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November 30th, 2009
02:05 pm - Boardgames
Apparently, thoughthammer.com is participating in cybermonday, so I am getting games for the ranch house. I am at about $60 from Great Dalmuti, Last Night on Earth and its expansion. I need to spend another $40 to get free shipping, which would be optimal since I already have to pay the tax part. (Thanks a lot, reasonably cheap boardgame place being located in Texas!)
If you assume that I have no boardgames, you would be probably close enough to right to move forward from. That said, I do have Ticket to Ride + 1910, and I have Puerto Rico. (And I have Axis and Allies and a few games that are more traditional still, but that is not what I'm talking about here.)
So: any recommendations for that other $40? I expect to acquire between 1-2 more things, and then stop.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/geeky.gif) working
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November 27th, 2009
10:56 am - A brief and meaningless conversation through a two-way mirror
Traffic lady: ....and the freeways in Dallas are moving with no problems [and here I will pause the precise amount of time needed to demonstrate my contempt for anyone who does not fall into the group I am about to describe], for those of you on your way to the malls.
Me: What the hell, traffic lady? Is it really so important that you mock me for having to be at work today? I mean, YOU'RE at work today! Solidarity, sister!
Traffic lady: [Did I not already make it clear that I have nothing but contempt for you? I'm on the radio, this is my passion, it's not a JOB.] And now, for a look at the weather, we turn to...
Me: *sigh*
You just have to be able to read between the lines, but I assure you, it happened exactly as I describe.
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November 10th, 2009
10:13 am - Help me, Lazy-Web Kenobi
So, unlike LJ, google reader is able to pass through the ATAT firewall. Thusly: who/what should I be subscribing to follow, yo? I guess that's all. Posted via LiveJournal.app.
Current Location: US, Texas, Dallas, Richardson, E Prairie Creek Dr, 2624
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November 9th, 2009
05:45 am - Today
I am up so early that the dogs stared at me in mild disbelief before exiting their crates this morning. I know this pays a lot better than unemployment, and that it will be worth it, but right now, it's still hovering in that limbo between unreal and horrible. Perhaps by the end of the day, it will seem like a good idea, though. And if not, I know this place here I can have beer on Monday nights.
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October 27th, 2009
11:59 am - An oddness
It feels weird, in a way I had not anticipated until I sit here, hesitant to start, that I'm about to read a new Robert Jordan book. I guess because it's new even though he died? That's the apparent cause, but like I said, it caught me by surprise. Anyway, I guess I'll do that. Posted via LiveJournal.app.
Current Location: US, Texas, Tarrant, Hurst, Evergreen Dr, 424
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October 13th, 2009
07:48 pm - Dear the Internet,
As you know, schadenfreude is a German word meaning, more or less, "taking perverse joy in the misfortune of another". Is there a word that means, more or less, "taking perverse joy in one's own misfortune"? Also, why do I feel like I've asked this question before? Posted via LiveJournal.app.
Current Location: US, Texas, Dallas, Addison
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October 2nd, 2009
September 7th, 2009
11:19 am - Things
I'm at the movies to see Halloween II, right?and the theater I'm in is under remodeling. Is that as weird as I think? The rows of lights to mark the path are ripped up, the front area is full of constructiony stuff, and the whole room smells like glue. It is troubling and off-putting, though not justifiedly so. Also: Fable II is starting to make me wish I were playing evil, just so there wouldn't be so damn many villagers falling in love with me and trying to marry me and all. It's very interruptive! Tragically, my bank account is starting to make me wish I had a job. I really love this lifestyle fiercely and completely, excepting only the effect that zero income has on a person in a wholly capitalist society. *sad face* Posted via LiveJournal.app.
Current Location: US, Texas, Dallas, Grand Prairie, SW 3rd St, 784
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August 8th, 2009
11:23 am - Things I would do anything for, a partial list
1) Love (although, to be fair, I wouldn't do *that*.)
2) Waffles, at least right now
3) Probably something else? I think I would have thought of a third item, but then it occurred to me that Love and Waffles would be a pretty great name for a webcomic.
But seriously. Why am I not eating any waffles? This is bullshit, you guys.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/sad.gif) hungry
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June 15th, 2009
09:14 am
I think my favorite thing about the swine flu pandemic, now that The Stand has not played out before our eyes, is the way my company dealt with it. See, they put up all these instructional signs about when to wash and where to sneeze, which were of course taped paper and have gone by now. But that's normal. No, they *also* put up a bunch of hand sanitizer stations. (Like, Purell, I guess?) Attached to the walls outside high traffic doors and such. It was the kind of thing that took actual effort, and has real beneficial potential in it.
...if they had ever, even once, been refilled since their installation.
