Eleventh Rerun - Flies with honey

[speeding]

I've been here over two years now. It's a weird thing to notice.

Maybe I'm just getting used to this place. Scary thought. Maybe I'm just going crazy. I'm mad, you're mad, we're all mad style of thing. You don't have to be crazy to work here, but it helps.

Anyway, it's not here yet but winter's coming up. I don't know if anyone remembers Kitty, but she used to make cake for newborns. Which was pretty cool. And speaking of cool, the Hall of Beginning gets kinda arctic in the winter months. Which means we need warm clothes for newborns. And I was thinking if we could get volunteers to make hot drinks or something every day for the hall, and a heater to keep them warm, that'd be kinda nice for the poor new suckers who get stuck in this place.

That, and the greeters sure aren't gonna complain, believe me.

So, if anyone could donate a portable stove or something, and maybe a rotating volunteer cycle? Any warm drinks are going to go miles when the cold hits--coffee, tea, cider, hot cocoa, whatever.

Comments

[sting-to-death.livejournal.com]

It's a bad idea.

[feathered-earth.livejournal.com]

I think it's a good idea--I don't have a stove, but I can bring in the stuff to put on it. Hot cider's just the thing to make saying hello to confused, goopy people a little less uncomfortable.

[sigh reminders of people who are gone. Including this one really quiet guy who put space heaters together.]

I suppose in Edensphere what you get used to is that there's no getting used to it.

[speeding]

Got any better ones?

[speeding]

Yeah, and god knows, the greeters are gonna need it as much as the newborns if it gets as cold as it did last winter. Blizzards are not my best look.

[You and him both on the missing people. Gundamuuu.]

That's a good way of putting it. Expect the unexpected.

[sting-to-death.livejournal.com]

Keeping things as they are.

[speeding]

The status quo is never a good idea.

[sting-to-death.livejournal.com]

What is not a good idea is giving the newcomers the impression that living here is easy and simple.

[speeding]

Who the [bubble smudge] proposed that? But giving them something so they don't get frostbite? Some of the people who show up here are just kids. [Like he's one to call other people kids.] It's bad a enough shock even when it's not freezing.

It doesn't take that much effort not to be [bubble smudge] to the newcomers.

[lingeringlegacy]

I don't quite notice it when I was hatched, but does the Hall of Beginnings not have temperature controls like in Section 4?

[speeding]

Not really. It's cool enough in the summer but winter's a [pentaps, kinda tired of these soap suds] pain in the butt.

[lingeringlegacy]

Considering it's an important location, do you suppose it's possible to have it installed? Stoves and volunteer shifts are nice, but it seems better to have a longer-term solution.

[speeding]

That's actually not a bad idea. But I'm not exactly Mr. Wizard. We'd need permission to mess around with that.

[lingeringlegacy]

Who is Mr. Wizard? Is he the authority in Sphere public utilities?

[speeding]

Ah, not exactly. It's a pop culture reference, Mr. Wizard is like this guy who can make anything happen--don't worry about it.

so, like aeolia schenberg

[lingeringlegacy]

Sorry, I am still not very good with colloquials. To whom do we ask permission, then?

Basically, someone in ES needs the Mr. Wizard nickname now

[speeding]

No problem, most people don't seem to be.

Honestly I'm not sure. Fugue's the guy that hired me, but this might be housekeeping's thing. Or maybe Bastet, since she's in charge of security.

[fugue-angel.livejournal.com]

Fortunately, we're switching to the warmer clothing sets starting late next week. Hot drinks sound nice- I wouldn't mind some cider during my shifts- but I'm not very good at [...] not burning milk.

I know one of my Guides brews hot tea for the newborns, but having options is a very good idea. I'll see if I can find something like a hot plate. That should be easy, right?

can't think of any XD

[lingeringlegacy]

I am in Housekeeping, and we don't work with utilities.

Alas that Innovator isn't around.

[speeding]

Well than it's Fugue or Queen B.

[speeding]

Yeah, Big L. A hot plate would be perfect. It'll be nice when the cold gets here.

Thanks Fugue.

He's going to be serving scorched hot chocolate. Yum yum.

[fugue-angel.livejournal.com]

Big L?

You're welcome. I'll have a look in the Bazaar on my lunch break. Two years, that long huh?

Delicious scalded milk and chocolate... His poor victims.

[speeding]

Boss Lezard.

Right on. [Pentaps for a moment.] Yep. Hard to forget about this time two years ago I was building a show fort and claiming sovereignty over a show store.

[bloody-pens.livejournal.com]

I'd say "may you reign supreme for two more years", but who the hell wants to hope to be stuck here for that long?

I can make a mean espresso. I just- don't have the means to.

[lingeringlegacy]

Is the person below that same Fugue? What fortunate timing, if so.

[snowburned.livejournal.com]

That's a very nice suggestion. Actually, I wonder why no one's thought of it before.