Not really true. But I've been horrendously busy/distracted.

Earlier this week there was this whole fiasco with my brother-in-law coming to visit with his girlfriend during a time 1) we were TOTALLY not prepared for visitors, 2) I was HORRIBLY busy because I had a lot to do absolutely no time and energy to do it all.

Having the distraction of relative strangers in my home (I didn't know the girl at all, and my brother-in-law and I have the language barrier) completely destroyed any progress I would've had on my work. I was extremely upset about that, and at the idea that we were expected to put up with their presence on short notice because he decided he wanted to leave home on a whim. It wasn't even an emergency or anything so much as just... moving with hardly ANY plan of where to stay and what to do for the next few days.

After all that, my RPoL posting was pretty much thrown off COMPLETELY as well, as I couldn't get the energy to do that, either. I just kept getting more and more behind, more and more exhausted. Even doing work for the Order of the White Rose in DR was more wearing than I would have liked. :(

Cause I'm not used to being without a computer. Need laptop nao?

I feel silly 'cause I just sat here and played a buttload of Sims 3, finished a last rpol post, made sure my facebook apps wouldn't explode without me hovering over them (mostly just cleared some fields and fed my pet :P) and now am writing this.

And then find out that there's DR invasions, grr. Hello, Simu, stop making invasions while I have things to do. thx, Talliska.

Anyway, I have this list of Sims 3 things to do and need to write it down.
- Estrella and Elasul need to fall in love! (Damn, they're both so shy!)
- Mellauna needs 2 more best friends to finish one of the Charisma challenges.
- Mellauna and Suurnis are going to have a baby. (And she's eating a lot of apples. Needs to be a son, Nardoan.)
- More vacations!! Haven't been to Shang Simla yet. :D (Atma and Iluun went to SimEgypt, Oira and Reva went to SimFrance.) Want to review World Adventures, it's REALLY good.
- EVENTUALLY I will start aging all the kids up, once Nardoan passes toddler years. n.n

...gah, I need to nap! But gotta go!! :) See you all on the 5th-ish.

I totally slept for 2/3rds of yesterday.

And it was good.

I'm starting to think just getting more sleep and relaxing is really going to kick my writing mojo back into gear. I may be able to hang on to all my games on rpol, even. (Though, just the GMed ones. Have discarded most of the ones I was playing, already.)

Just that one day of rest made my mind SO MUCH CLEARER. Hard to believe how much that helped. I even managed to get my brain started on some cool new Academy events. Hopefully by the 7th or so (January) I should be ready to jump back into my other games as well (particularly the ones that require combat posting. My bane, given that it takes both inspiration AND fiddling with numbers/stats.)

But for now I have over a week of rest to go and I am going to enjoy it. Whee! Actually, we have to run to the grocery store too, to get our turkey for Christmas dinner (yum yum).

Disappointment is... getting told I'll legally have my passport back today, only to find out the U.S. Embassy wants 2 more weeks before releasing it.

And why? Not 'cause my lawyer sucks, or even the Canadian immigration being slow, but because the lawyer's only dealing with immigration on the Canadian side. Can't actually put hard caps on what MY country's embassy does (thanks, America).

The date I'll receive it is Nov 20, or so they say. My mind kind of blanks out on these things because I'm always expecting yet another hurdle or loophole or some crap to keep me from getting my identification back. At this point I will have to start pressing the U.S. embassy if they for some reason delay me further than the 2 weeks they said they'll take. x.x

As for my Canadian national health card and permanent residency code and all that, I'm supposed to be receiving it from the government by December 23. The signed legal documents state that if they don't make it by that due date, they'll owe me $500,000.

Half a million is an impressive number, but I honestly believe I should be paid that money REGARDLESS of if they delay or not.

I've been unable to work on slicehost for a bit. Came back to it and did something pretty dumb with iptables. Now I know why there's iptables-save! :P Basically I stupidly executed "service iptables save" while I had iptables shut down. So... uh. Lost all the rules I had set up, because it saved the current active rules which of course were nonexistent. Darnit!!

Now I have to re-enter them and that means figuring out how to do it properly i.e. without direct editing /etc/sysconfig/iptables. I'm rather unhappy I messed this up. Ideally I should be writing a script to make this even easier, but man, laziness abounds. Also discouragement at being all linux dumb. D:

I think I should have just waited to work on it more, since I'm really, really tired and not thinking straight. Yes, it's mostly RPoL. Setting up the next big Festival event in Academy, trying to get Five Coils back on track (it's really stalled, sheesh), and I also finally got to a point where I could finish off the HUGE something like... 9 months arc in Outcastes. So I've been post post posting.

Well now I go to try and put my iptables rules back in. I don't even recall what most of them do now... *sigh*