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What did you do this week?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their week. Did you accomplish any goals? Suffer a failure? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
Ugh. It was announced by upper management that their "strategy" for giving workers pay raises doesn't take inflation into account, for various nonsensical reasons. As a result of that, I've worked out that while my salary is decent, it's technically less than when I started two years ago. I've been sending out resumes all around and actively looking for a new job, scheduling interviews and scanning job boards, hoping to find something decent.
I've been busy... With things I had no intention of doing but my brain decided now was the time to do them anyway.
I run a Pathfinder game, and there was a huge mess over the past few weeks where, for a variety of reasons, we lost three players. Now, this isn't nearly as bad as it could be. See, I'd already been way overdoing it with a team of 6. Trimming one or two out was honestly a good thing. The way this happened was not pleasant, but regardless. Three? Too many to lose. So I invited a new player to fill in. The past week has been me helping them craft their new character, followed by realizing a custom magic item crafting system I'd created to speed up the process and make it more realistically flavored was basically only ever effective if a primary caster used it, so I completely remade it from scratch and built a small autosheet to calculate the magic item crafting process so the players wouldn't get confused by it (it was originally pretty simple, then I added a feature where the more you craft, the more spells you have to use up in the process- based on how many spells you actually have available, and only added because the players agreed it should be there- and it got much more complicated), then I set my sights on the main crafting function and added some bonus features there in further homebrew... In short, I did a whole bunch of stuff that I wasn't planning on doing this week.
Meanwhile, the stuff I was supposed to be doing has remained resolutely not done.