Oh... I somehow made it from Monday to today and didn't keep notes...
I'm pretty sure Wednesday I duoed in the Dunes with Ninjamaster, taking DRG one full level to 17. Then I helped him a little with the SMN weather collection by teleporting him from place to place. Oh, someone remind me next time - when I have a pet job, call up a pet! I must have wandered the Dunes for 15-20 minutes before realizing Nanaja was missing. /facepalm
Thursday was a waste of time on SAM - I wound up with less XP and a wasted 2k on a pumpkin when I got killed (for the second time) only 5 kills in...
Friday:
Today I finished book two of the Sevenwaters trilogy. If you recall from an earlier post, I wasn't sure about this one. To be honest, I really didn't feel like getting halfway in, investing in the characters, and then have some mindless tragedy befall them, as in the first.
To be honest, I found myself enthralled and read it as fast as I could make time. And a few days ago it occurred to me I was enjoying this one (as I did the last, minus the rape) because the female leads were so strong but also conflicted. I don't mean strong like physically, but both Sorcha and Liadan had a strength of will that greatly appealed to me. Also, both were very committed to healing, and made me feel the call of White Mage and real-life Healer all the more.
Clone the Elder may have found New Moon, and I need to refill my library queue again. And speaking of clones, Ape's sis gave us one of Karen Traviss' Star Wars books. Now to find it again...
Later on in the night I grabbed GH: Metallica, and GH Smash Hits for 20 bucks apiece. I played a 6-song set of Metallica and was transported back two decades... I surprised myself by recognizing all 7 album motifs during the opener, and by singing along to Dyer's Eve.
After that we watched our rented movie, Carriers. At only a dollar (thank you RedBox!), I *still* felt cheated. It flat-out sucked. Even with Captain Kirk in it...
Work's been a bit much but thankfully all my code is going smoothly.
Also, get well soon, Soho!
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Friday, February 5, 2010
Monday, February 1, 2010
Hot Showers!
Sunday:
After picking up the water heater stuff and some lunch, I spent the afternoon at home, doing chores. I cut up the fallen trees from last week's storm. I fixed the water heater (prays and crosses fingers that it doesn't do anything burny - one house fire is enough). I installed our new DVD player. I did my final code checkout.
About the time Ape made it back from seeing "The Tooth Fairy" (what the heck led The Rock to make all these kids' movies? I have no prob with it, just interested...) it was time for dinner. Buuut, Soho had found me. We were chatting a bit while I was messing with auction stuff. He's working on dissections this week (sheep and later, cat). I winced a bit about the cats, but in general, I think med-sci is cool. Also good to have (:
He invited me outside for a bit and we sat together continuing our chat. Then he got a Dunes party and politely requested a tele-Holla. I joked that he was going to have fun now as opposed to sitting on the floor talking to me. He said he really enjoyed our talks - aww, sweet! After the tele, I'd expected that to be the end of it, and was considering farming recollections. Instead, I thought about maybe PLing them.
But that would not come to pass. He invited me into the party to rep someone. After some thinking, I was requested on THF, to pull. I grabbed my junk and OPed. The party included Autumn, and it was good to see her again! We were syncing to 10, and I did OK with pulling. I messed up by pulling a Star Bat (rescued by Devane, bro of one of the members) and later, whilst being PLed by Masterhealer, I pulled back-to-back gob adds on top of my lizard targets. I never saw either one despite area sweeps ><
About halfway into the party, Autumn DCed. And Tumo logged in, seeking. We waited a fair bit, then I asked if Tumo could rep her. Soho passed me lead and I went to escort Tumo, as she's only 11, BLM. I mentioned dropping sync and someone complained. I replied that book buffs were due to wear soon anyway. Well, just as I get back through the tunnel with Tumo, someone announces that Autumn was back. Oh no...
It took some discussing (and Tumo's self-DB) but ultimately, Autumn decided to stay out. Her PC had been hit with spyware and she was trying to root it out with Hijack This! (geek points!) and wasn't sure how long it was going to take. I apologized profusely, and she was trying to apologize to me ^^ I don't know which of us felt worse about it.
