Random Dialogue

For those of you who read this on a regular basis, I will state my heartfelt apologies. The last two weeks have left me with a need to just… sit when I get home. Sitting and typing are what I do all day, so I don’t really want to do that….it’s all very disconcerting.

I’m going to be working on my brother’s website next week, which will likely evoke in me an interest in doing stuff with my own again. I don’t have a whole lot I want to get done in the near future around here. I have those reviews I want to get done, and after tonight I can put up a write-up of last weekend’s LARP.

Yesterday was a typical day for me. I worked really hard all day, so hard in fact that when I left work I had to stand in the evening cool and remember how to not work. I headed out to meet up with Alan at his place, as we were going to hang out and watch a movie. Katie’s headache flaired up unexpectedly, and so I went and got her from work instead. We went on down to the urgent care clinic downtown, and got her checked out. Mostly low glucose levels, the guy thought. So we packed it in and went to bed as soon as we could. This morning I woke up late, having slept through the alarm and today I’m dealing with a project crashing and burning around me. wee.

Tonight I’m going to head down to Chicago (again) with Alan and Aaron, who are playing in the same LARP that I did last weekend. The folks who run the game needed NPCs, so I have volunteered my night to them. Should be highly entertaining getting to see the game from the other side of the fence. I’ll include details in my write-up.

Tomorrow night we’re doing a big Halloween shindig at Jeff and Vivian Obarski’s place. Should be something of a hootnany.

My hope is that I can get one or two of those reviews done this weekend so that I can concentrate on Paul’s site and future work on RD.

Hope everyone is having a good Halloween!

I know. I am a bad human.

This weekend was extremely sore, and this week has been quite tender as well. Worry not, gentle reader, as I have much for you to peruse in the coming days.

I will be throwing onto the site a review of the new Forgotten Realms book, Underdark as well as a quick review of Michael Moore’s book Dude, Where’s My Country?

I’m going to be reading Dungeons and Dreamers next, for the curious.

My jaw hurts. I don’t know why.

The stats package that monitors my site is an endless font of amusement for me. I never knew that it could write poetry, though. The below came from the list of words used in searches that led to this site:

of
the
costumes
and
pirates

queen
caribbean
damned
fat
dialogue

funny
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italian
in
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i
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creation
d&d

Pointed out to me by the humans of Penny Arcade, Object Dock is proving to be an amusing toy.

Go here to Win Customize.com for stuff.

From a thread at Waterthread

You Only Die A Bazillion
a Star Wars Galaxies novella
by Arcadian Del Sol

All my life, all I ever wanted to be was a transport captain. Now I know what you’re thinking - wouldn’t it be more exicting to be a jedi? and you would be right, were it not for the fact that every single Jedi trainer in the known universe died, and along with them, the secrets to becoming a jedi. My older brother whose penchant for dressing in robes made from black cheesecloth and imitation brown suede left two years ago to become a pilot with the Empire, but he returned not long after, sad and dejected. He came up with some sort of yarn about how the Empire actually didn’t have any space ships, but most of us figured he failed out on the testing. Our family never had the best vision; except our father whose equally poor vision never seemed to slow him down. In fact, it was almost as if he could see better when it was total darkness - as if some keen sensory reflex were at work that none of us really understood. The kind of skill probably that a Jedi Master might have taken an interest in, if we had any Jedi Masters. They all died, too. Or vanished. Or something - the truth is we just dont know.

So I packed some water sandwiches and walked to Mos Eisley to sign up with a frieght company. Then I realized that my brother was telling the truth all along - turns out that the lack of spaceships isn’t a problem unique to the Empire. Turns out that NOBODY has any. With no income and no skills to speak of, I decided to take up womp rat harvesting.

Six days later I found one with a data disk in its jaw pouches. Why it had this here I dont know - It said I needed to learn more about droid engineering, so I sold its bones in the market and used the credits to learn a little bit about engineering. The problem is that I had to make my way to the other side of Tatooine to do it. I soon discovered that not only was there a drought of space ships in the universe, but nobody had any speeders or banthas I could ride.

So I went back home and apologized to my parents for running off to pursue some sort of juvenile dream of adventure and heroism, and resigned myself to the daily duldrum of mineral farming. Don’t feel too bad for me - we do okay. We’ve got 50 factories and a few houses to our name, but sometimes when its late at night and I look up at the stars in the two mooned sky, I can’t help but wonder what might have been if only we had a Jedi Master, or a spaceship, or a land speeder.

I have a bunny on my head.

This has been a blah-ass day that all of a sudden got much, much better. I could tell you why, but then I’d have to kill you. I’ll tell you why I’m in such a good mood early next month. Someone remind me, please.

I think Katie and I are on our lonesome this evening. Probably make pasta or something to tide us over.

Movies!

Lots and lots of movies you should be paying attention to nowadays:

School of Rock
Alien
Matrix:Revolutions

And…of course, there is that movie about hobbitses coming out in december.

Update:

Gabe’s kitty is soooo cute!

Just a few short weeks after a big first step for the European Space Agency, China launches a man into space, only the third nation to do so. From what I understand, they have plans for a moonshot relatively soon.

Go read about it here.

Hey NASA! You hear that? That’s every fricking political body on the planet gearing up for space exploration! YOU GOING TO GET WITH THE PROGRAM OR WHAT??!?!?