| I'm kinda torn, here... |
[16 Jul 2009|10:47am] |
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So, a few months back, my computer got hacked. I've already talked about this.
One of the things that happened was my World of Warcraft account getting accessed and reactivated with a (presumably) stolen credit card. So, now that time is up, and as we predicted (we being myself and the Blizzard rep who helped me fix my account) the charge was contested so the account was put back on hold. This means if I want to reactivate the account, I have to pay for the time played on this stolen card.
I enjoy WoW, I do, but I don't know what to do. I don't play nearly as often as I used to, and even when I do, I'm not remotely hardcore about it at all anymore. There's still stuff I'd like to do, of course, and some of the new stuff in the upcoming patch would be nice to play with, especially for all the lower level characters I've always kinda wanted to play catch up with.
At the same time, as stated, I don't really play all that much anymore, and this would be a good reason and opportunity to just pack it up and leave Azeroth behind me.
Either way, I won't be able to afford to re-up any time too terribly soon, so I have plenty of time to ponder this decision.
And on that note, I'm going to go wrap myself back up in my blanket. Been sleeping poorly the last few days, to the point that I'm actually starting to feel a little sick, so I took the day off to catch up on some rest. Don't let the man get you down.
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| For Saturday. |
[25 Jun 2009|10:27pm] |
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So, I was thinking of doing something rice-based. I looked at what I had on hand, and thought about trying something with the scallops and k-rab I've got, maybe with some butter, and garlic and/or lemon pepper/herb seasoning. But 1) we already seem to have seafood covered with dual shrimp dishes on the Dennis end, and B) that dish idea just doesn't sound, I dunno, complete. Like it needs something extra, I just don't know what. So, any ideas?
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| T-Minus 5 hours... |
[28 May 2009|12:44am] |
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Til we leave for A-Kon. This'll be the first year that Shawna comes with me, so it should be fun. I have a feeling I'll be playing bodyguard when she's walking around in her Orihime student uniform costume, heh. Well, that and carrying everything for all the times she gets stopped for pictures, which she still doesn't think will happen. This should be fun! Now if only I could sleep, so I'm not passed out in the car the whole damned time.
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| The post I said I'd make on Tuesday |
[02 Apr 2009|11:08am] |
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So, Wrestlemania is this Sunday. We'll be doing it at Dennis' place, for the HD PPV and a bit more room. Preshow stuff starts at 5:30, though there's always hangout stuff that can be done beforehand, so Dennis says people can head over whenever. We'll be ordering a few Pizza Mias, maybe some other snacks, like I might grab some chips and salsa or something, not sure about drinks yet. Altogether, it'll probably be no more than $10 a person for chipping in for everything, less depending on how many people show up.
Currently, I believe it'll be Dennis, myself, Richard, Jon, Rob, Tim, and my friends Jordan and Jeff from work. I also have an invite out to Jason, Aly's boyfriend, but haven't heard back. Not sure what max capacity is, but if there's anyone else wants to come and join us, a smaller donation per person would probably not hurt, heh.
Also, like last year, we'll play around with picking winners for the matches, only this time, unless there's opposition to it, I was thinking having a small prize attached of not having to pay your part of the evening's cost, and just having it split between everyone else instead. We can probably talk more Saturday night though, at the usual hangout.
Anyway, time for work, I'll see everyone this weekend!
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[22 Mar 2009|02:05am] |
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I don't think I've had this much to drink in a long time. Nearly 20 shots with Tim to celebrate his 25th birthday. I think I made up for not getting to drink on St. Patrick's Day, heh. Not since the days of sending Kat pictures at work of us being drunken and stupid from Richard's cell phone at 4 in the morning to convince her coworker to let Kat send us all a picture of her cleavage, which was rumored to be quite ample and impressive. Man, good times, good times.
While this is still definitely not an all the time thing, I'd like to get back into doing this a bit more often. Just kicking back, and enjoying some drinks with my friends.
Man, for once, I'm fucking thankful for spell check.
