Brain Dump

I’ve had a lot in my head lately, so I’m just pushing it all out here. I’ve been really lax in proper blog posting. Maybe if I stop talking about being a slacker, I’ll stop being a slacker. So, every paragraph or so that I write below could have been its own post at one point, or is just randomly pulled from the recesses of gray matter at the moment.

I haven’t logged into Warcraft in a week or more. I think that’s a new record. I get to talk about it with people, like James and Nasser and Anthony and such, and since I’m higher level than them all, I’ve been where they’re going usually, so it’s like playing vicariously. I’m actually surprised at how little James and I talked about it on the way out to California.

That reminds me, I didn’t really mention it here, but James and I went out to the Real Life Forums meet in California last weekend. It was about eleven hours each way, give or take half an hour. Using his amazing MacGyver-style ninja skills, he was able to repair the lighter socket splitter he had, and we were able to use a power inverter and his laptop and cell phone while on the road to connect and post a few pictures. He posted a number of them in a thread over there. Here’s the end picture, and if you click, it’ll show you a sequence of photos showing us posting from the car. James is on the left, sporting his I Roll Twenties shirt, while I’m sporting my Gravatar shirt with the special red logo, since I host a wide gravatar cache.

Lisa got home Sunday, while James and I were driving back. It’s really awesome to have her home. I got home at about 8:45pm or so on Sunday. It was good to come home to someone again.

This week has been utter terror at work in some ways. I’ve had a huge deadline looming overhead, but this morning, it suddenly got whisked until at least next week, if not further. Yay for the corporate world.

For those students of you out there (and I’m going to lump myself back into that as of this fall) who’ve been looking to pick up an Apple computer, here’s your chance. Apple is offering a Back to School program where you can either get a free iPod mini ($179 value, on student discount) with any qualifying Mac purchase, or you can have the $179 value applied as an additional discount. Between Lisa and me, we have two iPod shuffles and a pink iPod mini (which I’m stealingborrowing), so when I go to buy my PowerBook this fall, I’ll get an extra $179 off, which has me giddy.

I traded in Polarium for Meteos yesterday. A better video game swap has never been made. Not that I didn’t like Polarium, but it wasn’t that great, and a bit slow as games go. I mean, Mario’s Picross was faster, which is saying something if you’re familiar with Mario’s Picross (an old Game Boy game with Super Game Boy support, one of like five games with that). Meteos is extremely high speed and super fun. It’s got a bit of a learning curve, but man, it gets amazing.

This post has used more HTML markup than any post I’ve made in a good few months, if not a year or more.

Bloglines is quite possibly one of my favorite new tools. It saves me so much time in keeping up with my favorite parts of the blogosphere.

Stopping now as not to be so rambly.