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!

My mood can be up and down when it comes to web hosting. There's times I want to move to new, shinier pastures. But I've been a HostForWeb customer almost since they started out, and have very rarely been disappointed with it.

There have been rough patches. I remember for about a year my site was consistently running slowly and I kept asking tech support over and over what could be done. Then one day... I noticed that it was just fixed. Just like that. Probably they just got new equipment or whatnot. I might have moved on if I had the time and money for a migration then, but I didn't.

There was another time I think I wrote on this journal that my site was shut down because of a spam report. That was also rough; for a while it took some convincing the techs I was not at fault. But I was able to work it out.

I ended up having to go to sleep because of aforementioned headaches. But I was woken up a few hours ago because Talli was summoned along with Alexsei and other members of the White Rose by General Zukir of Zoluren. I was groggy and kinda freaking out, but it turned out to be a good thing: Talli and Alexsei were both awarded for their recent service in the Naarg invasions.

Getting awarded by a GMPC is a new thing to me, so poor Talli was pretty stiff and awkward in accepting it. I've never done anything in DR with an expectation of reward, so it was a touching and humbling gesture. I was especially glad for how good it looked for the White Rose!

Sure it's not the real world, but making a difference still makes one feel accomplished. Especially when it can be challenging to do so as a PC in Zoluren, where it can be difficult to get people to agree and work together on anything. Now if only I could take that energy and communication skill and do something real with it!

I'm thinking of recreating Talliska's journal, 'cause I feel kind of dorky nowadays writing about her accomplishments in an OOC journal. As it stands, I really badly need to rearrange the tags here; it's become bloated with 1000+ nodes. Oh well, some day...

I spent a week in some sort of creative hell trying to kick this severe writer's block I had. I finally dealt with it last night and I feel so much better about that.

In the process of trying to wreck it I read a couple of Ender books back to back (Ender in Exile which I had owned for a while but hadn't had time to read until now, and Speaker for the Dead, one of my favorites of the series). I also started reading Violinist of Hamelin after Selina tried poking me to read the manga for years. Literally years! I've watched the anime (it's actually one of my favorites, despite it having such a low budget half of the scenes were just stills with sound) but this is the first time I went through the entire manga.

Now I'm in this huge reading mode which is awesome. Reading kicks writer's block in the butt! I ended up able to update pretty much all of Outcastes, which is the only game I'm working on right now.

I seem to be starting up an IRC channel for my site again. I got the taste for IRC again after I helped set up another one for DR stuff.

I'm trying to make this relatively private, so contact me first if you wanna join the channel and I'll give you the info. I don't expect the channel to be big or anything, just throwing the offer out there in case someone is interested.

I'm kinda excited to have an IRC presence, it's been a while. Now that I'm on a rpol break I have had this huge urge to do IRC RP. I guess 'cause it's faster and lightweight and tends toward more casual play.

But I still have plenty of other potential projects on my plate. Ooh and I just set up a private forum for Kalli and her friend, so that got me excited for setting up web stuff. I may even update Drupal in a little bit, maybe set up a RP site idea I had... we'll see!

I actually have another post I wrote earlier which I will finish and post later, but for now I'll write what I've been up to lately!