January 2005
Dear Internets
I am sorry for abandoning you for four days. See, on Thursday I went out with my coworkers and got more than a little sloshed. And then for the entire weekend I pretty much just played Warcraft, except when Chris was playing Warcraft. All of you who are sick of hearing about Warcraft should probably avert your eyes, I guess. The stability problems that have plagued my new server since release seem...
Caffeine Relapse
My coffee intake had been way down for a while, and Chris can attest that I sometimes don’t even get around to finishing my first cup in the morning before I leave for work, but unfortunately I’ve started making up for it in the afternoon. Around 3:00 or 3:30, I find myself getting sleepier and sleepier until I absolutely have to have something to wake me up. At first that something...
Nice Boots
Between the snowstorm and a sudden and unpleasant stomach bug I picked up over the weekend, we haven’t really done anything overly birthdayish yet, but we’re hoping to have time to go out sometime this week. Packages and emails continue to trickle in - thanks especially to my folks for the prints and to the readers who sent things. Mmm, Lost in Translation!
I also need to go boot...
Finally
It turns out that the way my building is shaped lends itself to bizarre and alarming wind-related noise - Chris and I both woke up during the snowstorm on Saturday night (which was actually the same snowstorm we had all weekend) and thought that the building was going to fall over. Alternatively, it may have been ghosts.
I’m not sure exactly how much snow we got, in the end, because it...
At Least This Time It's Not Reagan
So it’s my birthday, and I’m a whopping 24 now. I sort of wish I could have just stopped at 21 or 22, but I suppose these things happen. (Chris gets irritated whenever I say things like that as he turned 29 in November, but I continue to do it anyway.) We don’t have any big plans for tonight as our conflicting work schedules make it difficult to do much in the evening except game...
It Weren't My Fault
I realized this morning as I bought an album to listen to on my way to work that iTunes has really pegged the music impulse buy, at least as far as my needs are concerned. It’s probably a holdover from my days of babysitting and careful budgeting of gas money, but I still don’t think of a CD as purchase to be made lightly. It’s almost twenty dollars if you go and buy it in a...
Zombies And The Web Professionals Who Love Them
I don’t remember if I’ve mentioned this before, but when Chris and I first started telling our friends we were moving to Roosevelt Island, one of them mentioned that it reminded him a little too much of Raccoon City. There is, after all, only a single bridge allowing access to the island by car. If the deadly T-Virus were to escape to the surface, they’d just have to suspend...
Smrt
Sometimes I think I didn’t learn anything in college except how to worry about classes that I know perfectly well I’m going to ace. I definitely didn’t learn anything about sleeping habits - even though I’ve been trying to get more sleep lately, I end up going to bed later and later. By the end of the week I resemble nothing so much as a shuffling member of the ravenous...
None Of That
I will make an conscious effort not to talk about Warcraft today - not the adorable Great Goretusks from whom I steal livers in order to make delicious pies, not the outrageous prices I am able to set for my potions at the auction house, and not even the pros and cons of the various mighty beasts I’m considering for my next pet. So no, none of that today.
It’s now the middle of...
Guess What I'm Talking About Today
Despite the impression you may have gotten from my site (especially recently), I don’t really think of myself as an avid gamer at all. So it surprises me as much as it does everyone else how completely I have been consumed by WoW. It’s true that I’ll occasionally get a new game and do nothing but play it for a while, but I almost always get bored of it within a week or so. Chris...
Yet More WoW
Last Monday, I started a new character in Warcraft. Today I hit level 21 with her - which took me at least two weeks to do the first time around. I’m not sure whether I did it so much faster this time because I know the game better, or whether it’s because I’m in a kick-ass guild that helps me out with armor and weapons, but either way it’s nice to be back in the twenties....
N-Gage QD
I guess I forgot to mention it, but a while back I got sent an N-Gage QD and a copy of Sega’s Pocket Kingdom. Fortunately, my box was free of deadly hobo spiders, but neither the game nor the N-Gage (which they insist on calling a “game deck,” much to my dismay) is really anything to write home about. The game is okay, but I guess I don’t know why I would devote my precious commuting time to...
Happy January 4th
I’ve been listening to a lot of Rasputina lately - bit of a switch from Skinny Puppy, but I’d forgotten how good most of their songs are. Plus, I mean, cellos.
2005 is treating me well so far, and I think I’m in a good place compared to January 2004. I still have Chris and I love him even more now than I did last year (or the year before that). Both of us have good jobs that we...
The Best Inventory Ever
Because I work in the financial district, I’m not far from the Borders store on Wall St. Since one of my Christmas presents was a Borders gift card, I went by today during my lunch hour to pick up the WoW strategy guide. I thought I’d be smart and find out whether or not they had it first, so I used their store inventory search before I went and confirmed that it was in stock (although...
Oxfam Update
It looks like a lot of you used my Amazon referral code to buy Christmas presents, and I’m pleased to say that the sum of my Oxfam donations for 2004 will be over $400. It’s not a lot, and I haven’t sent in the money for Q4 yet because I don’t have it from Amazon yet, but it’s more than I’ve made in referral fees in previous years and I’m glad it’s...
Another God Damned Year Already
So: 2005, and everything. I’m ashamed to say that Chris and I bailed on each and every one of the New Year’s parties to which we were invited. We were sitting around on Friday thinking about which one we should go to when we realized that for the first time in recent memory, we live in a quiet apartment building and could really just ignore the whole holiday as we’ve wanted to do...