This journal is mostly public, because most of the time I don't give a damn who sees it. Very occasionally, I might post to "friends only" to avoid drama, or to a select group of close friends, but for the most part my life is an open book. Friend me if you want, I'll probably friend you back. I may or may not read you in return, but it's nothing personal.

For one brief, shining moment last night, my brain decided it knew better than my common sense and figured it was perfectly OK to ignore basic principles of physics and thermodynamics. The end result of this was a seriously burned finger. Nothing earth-shattering, but FUCK did that hurt. It's just a dead patch, now, thankfully.

Yeah, I'm just a smooth operator.

Happy birthday to devilsdarling and guyhodges!

Man, this has been another packed weekend. I dunno what it is, but I hope this calms down soon. Not that I mind the interaction; it's been great getting out to see people more, lately. I miss that, a lot. Just been draining, but I'm not complaining, it's better than the alternative.

There's a couple people I'm a bit worried about. In some cases, I'm worried about what they are doing. In others, I'm curious about what's being done to them. Of course, in neither case do I have much influence, but that doesn't stop my curiosity. Nice side effect to this is that dealing with THAT means I can avoid dealing with my OWN issues. No, not healthy, I fully admit this, but I know where I stand on THOSE, and it's not something I'm in a position to handle any further than I am. Oh, and there's a couple people I'm seriously annoyed with, but until I decide what I'm doing about it, it doesn't bear speaking about.

Things happening at the moment aren't all bad, of course. I'm reconnecting with older friends, getting closer with friends I know but don't know well, and making some new friends. I'm enjoying getting some things back underway, and getting others started. I'm looking forward to the 'stage reading' of Two Gentlemen of Lebowski that we're going to put on, that should be a lot of fun. Just gotta get a couple other things to either step up and get with the program, or get out of my way.

Y'know, I've never been much of a sports fan. I used to enjoy watching beach volleyball, and I enjoy hockey, but I don't keep up with specific teams and whatnot. However, I've always cheered for the Saints, partly because I love the city of New Orleans and partly because they have always been the underdogs of the NFL.

Today, all those years of pulling for them, even when it was silly, paid off. Seeing them win their first ever Super Bowl (and them doing it with style) was a lot of fun. I've been to many Super Bowl parties, but we rarely paid attention to the game; we usually gamed or just goofed off and watched the commercials and the halftime show. Somehow, though, sitting around at Don's tonight, we all got into the game form the very beginning. To hear us all cheering them on, you'd think we were life-long fans. 'Twas quite a game, exciting and fun.

A rousing game of Robo-Rally afterward just completed the evening. Sorry to see moonchylde and worshipthesnake leave so soon, but it was a bit of a drive back to their place. Meanwhile, krazyfelioness, Margaret, and bloodred37 watched as matrixleap, herince_emyn, bellybalt, skeets, and myself did the Robot Thang, laughing the whole way in our various frustrations (those of you who know the game can sympathize, I'm sure). A good end to the night.

Happy birthday to erotocism and unrepentant!

Happy birthday twilighthalcyon!

Note these for the next time some closed-minded fundie assaults you with ludicrous arguments.

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Atari Shot Glass 6 Pack

Classic Atari Pint Set

Yeah, I'm old.

You may have weekend plans, big doin's, I dunno, but the fun starts today, right here, right now, with the Friday Pix!



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Happy birthday 5p1ic3!

Happy birthday treasach!

For my fellow WoW players: I finally managed to finish all of Blackrock Depths. Christ, I know that this was end-game content in the beginning, so I expected it to be longer and more in depth than other dungeons at this level, but DAMN, that was just crazy. Good stuff, though.

The nation’s top two Defense officials called on Tuesday for an end to the 16-year-old “don’t ask, don’t tell” law, a major step toward allowing openly gay men and women to serve in the United States military for the first time in its history. “No matter how I look at the issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens,” Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Armed Services Committee. He said it was his personal belief that “allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do.”

Always feels good to see when someone important gets it.

This made me groan and laugh at the same time: Mass Affect, the (parody) new Hipster videogame RPG. Man, after reading through this, it felt like "Portland, The MMO"...

Happy birthday edwardmartiniii!

daemonwise needs this mug...

Friday during the day, got matrixleap and herince_emyn set up with some new D&D characters. Friday afternoon, got cybergremlin's done. This is for a small, low-level adventure, to give herince_emyn a taste of D&D, which she's never played before. Friday night, had to decline an invite for hang-out and Rock Band, because I had to do the final research and writing for a one-off game to be run Saturday (sorry guys, I'm there next time!). Up late, because, well, I was.

Saturday, up early. Re-read and tweak the one-off game. Fact check the dates and major players (historical accuracy was kinda important for this one). Off just after noon to sandra_e's place for the game (matrixleap, herince_emyn, daemonwise, praenomenal, and No-LJ-Tim involved as well). Game ran until 10:30pm. Back home. Up late, because, well, I hadn't seen Dianna all day. ;)

Sunday, up early. Jump in the car with cybergremlin and matrixleap and head out to the farm. Di and Dusty do a bunch of photography, I mostly wander and tell stories about the place and the people and whatnot. Huge meal (because my mother-in-law kicks ass), back home. I was going to pass out on the couch for a while, but Di beat me to it. Thus, no nap for me. No Sunday game, but that turns out to have been for the best on multiple levels. Dinner and a little WoW, and it's time to call it a day.

Seriously, it's been non-stop, all weekend. I can't say I've had no time to myself, but there's been blessed little of it. I sure can't say I had no fun, because there was much, but much work, too. I'm completely fuckin' beat.

We got a kind of thing happenin' here. A vibe, if you will...it's pretty funky. Are you feelin' it? I'm feelin' it. That can only mean one thing: must be time for the Friday Pix!



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