So, with Tumo back, we continued on. We did two pages plus all the random killing. I went from 17 to 19. Soho and I were going to wrap up at about 9:30, and Incredichimp needed to go too as I recall. We had started with rep hunting, but just sort of disintegrated. I said my goodnights to both Soho and Tumo and left for the night.
Oh, Rogues news - Med informed me they had a Holla win Saturday... And it looks like they may be setting up a new pearl, based on the shell message. I haven't seen any significant activity on the Rogues forum either.
Desperate Housewives was OK, but there weere some good lines. Also, the Orson/Bree suicide watch slash rekindling of passions was sweet. B & S was ok. Nothing terribly special there.
Monday:
I stuck my foot in my mouth at work. I recommended Edge of Darkness to my mentor. Who is Jewish. Oh boy...
Read the Valentione's Day 2010 story thing. It's been up for awhile but I just didn't bother. I wish I had - it was very sweet and I liked the way it concluded. And, I'm interested in the event because it seems it may be a new one for a change.
After that, I was going to read Halifirien's blog and got a 404. I tried a Bing search (work machine, not my choice) and found his Twitter account. But not the blog... Huh.
As I was logging out, I saw a link to a Blog printing service. They offer soft and hardcover versions and allow customizations as well. I think I might preview that - I do want a copy of this for posterity.
And finally, will the blog spammers please DIAF? I'm finding stupid financial scam links on my comments now. And not even new comments! Old stuff from last October! Spammers? If you're going to spam a barely-read blog, spam something that human eyes might actually see!
After picking up the water heater stuff and some lunch, I spent the afternoon at home, doing chores. I cut up the fallen trees from last week's storm. I fixed the water heater (prays and crosses fingers that it doesn't do anything burny - one house fire is enough). I installed our new DVD player. I did my final code checkout.
About the time Ape made it back from seeing "The Tooth Fairy" (what the heck led The Rock to make all these kids' movies? I have no prob with it, just interested...) it was time for dinner. Buuut, Soho had found me. We were chatting a bit while I was messing with auction stuff. He's working on dissections this week (sheep and later, cat). I winced a bit about the cats, but in general, I think med-sci is cool. Also good to have (:
He invited me outside for a bit and we sat together continuing our chat. Then he got a Dunes party and politely requested a tele-Holla. I joked that he was going to have fun now as opposed to sitting on the floor talking to me. He said he really enjoyed our talks - aww, sweet! After the tele, I'd expected that to be the end of it, and was considering farming recollections. Instead, I thought about maybe PLing them.
But that would not come to pass. He invited me into the party to rep someone. After some thinking, I was requested on THF, to pull. I grabbed my junk and OPed. The party included Autumn, and it was good to see her again! We were syncing to 10, and I did OK with pulling. I messed up by pulling a Star Bat (rescued by Devane, bro of one of the members) and later, whilst being PLed by Masterhealer, I pulled back-to-back gob adds on top of my lizard targets. I never saw either one despite area sweeps ><
About halfway into the party, Autumn DCed. And Tumo logged in, seeking. We waited a fair bit, then I asked if Tumo could rep her. Soho passed me lead and I went to escort Tumo, as she's only 11, BLM. I mentioned dropping sync and someone complained. I replied that book buffs were due to wear soon anyway. Well, just as I get back through the tunnel with Tumo, someone announces that Autumn was back. Oh no...
It took some discussing (and Tumo's self-DB) but ultimately, Autumn decided to stay out. Her PC had been hit with spyware and she was trying to root it out with Hijack This! (geek points!) and wasn't sure how long it was going to take. I apologized profusely, and she was trying to apologize to me ^^ I don't know which of us felt worse about it.
So, with Tumo back, we continued on. We did two pages plus all the random killing. I went from 17 to 19. Soho and I were going to wrap up at about 9:30, and Incredichimp needed to go too as I recall. We had started with rep hunting, but just sort of disintegrated. I said my goodnights to both Soho and Tumo and left for the night.