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| Holy crap, this is intriguing. |
[27 Feb 2009|08:10pm] |
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So I randomly looked at L5R on Wikipedia, and apparently sometime in early 2009, there's supposed to be a Graphic Novel entitled "Death at Koten", which tells the story of the death of Hida Kisada, and the events that take place as a result. I must admit, I'm kinda curious about this.
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| Writer's Block: AKA |
[27 Feb 2009|07:53pm] |
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Well, I guess it'd be about twelve or thirteen years or so ago now, damn. I was already an established card flopper, and I'd been hearing about this game called Legend of the Five Rings. I'd done some research online, found some stuff I liked, particularly this Crab Clan faction. So I bought some cards, including some singles, built a Crab deck, and went to a demo to learn how the game worked directly instead of from a little rulebook. I ended up beating the guy who was running my demo pretty soundly, and ended up winning a couple other games that day against some other guys who'd been playing for a while. The demo guy, I can't remember who it was now, either Scott or Doug I think, said something along the lines of "Who da man? Hida Man." And it just stuck with me from then on.
I did some pretty cool things, I think, as a Crab Clan member. Things like running the officially recognized Crab Clan Website for a while, being acknowledged by fellow Crabs and storyline writers at GenCon tournaments, and most proudly coming up with one of the coolest deck ideas I'd seen during my time playing, the Taka Tricks deck. The one sword tournament I won, I won with that deck. A couple of weeks later, after talking about it with people on IRC and such, I started hearing more and more people doing decks like mine. So I don't know if I was really first, and I was never really acknowledged by more than a handful of people for it, but dammit, that was my deck, I conceived and built it myself, and I was proud of it, heh.
It's funny, for being a military clan, my two biggest achievements in game play came from honor. The Taka Tricks deck, and the Oni Honor Bomb, which got me from 21 honor to 681 honor in one action and it's ensuing reactions. Man, was that ever glorious.
I'm also amused that when I first met Jon, on his first visit down here before moving, we were kickin it at Sheridan's, getting some frozen custard, and he realized, after seeing my name on FFXI where I was Hidaman (since you couldn't use spaces) and chatting while we were hanging out, that I was THAT Hida Man. I tell you, that was so cool, heh. A small bit of pseudo-fame and notoriety. Little geeky ego boost, that was.
Anyway, yeah, I ended up typing WAY more than I expected, but really, thinking about it, I have alot of history with this username, and I really don't see my nickname going away any time soon, even if it's origin is no longer a part of my life.
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| Checklist for today. |
[25 Feb 2009|10:04am] |
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Ashes acquired, check.
Half an hour in the fitness center, check.
Cheap strawberry slush from Sonic thanks to early morning specials, check.
Tormenting smell of a wonderful dinner working in our slow cooker that I won't be able to eat tonight, check.
Shower before work, about to happen.
In other news, my computer chair is dead. Went to sit down last night after work and found that one of the little rubber stoppers that keeps the chair centered when it's sat in was gone. Luckily, there was enough support in the collapsing chair that I was able to get back up before falling all the way to the floor. So for now, I post from on my knees.
Luckily my refund is estimated to come next week, so I can swing a cheap little folding chair or something once I get paid and not worry about losing my emergency buffer. Which is important since I had to cash that out this week, which included canceling the WoW account in favor of groceries, heh. Oh well, at least that was an easy decision to make.
Shawna and I are planning on doing the fitness center thing every other day, though I have to say, it feels kinds good starting the day off with a half an hour of a brisk paced walk on the treadmill. Perhaps on the days where I don't go together with Shawna after work, I'll head out in the morning for a little walk.
Anyway, I still have to make lunch for work too, so I better make that shower happen. Later.
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| While I'm at it... |
[30 Jan 2009|03:31pm] |
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So, at the prompting of multiple people, I signed up for a Facebook. I actually kinda said this in passing the other day, mentioning that my ex made a friend request. I still haven't done anything with it as far as setting up interests or anything like that, and we all know how good I am at updating this, but yeah, feel free to look me up on there, if I haven't already found you.
