Oh, frabjous day!
Today it is my unbirthday! Following Lewis Carroll, raininva and I have decided that having two birthdays a year is funner. Hers is in November, but she picked today for mine. We are going to a Comedy Club tonight and she gave me a very nice clothing accessory Tuesday night as a present.
Last night I managed 90 minutes on World of Warcraft. I am totally a geek because I’m enjoying smelting and engineering more than I am killing stuff. I made level 10 with my gnome mage, and moved to another page of my map for the first time (but then moved back, as I have lots of unfinished quests where I was). I also replaced a dead headlight and re-aligned one that I installed improperly a few months ago. I like my little Hyundai, but it’s not great design when I have to pull the battery to get to one of the headlight lamps.
I woke up to 70 degree temperatures and sun, which makes it hard to be grumpy even when I do have to get up before 10am. I really needed the quiet night last night; my social life has been cranked up to 11 lately, which is nice, but a little overwhelming. The 1.5 hours of video-gaming was a present to myself. Lord knows when I’ll finally finish Halo 1, Jedi Knight II, Elite Force II, NOLF, BloodRayne, Tron 2.0, ./Hack, Robotech: Battlecry, Red Faction II… okay I’m going to stop working out this list because it is depressing me 🙂
Congrats to yubbie & colleenk, and nius & rainbowsaber, on their new housing developments! (Ouch. That was unintentional, I swear.)
Since everything’s all Star Warsy right now, here’s a pair of websites you should visit:
Pink Five: two of the funniest fan films I’ve seen, easily up there with Troops as fan classics. The third film should be out soon, and they posted a production blog which includes the lead actress’ reaction to meeting a fan dressed as her! I want a Pink Harvest t-shirt or button or something.
A lot of people have heard of this one, but Darth Vader’s blog has the distinction of not only being funny, but damn well written. The entry about Qui-Gon actually sent chills though me with its ineffable appropriateness. I found myself nodding, and saying to myself, “Wow… that makes sense.” And the blog even has an RSS feed.
Okay, back to working.
Last night I was eaten by wolves.
My guest pass has expired, so I went and purchased a retail copy of World of Warcraft, and am now an official player. I finished a quest or two last night, but didn’t quite level up: I think most of my friends who play will easily outstrip my progress, though I approve of Blizzard’s “resting bonus” for leveling that combats that a bit. That’s one of the reasons I’m playing: because so far the program is everything I’d want it to be. Everything makes sense and is working the way it ought to, even without the manual beside me, and it feels as though they’ve worked their butts off to make the game accessible and entertaining!
There are piledrivers working in the lot just behind my workplace. They aren’t doing the ‘clangy’ noise as much as ominous, building-shaking thuds. I now have a reference to the sound effect of a marching BattleMech.
The compelling thing about the new Doctor Who series so far isn’t the plots – standard stuff, for him – but that the creators are really focussing on how the Doctor’s presence affects those around him. They’ve touched on what it’s really like to step from the TARDIS into a strange time and place; how a Companion’s friends and family worry when their loved one disappears; and why the Doctor needs a traveling companion almost as badly as he needs his time machine. After 40 years of the show, it’s great to get a little bit inside the heads of the characters in the center.
Oh, and next week we get a Dalek 🙂