Oh, Rogues news - Med informed me they had a Holla win Saturday... And it looks like they may be setting up a new pearl, based on the shell message. I haven't seen any significant activity on the Rogues forum either.
Desperate Housewives was OK, but there weere some good lines. Also, the Orson/Bree suicide watch slash rekindling of passions was sweet. B & S was ok. Nothing terribly special there.
Monday:
I stuck my foot in my mouth at work. I recommended Edge of Darkness to my mentor. Who is Jewish. Oh boy...
Read the Valentione's Day 2010 story thing. It's been up for awhile but I just didn't bother. I wish I had - it was very sweet and I liked the way it concluded. And, I'm interested in the event because it seems it may be a new one for a change.
After that, I was going to read Halifirien's blog and got a 404. I tried a Bing search (work machine, not my choice) and found his Twitter account. But not the blog... Huh.
As I was logging out, I saw a link to a Blog printing service. They offer soft and hardcover versions and allow customizations as well. I think I might preview that - I do want a copy of this for posterity.
And finally, will the blog spammers please DIAF? I'm finding stupid financial scam links on my comments now. And not even new comments! Old stuff from last October! Spammers? If you're going to spam a barely-read blog, spam something that human eyes might actually see!
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Out of Sorts
Friday:
Messed up from early AM code checkout, I slept in my car at lunch and left work an hour early. Took a short nap, then Ape and I headed out. Remember the Italian place that catered the PTA dinner thing last week? We ate there with Ape's good friend and her hubby. Yes, the food was as exquisite as we'd hoped! I personally ate half a basket of bread - soooo good.
From there it was a stop at RedBox to pick up The Proposal (for us) and Blood+ for me. As I explained to Ape, Blood+ is one of those shows I watched every ep of, and at the end, felt like maybe I missed something. I really loved the storylines, and the action was fun too. But the ending kinda left me empty.
We watched The Proposal. After the Blind Side I've gained a new appreciation for Sandra Bullock movies. It didn't hurt that this one was hilarious! After that, we chilled for awhile and then I went out to complete my work in Norg and chat some. I collected Leviathan's pact and after a long delay, a set of the -ton ninjutsu. A quick warp to Jeuno and I put them up for sale. I think two of them sold within 20 minutes!
Saturday:
Up and out - after frigid showers (more on that in a bit) we were off to see a good friend of Ape's mom in a nursing facility. She'd fallen in her apartment and ended up here. But for weeks Ape's mom couldn't get info - the apartment refused to release any info and it took time for her friend to contact her.
I don't have the best memories in those kinds of places so I wasn't exactly thrilled to go, but as a wayward healer I felt the need. And I had nothing to worry about - she was fine, and in a very nice facility. We spent the better part of an hour with her, then off to the mall.
On the way we stopped at Home Depot to check on water heater parts. The gentleman there was very helpful, mapping out a troubleshooting plan that might save me some coin. From there? Best Buy, the mall, pizza, then the movies for "Edge of Darkness" with Mel Gibson. Much better than I expected. A little weird, but fun.
At home, after grabbing the kids and putting MIL's new patio table together, I plopped Blood+ (live action version) into the PS3 whilst I ate a snack. So far? It sucks worse than vampires.
Oh, on that note, seen on a new shirt at Hot Topic: "Then Buffy staked Edward. The End."
Messed up from early AM code checkout, I slept in my car at lunch and left work an hour early. Took a short nap, then Ape and I headed out. Remember the Italian place that catered the PTA dinner thing last week? We ate there with Ape's good friend and her hubby. Yes, the food was as exquisite as we'd hoped! I personally ate half a basket of bread - soooo good.
From there it was a stop at RedBox to pick up The Proposal (for us) and Blood+ for me. As I explained to Ape, Blood+ is one of those shows I watched every ep of, and at the end, felt like maybe I missed something. I really loved the storylines, and the action was fun too. But the ending kinda left me empty.