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| Remember when I got sick a couple of weeks ago? |
[30 Jan 2009|03:08pm] |
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That stomach bug that hit Shawna, and then not a week later hit me? Well, apparently I got it worse. We won't know for sure until Monday when the results come in, but they think it's a protozoan infection in my intestines called giardia. I'm on 5 days of this 500mg pill twice a day as a preemptive strike, in case that's what it actually is. I am so fucking glad I have insurance. I finally had an appetite after the appointment, so I got some food in me, let's see how that goes. Dammit, I will not let this affect me getting to do stuff for Shawna's birthday.
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| The job hunt and such. |
[27 Jan 2009|09:33pm] |
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So, I've started looking around a little each day, seeing what's out there. You know, I remember a time when having a data entry job meant going into a data center, typing for a few hours, and then going home. Now, it seems that nearly all data entry jobs are work from home. I've actually contemplated doing that for a bit, while keeping the Borders job part time, just to kind of get something new going until I find what I want.
One of Shawna's friends asked for my resume. She has a 3 month internship program where she works, and the pay is nice, but it's not anything I've ever considered doing. It'd basically start out as cleanup and basic, menial tasks at a factory, and then if I stay on afterwords (it's an internship with intention of finding full time hires) I'd basically stand there and maintain a machine, switching a filter every thirty minutes or so and doing the occasional oil change and other maintenance. I just don't know. Definitely sounds like it's not a bad job, for the amount of work and the amount of pay, I just don't think it'd be right for me at all. At the same time, I only have this week to get my resume to her, and I guess she's already irritated at me for not having given it to her right away when she said she'd back me up and get me in the program. So that's actually had me kind of frustrated, because I don't know what to do about it, and I don't have much time to know what to do about it.
I threw together the beginnings of my resume. I still need to add a sub-section to add all the customer service and employee of the month awards I received, and then apparently it could use some formatting changes, but for tossing it together, I think I actually did pretty good.
The work on the car is coming along. Still needs two more tires, and a tuneup, as far as stuff that'll be feasible within the immediate future. I'm not all that confident in it's reliability to take me too far out, especially not until I manage to save up for the new transmission, which is also hindering my job searching to a small extent. I don't know that I want to drive out to a factory on the far side of Downtown KC from here.
Also, I went to church this past Sunday for the first time in years. The church over here is pretty nice, everyone's friendly, and the pastor, Father Tierney was very welcoming. I think I'll be going back again, though. It'll definitely be weird getting back into that, though. Like I said, it's been years since I've attended church. I haven't even been one of the ECCs, the Easter and Christmas Catholics, who only come out for religious holidays. Not really a big particular reason or anything either for why I stopped, I just kinda stopped. My faith never really faltered or anything, just my practices, heh.
Anyway, one other weird thing... So, after a bunch of people I know signing up for a Facebook, or telling me I should sign up for a Facebook, like a week or so ago I signed up for one. Never did anything with it, didn't look for anyone yet, and just kinda forgot about it in the madness of job hunting and panic of the flat tire that I wasn't sure I could afford to replace as soon as I needed to. (Which I did, mercifully.) I get home and check my email after work tonight, and I'd had someone send a friend request. Christina Milis. This caught me off guard big time. Anyone who's known me for a while (which is a decent number of the people on here) may remember her. She was my first/second/third girlfriend from way back in the day. I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to do about that, if I'll actually add her, actively deny her, or just not think anything else of it. Oh well. I'm gonna play a little WoW now, work on my Lunar Festival stuff for a bit, let my brain decompress some.
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| This is kinda funny. |
[15 Jan 2009|10:12am] |
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Rob and Z gave me Z's old monitor the other day. The thing is a beast. It's massive.
Yesterday morning, shortly after waking up, I had a bit of a nose bleed. So I got my box of tissues and put it on my desk, because it's exactly the same size as the space between the surface of the desk and the little built-in monitor stand. I woke up this morning and go to blow my nose, and decide to put the box of tissues back over on the table next to my desk where I usually keep it, and I actually had to work it out from under the monitor stand. The monitor is so big, it was actually bending the metal bar of the stand. It took a little work, since both Shawna and Richard were already gone, but I was able to get the monitor up, and prop it up with one arm long enough to get the stand out and just put the monitor right on the desk.
