Title Fail!

    Heh, so the earlier post was a wee bit odd. I started writing about what new is going on in mah life and I felt inspired and scribbled that, and then forgot to change the title. Okay, we'll start out with RL and then move to the gaming/book world.

    So I'm almost done with insulating my g-ma's roof. Only got 6 rolls left to put out, but I got the far eves on both sides of the house. That was (I believe) the worst part, I spent most of the time crawling around in a position something like a pushup stalled halfway between ground and fully extended, while rolling out insulation in a hot attic. The rest of it should go very smooth.

    I also recently moved in with my bro and another guy in a itty bitty cottage, I'll try to get some pics of it or something soon, quite cramped. But it's awesome! Constantly seeing people, hanging out and such, except when the guy's kitten decided my net was a comfortable place to sleep....I swear, cats all want to kill me in my sleep! Oh, and losing space and having to use a cottage involved me shrinking down to one monitor. ;_;

    Well that's about it for the important stuff, so now on to the non-important fun stuff! First for books! I finished The Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, Vol.1) and am currently working on Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, Vol.2). Man, these are good books! If you're a fan of broad, epic tales these are books for you! Parts of it can be a little raunchy, but he does a very good job describing them as *bad*. Very good, very epic, highly worthy of a read if you have the time.

   Oh! And for all my FF:T fans out there, remember the crappy translation it had? Not all the time, but certain parts were just *horrid*. Well the PSP version fixes that! I'm borrowing a friend's PSP and FF:T and am loving it, really fun.

    Last and probably not quite least: WoW! Currently I'm working on a human warlock named Prt (I meant to be trying Port, but screwed up and it gave me the name, didn't feel like redesigning the character just 'cause of a pseudo-crappy name). So far I'm enjoying it, we'll see as I level up more, but at least at the moment it's fun.

    I'm also kinda still playing my DK over on trollbane to harass Suv with, but I've mostly gone over to just playing on Anvilmar. There's a lot to be said for playing on the same server as the people you house with (and around). So if you're kickin' around feel free to stop over on Anvilmar and say hi to Prt (or Udacha the DK that exists to give Prt her bags).

~ish/joe

Recent Updates For The Rambler

    Ahhh, hear that? Are you sure? It's very apparent to my ears. I hear it everywhere I go. I remember when I first heard it, nearly drove me nuts! But as time progressed I started to enjoy it more. It's always there, though often I can ignore it. You still don't hear it? Why it's the song of change! Can you not hear the different tones and sounds? The flute of physical change? The drums of emotional change? The pipe that heralds in new sonatas of change?
    Perhaps your ears have blocked it out. After all, it's so loud when we're younger, it seems so much more quite as we age. But it's still playing, no matter how much things seem the same, the always change. Sometimes it's large changes, perhaps you bought your house, or proposed to someone, or said yes to the proposal. Sometimes it's small, you decide to re-arrange the furniture, make a new food, or simply walk across the room to say hi to a stranger.
    No matter how large or small the change, the music goes on. The sound goes on, the pipes sing to us, the drums pull at our feet. Whether we like it or not, they will pull us onto the dance floor. Or perhaps we live on the dance floor, and we just forget sometimes that we're supposed to be dancing. No matter how much we enjoy the status quo, no matter how deeply we enjoy the current song, it will change. The Lord of the Dance watches over us and directs the dance. This simply leaves one question to be answered... Will you dance?

~joe will post a less rambly post later

Fandom!

    Ah, the previous generation had the trekkies, which they not-so-kindly shoved into lockers. My hope? It appears the trekkies might be replaced with people infected with twilight-itis (inflammation of the twilight). Why? Because it'd be funnier shoving vamp wannabes into lockers, after all, aren't vamps supposed to be super strong?

    Also, well, not much also. I kinda suck at playing my warrior, but work is going awesome! *rambles*

~joe/ish/vish

p.s. I wouldn't actually shove anyone in their locker. And I probably wouldn't laugh if someone got shoved in a locker while I watched, it'd depend on the circumstances.

Patch Day

Yay for uber downloads!

Masquerades: Officially all they're cracked up to be.

A fun day indeed

    I think I'm going to really enjoy today. Here's a rough break down of my schedule:
        - Get off work at ~2pm, go run buy insulation, mountain dew (for while we're working), and beer (my payment to my helper(who is of age))
        - Pick up my bro and lend him my car at 4:30/4:45
        - Get picked up at 6 to go eat food somewhere
        - Head down to Temple for a masquerade at around 7-7:30
        - Come back from Temple
        - Start putting in insulation around midnight or 1am
        - Crash like a log

    "Wait, did he just say masquerade?" Why yes I did! Me, a buddy of mine, and a friend of hers will be carpooling down and daaancing (I assume) while wearing masks! Not only that but I didn't have to find/make one! Luckily they decided to make their own and offered to do mine while they were at it. Hopefully I won't  end up with a ballerina/trolloc mask.

    The only major question I have now is... Do I want to buy R-13 rolls of insulation or go ahead and pay for the R-19 insulation? The R-19 is roughly twice as expensive, but how much more effective is it? Oh the questions we get to ponder.

    Welp that's all the time I have for now, so I will let ya'll go about having fun anticipating the next post! Though you have to admit I've been doing them fairly regularly these days.

~joe

Entitlement

    Woo! So I randomly actually looked at the blog/twitter thing for a comic I read and he mentioned a blog post on entitlement. This somewhat intrigued me as I really didn't have a clue what he was talking about. I mean, entitlement? Just didn't clue in at all.

    ( http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/entitlement-issues.html (go read it and come back(really(this is a nesting joke none of you are going to get))))

    Then I went and read the article, very nicely done. I will worn anyone who goes to read it that he does say b**** (twice I believe), but he uses it in a fairly accurate way. He's talking about how people expect people artists to produce their books of a superb quality while maintaining a schedule that fits the reader. Much like a dog breeder expects his, ahem, female-dogs-of-a-breedable-age to produce litters of puppies on a schedule that suits him.

    Anyways, on less breed-ish terms I made level 71 on my DK yesterday. Managed to finish the rest of the gnome quests in the borean tundra as well, which just leaves DEHTA and one short group over around a quarry south of Amber Something iirc. But it's been a few months since I've done the Borean, so I dunno. After that I figure I'll head over to the Howling Fjord before I go to the dragonblight. Oh, and this is all on Trollbane, some loser named Suvon made me roll toons over there.

    In other news....Hmm, I need to post about my newly developed housing situation, but I am at work now, and I should probably, you know, work! Later ya'll.

~joe(ish/vish)