We watched The Proposal. After the Blind Side I've gained a new appreciation for Sandra Bullock movies. It didn't hurt that this one was hilarious! After that, we chilled for awhile and then I went out to complete my work in Norg and chat some. I collected Leviathan's pact and after a long delay, a set of the -ton ninjutsu. A quick warp to Jeuno and I put them up for sale. I think two of them sold within 20 minutes!
Saturday:
Up and out - after frigid showers (more on that in a bit) we were off to see a good friend of Ape's mom in a nursing facility. She'd fallen in her apartment and ended up here. But for weeks Ape's mom couldn't get info - the apartment refused to release any info and it took time for her friend to contact her.
I don't have the best memories in those kinds of places so I wasn't exactly thrilled to go, but as a wayward healer I felt the need. And I had nothing to worry about - she was fine, and in a very nice facility. We spent the better part of an hour with her, then off to the mall.
On the way we stopped at Home Depot to check on water heater parts. The gentleman there was very helpful, mapping out a troubleshooting plan that might save me some coin. From there? Best Buy, the mall, pizza, then the movies for "Edge of Darkness" with Mel Gibson. Much better than I expected. A little weird, but fun.
At home, after grabbing the kids and putting MIL's new patio table together, I plopped Blood+ (live action version) into the PS3 whilst I ate a snack. So far? It sucks worse than vampires.
Oh, on that note, seen on a new shirt at Hot Topic: "Then Buffy staked Edward. The End."
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Busy Week So Far...
Monday:
I saw a blurb on the news about California's Prop 8 trial. This is to decide whether or not to overturn Cali's state ban on gay marriage. I believe all live coverage was banned by the state Supreme court. For some reason I misunderstood and thought all coverage was gagged. Time to read up on the progress so far. As one who voted in favor of love, I am interested in the outcome here. I'm tired of people trying to separate or vilify true lovers, regardless of gender.
Too tired and nauseous to do much of anything after dinner at Longhorn for Sis's farewell and grocery shopping. Don't even remember falling asleep.
Is it bad parenting to ask my kids to "cop-check" me whilst I drive in a... shall we say spirited manner? This would have been in the van with all four of us plus groceries.
Tuesday:
Logged on and Med started asking about Shin's Holla loss. He said if I got SMN to 30 he could guarantee a win. I joked that I'd have to do -counts fingers- like 12 more levels ^^ Then he said it was time to go get Leviathan.
We met Darkmatt, Layton and one other (sorry ^^). The Other DCed so it was just the 4 of us. And funnily enough, as we approached Lev, Med called for me to stay back. He was going to solo it?! He was on PLD and we had plenty of buff and heal support, but just one DD against a cure-spamming creature meant it was taking forever.
Darkmatt on RDM started insisting I join in, and I agreed, but Med didn't answer. I finally joined in, and with nuke support from Matt and Layton (on BLM) we finished the sea-beastie (in 15 minutes...)
Later, got the prereq quest for Warp II to finally flag, and did it quickly. Then got halfway through the Warp II fetch-a-thon before giving in to sleep. Had to get dishes and garbage sorted before bed.
Had a nice chat with Kep. Also, Dark joined my FL. Also, finally fixed my nails. Now they're really prettyful, but my index fingers need to hurry up.
Wednesday:
Between another chat marathon (Cold, Kio, LK, Deej and Kush) I finished Warp II but need to cash in the temporary item to get my scroll. And I still need to cash in Lev too. My wonderful net started dropping repeatedly at 9:30ish and I gave up trying to reconnect at 10. I honestly wonder if the State of the Union is what did me in. I can just imagine hundreds of households firing up Netflix or YouTube at the same time...
Thursday:
Whilst listening to the opening to Lion King at work, I nearly cried as I listened to the lyrics of Circle of Life. Couldn't tell you why I was so moved, though. Hmmm.
I'll be on later because I have a code checkout at midnight. I'm hopeful that this one will go smoothly. I need it to. There's been a lot of stress in the team, but thankfully I've not been the cause of very much of it.
