Yeouch. Last night, Penny and I finally got around to collecting a piece of furniture to increase our book storage capacity - and serve as a place to put the bedroom computer. The result is a massive desk shelf beast thing. I am guessing that the durned thing weighs something near 200 pounds. It took some serious finagling to get into our car and took a phonecall to Scott to get out of the car and into our apartment. 8pm.
That in and of itself was enough to completely wear me out. But no. It was decided that we needed to actually build the thing last night. Much effort later - and much reading of fancy picture writing (no words in the construction manual) later, we had the thing about 85% done and were completely worn out. 11pm.
Since our bedroom was a complete disaster area, we decided to go sleep in the living room - our couch folds out into what is actually quite the comfortable little bed. At least, it is normally comfortable. With me as sore as I was, sleep out there wasn’t an option. So, at 1am, I moved junk off of the bed and we relocated.
Sleeping pills + aches = I didn’t wake up until about 10-11am. Shortly after I was up and dressed, we started back in on the thing. And finally, it is done. The computer is working, sees the network and is picking up tv and radio signals correctly. But ouch. My arms are going to hurt for the next two or three days if I am guessing correctly.
Posted by allaryin as sleep at 2:09 PM EDT
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Well, I was denied the promotion. So, I am going to be shifting into mostly-full-time mode at ECE for the time being while I look for other positions. I have applied for a job running the CCIT sitelicense server and a few other related things. I’m familiar with the systems, so I should have a shot at this one as well. We shall see.
There are two or three other promising positions in other departments, but they are requiring code examples and letters of interest. So I will have to take time to generate content to apply to them.
Posted by allaryin as work at 2:00 PM EDT
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Sigh. I figured I’d waste a bit more time before heading in to work this afternoon, so I’ve been playing some more EVN. It’s rather annoying… on my Federation campaign, I am now wanted in like 4 different Fed systems. I can’t land on Earth to get my next plot mission.
My fleet had consisted of 4 pirate enterprises, one fed destroyer (carrier edition), and one pegasus for cargo capacity. I am flying a rebel issue destroyer with a trade-in of 4.5 mil - 8 main guns, 5 turrets. It’s a mean ship. However, the problem is that apparently the AI on my fleet was not the best. I am now down to two of the enterprises because I sold the destroyer and the rest got themselves blown up when they aggroed Fed navies and thus earned me a bit of infamy.
So, now I am hanging out on the remote edges of Fed space, pillaging pirate ships in the hopes that I will get enough favor back with my government that I’ll be able to land on Earth again.
I really want to be able to buy a Fed carrier. It’s annoying me that I’m so far into the campaign and they’ve not rewarded me with any tech yet. Oh well. Maybe I’ll just run guns for a bit or something to spite them.
Posted by allaryin as play at 12:09 PM EDT
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Ok, so it’s official. I’m giving World of Warcraft another shot. Specifically, I’m giving it another shot on a normal server - not a PvP one. Not that the normal servers are strictly PvE, but they’re at least hopefully going to prove better than the gankfest that my old server has turned into.
Since my primary char on Sargeras is a lvl 53 dwarven hunter (marksman/beast), and since Elijah is creating a tauren shaman on Thunderhorn, I’ve created a troll warrior. I just hit lvl 6 and picked up those abilities and grabbed every quest available to me from both villages in Durotar - just under one hour of play time, so that’s on schedule. I will think about playing later tonight and trying to hit 10 and move to Crossroads. Possibly will look into grabbing a guild charter so we have something to sign everyone up onto for chat purposes.
Posted by allaryin as play at 10:53 AM EDT
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It is not cool when your body decides that it will ignore the impulses of intentionally drowsificating chemicals. This happened once before - but it was early on in my treatment. So, here I am awake… and with enough sedatives in me that I really shouldn’t be able to sit upright, much less walk around and play video games and stuff. Sigh. Figures, since I need to be in to work early tomorrow (this) morning.
On the bright side, I made some more progress on one of my Escape Velocity games. I beat the Vell-os campaign like a year ago, beat the Polaris campaign this week, and have been stuck on the last Pirate mission since shortly after I beat the game for the first time. This leaves the game I was playing right now (Fed) in addition to the Auroran and Rebel campaigns before I have officialy done the whole thing. I tried the Rebel campaign once before but that file must have been deleted and my every attempt to even start on the Auroran plot line has been thwarted by the nasty evil RNG demons.
Posted by allaryin as sleep at 1:08 AM EDT
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