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Monthly Archives: October 2012

The anticipation is killing me.

So turns out my case DID come today, and I have all the parts for my new computer (sans OS) sitting on my living room table. I won’t actually be able to put it together until tomorrow though. *Le Sigh*.

On the bright side, I did finally get to play a full game of Disaster Looms. I like it so far, but it does seem to me, at least in a 3 player game that there is too much tech duplication. Also there are a few rules questions I have (if you draw a second copy of a tech you already have, do you just have a second useless copy? Do you get paid twice when you sell it to the public domain?)

Another shitty day for no good reason

So I only had to work three hours, meaning I got to sleep in, then goof off before work. Yet when I get home I’m so exhausted and depressed that I just sleep for 2 hours. I’ve got the next two days off, I should have a fancy new computer by the end of that. Really I’ve got nothing to complain about at the moment, yet I feel like complete shit.

Okay so nothing new to complain about. Love life, still non-existent. Roommate situation, still nada. Finances are better than they could be. Things could certainly be worse. Oh well, in a few days I’ll have a new computer, and a new video game to distract me from how crappy reality is.

Here’s a picture of the final boss of FTL right before it is destroyed. This was a real pain in the ass battle, I ran out of missiles  and only had Ion Weapons, which can stun systems, but not take them out. Fortunately I had a boarding robot and plenty of drone parts… I managed to kill all the crew, and so the automated systems came on and very slowly repaired the ship, at which point I could send a boarding robot over. Eventually the ship would cloak, destroying my robot, and I’d have to send another once it uncloaked. As you can see from all of the holes, I sent nearly a dozen boarding robots over before finally destroying it.

So tired, so very very tired.

Still haven’t quite recovered from getting up 5 hours early yesterday. Was it really only yesterday? Seems like at least 2-3 days ago. So I’ve got a full 2 day weekend (minus a half hour of covering at the game store on Friday), which just happens to fall on the projected time of arrival of my new computer… so hopefully I can spend Thursday (or worst case Fri) putting it together and playing X-Com and all that good stuff.

Of course that means I should probably be getting my D&D session for Saturday done tonight or tomorrow. Also cleaning the house some so I don’t have to sweat that for a while. 

Also snuck a peek at the new Michonne spin-off of Walking Dead, am a little disappointed by the amount of new content, but it’s not so tragic I won’t pick it up tomorrow when it officially goes on sale.

Here’s your random picture for the day:

New Computers, Monster Hearts, and Sleep Deprivation

So I finally bought a new computer. Or rather, I bought the parts for a new computer. Thursday or Friday I should have all the parts, and Lego-Like assembly can begin.

I also woke up at 5am this morning to the wonderful find of digital delivery of my Monster Hearts PDF… which I read most of on the ride up to Martinsville, where we demonstrated our Technology Petting Zoo to three or four dozen Librarian type people from the area. Enroute I also received notification that Apocalypse World’s Digital Delivery had also arrived. Once Curtis and I had all of the fancy eReaders, and tablets and the Wii and cameras set up, I tried to open the AW files on one of the Android tablets. Nope. So then I tried it an iPad. Still nope. Eventually with a bit of hoop jumping I was able to download it to a PC laptop, unzip it, and re-upload the PDFs to my Google Drive. Then I tried to access it again on the iPad. Limited Success… i could as long as I wanted to stay logged in. Downloading the Google Drive app for the iPad wasn’t much of an improvement, as while there was finally an option to save for offline use, I’d still have to stay signed in as me, and since it was Curtis’s iPad I didn’t want to do that.

Long story short, once through a fair bit of finagling we got the Actual PDFs on the Actual device, it was quite nice to be able to read it on the iPad.  I finished reading Monster Hearts on the way back to the ‘burg, and am terribly looking forward to running a game of it. Of course, I think I am more looking forwards playing some more Apocalypse World, especially now that I’ve pulled the curtain back a bit and taken a peek out how the game is run (or at least, how a variant is run, as I didn’t really delve into the AW rules much.)

Anyways, I’ve been up for 17 hours now and should probably get some of that mythical seeming thing called sleep. I expect I’ll update again in a year or so. (;

I’ll leave you with a random picture: