The town I live in isn’t all that big. It’s home to a few universities and a rather small mall, but it’s been growing. Still, this story kind of caught me by surprise. This isn’t the kind of event I expect to hear about here in the ‘Burg. It’s small scale compared to a lot of things that happen across the world, but the typical crime here is someone knocking off a convenience store, or a college kid getting into a wreck. Kind of freaky.
As Fishhead so kindly pointed out, it’s been a while since I wrote anything. It’s not because of Oblivion, though. I’ve been really blah about everything for a while. I have several new games that I want to play, just not enough to actually go play them. Sad, I know. I’ve been sort of mucking around with a MUD project, but my track record with actually finishing anything is so low that there’s really no telling where that’ll go.
Jon and I had a week off last week, which was nice. We didn’t really do anything of note, though. Hung out, played Legends Forgotten, a Wheel of Time-based MUD, watched a lot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (which is really the best TV show ever, right behind Firefly), bought a few seasons of Angel (no, we’re not obsessed with Joss Whedon or anything), etc. All in all, it was a nice relaxing week. Our movie collection finally completely outgrew the media shelves that we have to hold it, though, so we’re sort of in the market to find bigger and better media shelves. (Hm.. I guess I should update Listal sometime, too, it’s rather behind, as Matt pointed out the other day)
In other news, we’re going to be moving sometime soon, probably in August. My in-laws (who own the townhouse we’re currently renting) have decided to cut and run before the neighborhood gets too much worse, so they’ve signed a contract on another townhouse in a new neighborhood. That means our townhouse will go up for sale at some point soonish, and we’ll be moving to the new one at some point after it finishes. Yep, it’s brand new. And it has a garage, woot! Actually, it’s very similar to where we are now, just .. newer, and hopefully with less obnoxious neighbors. I’m really looking forward to being moved, if not to the moving process itself.
Anyway, I’m still alive. I haven’t had much to say recently though, hence the silence here. Sorry. 
This video kind of freaks me out, mostly because it’s set in my hometown of Snellville, Georgia. It was mentioned in a CNN article about the lack of originality in comedy these days (it’s a parody of a parody). Freaky.
It’s funny, I was so caught in talking about Oblivion (which I talk about so much that I’m probably driving my husband and cruinh nuts) that I forgot to mention that my birthday was Tuesday. Really, though, that’s about how much of an impact it had on me; it was just another day, easily overshadowed by other things. No, I’m not telling how old I am. Don’t ask. 
It was a pretty nice day overall. A couple of folks at work gave me cards and decorated my office. I came away with some majorly phat
loot. Of course, now I have so many great things to do that I can’t decide which one I want to do first. I mean, I can keep playing Oblivion, but I might be playing that for quite a while.. and I’ve been looking forward to a good Suikoden game since 3 came out. Ah well, I suppose having too many choices isn’t really something I should complain about.
Otherwise, I didn’t do much. Didn’t even go out to dinner, thanks to my broken foot. Just another day, in the words of the soulful Jon Secada.
On another note, Metaplanar Babel has been around for over a year now. I know I’ve slowed down a bunch lately, but it’s still kicking. I still only have what, 2 or 3 readers, but I love ya all.
Go see V for Vendetta. Right now. This I command!
I know, it’s been quiet around here. I wish I could say I had been really busy, but I can’t. What I’ve been is horrifically uninspired. It’s a problem that’s plagued me all winter, save for a few minor breaks that spawned Vesper and Wings. I’m not sure if it’s the strangely schizophrenic weather we’ve had, the fact that I’ve been working 40 hour weeks as a part time (read: no benefits) employee since October, or some other strange mis-alignment of stars, but my creative centers seem to have (hopefully temporarily) deserted me. I haven’t had the mental capabilities to work on my RoR app or to squash out the odd IE quirks remaining in Wings. Even less have I felt enough coherence and interest in a topic to write; hence the silence here.
Today is still relatively uncreative. The weather was in the 70s yesterday, but now it’s back in the 30s - this kind of rollercoaster weather is just horrible. God needs to stop playing with the thermostat, damnit. That said, the “Written 2 weeks, 3 days ago” timestamp on the last post drove me to attempt to write something.
So. What can I say? Oh, I finally got a character to level 60 in WoW (my orc warrior). Of course, now that I’ve done that, I find myself with very little drive to play, because I can’t seem to get into the cycle of getting better gear so that I can go to a different place and get still better gear, but only if I’m willing to put up with 14 or 39 other people while I’m doing so. Instead, Jon and I have created a set of newbie characters on an RP-PVP server (a druid and a priest), in hopes that the PVP experience might spice the game up a bit for us again. So far, it’s been fun. Maelstrom, the server we’ve been playing on, is fairly quiet, with minimal do0ds. We have yet to get to the first contested area, though, so the future remains uncertain. We joined with a handful of other level 10s last night to zerg a mid 20s rogue who was attacking one of our quest NPCs. My first honorable kill on Maelstrom, isn’t that sweet.
One kind of neat thing about my warrior: she got level 60 on the same day that the Gates of An’Quiraj opened. Too bad the lag was so horrific that she got trapped behind the Gates before the event really got going, forcing me to give up on the game for the day. Shame too, the event looked pretty neat.
Other than that, I’ve been looking forward to Battle for Middle Earth II, a new real time strategy game using the Lord of the Rings license. I got to play with the beta demo for a while, and it seems really cool. The graphics are gorgeous, as is the sound, two things I don’t usually associate with an RTS. Plus, you can summon Boromir! What more could you possibly want from a game? Or, y’know, you could summon a Balrog or Sauron, if their styles suit you better. I’ll probably pick it up this weekend and tinker with it some. Hoorah~
Here’s a scary statistic for us Americans: Average Number of Vacation Days Around the World Per Year
Yes, we even make bottled water for our dogs, now. Am I the only one who finds this a little weird?
Harrisonburg finally has a Chick-fil-a. Huzzah!
This is a big deal for me; I love Chick-fil-a food, and I’ve mostly had to go without while living up here. I’m surprised people were camping out overnight though.. that seems a little weird to me.
Blog memes are weird little things. Brendan has tagged me with the latest one, “Four Things”, so..here goes.
Four jobs that I’ve had
Four movies I can watch over and over
Four places I have lived
Four TV shows I like to watch
we don’t have cable, so we don’t really watch TV..
Four foods that I like
Four websites I visit daily
Four things I want to do before I die
Four Five people I’m tagging