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June 1st, 2009
08:19 am - So far
Some days of the week, I stop in at Quiktrip on the way to work and get their giant iced tea. Between the size and iced tea's optimal dilution properties, a couple of refills with ice can last me an entire day, and the worst consequence I get is susceptibility to alcohol later, 'cause it I guess washes out essential minerals or something? Anyhow, that lesson is now tucked away and I'm safe from the effects.
Digression safely past, my point is that in the 2.5 hours of ownership of said iced tea, I have spilled it three times. Dear today: WTF, man? WTF.
Current Mood: detached
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May 25th, 2009
11:05 pm
All travels are complete. Now to get the same lack of sleep I get every Sunday night (observed). I wish I was less bad at this whole sleeping concept, truly.
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May 21st, 2009
08:50 am - Rumors
I heard yesterday at the Flying Saucer (16 beers to go until I get a plate on the wall!) that there's a suburb of Detroit called Highland Park-or-possibly-Village that ran out of money and got completely abandoned, like 'Salem's Lot or something. And now, the city hall, police station, all public buildings are just sitting there, empty, but with stuff still laying around. I heard, tear gas canisters, yo!
If these rumors are approximations of truth, that sounds like some viable urban decay for exploring. Right?
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/happy.gif) cheerful
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May 19th, 2009
10:40 am - $RANDOM_WORD_STRING
Long work week this week, though I at least get to chop it up in the manner of my preference, which will go a long way towards keeping me sane. Yay!
Today, I am mostly investigating disconnected circuits and weird orders and missing change requests.[1] In one sense, it's the same job I always do, finding things that are broken and fixing them. But in another, it is far more exhausting and far less rewarding than the lightbulb moments I usually get when, suddenly, something that was broken in a specific definable way is now not so much. Good thing I've got extra hours of the day in which to do it.
I feel like there was a time in my life, not so terribly long ago, that I got reliable sleep. I wonder what happened there.
[1] Mostly.
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May 6th, 2009
12:02 pm - Today is special because...
Today is special because I forgot to put on my shoes in the parking lot, and now I'm using my sandals sparingly and mostly sitting at my desk barefoot, and these events are happening in a world free of consequences.
How is today special for you?
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May 4th, 2009
08:19 am - I am as tired as a sloth during finals week
Sometime over the course of the past year, my life has gotten very different. I know this, because if I step outside of it and look over the events of the past month, most of which have not seemed that far out of the ordinary, they look like a surreal caricature of any kind of reality I might have imagined for myself. That's not any kind of complaint. It's just... odd.
What I want has remained mostly stable. I just no longer have the faintest clue what to expect. So far, I approve of the ride; I just wonder whether there's a driver's seat and, if so, what the view would look like from there.
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April 29th, 2009
04:18 pm - This is why I'm a bad person
'Cause, I know that people are actually dying and all. And yet I can be nothing but amused and intrigued by the combination of broadcasting excellence over the last three days[1] and real life apocalypse porn gradually taking shape.
In related news, Mother Abagail and Randall Flagg have started following me on Twitter in the past 24 hours.
[1] True story: I was listening to NPR on Monday morning, way too damn early as usual, and it really did sound like, then, they were stealing dialogue from The Stand to use as their talking points. My impression has yet to budge in the days since, over multiple news sources.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/growf/pengies/bouncy.gif) excited
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April 27th, 2009
01:44 pm - Note to zombie players:
As of tonight's Monday L4D, additional versus maps and a new game mode are available. (The latter is oddly compelling for something that comes with an ironclad guarantee of failure.)
So, that's happening. Seeya there, if you are awesome![1]
[1] Lack of attendance is slightly correlated with, but does not guarantee, lack of awesomeness.
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April 22nd, 2009
10:18 am - Fuck Earth Day
Observationally, there's a thing that happens in the sky within once a year. As I'm driving east toward work on my unfashionably early commute, the smallest sliver of moon is visible a few degrees above the horizon, extremely bright from the sun an equally few degrees below it. Just below the round bit of the moon is probably Venus, every bit as bright in the sky, except for being smaller. They're so close together that you can imagine it being used as the device on someone's shield, or flag, or some such thing.
The time that I saw it last year was earlier, because the trees were still bare. And I was driving down the highway, looking at the sky, which was the color of a bruise at the horizon, and a rich medium blue up above, where the moon and probably-Venus were that time, and everything below the horizon was still pitch black, including the bare trees that were intruding into the sky here and there. And I sketched it from memory, because it just stayed with me so strongly. If I could draw worth the slightly more than a damn that I can, I would have tried to color it too.
My commute is far earlier now, such that the sky was just as black as the horizon this morning. But the moon and probably-Venus were right there were they were supposed to be, for only the second time I've seen it look like that. And in a different way, but just as before, they were impossibly beautiful.
It's way too soon to tell, but I think I might make it through today.
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April 13th, 2009
08:34 pm - XBox Undead
To be clear, Monday zombie is occurring *as we speak*. Join us!
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