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| So the car is up, running, and tagged, which means... |
[14 Jan 2009|09:25am] |
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Job search time. Work (well, more specifically one manager) really pissed me off yesterday, so I'm good and ready to move on. I know a couple of people in the area have done some looking around online, what are some good places to do such? While I don't necessarily think I need to be done with retail-type work, I think I've earned myself a reprieve, even if it's a mind-numbing key-punching data entry job, from what I hear they pay way better than what I make now. I do have one application so far for a data entry/filing type job where my aunt also works, but she informs me that being a government contracted company, it can take 6 months or so to get back to me, so I wouldn't mind having other options. Anyway, wish me luck, take care everyone.
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| An old school fix to get me by... |
[06 Jan 2009|07:32pm] |
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Richard dug out his old (and by old, I mean 11 years old) monitor. So I can see again... it's just really really dim. (One of the main reasons it hadn't been used in a very long time.) And at a tiny resolution. But at least I can actually kinda read websites and check email and such. I don't think it'll work for any real gaming or anything, I won't try working on my Sons of Hodir rep just yet, but Kingdom of Loathing should be fine, if I can tear myself away from Disgaea 3, that is.
In better, brighter news (see what I did there?), today was the first day I drove myself to work in my own car. I spent all of yesterday running around getting my car insured, inspected, and finally tagged, and now I'm fully up and running. Car is still a piece of crap, as traditionally most first cars are. (Now admittedly, this is not my first car. This is actually my second car. But Harold the Hoopty Car never got up and running, and I never did anything with it, so it doesn't count.) I'm gonna try to go out tomorrow before work to get the oil changed and the fluids checked and whatnot, but I still need to get new tires, which will probably come with the tax refund, and then $902.71 later, I need to get my suspension replaced. The car has an air ride suspension, which is cool and all, or at least it would be if the air bag wasn't blown. Hence, there is no working suspension, which makes for ridiculously bumpy rides. Drivable, but by no means comfortably, heh. But it's my car dammit, and it'll get me to and from work well enough, though I think that's about the extent I'll be driving it for now, until I get it fixed up a bit better.
Anyway, off to quality time with the Shawna. Don't let the man get you down.
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| This is terribly difficult to post. |
[30 Dec 2008|08:00am] |
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So, as I type this, my screen is acting up again, and it won't stop. It's making this weird noise every time the screen comes on, sort of like what a gunshot sound effect from a video game might sound like, sort of a cross between a pop and a "ch" sound, before shutting itself off again. I don't know what to do, dammit, dammit, dammit.
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| Cosplay @ A-Kon |
[28 Dec 2008|08:24pm] |
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So, A-Kon is on the horizon, and Shawna is planning on trying to come with us this year. Here's the big question of the moment... what are some good cosplay options for her, especially good ones where I could do a matching one. I've already suggested a Bleach pairing of me as Ganju with her as either Orihime, Rangiku, or Shiba, since that's a series she has some familiarity with. We're definitely wanting to stick to something recognizable, and easy to do research on, something I can easily find footage of so she can find out about the character. Of course video game options are also welcome. I already suggested a Mai costume, heh.
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| What the hell? |
[27 Dec 2008|06:33pm] |
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I don't know what's going on, but twice now, I've had problems with my monitor. It's an awesome monitor, but for whatever reason, it occasionally has fits of shutting itself off for a couple of seconds and then coming back on for a few seconds, and back and forth and so on. It took me manually turning it off and on a couple of times and unplugging then replugging the cable from the back of the monitor, in case it was just a loose connection in the cable, and even rebooting the computer altogether. So I don't know what exactly is going on. So far, both times it's happened has been right after restoring it from it's auto-power saver mode, so maybe I'll just turn that feature off for a while or something, maybe that's what's messing it up?
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| I have the most awesome girlfriend. |
[28 Sep 2008|10:51am] |
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So I wasn't feeling all that well after work yesterday. I was starting to get hit with another stress headache, I think. When I got home, I laid down on the bed with Shawna for a bit and passed out, so she ended up making me dinner. A little while later, she woke me up and handed me this...
Mac and cheese with little chicken tenders, done up to look like a crab. I'm one lucky Hida Man. ^_^
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