I saw a blurb on the news about California's Prop 8 trial. This is to decide whether or not to overturn Cali's state ban on gay marriage. I believe all live coverage was banned by the state Supreme court. For some reason I misunderstood and thought all coverage was gagged. Time to read up on the progress so far. As one who voted in favor of love, I am interested in the outcome here. I'm tired of people trying to separate or vilify true lovers, regardless of gender.
Too tired and nauseous to do much of anything after dinner at Longhorn for Sis's farewell and grocery shopping. Don't even remember falling asleep.
Is it bad parenting to ask my kids to "cop-check" me whilst I drive in a... shall we say spirited manner? This would have been in the van with all four of us plus groceries.
Tuesday:
Logged on and Med started asking about Shin's Holla loss. He said if I got SMN to 30 he could guarantee a win. I joked that I'd have to do -counts fingers- like 12 more levels ^^ Then he said it was time to go get Leviathan.
We met Darkmatt, Layton and one other (sorry ^^). The Other DCed so it was just the 4 of us. And funnily enough, as we approached Lev, Med called for me to stay back. He was going to solo it?! He was on PLD and we had plenty of buff and heal support, but just one DD against a cure-spamming creature meant it was taking forever.
Darkmatt on RDM started insisting I join in, and I agreed, but Med didn't answer. I finally joined in, and with nuke support from Matt and Layton (on BLM) we finished the sea-beastie (in 15 minutes...)
Later, got the prereq quest for Warp II to finally flag, and did it quickly. Then got halfway through the Warp II fetch-a-thon before giving in to sleep. Had to get dishes and garbage sorted before bed.
Had a nice chat with Kep. Also, Dark joined my FL. Also, finally fixed my nails. Now they're really prettyful, but my index fingers need to hurry up.
Wednesday:
Between another chat marathon (Cold, Kio, LK, Deej and Kush) I finished Warp II but need to cash in the temporary item to get my scroll. And I still need to cash in Lev too. My wonderful net started dropping repeatedly at 9:30ish and I gave up trying to reconnect at 10. I honestly wonder if the State of the Union is what did me in. I can just imagine hundreds of households firing up Netflix or YouTube at the same time...
Thursday:
Whilst listening to the opening to Lion King at work, I nearly cried as I listened to the lyrics of Circle of Life. Couldn't tell you why I was so moved, though. Hmmm.
I'll be on later because I have a code checkout at midnight. I'm hopeful that this one will go smoothly. I need it to. There's been a lot of stress in the team, but thankfully I've not been the cause of very much of it.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Stuff on My Mind
Hi all...
I've had a lot on my mind lately, so I've been a lazy Mithra. Here are some of the things that have been floating in my brain.
The Haiti quake on Tuesday the 12th. I'll be honest, I haven't spent a lot of my life thinking on Haiti even though I know it's a country in pretty dire straits. I remember some years back they were dealing with another disaster and I think some military coup. With the earthquake(s), the misery that was life in Haiti has been laid bare for the world to see. Of course, nearly 200,000 people have died and it's likely to get worse as the decay and starvation leads to more death.
Then, once in awhile, you get a miracle. Some 10-day survivors are being pulled from the rubble. I really hope there are more. But such inspiration will mean precious little to the woman who lost every member of her family in one stroke.
Tuesday:
Tonight at 9 was Shin's Holla run. It actually started pretty quickly, and the climb was cake. The fight against the Wreaker went pretty well - got it to 15% before we started having some trouble. We burned our animas a little quickly and the AoE sleep kept striking just as pots wore... I literally got stuck in the "item use" pose twice.
Wednesday:
I helped in Garlaige with a coffer hunt but I didn't take notes. I dunno if I took screenies either so I don't recall who was getting their AF gloves. Afterwards I asked the Bastokans if they could grab me arms from the Metalworks vendor since I couldn't with Windy in first. Nope, apparently the arms only come out if Bastok leads. And how often is that I wonder...
