Books

Wow... my writing ability is shot. Too much RPoL. I swear, I need to do something else with my time for a while. But man do I really love writing. There's something empowering about it for me that I've missed in a lot of other activities I've done.

Not-quite-secretly I am actually co-GMing in another RPoL game, besides the Outcastes one I'm running. I do not know how long I'll keep doing it. I figure until next year or something like that. I'll have all the winter months for plenty of sitting on my ass writing.

Well, I'm gonna be away for the night, staying at a hotel room with Jon. Which is rather romantic except that 1) my period started and I BET you guys wanted to know! and 2) the hotel room idea is at least partially because the hot water problem NEVER got fixed today. Yeah, great. n.n The first thing I'm doing when I actually get the room is *showering*.

It put me in a little of a bad mood today... well, okay, a lot. I was pretty miserable and I still feel pretty bad, but I'm going to try to enjoy the rest of the night at least.

Just finished talking to people before I go, sending off messages, etc. Thanks to everyone who gave me birthday wishes. Also, Kraken wins, he sent me a book on Ruby programming just like I'd hoped~ I'm pleased with it, it's an O'Reilly book and I can't wait to have time to sit down, crack it open and make use of it.

P.S. I'm playing DR again. Halcier, awesome guy that he is, gave me a link to a reviving Order that I may actually involve Talliska in. Sent my application, anyway, though I could end up being refused, or the interview could discourage me, etc. *shrug* But I made Talliska an IC journal with the new Wordpress 2.5 -- who knows, may actually use it regularly. n.n

Oh right... There was something unrelated I wanted to post about, before I nap.

Ender's Game becomes a video game! Or WILL be, anyway. It's being developed by Chair Entertainment and Orson Scott Card is fully cooperating with them. Kinda old news, but I just found it out.

I've been waiting for SOMETHING to be done with Ender's Game for over 10 years now, I think. I mean, whether it's a movie or a video game or whatever. So this is rather cool news and I'm going to try following the progress of the game from now on.

Oh, and it's not going to be a game that follows the events of the book, so much as a game focused on the Battle Room and various strategies of. Sounds fascinating. :O

Games:
- Mana Khemia (PS2)
- Baroque (PS2)
- The World Ends With You (DS)

Music:
- Diamanda Galas, Guilty Guilty Guilty
- Portishead, Third (Ltd. Edition Boxed Set)
- Thrice, The Alchemy Index Vols I & II

Any cash I get will contribute to my computer upgrade, which *hopefully* I will be able to pay. Apparently my inlaws want to help with it, too, since they didn't know what else to give me for my birthday. Well, that works. I need all the money I can get! n.n

Also, I MAY get a Hosting Matters account as a treat to myself. Most likely the B500 package, which is $8 a month or $24 quarterly.

Details on the games/music/other stuff:

Seems like my attempts to look for Exalted players may pay off... I hope. I got a reply from a person I'd contacted a little while back and it turns out she missed my PM. So far she seems pretty cool... I hope it works out this time. I shouldn't get too excited, but this actually made me smile!

She knows a different set of gamers from those I've played so far, so maybe I will meet more through her... maybe? I am not sure yet. :O

Even better, she offered to run, not play. And she is good with Ex2 so that'll help me get familiar with it.

I wish I could afford to buy the other Ex2 books right now. ^^; But I will have to live with PDFs for a while until I save up the money for my computer parts. I want my upgrade really bad, but I don't want it bad enough to use my parents' credit card. It's like selling my soul to the devil a little bit at a time when I use it. Tempting, but in the long run, I regret the chains of obligation it puts on me. Never again.

Now to see if I'll get to play PSU... but probably not tonight. :(

Yesterday, Jon and I went to my meeting, sleep deprived and all! Except when we got there, we ended up waiting in the lobby for an hour (?? maybe more) only to find out that the person taking care of my file is sick. Yeah, she called in sick for a week. I hope that she doesn't end up being REALLY ill because it will delay my processing even more. =_= That would be just my luck wouldn't it? I mean, wtf... I've been waiting for 3 YEARS. I really wish they'd just hurry the hell up with my papers already.

Fortunately, I was in a fairly good mood that day, and we went walking for a while afterwards (not too long, because it was getting cold and I didn't cover my legs enough... brrrrr) and ended up eating at a nice French/Italian restaurant. I forgot the name :( but, I had traditional French cooking there! French onion soup with gruyere (sp) cheese, and for the main dish a sort of casserole-ish dish, with white beans and carrot and sausage and duck thigh simmered in a ceramic pot in what tasted like a tomato-y base. Good but very filling.

It's a Macgyver book!

I also watch too much Macgyver, apparently. We're on the 5th season now. I want to get my husband a swiss army knife. The best part is, he actually wants one. and would use it. XD It's nice to have married someone who indulges my fangirlisms just by being.

I've been talking to Kalli on AIM and it's been lots of chatty fun! I spent longer than I'd admit looking at a picspam posted on LJ of a couple of emo band boys groping and making out on stage. whoops... and I thought I'd left the part of me that'd actually LOOK at that in the closet. :O

The t-shirt Kalli showed me. Amusing. :D

And now I poke at my pmwiki some more... sigh... WHY~! can't I figure out a decent layout for it? Oh well. I probably won't get much done before I play PSU tonight.

Or morning I guess. I dunno. I didn't even get to bed until 6am ish, and read to Jon for a bit after that. (We're reading Fall of Angels, my favorite Recluce novel. Ryba, the marshal of Westwind and progenitor of the Legend -- which is basically a manifesto of female equality if not supremacy, I guess you could say o.O -- reminds me of a rather extreme version of Archana. In fact, reading it, I wonder just how much inspiration I drew from Ryba subconsciously, heh! Though Archa does none of the women vs. men thing, eh. That's irrelevant in most Exalted settings.)

But I really gotta work on UnshapedWiki, it's bugging me. =_= The sooner it is done the sooner I will be satisfied and rested.

Well, let's try to recap the past couple days.

As mentioned last post I was playing Sims 2 a lot. Unfortunately, during the course of play I discovered that the new expansion (Bon Voyage) had some nasty bugs to it that were slowing my game. And it was a progressive thing... I was noticing more and more slowdown over time. It ended up being a combination of things, including the high generation of NPCs that the expansion creates (vacationers, tour guides, chefs, clerks, etc.)

Fortunately, a patch was released very recently to deal with those issues. It DOES seem to be working -- however, I still get load times now and then, and with a game that takes as long to load as Sims 2 does, I am not pleased. :P I lament not waiting till the patch to get the expansion, because there's no way to just permanently delete the NPCs that were already generated.

(Urm, yah, I talk about some icky bodily things in this entry so if that bugs you don't bother reading. On the other hand, if you want to know where I've been lately, let's just say I'm recuperating from an illness of sorts that makes it hard for me to sit in one place for long periods of time. *sigh* Hopefully it will be over soon.)