T-minus OH FUCK HOW LONG?

Whelp, yesterday marked 100 days until our lease expires. Wow. That makes the little place on Juno all the more attractive, AND makes Fed Ex more of a necessity than I'd hoped. Probably that or rent a little longer. The smart thing to do at this point would be to get an apartment and just save the difference between the actual rent and what we expect in a house payment. *shrug* And make sure we get a build/buy clause apparently.

No gaming this weekend. I was a bit under the weather Sunday night and Charlie worked, and last night, John worked til 8ish. Ouch. Honestly, no skin off my ass. In part due to my mood lately and in part due to BF 2142 coming out, I just haven't been in an RPG sort of mind set. Sure, I'm getting great ideas for Iorthim and progressing on that slowly, but otherwise just haven't given a fuck.

As for a 2142 review, mine would be biased. Gotta love a game where I can get 20+ kills in a round as a sniper consistantly. A lot of that is maps that are designed for infantry combat. Camp Gibraltar is a dream come true. I like that the global scoring system awards a point value for badges and awards that goes toward your rank. Makes those combat efficiency pins and infiltrator pins (5 head shots in a round as sniper) more valuable, cause I'm finding them pretty easy to get. The unlock system is more fun that I thought it'd be. My only beef with it is that it really, really awards the guys that do nothing but play the game. While none of the unlocks are game breakers, a lot of them give definite advantages. Hell, you need three promotions to get the stealth suit...

Cleaning up the piehole

So, we're shopping for a house. Or a condo. Or a townhouse. Really, I'd prefer a house, cause I'd like a basement/game room. Something to turn into an RPG mecca. I can wait on that, though, cause obviously we can't afford anything in the Ramsey Hill area that's a full house. *shrug*

Since new housing means an inevitable move PLUS a major need for cash, we're raiding the stocks of stuff that we "might use again sometime" and dumping it all on eBay. I hit the first phase today, the five (whoa! so many) 3.0 edition D&D books I've just not ever used since we switched to 3.5. All those class specific trade paperbacks. Still debating the games we don't play (but might sometime hehe) and the games that I've obviously picked up at cons cause they were A)$5.00 or less and B) have great amounts of nostalgia attached. I'm looking at you AD&D 2nd Edition and Battletech/Mechwarrior. Some of the books on that space in the closet are staying for one reason. No real eBay value. Seriously, I don't think any of the five people that have heard of Furrie Pirates or Supermegatopia are gonna buy it on eBay, and even though I found the newest incarnation of the Marvel Superhero RPG to have an interesting game system, the success of Mutants and Masterminds really, really lowers the value of that sourcebook. *shrug*

Regardless, tomorrow or later this evening, I'll throw up auctions for the entirety of my L5R collection. That SHOULD be a big pain in the ass, because there's thousands of cards in there, but I went through them all the other night and grouped them by card, at which point I noticed/remembered that I've either sold or tossed out the majority of the worthwhile rare cards, so I've just got a bunch of commons and uncommons. Rather than dick around with hundreds of full set commons, there's gonna be four auctions. One auction of strongholds, fourteen in all. One full set of the five rings. One auction (might break this one down) containing the remainder of my rares. And one big honking auction of everything else. That's a full stack of cards over 14" tall! I figure I'll get like $3.00. lol. Oh well, shipping is gonna be liike $10 on that bitch.

So, if any of my blog fans want any L5R cards before I put those auction up, let me know. ;)

Next week I'll probably hit the fiction shelves......

The WTF of the day - 10/18/06

Metro Transit has an advertising deal with Lavendar magazine (it's the Minnesota gay/lesbian mag). One of their drivers came forward because she didn't want to drive buses with those billboards on it for religious reasons. While MTC wouldn't remove the ads, they did accomadate her as is legally required by giving her routes that don't have that ad on them. She was cool with that.

But then, the union that she's a member of that represents the bus drivers stepped in. Know what they said? They said, "Hey, MTC. You can't give her different routes. That's promoting intolerance!"

WTF?

They stare bug-eyed as he looks in on them.

The party this weekend turned out to be pretty fun. I'm pretty sure everyone had a good time. Thanks for coming guys. Guitar Hero dominated the living room, and the gourmet cheese platter owned in the kitchen. Whoot. People didn't drink enough beer though. Oh well, more for me. hehe.

No major epiphanies to report. One thing I'm noticing on the political scene this year is a lack of revolutionary new ideas. You know how some election cycles you get someone with a great new procedure or system that'll change the world, and usually everyone else has to scramble to come up with something else to run against it? Nothing this year. At least, not a national or local level for us. Maybe next year I'll have my new system of getting corporate sponsors for students hashed out and I can run on that. :)

Did you know the Incas made baby pens? Yup, they dug a hole in the ground and tossed the kid in with a little shade and some toys while the parents worked. Yup. Now Wendy's got to go to work and needs the lappy back.

cobwebs and crickets

Holy shit. Over two weeks without a post? How'd you people survive!?

In all honesty, I've been pretty drained of emotion, creativity, and critical thought lately. It's October, and while it's one of the best months of the year, I traditional get pretty depressed about now. It's not a crippling depression, and I certainly don't let it stop me from having a good time, but it's not a good time for me to have other responsibilities. Like a blog I can no longer post to from work. Or a 3D project I should work on, but don't want to cause the pay is low, the other associated art is junk, and the thing has turned into a bigger headache than it should have been.

The house quest continues. We found a few condos we can afford now, so we'll check those, double check finances, and hope to score. Found the perfect place this weekend, but it's about 60K out of the price range. Skylights, rooftop deck, fireplace, great acoustics, new kitchen, sun room. Nice.

With no tranisition at all.....We came up with a costume idea for Wendy already, but I'm still at a loss. Do I match her again? Or do I fly out on my own? Recycle some stuff or go full on new? or full on nude? Wonder if I could pull off a fetus in a test tube.....

I'll leave you with that one.