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Thursday : 13 July 2006
All in all, not a bad NBN Thursday.  Work was pretty uneventful; the midday workout was good.

Post-work, I came home and took a nap.  Technically, I took two: I nodded off at my desk for a few before going upstairs to stretch out on my bed.

The Adventures of Indigo Bolt
I was invited to join a team to take on The Circle of Thorns in Skyway City.  Knowing what kinds of trouble they stir up, I joined. 

That was my first mistake. 

The mission was set a couple of levels ahead of the group.  I died.  Many times.  Just for the record:  When you’re going on a high-level mission, make sure – absolutely sure – that the team has a healer of some sort.  We didn’t.  Four Scrappers, a Controller and a Blaster (me). Oh, boy. While it’s true that I have some healing and recovery powers, I am by no means a primary healer.  I’m more like… an EMT.  Or maybe even a school nurse.  I’m not the ER doctor or the hot-shot surgeon.  And, quite frankly, it’s kind of hard to heal others when you’re lying face down in the middle of the street because a Behemoth Overlord decided to test out his flaming breath… on you.  We wound up leaving that mission and taking on a Rikti mission instead.  That went much better.

I think that I wound up losing at least 75,000 points to the Experience Debt Fairy.  By the end of my patrol, I was a little more than 100,000 points away from getting out of the longest-to-clear level EVER Security Level 38.

Stray Toasters

• Today I listened to Issue #9 of the City of Stories podcast.  In it was one of the most creative stories that I’ve heard/read in a long time.  In any genre.  It was “150 Meters to Ground.  Check it out.
• For : Bollywood-infused comics and cartoons launch from Virgin
• Fire artists to light up Bay Area fest
• By way of : Follow that cab…
• 
• From the “We Made Lots of Money (but we’re really cheap-asses)” file: National Semiconductor Wants the iPods Back
• – Comedian Red Buttons dies at 87
• For : The Return of the Rider
• English mistakes that aren’t mistakes
• For Ms. :  “…born on a Monday.”  (click the pic on the page)

Quotes of the Day
I sent the following link to a few people today.

[11:06] : http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1445131&sdm=web&qtw=640&qth=400

These were their responses:

[11:08] Eric: is this for real?
[11:08] : *nod*
[11:09] : http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0479143/
[11:10] Eric: interesting…..Is a has been, still a has been?,      …. didn’t we just see “Cinderella man”
[11:10] : heh

[11:10] : oh lord.
[11:11] : yup. that’s all i have to say about that.

[11:25] : ok um
[11:25] : i hear the theme
[11:25] : this isn’t what i think it is is it
[11:26] : *nod*
[11:26] : oh christ
[11:26] : isn’t he enough of a vegetable yet
[11:26] : Apparently not.
[11:26] : “back for one final round”
[11:26] : wtf
[11:26] : wasn’t it final after ivan drago

Namaste.