I won the special edition of Empire:Total War!! Can’t believe this, the second time I win anything in my life. I’m on a roll!
Meanwhile, I’ve been working from home for the last 5 weeks. The 1tb seagate i had installed a few months ago at work turned out to be one of the defective models. It died last month, right before the office ordered new backup tapes for the server :(
Had the disk sent to the uk, salvaged what i could from the flash drives i had and headed for my home system. It’s been great, chilling at home while getting a steady pay cheque.
The latest development was seagate notifying me that restoration will require another 3 weeks, due to the drive having “vibration problems”… Don’t know if the office would accept that or fire me in my absense…
My wife wanted to get away for the long weekend so she started looking at local things like Asheville and places like that. She expanded her search on Expedia and managed to find an awesome deal for a 3 night stay in the Bahamas at a 5 star couples resort. So we’re doing that for Memory Day weekend instead. Woohoo! 2 1/2 days of white sand and cerulean water.
Scrax
1703
Come on Siren. Your curiousity is overwhelming…but you will have to look into the open maw of the beast yourself to find out!
Houngan’s post scared me into moving my scheduled dentist appointment up so I could get a sore tooth looked at today. I was pretty well convinced I would at least have a bad cavity but it turned out to be a recent filling that needed to be drilled down a bit. My husband went with me and, to his credit, only made fun of me a little for panicking so much over it. The tooth is already feeling much better and the dentist said it should be recovered from the bruising by Friday.
I told Obama that you are a drug addict.
I’ll keep all your guns for you.
Probably my best friend from high school tried to kill himself today. Snorted a bunch of crushed up pills. He survived, his friend kicked in his door (She’s 5’3’’ 110 lbs TOPS) when he left us all a message on facebook. She found him unconscious in his room. He survived, had his stomach pumped. He’s conscious now. Apparently talking, but still out of it.
I can’t tell if I want to drive up to see him and hug him or beat the ever loving shit out of him for trying to do what he did.
Is it possible to be in love knowing absolutely nothing else about her?
I couldn’t have opened my safe if I wanted to. I’m going to keep the stuff around for the second root canal, then down the toilet it goes. Estimated street value: 20$ a pill. Crazy.
But let me specify, this wasn’t toothache pain, it was deep-bone-infection-gonna-die pain. Rocking back and forth, groaning and sweating pain. Wisdom teeth were a lark compared to this. Fractured fingers? A few minutes of pain, no big deal. When I poured boiling soup over my finger and had 3rd degree burns over a two-inch patch? Similar pain level, granted, but you could just use cold water to completely ease it, and it was over in 3 hours.
Today, with the infection cleaned out and a system full of xCillin, I feel just fine. Bad mojo, man. I took one pill, then a quarter pill twice more by 3am, and I wasn’t clearheaded until noon today. Wild.
H.
edit: And still feeling it, I can fall directly into REM sleep, just took the king of all naps. This really reminds me of Chantix.
I’m about the same. She’s amazing.
My wife came into some tickets to a baseball game quite out of the blue. The president of the college where she works was the intended guest but he bumped them to her boss who comped her ‘for all her hard work’ and we cleared plans for Saturday night, drove the kids over to the grandparents and took in the Reds/Padres game at Petco.
Lo and behold, the tickets (picked up at will-call) were for a section I didn’t even know existed. Garden Level - Suite 1. Right fucking behind home plate they were and right next to the owner’s suite. It was fun to see how the other half lives, even if just for a night. Fully catered, beer and wine; they even provided blankets for those feeling a bit of a chill.
To top it off we even got brought up to the broadcast level and watched a half-inning from where the local TV guys (Mark and Mud) do their thing. Were even present as Mud brought forth the rally Shileighlie in the 8th; a true honor.
The only caveat was the Padres only mustered a tie in the 8th and the game went 16 innings but we left after 10. Still; awesome.
I’m officially out of the game industry.
6+ months of crunch(6-7 day weeks, 10+ hours day) plus similar at a previous job was my final breaking point.
On the plus side the new job has awesome benefits, is something I’ve been wanting to work in and a 40% pay bump, wooo!
It’s a little depressing, but just on the writing side I’ve noticed that getting out of gaming and into general technology writing gives you a much better payoff. I’m just part-time tech writing now with a little gaming stuff on the side and I’m making more than I did when I was a full-time games writer. (Admittedly, I was just starting out then and pretty low on the food chain.)
Yeah, the pay disparity between similar jobs in games vs outside is pretty insane. Given the cost of living in this area I really didn’t see us getting a house with a game dev salary. Even more so when I have to compete with what microsoft pays.
I just scored a treadmill and rowing machine for $40 total. Somebody on the local LiveJournal community is moving out of town and has to get rid of them fast. I told her I’d take them as long as they work when I test them out. I’m quite excited. I already lift weights at home; it’ll be nice to be able to do the other stuff on days when it’s too rainy to bike.
tromik
1716
Oh, score! I love my friend’s Concept2 rowing machine, and he paid $700 for it used.
I’ve always heard that the best way to buy exercise equipment is second-hand since you get it at ludicrous markdown and the condition is usually “like new.”
My girlfriend and I joined a Great Dane rescue league as foster caretakers. We will probably get our first foster dog within a few weeks.
Can’t wait to help some dogs find homes!
For some reason I read this as “a Great Dance rescue league” and imagined a group of people getting together to revive, like, The Twist or The Funky Chicken or something, and that since it was a league, you were therefore on a team and forced to do battle with other teams on a weekly basis, and that some sort of trophy was involved. Perhaps I took it a little far…
