B-ored. (Hey. Listen!)
Ok, I'm bored. Ya'll know what that means. "Write a bunch of crap for 20 minutes!"
So why am I bored. Hobowars reset isn't for another 20 minutes. My boss has just signed out of XBox live, and I can't be bothered with A) single player or B) randomly killing people I don't know. While both are satisfying, I've been in multiplayer mode for the last hour, and going back to "mission mode" takes too much effort for 11pm.
Seem to be getting past my depression. That's good. I've been a bit cheerier and less snappy the last couple weeks. Even managed to do a game of D&D last Saturday.
Now here's a story. When I run D&D, I always have an "Alarm" sound for when we're getting off track. Helps reign things back in and keeps control if we need it. Most times I'm happy to get off track, but sometimes we do need to actually play the campaign we're doing. It can't all be jokes! So I discovered the 100% absolute best alarm sound ever. I play it for 5 seconds, and instant silence.
Navi. "Hey. Listen!" Looped. For 10 minutes. At high volume.
"Hey. Listen! Hey. Listen! Hey. Listen! Ley. Histen! Les. Hiyten! Netsil! Yeh."
Instant crowd control. I'm thinking about selling the idea to the police for use in riots.
In other news, I'm doing much better things at work. In the last... shall we say 4 weeks? My programming skill has come a LONG way. I've been able to program from scratch, 2 tools which will REALLY help the business. I've been learning a lot more about OLE Automation, and how I can automate objects into interacting. Combine that with some work I'm doing with one of my colleagues in Brisbane, and I'm learning / teaching so much. It's been really productive.
Ummm, what else. I got an XBox 360 since the last time I wrote. Purchased solely for Grand Theft Auto IV. I say "purchased" but it was all RewardHelp vouchers through work. So net cost to me... Nil. GTA-IV totally worth it. And as a result, I've been catching up with my boss, and aforementioned colleague in Brisbane for GTA Rampages. IAG takes Liberty City. So to speak. Has been quite fun. Have also been catching my boss on Call of Duty 3 for the last couple nights, so that's been fun too. Best joke of tonight. He kills me. I respond by microphone... "So, shall I consider that my performance review then?"
Hmmm... let's see. What else. Oooh, I know.
Geohashing. For those of you in Adelaide, go here. http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Adelaide%2C_Australia
Geohashing was "invented" shall we say, by the creator of XKCD webcomic. Totally awesome guy, has some amazingly fun ideas. Anyway. This one. Take your current GPS coordinates (-35, 138) and take today's date + the opening price of the Dow Jones Stock Index, convert them to MD5, convert that to decimal, and then append the decimal to your GPS.
What you end up with is a location, within your area, to go visit. I joined the first ever Adelaide meetup (official XKCD meetups are Saturday at 4pm) last Saturday down near Woodcroft. Was heaps of fun. Just "going on an adventure" was cool. There was one up in the Barossa a couple days ago (the good thing is the coordinates change daily!) which looked great, but alas it's hard to do them during the week. Anyway. Check it out. Join me if you need a ride. I'm happy to hybrid away.
Speaking of Hybrid. As soon as I can afford to, I'm getting CARBN-0 as my licence plate. I've decided that's the coolest I can get.
That's enough for now. And Gabbie, "Yes"
-B
So why am I bored. Hobowars reset isn't for another 20 minutes. My boss has just signed out of XBox live, and I can't be bothered with A) single player or B) randomly killing people I don't know. While both are satisfying, I've been in multiplayer mode for the last hour, and going back to "mission mode" takes too much effort for 11pm.
Seem to be getting past my depression. That's good. I've been a bit cheerier and less snappy the last couple weeks. Even managed to do a game of D&D last Saturday.
Now here's a story. When I run D&D, I always have an "Alarm" sound for when we're getting off track. Helps reign things back in and keeps control if we need it. Most times I'm happy to get off track, but sometimes we do need to actually play the campaign we're doing. It can't all be jokes! So I discovered the 100% absolute best alarm sound ever. I play it for 5 seconds, and instant silence.
Navi. "Hey. Listen!" Looped. For 10 minutes. At high volume.
"Hey. Listen! Hey. Listen! Hey. Listen! Ley. Histen! Les. Hiyten! Netsil! Yeh."
Instant crowd control. I'm thinking about selling the idea to the police for use in riots.
In other news, I'm doing much better things at work. In the last... shall we say 4 weeks? My programming skill has come a LONG way. I've been able to program from scratch, 2 tools which will REALLY help the business. I've been learning a lot more about OLE Automation, and how I can automate objects into interacting. Combine that with some work I'm doing with one of my colleagues in Brisbane, and I'm learning / teaching so much. It's been really productive.
Ummm, what else. I got an XBox 360 since the last time I wrote. Purchased solely for Grand Theft Auto IV. I say "purchased" but it was all RewardHelp vouchers through work. So net cost to me... Nil. GTA-IV totally worth it. And as a result, I've been catching up with my boss, and aforementioned colleague in Brisbane for GTA Rampages. IAG takes Liberty City. So to speak. Has been quite fun. Have also been catching my boss on Call of Duty 3 for the last couple nights, so that's been fun too. Best joke of tonight. He kills me. I respond by microphone... "So, shall I consider that my performance review then?"
Hmmm... let's see. What else. Oooh, I know.
Geohashing. For those of you in Adelaide, go here. http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Adelaide%2C_Australia
Geohashing was "invented" shall we say, by the creator of XKCD webcomic. Totally awesome guy, has some amazingly fun ideas. Anyway. This one. Take your current GPS coordinates (-35, 138) and take today's date + the opening price of the Dow Jones Stock Index, convert them to MD5, convert that to decimal, and then append the decimal to your GPS.
What you end up with is a location, within your area, to go visit. I joined the first ever Adelaide meetup (official XKCD meetups are Saturday at 4pm) last Saturday down near Woodcroft. Was heaps of fun. Just "going on an adventure" was cool. There was one up in the Barossa a couple days ago (the good thing is the coordinates change daily!) which looked great, but alas it's hard to do them during the week. Anyway. Check it out. Join me if you need a ride. I'm happy to hybrid away.
Speaking of Hybrid. As soon as I can afford to, I'm getting CARBN-0 as my licence plate. I've decided that's the coolest I can get.
That's enough for now. And Gabbie, "Yes"
-B