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.
… in real life. *grin* My husband and I are taking the day off to celebrate — he’s taking me to Gatorland, the romantic sap.
I have 35 pieces of e-mail in my inbox going back to Thanksgiving that I haven’t responded to yet — and that I need to respond to! I’ve been trying to whittle them down when I can but it’s slow. If you are one of the people waiting on a reply from me, I do apologize and I do intend to answer. I’m just abominably slow sometimes.
We’re coming up on that time of the year when many people exchange gifts for one reason or another. So I thought it might be useful to run a post or two highlighting gifts for hunters (and other WoW players). I’ll be digging through Amazon to start, and later other sources as I find them, so we’ll see what cool stuff I run across as I go.
I’m headed out again, on a plane to San Francisco in just a few hours. I had intended to spend this morning responding to a bunch of the great comments you guys have left in the past week, but to my utter disgust I woke up this morning with a migraine. (It took me a while to figure out I had an aura going on — I thought I was just bleary-eyed from waking up!) It’s beginning to fade a bit now, but I I’m still taking regular breaks to lay down and moan.
Anyway, I expect this trip will be just as busy as the last one so I went ahead and updated Petopia for the Patch 2.3 launch a few days early. Hopefully that won’t confuse too many people. *grin* I’ll be back Friday, and I’ll do what I can in between to keep up, so go ahead and leave comments or e-mail me if you see a mistake or learn something interesting.
Now back to trying to pack for this trip with all the lights off and my eyes mostly closed …
I arrived home from my business trip yesterday evening … only to find that my home desktop had some sort of catastrophic HDD failure while I was gone. Good thing I bought a laptop, eh?
And thank you to everyone who let me know that Patch 2.3 is scheduled to go live next Tuesday. I’m not entirely sure how I’m going to do it, but I will do my best to have Petopia updated as quickly as I can after that.
I had intended to post this Monday but … time just got away with me. I’m currently in North Carolina as part of a short programming contract. I didn’t mention that I was going to be away for a few days because the money from the contract allowed me to finally pick up my own sweet little laptop and I figured with that I’d be able to stay on top of the news and post at least once a day, even if it was short.
This is entirely off-topic for this blog, but I just had to share! I have finally figured out how to add labels to individual posts in Google Reader.
