I have arrived! And Florida is even hotter and wetter than I remembered. (Both my husband and I were born and raised in Central Florida, so this area is no surprise to us. But we left here about seven years ago to pursue our careers, and a couple of years in California will really spoil you climate-wise.) Also, it is oddly more Southern than I remember …
As I’ve mentioned a couple times now, my husband and I are moving cross-country, from San Diego, CA to Orlando, FL. The moving truck is here now and it’s time to load it up and start the long drive.
I will be out of touch for between one and two weeks, depending on how fast we get loaded, how fast we drive, and how fast we get settled in. During that time I may occasionally have access to e-mail and the web, but it is safe to say that I won’t be doing any major posting here or any changes to Petopia. I also can’t guarentee e-mail access, so it’s likely that if you e-mail me I won’t be able to respond until after the move is all over. But feel free to e-mail me still –just don’t expect a fast response. :>
I’m leaving comments open here because my regular readers are a font of information and answer questions well before I do anyway. *grin* Be nice to each other! Oh! Also … It seems likely that Patch 2.2 may launch before I am settled in, so I’ve updated Petopia with the info we know from Patch 2.2 (with appropriate notes about it being in Patch 2.2). But if you see someone confused about why Petopia says their raptor can learn Dash when it can’t, do me a favor and (politely!) let them know what’s going on. Thanks!
We figured out where he went this morning — we could hear him chewing inside the wall of the kitchen cabinet — so my husband set up traps in the area for him: enticing boxes with ramps and stairs, and smelly but delicious food (like peach slices and cheese) on a plate inside. Tonight he quietly left his hidey-hole, surreptitiously clambered down to get at the food … and fell right into a box. As planned! Now he’s safely back in his cage, but he’s loading up his little cheeks with food and running for the door every time we walk by.
*sigh* Reptiles are so much easier. But at least he didn’t die in the wall or something — that would have upset my husband.
I’ve mentioned once or twice in the past that I left the hurly-burly world of normal jobs so that my husband and I could try our hand at independent game development. Our first game — a casual puzzle game called Starcrossed, in roughly the same vein as Bejeweled — has just launched today on the iWin network. If you’ve ever been curious about what I do when I’m not obsessing over hunter pets, then feel free to check it out:
The goddess Ione needs your help to save her friends and rebuild the cosmos! Rescue the celestial spirits and help them complete their mysterious work by manipulating planets, stars and more in this unique tile puzzler.
And be sure to try the Challenge Grid — I spent a lot of time trying to balance the bloody thing. *grin*
My husband and I are taking a little mini-vacation to see more of Southern California before we move away in about six weeks. We’re planning to ride the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway and then visit the Salton Sea. We’ll only be gone overnight, but it means that I won’t be answering e-mail or posted comments until Thursday, probably. I have, however, scheduled some content to post to fill the void. *grin* Just wanted to warn you!
I have jury duty tomorrow. Because I chose to delay my service for several months, I can no longer just call in the night before to see if they need me. Instead, I have to drive up there tomorrow and sit in the courthouse all day. (But hopefully just for one day!) I need to be there at 7:45 am, so I probably need to get up around 6:30 am. Now, I’ve been working more or less second shift hours for the past two months, so my normal wake-up time has been around noon. (For the record, I sometimes cheat on this blog — I often post before I go to bed early in the morning, or schedule posts to go up while I’m asleep).
So I plan on being very unhappy for most of tomorrow. But at least I have Thursday to recover before BlizzCon starts! (Not that I’m going, but I plan on being glued to the monitor waiting for snippets of news.) Anyway, I’ll schedule one of the Kaet posts for after midnight, but I probably won’t be around much tomorrow.
So Comic-Con was a bust. I somehow thought that since we’d bought tickets ahead of time, we’d be able to, you know, get in. But there was a two hour line when we got there, and after we wandered around downtime for a bit and had some lunch, it had gotten longer. *sigh*
We weren’t going to wait that long in the sun. My husband’s bald head just got over being badly sunburned and I have a bad tendency of passing out when I overheat.
So we came home instead. But I used the rest of my day wisely – getting a big update for Petopia ready to go live. So that was something. :>
I’m off to Comic-Con today. I missed it last year and we theoretically won’t be in the area next year, so my husband and I made it a priority to go this year. I’m not a huge comics person, but I wouldn’t mind meeting Neil Gaiman (although I think he’s talking tomorrow, not today) or the Penny-Arcade folks, or a handful of others.
Anyway, I’ll catch up with the comments and e-mail when I get home this evening.
Every year about this time I suddenly have this intense desire to go to BlizzCon. A week ago I wasn’t at all interested, and now suddenly I am. Unfortunately, tickets are sold out so it seems fairly unlikely that I’ll be able to attend. And it’s a particular pity this year since I’m only a two-hour drive away and I don’t have a full-time job to interfere.
On the other hand, if I were at BlizzCon it would be difficult to keep up with all the news coming out of BlizzCon. Ironic, but true. From here I can more easily filter through all the reports to find out what’s going to affect my beloved hunter pets. And to be fair, I did expect to have relocated to Florida by now. (In fact, since we haven’t moved yet we’ve caused some trouble for ourselves — my husband and I are blowing our yearly vacation on a trip to DragonCon in Atlanta later this year, but now instead of being a long but feasible drive away, it’s a whole continent (and an expensive flight) away.)
But that’s all rationalization. The fact is that I suddenly really want to go to BlizzCon — to be immersed in the excited, geeky crowds; to be surrounded by people who understand my stupid Ghost Saber jokes. *sigh* If I were smarter I would have foreseen this and bought tickets back when I didn’t want them. Ah, well. Maybe by next year we’ll have moved back out this way and I can go then.
In what novel does the Bursar first go positively bursar?
