So I spend most of the day on the phone with my bank trying to straighten out tangled mess of bank accounts and retirement accounts. I spend what’s left of the day on the phone with our health insurance company trying to get the application for our new policy to go through. I finish all that (or at least what can be done today) and the husband and I head out to grab dinner fixings at the grocery store before we settle in for an evening of games (EQII and WoW respectively).
Forgive me for the hit-and-run posting, but I wanted to share two things very quickly:
Putting these two things together: I beg your forbearance if it takes me a bit to get updated for Patch 2.4 tomorrow. Luckily, there’s only one new pet that I’m aware of at this point: the Razorthorn Ravager.
Technical details about my finagling follow. Feel free to skip them.
I woke up this morning to a Blue Screen of Death and the smell of ozone. And things just got worse from there.
Twelve hours, three chkdsks, one power supply, two video cards, three sticks of RAM and three failed XP reinstalls later, my main computer is still totally inoperable. (Thankfully, we didn’t have to buy any of those parts except the power supply.) I’ve ordered a new bare-bones machine, but it’s won’t be here for at least a week.
In the meantime, I have the laptop. It’s not my favorite machine for either playing or typing long passages, but I guess I’ll get used to it. I may be even more laconic for the next week or two, though.
(Fortunately, my most important files, including all of Petopia and my recent contract work, are all safely stored in Perforce. I lost a couple of days of Petopia changes I was working on, but no more than that. And I handle e-mail through GMail so I’m fine there … Well, except for the calendar in Outlook, and I’m sure the dentist will call me at some point before my next appointment.)
… like 14 hour marathon PHP/CSS sessions.
And now I’m going to bed. Wake me up on Friday!
No, I didn’t give in and make another alt. Roderick — or Stabby, or whatever my husband eventually decides to name him — is a real-life addition to our household. He’s a hedgehog.
I wanted a picture to put here, but 1) he’s very shy and hasn’t come out of his little box yet, 2) when you look in the box, all you can see is some spines, and 3) we’ve mostly been asleep since we got home from picking him up.
I want to apologize for the lack of posts (and e-mail responses for those of you who have e-mailed me) this week. Apparently I have some sort of sinus infection and its kicking my butt. (I thought it was a dental thing, but the dentist pronounced me clean today; I am off to the doctor tomorrow. In the meantime I’m drugged to the gills on OTC pain relievers.) I’ll try to at least get another Name That Pet up this week, and possibly something more substantial. Thanks for your forbearance.
I realized rather belatedly that I had goofed in the theme on this blog and left IE rendering in quirks mode. (If you don’t know what that means … you’re lucky!) So I spent some time today cleaning it up. IE users should see basically what they did before; Firefox and Safari users should see something closer to what IE users saw before. Sorry about that. :> And please let me know if you see any oddness with anything on the blog.
Before I forget, let me wish all of you the best possible holiday season! I hope that you have plenty of time for playing games, being with your family, or enjoying yourself in whatever way you most desire — and that you get lots of presents!
(And yes, I know I missed astronomical midwinter and that it’s not Christmas yet. I’m just trying to wedge this in here before I forget.)
It’s been almost a week since I last posted — which believe me was not my intention! And to be honest, the posts before that were a bit spotty and thin. But the good news is that the full-time contract that’s been taking up so much of my time ended today. I’m working another contract (part-time) and I’ve got some piecemeal jobs coming up, but that extra 40+ hours a week should give me a bit more time to be around.
(The bad news, of course, is that it’s the holidays. I’m not a holiday person — I have no trips planned and if I get my wish I’ll manage to avoid seeing my family entirely. But it’s an open question whether anyone else will be around to see me being around. *grin*)
On the agenda: a long-overdue update to Petopia, more useful content for this blog, the return of Kaet, more pets to name, and — if I can get the coding to work out — a special secret surprise. :>
Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld series, has anounced that he has a rare form of early-onset Alzheimer’s. (Via Eating Bees.)
I thought it was bad when Thomas Covenant died. I’m going to be crying for days.
