I don't have much time left till I start college. This week is going to be pretty hectic I think.

Starting with Monday! I need to...
- Get my wedding ring resized (wish I could say it was sized down, heh)
- Get eye exam and new prescription glasses
- Um... I forgot the other thing! Oh wait I think it's getting a math review book. Though I'm not even sure now if I still need it, this interactive review site seems okay.

I spent all of Sunday being a DR dork though. Talli's getting around and doing a lot of things. Helping during invasions, building relations, giving recruit lessons... she'll also be adopting two daughters, whoa!

I DID finally install Wordpress for Talli's blog. But am getting lazy now about actually making a layout for it. I'll probably just get a free theme somewhere, I guess. I'd really like to be able to separate IC / OOC stuff, so I just have to kick myself into doing it.

Besides looking forward to Sims 3 Late Night, I recently found out about The Sims Medieval! I could make a DR neighborhood with this, or old Anthegenia. It'll be a LOT of fun. That is IF I have the free time to even enjoy it, between college and DR!

I managed to get my IRC bouncer up and running! Some links that helped me:

ZNC FAQ - Just some useful tips for setting up and running ZNC.

Run ZNC at boot with an init script - A nice tutorial for newbies to set up ZNC as a daemon.

I used the init script almost as is (being lazy), just added in the Required-Start and Required-Stop keywords. (LSB-compliant init scripts)

Then finished messing with iptables, adding the entry for the ZNC port I chose. Again laziness; I only blocked inputs not outputs. I had to remember to edit /etc/network/interfaces to make sure iptables starts at boot. (Saving iptables)

And I guess that's that for now... at least until I have to do DNS, as I think I mentioned before. Maybe next install a light web server? Hrmm.

My noob adventures continue, as I just finished troubleshooting something that was very frustrating to deal with.

For some reason my fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) in my tiny lil' Xen VPS had an empty /usr/lib/locale. So I kept getting these sort of errors (particularly while using apt-get):

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = (unset),
LC_ALL = "en_CA.UTF-8",
LANG = "en_CA.UTF-8"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory

They're only warnings, so they weren't really hurting anything, and furthermore I only set up this VPS to run a BNC, so I'd hardly ever be logged in to see these errors anyway. That's all well and good... but I'm a completist and I wanted to get rid of the issue.

I'm playing this roguelike I discovered recently. It's Japanese made (with English translation), very cute and fun to play! It doesn't have ascii graphics but uses tiles and sprites (you can customize the sprite and a portrait at chargen), but the movements are still roguelike-ish.

Elona - Eternal League of Nefia

I'm trying this out with a wizard character and am amazed so far at how awesome and complex this game is. It has some traits of all the major roguelikes I've played and liked (Nethack, ADOM, ToME...) with some extra interesting stuff, like being able to hire and marry companions (and eventually have their children), being able to offer your monetary support to town businesses. Unique races, complex plot and setting details are a plus!

The game seems a bit more friendly than a typical roguelike i.e. you can actually revive rather than die permanently, and you get to keep and renovate a home that's a safe spot for you. I'm not ruling out the game will be a challenge though (died trying to clean out a bandit hideout, eep!)

I decided to download this while suffering writer's block and more depression... hopefully playing it a bit will get me in the mood to write tonight.

Jon and I have really been bummed over the imminent closure of PSU for the PC. :( We're continuing to look into replacement games.

I did a google search and found this blog page about "where do we go now from PSU?" It gives a few Korean game suggestions that look great, though I'm a little bit wary since there's plenty of Asian-made games that look very pretty but are lacking in substance...

Of the three mentioned, I'm currently favoring Tera Online. Fun selection of races and classes, and the developers are trying to make it so that all race/gender/class combinations are available. One of their selling points is also the "targetless" gameplay, in other words more like PSU where your positioning and aiming have to be done manually.

And I am SO playing female Castanic. I've wanted to play a demon chick for a while now!! But not completely sure on a class yet. (This is something my MMO group has to work out, as ideally, I'd like us to be a well balanced team like we were in PSU.)