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  • Lizard's Adventures In Self-Reliance continue. Managed to drive myself to the local 'send stuff via Fedex' place, despite lousy mapquest directions. The road didn't change names the way it was supposed to. IAE, I also…

  • Heh. Now that I'm comfortably getting things together for my new part-time gig, I'm suddenly flooded with local companies that need Delphi programmers! The world is a funny place. Still and all, I am quite happy for t…

  • So. 4 AM and I still can't sleep. Trying to figure out what I've done for the past 2 hours. Nothing productive or useful, that's for sure. Well, reading 58 pages of doujinshi sucked up some of it. So did whining in my…

  • 2 AM. Can't sleep. Hate this. However, this is disturbingly good. You have to be a fan of several of Cartoon Network's series to 'get' it, however. Once more, I wish I could draw. I hate having no talent. I'm r…

  • So...what's a good name for a cybernetic ninja catgirl? With lavender hair? EDIT: Of couse she's a cliche! Someone responded 'sure' when I jokingly asked if I could play a cybernetic ninja catgirl in a tri-stat game…

  • One of the interesting aspects of being miserable is the desperate search for anything to make you less miserable. For example, checking out random humour sites, in the hopes that a few bits of stupid internet jokes w…

  • Unemployment and depression are marvelous motivating tools. Cleaned out a bunch of old bills and paperwork, got my online banking set up, ordered my birth certificate, dealt with my insurance company (which is remindin…

  • I hate this. It's 6:00, and all I did today was clean the computer room and watch an hour of TV (and write a review, see below). Nothing seems worthwhile. Nothing seems like the effort has a point. Depression is...…

  • Just saw the penultimate Season 1 Battlestar Galactica episode. (I forgot about it on Friday, which should tell you how depressed I was then. Spoiler space! …

  • Lessee, lost job on Monday, spent yesterday in the emergency room. Apparently my gall bladder is acting up and I need to go in sometime next week for a sonagram. These two events, combined with the ceaseless grey patt…

  • Well, in the 'beats a sharp stick in the eye' department, I got some good news today...I'll be doing some telecommute coding work part-time for at least the next few months, maybe longer. This will give me time to wor…

  • Well, heard back from the people who wanted to interview me. They've already found someone, or so they claim. That was fast! I suspect there's a lot of desperate programmers here. Ah well. A life spent coding software…

  • Pholph's Scrabble GeneratorMy Scrabble� Score is: 16.What is your score? Get it here.You can tell I'm bored. I'm blogging randomly.

  • So, the whole 'unemployment' thing is sinking in. It's really difficult to avoid depression, feeling of general worthlessness, etc, etc, etc. My usual method of dealing with the stress of life is to lose myself in wor…

  • Recently stated by Lizard: "I can just go to the library, for that matter. It's something like a web site, but all printed out."

  • In the 'proof the universe has a sick sense of humour' department, my job with Mongoose is terminated as of this month, due to editorial/stylistic issues. So, I'm hunting down the people who wanted to interview me. :)…

  • In the "A road diverged in the woods" category, I just got a call from a company which saw my resume on monster.com, was local, and wanted to interview me for a job opportunity at a programmer. I gave a polite 'thanks…

  • Congested. Headachey. Spent most of the weekend unconscious, which I hate. I want to go back to being unconscious, but I can't. Sea of Worlds is heading into the home stretch and I need to be done with the core rules …

  • Lizard carefully dips a foot into the water of political ranting in public once again. From Andrew Sullivan's website, on what conservatism has become. "So it is now the federal government's role to micro-manage b…

  • A random snippet from Sea of Worlds. I suppose it's more interesting than **(datastruct)newPointer->count++; , which is what I used to spend all my time writing. Souls whose evil was generally unfocused, a pet…

  • Strangely restless. Which is odd, because there's a million things I need to do -- play Everquest, work on the crappy novel, get ahead on my writing -- but nothing seems appealing. I have an odd surfeit of energy and …

  • So, in the Hackmaster game, we have already had one orc converted to worship the Goddess of Spring, and one character is going to introduce a carnivorous sheep (named Fenton, natch) into a dogfight in the hopes of mak…

  • Day 32. Killed by bears. Stupid bears. (Sheesh, who decided to turn the Steppes into a massive deathtrap? Everything is aggro there now!) In other news...I'm writing. Another 4.2K words, this time focusing on Immo…

  • Today's plans -- dim sum and Firefly, possibly with some Settlers of Cataan. Life is, if not good, at least marginally pleasant. This is the first time I've done serious cooking for guests since San Francisco. I suppo…

  • Suppose I should blog. My plans for a vigrous round of early-morning writing on my crappy novel went awry when I slept until 11. This is not good. I feel like my whole day has gone up in smoke. I can either write th…

  • Not off to a good start. Grossly overslept, then spent some time on work-related email, so it's now 10:44 and I haven't written a word. Maybe I can recover my stride post-lunch. In other news, the mighty hunter has …

  • A small moment of humour in the midst of a sea of general gloom. Gamers 2 Trailer In other exciting news, Cartoon Network has mined the very bottom of the Weisinger Era barrel, and has brought back (slightly renam…

  • Me are good English speaking! At least, according to this site. English Genius You scored 86% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 77% Expert! You did so extremely well, even I can't find a word …

  • Beth has been lax on finding loons on the net, so I take up the slack. And if you don't know what chemtrails ARE or why you'd WANT to eliminate the, you aren't up on your nutjobbery! For shame! This site provides e…

  • More random EQ2 updates: "- The Dagger of Depression should no longer unequip itself when you zone." However, the Sword of Schizoprenia and the Polearm of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder are still bugged. In other …

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