Mass Action on Selected Comments!
This LJ world is strange and new. Mass action on selected comments! Should I be in favor of this?
Ok so...real post.
I'm not sure what to write about. Most of the stuff that happens to me on a daily basis that would be amusing to write about is at work, and I need to research just how detailed I can get without crossing into malpractice town. I read some law blogs, so I'm sure one of them has a link. I will be looking in to it.
(I am a lawyer. Public Defender. Details coming? Not sure.)
The baby is the other real source of news in my life...my wife posts about him a fair amount I believe. (Note: I understand that the norm is to refer to other LJ users with a link. I would have done that in the previous sentence, except I don't know how to link things.)(I'm not a total computer newb, but it's just something I never learned.) Anyway...he's our first baby...9 months old. He crawls, stands up, and baby talks a bit. It's still a verrrrry odd experience having a little person around. It seems like a person is a very complicated thing for me to have made. He's advanced enough that he shows certain aspects of independent thought...likes and dislikes. Preferences.
My brother (another person with an LJ that I can't link to) loaned us a gee-tar. Actually loaned it to J., who had expressed a desire to learn the way of it. I've decided to take a stab at the guitar again. I have some musical background, but I never could get the hang of anything that required blowing into a tube or manipulating strings. The piano seems (moreso now than ever) to be an exceptionally rational instrument. The keys each make one note, they go from low to high, and they're THE SAME SIZE AS MY FINGERS. (I wanted that in italics, but again...ignorance. CTRL + I doesn't work?) I'm looking at these little graphics of chords (little grids with dots on them? I don't even know their proper name) and I can see how they correspond to the instrument. I can also understand where my fingers should go, in theory.
It's like the guitar an artifact of some alien race that has a very different hand structure. The piano looks like something humans designed. The guitar looks like something SOMEONE ELSE designed, and we found in a cave and reverse engineered. I'm sure if I wanted to learn how to write legibly with a pencil held between my toes, and I practiced every day, I could eventually get pretty darn good at it. But there are other ways to write. Like with hands. That's kinda how I feel about this geetar. But I know it's really just my unfamiliarity, so I'm gonna keep on truckin'.
Aside from that...not reading any great books at the moment. I unpacked a big pile of my old dungeons and dragons books from middle / high school. I've been reading through them. They're mostly second edition, which was printed in the mid-eighties through the mid-nineties. WOTC just released 4th edition. I haven't actually played D&D in ages, but I've looked at a little of the new material online and it got me all nostalgic. I practically memorized these books when I was a kid. There's so much to say about it.
If anyone asks, an Ogrillon is the offspring of a male ogre and a female orc. However, a female ogre and a male orc produces an Orog (which you, as an adventurer, have only a 10% chance to distinguish from a normal orc).
P.S. Again I'm going to emphasize that I don't know how to do a lot of this LJ stuff. If I like, don't "friend" someone (which I'm still not sure what that means precisely), or do something wrong, or cause your eyes to fall out of your head...please tell me.
Ok so...real post.
I'm not sure what to write about. Most of the stuff that happens to me on a daily basis that would be amusing to write about is at work, and I need to research just how detailed I can get without crossing into malpractice town. I read some law blogs, so I'm sure one of them has a link. I will be looking in to it.
(I am a lawyer. Public Defender. Details coming? Not sure.)
The baby is the other real source of news in my life...my wife posts about him a fair amount I believe. (Note: I understand that the norm is to refer to other LJ users with a link. I would have done that in the previous sentence, except I don't know how to link things.)(I'm not a total computer newb, but it's just something I never learned.) Anyway...he's our first baby...9 months old. He crawls, stands up, and baby talks a bit. It's still a verrrrry odd experience having a little person around. It seems like a person is a very complicated thing for me to have made. He's advanced enough that he shows certain aspects of independent thought...likes and dislikes. Preferences.
My brother (another person with an LJ that I can't link to) loaned us a gee-tar. Actually loaned it to J., who had expressed a desire to learn the way of it. I've decided to take a stab at the guitar again. I have some musical background, but I never could get the hang of anything that required blowing into a tube or manipulating strings. The piano seems (moreso now than ever) to be an exceptionally rational instrument. The keys each make one note, they go from low to high, and they're THE SAME SIZE AS MY FINGERS. (I wanted that in italics, but again...ignorance. CTRL + I doesn't work?) I'm looking at these little graphics of chords (little grids with dots on them? I don't even know their proper name) and I can see how they correspond to the instrument. I can also understand where my fingers should go, in theory.
It's like the guitar an artifact of some alien race that has a very different hand structure. The piano looks like something humans designed. The guitar looks like something SOMEONE ELSE designed, and we found in a cave and reverse engineered. I'm sure if I wanted to learn how to write legibly with a pencil held between my toes, and I practiced every day, I could eventually get pretty darn good at it. But there are other ways to write. Like with hands. That's kinda how I feel about this geetar. But I know it's really just my unfamiliarity, so I'm gonna keep on truckin'.
Aside from that...not reading any great books at the moment. I unpacked a big pile of my old dungeons and dragons books from middle / high school. I've been reading through them. They're mostly second edition, which was printed in the mid-eighties through the mid-nineties. WOTC just released 4th edition. I haven't actually played D&D in ages, but I've looked at a little of the new material online and it got me all nostalgic. I practically memorized these books when I was a kid. There's so much to say about it.
If anyone asks, an Ogrillon is the offspring of a male ogre and a female orc. However, a female ogre and a male orc produces an Orog (which you, as an adventurer, have only a 10% chance to distinguish from a normal orc).
P.S. Again I'm going to emphasize that I don't know how to do a lot of this LJ stuff. If I like, don't "friend" someone (which I'm still not sure what that means precisely), or do something wrong, or cause your eyes to fall out of your head...please tell me.