Black Rose isn’t answering
You know you’ve been playing (or watching someone play) a lot of dot/Hack when you get someone’s IM screenname, and immediately think, “Good, I can add them to my party from now on!”
Boy, I’m tired 🙂
Bowling for Chocobos
Dug out the sketchpad Wednesday night, and worked on that character some more.
There’s an Eddie Izzard joke where he drops into the role of the young Hitler in painting class, muttering to himself, “I can’t get this tree to look right… wait… dammit… fine! I’ll just have to kill everybody!”
That gives you an idea of how well the drawing was going.
Saturday night was a birthday party at the bowling alley for one of Rain’s work friends. I knew a bunch of people there from her work, including the one guy who begged off and just played Final Fantasy Tactics all evening. I bowled well… which is not to say I got a high score, but that I actually hit pins most of the time and got the rare spare and strike. Next time we go for ourselves, I think we’re putting the bumpers up. We had them for one game because of a youngster’s presence, and the score sheet’s a lot less embarrassing when there’s no gutter balls.
Back to the gym today, finally. (The holidays played hell with our gym schedule.) I was hoping the new mini iPod would be a lot cheaper, because it’d make an excellent gym companion, but no joy.
In the last week, I’ve read Diane Duane, Frank Herbert, Tom Clancy, Robert Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clarke, among others. That, and madwriter‘s posts have reawakened my writing urge. We’ll see if it goes anywhere… the nice thing about 15 years of abandoned projects is that I have a lot of source material to mine 🙂
I’m in the mood to link
The previous post dates from Saturday… I started writing it about 1 am, and forgot about it; it was still in my journaling app this morning 🙂
Managed to wake up this morning not feeling like death warmed over, but in fact a little optimistic about the day. We’ll see how long it lasts, especially on a work Tuesday, but it’s a nice change.
Pulled out my new Xmas present sketch pad for the first time last night, and started drawing a character I’ve been thinking about for the last few weeks. I mainly managed to prove to myself how out of practice I’ve become, but I’m not giving up. Drawing and painting have been on my mind a lot lately, and there’s a piece I wanted to do for last year’s T-con that I’d love to have ready this year.
w00t_comic‘s been funny this week… a good “gaydar” joke in the previous comic, and a Harry Potter in-joke on a t-shirt in the most recent one. I think that joke has custom-button potential for the early-year cons.
Waahhh
Douglas Adams’ last finished computer game, “Starship Titanic”, won’t install on my OS X system. Searches on the web reveal that it also doesn’t install on many of the Mac OS 8-9 systems it was intended to. Further searches mention that many people who got it to install wish it hadn’t; it may not have been the pinnacle of his work. Maybe I’ll put it on the back up machine, but maybe not, now.
