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First good rainstorm of the season tonight. Was pretty sweet :) Windows are open, AC is off, its somewhere between 50-55 in our apartment. Perfect weather.

Long-ass week coming to a close now. I caught a cold on Friday sometime, and it kicked my ass around 'till Wednesday. Outta sick days though, so Day-Quil and caffeine have gotten me through the last couple days at work. I think it's finally clearing up now though, which is good. Should make the weekend all the more enjoyable!

I ended up working on a project with some of my family members on Wednesday (more to come tomorrow!). My grandfather invented the G! Panel, which is a modular paneling system for geodesic housing. It's actually pretty sweet; I'm not sure what his marketing plans are for the future, but it sounds like a design project might be coming my way sometime. He is entering his product in an online product promotion video contest, and enlisted the help of several family members in scripting, casting, shooting, and post-production. I was able to snag a GL video camera from work, along with studio/stage and editing time. It should be a pretty good looking and fun project! We spent a few hours shooting on location at a geodesic home, and a few mock locations. More filming and post-production starts tomorrow.

I haven't been playing anything a whole lot this week, on account of my insides trying to get outside. I did make it to 21 on my templar in Aion, which is fun. Scored a sweet deal on a lvl 22 stigma, so whenever I manage to get around to leveling... Sammi is beating me! :( She hit 28 sometime today, and I've not moved from my ~20 position in a while. Did a little PvP in wow on the warrior, but nothing much to speak of.

Dani found a working WoW private server/emulator, so we played around on there for a while. Ran around spawning a private army of Lich Kings, getting them to follow me around, and slaughter random NPCs. It was pretty sweet. Also spawned Algalon in an ocean and slaughtered him for fun. >.>

Getting paid tomorrow! Finally my bank account will no longer be negative. -_- After I pay the bills, I might have enough to buy food. This sucks. I applied for a job yesterday, at Blizzard Entertainment. It's a Night/Weekend Network Ops Tech job, which is pretty sweet. More or less my dream job, and working for Blue sounds awesome. Unfortunately it's in California. So, if they do want to interview me, it's going to cost over $600 just to get there and back. I almost hope they don't want me, but at the same time I really want that job. :/

Off to sleep I suppose, more work tomorrow, more filming, and at some point I probably need to start working on that big presentation for next month. Farewell!

Sick days would be better if you aren't actually sick. But then they wouldn't be sick days I guess, just days. :( Been fighting a cold since Friday, and apparently 2 hours of sleep doesn't help it, worse now than it was yesterday.

This sucks. Can't breathe, can't stop sneezing. Up to 19 in a row now. It's ridiculous. Goddamn freezing in my room, I'm under 3 blankets and sweating but shivering. And I know it has to be about 78F in here. Guess I have a fever too. Damn you rhino-thing!

Gonna go down some Ny-Quil and try not to die. x_x

Well, the weekend is about to be over. Back to another week of work! This week might be a little more interesting; I got roped into presenting a session on Moodle Administration at the upcoming HECC conference in November. And by interesting, I mean I have to pull a presentation out of my ass on a topic I was going to the conference to learn about. Ha. Still, a trade's a trade: I get to go to a day long seminar on Network Security, so at least I'll be getting something out of it.

Didn't quite make it to 20 on Maelfas, I got sidetracked with crafting and PvP in WoW. Made it to 19.5 though, so the next half level shouldn't be too difficullt to burn out. I was going to go to Morheim to start the campaign quests for level 20, but I can't get most of them yet. Ended up broke and grinding mobs for crap to cash in :) A few brokered items sold though, so I was able to get a NICE shield and enchant it. Should help out the survivability. Still trying to decide whether or not to spend some manastones for crit and attack to speed the damage, not sure if it's worth the cost for the gear that will be replaced in a few levels. Then again the leveling is kinda slow, so it might make that go a bit faster. We shall see.