I know I spent an hour or so farming the arms for Warp II. I got one. Following that, there was an all-hands shell meeting and I went, checking Sandy's AH. Suuuure, plenty of cheap arms here, but not in Windy or Jeuno? /sigh The meet started later than the 11:15 time originally announced and I was sleepy. But I was interested in how it ran. This was also when I found out that Beni was booted from Rogues and four days after Autumn told me Archer had split off with some Rogues to reform GD. Hence Surg's meeting.
Deej was really upset at all that happened and I tried to help keep him calm during the meeting.
Thursday:
This was kind of a messed up day. I worked a full day, went home, hung out with Ape some, then took a nap. Then watched Private Practice and then headed to the dining room to log in for the server software install. Buuut. I lost my RSA key - it's the same thing as the Squenix security token. So I had to punt, calling in the server guy to meet me at work, at midnight. He was incredibly gracious about it.
We were there for about two and a half hours. He found some Krispy Kreme and I opened up some Coke Zeros. Blessedly, the install worked and I was able to finally close that rotting project.
Friday:
After work I met up with Ape to go to the PTA dinner, after driving through Mickey D's for the Clones. I wasn't expecting much at the dinner, but it wound up being very nice. The parents who hosted had a lovely home - very nice colors for the rooms we saw. The catered Italian was unreal. I haven't had bread that good since Venezia's. The conversation was good and lively.
From there, it was time for the comedy club with Sis and my parents. The opener was quite good and the headliner was top-shelf. There weren't too many minutes we weren't laughing.
Later, I think I tried to work on Warp 2 some more but Shantotto won't give me the quest.
Saturday:
My aunt Facebooked that she was really down. Xanax and alcohol down. She has MS and is in really bad shape. She's been on Zoloft for awhile now for her MS-related depression and may have missed some lately. She's the kind of person with friends everywhere and she used to take little trips all over to spend time with them. She can barely walk to the bathroom now. The Springfield Connection actually clued us in, as the rest of us, Sis included, were out at the Town Center.
From there was a brief stop at home, then on to my parents' for Dad's 62nd. We ate a veritable feast: Chicken Cordon Bleu, rice, corn, mac & cheese, yams, salad, pineapple cubes, hot dogs, desserts... And yes, I ate both corn and pineapple!
We then played a new game called Imaginif! It took a few turns to get the knack of it but then we had a blast. We followed that with Apples to Apples, for more riotous fun. We were there for like 5 hours...
Nice chat with Kep and Kaosu during another interminable party. As soon as I awoke in Vana'diel Medicinebox asked me to be his party's mage in the Citadel. When I got there I saw it was going to be a long night. WHM, SCH, DNC and BLU. While BLU and DNC are accomplished DDs and enfeeblers, I'm pretty sure setting up with basically two other mages is suboptimal. And it was. Kills took too long. We moved to Altepa where the Anticans made my life miserable. And kills still took too long.
Lost two people, one to overeager pulls ^^ And for 2.5 hours I got maybe 8k xp...
Sunday:
I got up and for some reason decided to trawl YouTube. I'm usually pretty with it, meme-wise. I remember Snakes on a Plane. I liked the movie and loved some of the 'shop work I saw. Somehow I missed "All Your Snakes Are Belong To Us". I practically wet myself laughing so hard. You'd think that the two prior days of levity would have worn me out but, no... From there I found a great "Know Your Memes" vid on the original AYB, and some nifty explanations of Speedcore.
One of these featured, among dozens of rapid-fire images and clips, a GIF-style shot of a cat-girl maid at a PC with a title like "Ha ha I'm on Internet". I Googled for it, hoping to find an image link to an original source.
Instead I found the blog of a woman in Canada who is dying from cancer. Her name is Elizabeth McClung and her blog's called "Screw Bronze". She's a big anime and manga fan and she blogs about the little things in life she can still enjoy between relapses and treatments. It's clear she and her partner are very close and both seem to be making ready as best they can. Elizabeth has a postcard project and apparently likes craft and food markets. Her passions come through and she makes no bones about the fact that she's not going gently into the night.
