Category: Life

  • A nice, full weekend.

    Believe it or not, I did things this past weekend that didn’t involve one particular gaming obsession. (Though I’ll admit I engaged in a fair amount of that, too.) For instance, I went out shopping with Wendi and the rugrats on Saturday. Our time was cut short by an annoying false alarm at work (and other factors I won’t go into here), but we still had a fun time. The kids, they are definitely becoming interesting and wonderful people in their own right.

    After resting and recovering a bit at home, I was invited over to Lil’ & Geoffrey’s for some hanging-out time that included snarky fun with the Lyse-beast. We watched a sizeable chunk of Stargate SG1’s second season, which wasn’t all bad but it certainly did set off my snark-o-meter often enough. Still, fun was had by all.

    Yesterday I went shopping. I picked up one of the last of the holiday presents on my list, some paper and pencils, some dice for gaming (yes, I’ve been absorbed into the collective, blah blah blah) and a few grocery items. Shortly after the roomie and I got home from that extravaganza, it was time to game.

    (Geeky side note: If I tell you that my Champions superhero character is loosely modeled after Marc Remillard, would you think ill of me? My original template was based on Aiken Drum, but I didn’t think I could roleplay him very well…)

    Anyway, that’s my weekend in a nutshell. This evening I pay another visit to the rugrats, and then pick up a particular someone from the train station. Yay!

  • Note To Self: Stupidity Hurts

    When you’re busy chucking old, useless CDs from their jewel cases, avoid trying to be clever while snapping shut said jewel cases. For instance, doing so one-handed may result in pinching the flesh of your palm in the hinge.

    Freakin’ ow. You wouldn’t think you could break skin by pinching yourself with a CD case, but… well, take it from me. You can.

    I’m such a klutz…

  • Filler Entries Are Fun

    We went north, we ate food, we chatted, we slept, we ate and chatted some more, we drove home.

    Oh, I took some pictures. They’ll show up in the gallery as soon as I have a stretch of time that isn’t in-freaking-sane in which to process them.

    Today? Not a good day, by most measures of such things. Le sigh. It wasn’t all bad, but it sure as heck wasn’t all good…

  • Brief Trip North

    So a group of us are heading up to Seattle for a nice overnight visit and party and such. I’m bringing my camera, so if all goes well there’ll be pictures once I get back.

    Don’t get into too much trouble while I’m gone, okay? Thanks.

  • A Productivity Alert

    In case you’re wondering, I have a perfectly good reason not to have written a single damned word on my NaNovel today. A very, perfectly, truly good reason. Yes.

    You see, yesterday my beloved employers saw fit to replace my cranky, misbehaving old geekphone with, uh, this.

    And, you know, I had to spend some quality time this morning doing very important things to get it up and running to my high standards of usefulness. That’s right!

    So the fact that I installed this on my new phone has nothing to do with my lost NaNoWriMo productivity this morning. I categorically deny any and all reports that I spent three hours playing MIDI files from my old sound files collection and/or that I found on the web in search of spiffy new ringtones. I’m also most assuredly not desperate to find a non-crappy anime MIDI website. Not at all.

    There’s nothing to see (or hear) here, move along now…

  • How… disappointing.

    To say that I’m not thrilled about how things turned out would be an understatement. We’ve got four more years of smirking shrubbery to look forward to, and Oregon passed a measure that writes discrimination into the state constitution.

    Color me underwhelmed.

    My only real consolation is that very nearly half of everyone who voted is in the same boat I am right now. Misery loves company, wot?