Raped in WSG for a while on my warrior. People always complain about a level 50 in the 50-59 bracket. Sure, I might not be able to do a lot of damage to a 59, or at least that's the assumption. I threw it in the raid's face every battle though as I was #1 DPS on the ally side. L2play. Not that I'm trying to be elitist or anything, but that's pretty ridiculous to get on my back about being too low to make a difference and yet I'm putting out the most damage of 10 other people. They're all idiots, and I'm apparently better. Maybe that is elitism, but it sure as hell seems to be right to me! My plan for my warrior is to level her to 58 solely through battleground experience, then romp through Outlands and Northrend. Still haven't decided if I want to keep her as a 79 twink, or dual-spec Arms and Prot and replace Haf as my main. Time will tell I suppose, as I've got a ways to go to 80 ;)

Pix managed to find me on AIM tonight so I ended up logging in to WoW to tank Anub'Arak in the Trial of the Crusader 10 man raid. We made significant progress but couldn't manage to get him down. Only a few percentages away from the final phase, but our DPS couldn't stay alive long enough to get him there. Something to work on for the rest of the week, looks like. I was going to back to House-- (Oh my god this show is hilarious. I can't believe I never watched it back then. I'm about halfway through Season 3 at the moment; lolol.) but WoW seemed more fun at the moment. About to watch the new episode of Family Guy and Cleveland before I fall into the blissful embrace of nothingness we humans comfortingly call sleep.

Found out Erin's having a themed Halloween party. The theme is "Famous Historical Figures" -- My original idea of going as Hitler was shot down as some girl already called it :( So now my choices are between Eva Braun (Hilarious, but where do you get a gigantic dress?) and Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill! The possibilities of ensuing debate and hilarity sound...intriguing. Just gotta figure out a churchill costume...I suppose I can just find a white suit, top hat and monocle; no one would know! Or maybe that was KFC's Colonel. Hey, maybe that would do >.>

And as I said, the weekend's about over, so I do believe I'll call it a night. Farewell, 1's and 0's!

Website's back up! I found a style I liked and played around with it a bit. Still needs some work, but its good enough for me at the moment! Lets see, roommate got a job, so I don't/shouldn't have to cover all of the bills. Should mean I'll start having some extra cash soon. No more ramen perhaps!

I've started playing Aion: The Tower of Eternity, a Korean/Chinese-style MMORPG. The graphics are amazing, the gameplay is fun, and it's a lot more challenging than any other MMO I've played recently. Up to level 16 right now on my Templar, hopefully finishing out 20 by the end of the week. I'm not rushing anything, I'd prefer to enjoy the game up to end-game, rather than burn out leveling and hate it. Still can't really decide between the Templar and Chanter classes, but the Templar is further along at the moment ;)

I haven't quit WoW exactly.. closer to taking a break. I don't really enjoy playing anymore except on my 49 Warror; WoW's endgame just sucks. There's no point in getting gear, it will just be replaced in a month by a new tier. PvP is unbalanced and not nearly as fun as it used to be. I find that I only login on the weekends, because my guild needs me to tank progression content. Content that we haven't progressed anywhere in for months. I love all my friends in WoW, but I've been playing less and less recently. I don't want to quit playing, because of the social aspect, but I can't very well demand that everyone play the game I want to play now can I? :)

There are several people from the guild playing Aion though, along with the roommate and couple friends. I suppose if I do decide to quit WoW it won't be cutting off from everyone, but still...I don't know.

Well, back to working on the website. Most of the data is being pulled from MySQL correctly, except for the stuff with # links...They don't work exactly. /at all. Once that's all dynamic, I get to figure out how to build an admin piece, integrate uploading photos, etc. Then sanitize it, and repackage for hosting. Ya know, I've been trying to sanitize and repackage a blogging solution for...years? now, and I never seem to finish.

Perhaps this time will be different...

So, the only thing I want to do at the moment, is buy a carton of smokes, a case of beef jerky, and a case of soda. And smoke, eat, and drink until I pass out.