Someday I will learn to post about things as they happen, one at a time.
So once again I've gone a great big stretch without updating. Woot.
I've been channeling most of my verbosity into my Death Knight blog, Chill of the Grave, though my initial momentum has been winding down. I made a few posts about some topics I found extremely interesting and then petered out a bit, and now I'm settling in to write some more remedial content because I'm realizing that people actually need to be told what I would consider some pretty basic things. It also doesn't help that much of my writing is done at work, where I don't have access to basic resources like WoWHead. I could very easily type out an explaination for when to use which presences right here from the office, but I can't recall off the top of my head exactly what the bonuses for each presence are and I like being specific. Explaining why things are rather than just stating it is part of my vision for the blog, so that's kind of important. Still, I can often get the meat of a post done and bold the parts that I know I'll need to edit later.
Christmas happened. I rented a car that drove me crazy by being a white Chevy Cobalt and drove with Andrew out to my parents' new place in the middle of the woods in Virginia. It was a pretty charming place, and the lack of cell signal was made up for by the actual T1 line. The FPS running WoW on my netbook may have been sad, but the latency was beautiful. I got a Blu-Ray player, and now Andrew and I have debates in Target over whether a particular movie warrants the Blu-Ray treatment or not. It was definitely a Christmas.
My insides have been acting up a bit again, so I finally bit the bullet and went to see my gastroenterologist. I was on medicine for about a month which only helped marginally, so I've been put on a special diet. The biggest part of it is pretending to be lactose intolerant, because even if you can digest lactose just fine it often gives you gas, which tends to cause me quite a bit of pain. (Enough that I woke up last night feeling like I was being stabbed in the gut, because apparently I deviated from the diet somewhere.) It's also low-fat because fat can be tricky to digest, and that's something I should be moving toward anyway. In direct contradiction to anything people would normally think of as a "diet", I'm actually instructed to avoid the vast majority of vegetables. This bothers me not at all. The biggest changes have been the lactose-free and soy milk and cutting back on pizza, but it really does seem to help.
I've been putting off posting about the hamsters because I'm super-lazy about taking pictures of things, and I wanted to post some. Maybe I'll find my camera again and take some tonight once they're up and running around. We ended up going with Magni and Muradin for their names, Magni for the bigger one and Muradin for the smaller one. The vet said that Magni is a full 5 grams bigger than his little brother, so I haven't had much trouble telling them apart. Muradin got used to me pretty quickly, but Magni is still a little jumpy. Both of them will let me pick them up now if I lure them into my hand with seeds, but Magni sometimes changes his mind and jumps off. Being nocturnal, I don't really get to see them all that much, though any time I get up in the middle of the night they're running around like they each had a cup of coffee. I'm making a point to wake them before I go to bed every night and give them some seeds, at least. I know that, unlike my iguana, they don't have to be tame, but I find it helps immensely when animals need to be moved for cleaning and such if they're okay with being handled. And they're really ridiculously cute.
I have a big long WoW RP/character discussion essay that has been welling up, but I think I will make that another post. Yes indeed.
I've been channeling most of my verbosity into my Death Knight blog, Chill of the Grave, though my initial momentum has been winding down. I made a few posts about some topics I found extremely interesting and then petered out a bit, and now I'm settling in to write some more remedial content because I'm realizing that people actually need to be told what I would consider some pretty basic things. It also doesn't help that much of my writing is done at work, where I don't have access to basic resources like WoWHead. I could very easily type out an explaination for when to use which presences right here from the office, but I can't recall off the top of my head exactly what the bonuses for each presence are and I like being specific. Explaining why things are rather than just stating it is part of my vision for the blog, so that's kind of important. Still, I can often get the meat of a post done and bold the parts that I know I'll need to edit later.
Christmas happened. I rented a car that drove me crazy by being a white Chevy Cobalt and drove with Andrew out to my parents' new place in the middle of the woods in Virginia. It was a pretty charming place, and the lack of cell signal was made up for by the actual T1 line. The FPS running WoW on my netbook may have been sad, but the latency was beautiful. I got a Blu-Ray player, and now Andrew and I have debates in Target over whether a particular movie warrants the Blu-Ray treatment or not. It was definitely a Christmas.
My insides have been acting up a bit again, so I finally bit the bullet and went to see my gastroenterologist. I was on medicine for about a month which only helped marginally, so I've been put on a special diet. The biggest part of it is pretending to be lactose intolerant, because even if you can digest lactose just fine it often gives you gas, which tends to cause me quite a bit of pain. (Enough that I woke up last night feeling like I was being stabbed in the gut, because apparently I deviated from the diet somewhere.) It's also low-fat because fat can be tricky to digest, and that's something I should be moving toward anyway. In direct contradiction to anything people would normally think of as a "diet", I'm actually instructed to avoid the vast majority of vegetables. This bothers me not at all. The biggest changes have been the lactose-free and soy milk and cutting back on pizza, but it really does seem to help.
I've been putting off posting about the hamsters because I'm super-lazy about taking pictures of things, and I wanted to post some. Maybe I'll find my camera again and take some tonight once they're up and running around. We ended up going with Magni and Muradin for their names, Magni for the bigger one and Muradin for the smaller one. The vet said that Magni is a full 5 grams bigger than his little brother, so I haven't had much trouble telling them apart. Muradin got used to me pretty quickly, but Magni is still a little jumpy. Both of them will let me pick them up now if I lure them into my hand with seeds, but Magni sometimes changes his mind and jumps off. Being nocturnal, I don't really get to see them all that much, though any time I get up in the middle of the night they're running around like they each had a cup of coffee. I'm making a point to wake them before I go to bed every night and give them some seeds, at least. I know that, unlike my iguana, they don't have to be tame, but I find it helps immensely when animals need to be moved for cleaning and such if they're okay with being handled. And they're really ridiculously cute.
I have a big long WoW RP/character discussion essay that has been welling up, but I think I will make that another post. Yes indeed.