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Untimely Upgrades

October 9th, 2014 | by Trae Dorn
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  1. Langland
    Langland
    October 9, 2014 at 7:12 am | # | Reply

    I did that once, where I slept in between the space between the walls.

    • Nex
      Nex
      October 9, 2014 at 9:28 am | # | Reply

      At least you had walls. 😀 What about all these people sleeping across on row of circle cambered chairs? 😀

    • Langland
      Langland
      October 9, 2014 at 11:10 am | # | Reply

      I don’t know honestly cause I have never been in that situation and I really don’t have a joke for that either. I’ll let someone else take this one on.

  2. calvsie
    calvsie
    October 9, 2014 at 3:11 pm | # | Reply

    I always slept under the desk when doing things with the church groups. it meant I never got stepped on…

    • antrik
      antrik
      August 16, 2016 at 12:28 am | # | Reply

      “Church groups” reminds me of a time when we did an expedition with out scouting group, and stayed at a vicarage, which turned out to be “double-booked”. We ended up with *lots* of adolescents in one room. (Don’t remember the exact number — something around 15 I guess?) Most of us were sleeping on a row of benches put side to side. I ended up at the edge of the row, and literally had the width of one bench (like 15 inches or so) available to me. I slept reasonably well though, and didn’t fall off…

      (Also, it was better than the next year, when it turned out the vicarage wasn’t available at all, and we ended up homeless sleeping on the benches at the train station platforms… We were damn lucky it didn’t rain.)

  3. EcchiKitty
    EcchiKitty
    October 9, 2014 at 8:11 pm | # | Reply

    I vaugely recall a church group thing where was 4 of us in a room with 2 single beds (slightly larger than cots). Sleeping on the floor was likely more comfortable.

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    My current desk

    So every few years I've felt the need to make an update about my ever evolving workspace, and how I (more and more) seem to be cultivating an aesthetic that screams "secondary side character in a cyberpunk story who probably gets killed off in the third act." It's an aesthetic I've been working on on purpose (well, not the getting killed off bit), but every time I declare it's reached "peak cyberpunk" I end up outdoing it soon after anyway.

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    RISC is good


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