Given what's going on with G.S., B.C. and others, it's a lot of melancholy. I want to write this woman and give her a hug, Then I feel bad for not doing the same for B.C. I've known her for like 17 years now and they've been a little tumultuous. I need to put my feelings aside though. Healing is my job. I need to suck it up and get to work...
Spent about 3 hours doing two oil changes for Shiroma and Kuroma. Also did a little yard and garage work. I know know why ladies move their hands /just so/. Fingernails. Well, to clarify, when they have longish nails. Because if they didn't move them just so, the nails would constantly jam into things.
Then took BIL to Tijuana Flats to meet the whole crew for dinner. Later, watched The Hangover again with Ape, since our regular shows shows weren't on. That movie is still lol-worthy.
I have no idea what my friends think, but I want everyone to rest assured that I am a generally happy Mithra. I know all of us have been dealing with lots of stuff but don't worry about me. I have a pretty limitless listening ability and you all won't overwhelm me ^^
Silly fun things:
License plate seen on a smart car: "NANITE" Classic!
According to one particular web quiz, I am an Innocent Uke. But by the same site's personality profiles, I'd have to argue that I'm more of a Romantic Seme.
I love that Fireflies song :3 See? Happy!
I've had a lot on my mind lately, so I've been a lazy Mithra. Here are some of the things that have been floating in my brain.
The Haiti quake on Tuesday the 12th. I'll be honest, I haven't spent a lot of my life thinking on Haiti even though I know it's a country in pretty dire straits. I remember some years back they were dealing with another disaster and I think some military coup. With the earthquake(s), the misery that was life in Haiti has been laid bare for the world to see. Of course, nearly 200,000 people have died and it's likely to get worse as the decay and starvation leads to more death.
Then, once in awhile, you get a miracle. Some 10-day survivors are being pulled from the rubble. I really hope there are more. But such inspiration will mean precious little to the woman who lost every member of her family in one stroke.
Tuesday:
Tonight at 9 was Shin's Holla run. It actually started pretty quickly, and the climb was cake. The fight against the Wreaker went pretty well - got it to 15% before we started having some trouble. We burned our animas a little quickly and the AoE sleep kept striking just as pots wore... I literally got stuck in the "item use" pose twice.
Wednesday:
I helped in Garlaige with a coffer hunt but I didn't take notes. I dunno if I took screenies either so I don't recall who was getting their AF gloves. Afterwards I asked the Bastokans if they could grab me arms from the Metalworks vendor since I couldn't with Windy in first. Nope, apparently the arms only come out if Bastok leads. And how often is that I wonder...
I know I spent an hour or so farming the arms for Warp II. I got one. Following that, there was an all-hands shell meeting and I went, checking Sandy's AH. Suuuure, plenty of cheap arms here, but not in Windy or Jeuno? /sigh The meet started later than the 11:15 time originally announced and I was sleepy. But I was interested in how it ran. This was also when I found out that Beni was booted from Rogues and four days after Autumn told me Archer had split off with some Rogues to reform GD. Hence Surg's meeting.
Deej was really upset at all that happened and I tried to help keep him calm during the meeting.
Thursday:
This was kind of a messed up day. I worked a full day, went home, hung out with Ape some, then took a nap. Then watched Private Practice and then headed to the dining room to log in for the server software install. Buuut. I lost my RSA key - it's the same thing as the Squenix security token. So I had to punt, calling in the server guy to meet me at work, at midnight. He was incredibly gracious about it.
We were there for about two and a half hours. He found some Krispy Kreme and I opened up some Coke Zeros. Blessedly, the install worked and I was able to finally close that rotting project.
Friday:
After work I met up with Ape to go to the PTA dinner, after driving through Mickey D's for the Clones. I wasn't expecting much at the dinner, but it wound up being very nice. The parents who hosted had a lovely home - very nice colors for the rooms we saw. The catered Italian was unreal. I haven't had bread that good since Venezia's. The conversation was good and lively.
