay benefits...
for my first flight to virgin atlantic, i ended up getting premium economy.
On-call jobs suck. I knew an IT guy that worked like that. Server crash at 3am, he's off to the office.
I've known people working as sysadmins or server admins, and it seems most o them are on-call all the time. I don't think I'd like such a job, knowing I could be interrupted at any time with a call to go in and fix a server issue..
A few jobs later, in the public sector, we were all union.
Junior and mid-level employees were hourly and received 1/2 their hourly pay for on-call rotations, paid whether they were called or not. Accept a promotion to senior lead and you went salaried. They'd end up taking a serious pay hit despite an increase in pay.
poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Gamgee <=-
Re: Re: Screaming into the void
By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Sat Jan 03 2026 03:31 pm
That's another question I've had - If there's a move to 4-day work weeks,
would that also mean benefits would change? Maybe they'd change it so
that 32 hours per week is considered enough to get benefits.
I thought the idea was 4 10-hour days, making it the same weekly hourly amount?
That's another question I've had - If there's a move to 4-day work
weeks, would that also mean benefits would change? Maybe they'd change
it so that 32 hours per week is considered enough to get benefits.
I thought the idea was 4 10-hour days, making it the same weekly hourly
amount?
You replied to me, but quoted something Nightfox said...
He said right there that it was 4 days and 32 hours.
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Paris, and Amsterdam, among others, aren't too far away.
Exactly! We're looking to retire to the English country, far enough
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