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Thursday : 01 September 05
It was another busy-ish day at the office. That’s good. I like it like that.

and I headed to Deseret Industries – the LDS Church’ version of Goodwill – to look for some Hawai’ian shirts, after work; we need ’em for ‘ wedding tomorrow. I broke out with two shirts; she found one. When I got home, I made the mistake of plopping down in the comfy chair. An hour and some serious change later, I woke up.

The High-Flying Adventures of Indigo Bolt     
I started off the night a few hundred points – out of 11,000 – into Security Level 15. I need nearly 11,000 By the time I ended, I was only a few thousand away from Level 16. I got into a couple of really good (and small) teams. We dispensed justice to many of Paragon City’s less noble citizens tonight. And all without any death and experience debt.

Stray Toasters

• I think that I would like one of these.
• Icosihenagon
• I have been trying to remember a name for the past three days. I finally came up with it tonight, thanks to Google: Improv Everywhere
• Something for , and from The Escapist: Death to the Games Industry: Long Live Games (The story continues via the “next” link in the lower right corner.)
• From technudge.com: CNET’s Quote of the Day
  Following China’s recent introduction of measures to combat its citizens’ addiction to online role-playing games, gamers offered their perspective on the BBC’s Web site. Naveed Khan of London likened his addiction to “World of Warcraft” to being an alcoholic.

  “I’d get withdrawal symptoms within five minutes of leaving the game. I’d only leave for a drink, but I’d run back to my machine,” he said. “I call the experience a virtual drop. You just sink and sink…But you can’t deny the buzz…and it’s difficult to let go…If people knew they would become an alcoholic, would they still make that first step? I think not.”

• I received a very cool compliment from this afternoon.
• Why I never forward those cute emails you send me
• For – Batman’s Rogues Gallery figures from DC Direct:
  • Black Mask
  • Mr. Freeze
  • Man-Bat
  • Killer Croc
• Close enough to touch… but just out of reach.
• iPod Nearly Dooms New Zealand
• Superman II – Restored Intenational Cut Reviewed

Namaste.

Wednesday : 31 August 05
And so, August comes to a close. It’s amazing how time flies. It was at the beginning of August last year that I quit my old job… and began a FAR-too-long period of unemployment. And it was not because I didn’t want to work, but I just couldn’t seem to find anything, appealing or otherwise. It’s a bad feeling to want to work and not be given an opportunity to do so. Fortunately, I was offered a job with my current company… and it’s a job that I enjoy. I like the people with whom I work. I like the work environment. It’s just all-around good.

We started ‘ Call of Cthulhu game tonight. None of our party died, but I gave it the old college try. I wouldn’t have had a major problem with starting a new character, as I have not yet gotten attached to the one I’m playing. The game is set in the 1920s. Yep… pre-Civil Rights era. And I’m playing a 26-year-old Black male. So, the campaign is part-game, part-history lesson for the others in the group: A couple of them seemed shocked when Nox and I mentioned that while my character had been in the Army, he was part of an all-Black unit. And that most doctors of the time would not treat Black patients… unless the doctor was, himself, Black or had been educated in an institution where skin color wasn’t as important as aptitude and ability. I also decided that my character worked as a railroad porter after returning home. This gave him an opportunity to travel and learn more about the country and local lore – not enough to be an expert, but just enough that he could say,”Oh yeah… I’ve heard about that.” *shrug* I was looking for a way to make the character interesting and to flesh him out a bit, rather than just have some cardboard-cutout character.

Hmm… maybe I’m a little more attached to the character than I had originally thought.

As this weekend is a holiday weekend, I’ll go ahead and say “Happy Birthday” to the September LJers now:

Stray Toasters

• I came home and took a nap this afternoon. It was nice. The twins, at least for a while, came up and sprawled out on the bed with me.
• Eric sent me a link to I’m Bored!!!. I was pleasantly surprised to see Mil Millington’s Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About on the list. Eric hadn’t looked at it before. I tried to explain the concept to him and finally told him that he should just check it out for himself. Shortly thereafter, the laughing began. One of the incidents reminded him of this.
• Buzzscope’s review of Mirrormask
• Gizmodo Japan: Auto door
• Paul Guilfoyle, who can be seen as Capt. Jim Brass on CBS’ CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, will be providing the voice of Travis Morgan, The Warlord, on an upcoming episode of JLU. I can’t tell from the episode synopsis…
  

  “Supergirl, Stargirl and Green Lantern go to Skartaris, the fantastic, hidden world at the Earth’s core, to help free it from the rule of a brutal dictator.”

  …if Morgan is supposed to be the hero of Skartaris or the dictator. I don’t want to make assumptions based on the various comic book series (in which he was the hero), so I’ll just wait and see.

• Automated Pool System Saves Swimmer
• : Exclusive Covert Ops Clone Trooper Action Figure
• From Real Tech News: Creative Zen Neon Shipped with Windows Wullik.b Worm

Namaste.