From there, it was time for the comedy club with Sis and my parents. The opener was quite good and the headliner was top-shelf. There weren't too many minutes we weren't laughing.
Later, I think I tried to work on Warp 2 some more but Shantotto won't give me the quest.
Saturday:
My aunt Facebooked that she was really down. Xanax and alcohol down. She has MS and is in really bad shape. She's been on Zoloft for awhile now for her MS-related depression and may have missed some lately. She's the kind of person with friends everywhere and she used to take little trips all over to spend time with them. She can barely walk to the bathroom now. The Springfield Connection actually clued us in, as the rest of us, Sis included, were out at the Town Center.
From there was a brief stop at home, then on to my parents' for Dad's 62nd. We ate a veritable feast: Chicken Cordon Bleu, rice, corn, mac & cheese, yams, salad, pineapple cubes, hot dogs, desserts... And yes, I ate both corn and pineapple!
We then played a new game called Imaginif! It took a few turns to get the knack of it but then we had a blast. We followed that with Apples to Apples, for more riotous fun. We were there for like 5 hours...
Nice chat with Kep and Kaosu during another interminable party. As soon as I awoke in Vana'diel Medicinebox asked me to be his party's mage in the Citadel. When I got there I saw it was going to be a long night. WHM, SCH, DNC and BLU. While BLU and DNC are accomplished DDs and enfeeblers, I'm pretty sure setting up with basically two other mages is suboptimal. And it was. Kills took too long. We moved to Altepa where the Anticans made my life miserable. And kills still took too long.
Lost two people, one to overeager pulls ^^ And for 2.5 hours I got maybe 8k xp...
Sunday:
I got up and for some reason decided to trawl YouTube. I'm usually pretty with it, meme-wise. I remember Snakes on a Plane. I liked the movie and loved some of the 'shop work I saw. Somehow I missed "All Your Snakes Are Belong To Us". I practically wet myself laughing so hard. You'd think that the two prior days of levity would have worn me out but, no... From there I found a great "Know Your Memes" vid on the original AYB, and some nifty explanations of Speedcore.
One of these featured, among dozens of rapid-fire images and clips, a GIF-style shot of a cat-girl maid at a PC with a title like "Ha ha I'm on Internet". I Googled for it, hoping to find an image link to an original source.
Instead I found the blog of a woman in Canada who is dying from cancer. Her name is Elizabeth McClung and her blog's called "Screw Bronze". She's a big anime and manga fan and she blogs about the little things in life she can still enjoy between relapses and treatments. It's clear she and her partner are very close and both seem to be making ready as best they can. Elizabeth has a postcard project and apparently likes craft and food markets. Her passions come through and she makes no bones about the fact that she's not going gently into the night.
Given what's going on with G.S., B.C. and others, it's a lot of melancholy. I want to write this woman and give her a hug, Then I feel bad for not doing the same for B.C. I've known her for like 17 years now and they've been a little tumultuous. I need to put my feelings aside though. Healing is my job. I need to suck it up and get to work...
Spent about 3 hours doing two oil changes for Shiroma and Kuroma. Also did a little yard and garage work. I know know why ladies move their hands /just so/. Fingernails. Well, to clarify, when they have longish nails. Because if they didn't move them just so, the nails would constantly jam into things.
Then took BIL to Tijuana Flats to meet the whole crew for dinner. Later, watched The Hangover again with Ape, since our regular shows shows weren't on. That movie is still lol-worthy.
I have no idea what my friends think, but I want everyone to rest assured that I am a generally happy Mithra. I know all of us have been dealing with lots of stuff but don't worry about me. I have a pretty limitless listening ability and you all won't overwhelm me ^^
Silly fun things:
License plate seen on a smart car: "NANITE" Classic!
According to one particular web quiz, I am an Innocent Uke. But by the same site's personality profiles, I'd have to argue that I'm more of a Romantic Seme.
I love that Fireflies song :3 See? Happy!
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