and then that happened
So my birthday was Friday just past, a significant number, I think, and since I've been absent from posting in quite a while, I thought about using this as an excuse to break that streak, however briefly.
So, random babbling about my birthday, something that happened on it, and other randomness...
I was born in Dallas, Texas at around 3am or so on the morning of November 30th, 1957. For those who can do math, that makes me 55.
Yay, I now get discounts and stuff.
I'm told I don't look my age, I really don't feel whatever I expected to feel like at this number, and I never acted my age so it means fuck all, whatever it means.
I'm not wealthy, I don't have health insurance, and I scrape by month to month, but I work for myself, dammit, not The Man. Which means I have guess who to blame for my financial sitch. ;-P But I'm my own boss.
On the bright side, OBAMA WON so I get to keep the promise of Omabamacare. Thank you, Jesus!
The election overshadowed much of the year and just about killed me. The older I get, the less I understand people. This time, I am happy. Hell to the yeah.
A couple of months before election day, I found out that my spiritual home away from reality, the MMORPG City of Heroes, was to be shut down by its parent company, Korean-owned NCSoft. Not because it wasn't profitable, mind you. Officially, it was because the game no longer "fit their direction". I'm not going to try and explain because NO ONE among the loyal player base understand the logic.
The date chosen for the shutdown?
My birthday.
Happy birthday, me, my OTMMORPG (parse that!) where I have gone for refuge for almost 8 or 9 years, the place where I can effortlessly be beautiful and strong, where I can be heroic and brave, and the place where I can hit things with a huge broadsword is going to die.
This is one reason my birthday post is late. I'm still in mourning.
I can't adequately describe all the wonderful things about CoH, but every day it is ever clearer to me that what has been taken is at this point irreplaceable and unmatched in terms of history, mechanics, sheer fun, and perfect fit for me.
I'm going to miss everything.
One day maybe I'll write a post about some of my memorable characters there, and some of the particular things I loved best, but I'm not ready yet.
The rest of my life for the last several months has been work, work and work. Some of that is interesting, a lot is pressure. But I don't get much pleasure out of discussing my work, just some in actually doing it, when it works. Of course I teach what I do, so maybe that's why - I get to talk about it to strangers on a regular basis.
On the creative side I have not been doing anything. No writing, nothing else. Ha, creating characters on CoH was about one of my few outlets in that respect. I've been playing a lot of mindless games on my Kindle Fire.
We finally got wireless in house. That's a story in itself but it would take too long. Or maybe I already posted about it.
Robert A. Heinlein wrote, No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart. And this is so.
I don't have children and never shall. I still live with the love of my life and have since age 19. The fact that she's a woman is almost inconsequential.
My maturity has been slow in coming, or shall we say that when I was young, I was told I seem to have the maturity of an older person, and now... I have very little maturity at all.
What I have instead is a little bit more confidence and hopefully a portion less arrogance. But I won't swear to either one.
This year was the Year of Bigfoot.
I still count Supernatural as my favorite TV show, but I haven't felt a deep connection so far this season. Some things please me, a few don't. But my TV boyfriends, I ain't quittn' them. Just shifting back a little.
Mint M&Ms are good.
Everybody, keep having a lovely winter holiday season. If I don't see you before, we can touch base after the end of the world, post Solstice.
Peace out.
~
So, random babbling about my birthday, something that happened on it, and other randomness...
I was born in Dallas, Texas at around 3am or so on the morning of November 30th, 1957. For those who can do math, that makes me 55.
Yay, I now get discounts and stuff.
I'm told I don't look my age, I really don't feel whatever I expected to feel like at this number, and I never acted my age so it means fuck all, whatever it means.
I'm not wealthy, I don't have health insurance, and I scrape by month to month, but I work for myself, dammit, not The Man. Which means I have guess who to blame for my financial sitch. ;-P But I'm my own boss.
On the bright side, OBAMA WON so I get to keep the promise of Omabamacare. Thank you, Jesus!
The election overshadowed much of the year and just about killed me. The older I get, the less I understand people. This time, I am happy. Hell to the yeah.
A couple of months before election day, I found out that my spiritual home away from reality, the MMORPG City of Heroes, was to be shut down by its parent company, Korean-owned NCSoft. Not because it wasn't profitable, mind you. Officially, it was because the game no longer "fit their direction". I'm not going to try and explain because NO ONE among the loyal player base understand the logic.
The date chosen for the shutdown?
My birthday.
Happy birthday, me, my OTMMORPG (parse that!) where I have gone for refuge for almost 8 or 9 years, the place where I can effortlessly be beautiful and strong, where I can be heroic and brave, and the place where I can hit things with a huge broadsword is going to die.
This is one reason my birthday post is late. I'm still in mourning.
I can't adequately describe all the wonderful things about CoH, but every day it is ever clearer to me that what has been taken is at this point irreplaceable and unmatched in terms of history, mechanics, sheer fun, and perfect fit for me.
I'm going to miss everything.
One day maybe I'll write a post about some of my memorable characters there, and some of the particular things I loved best, but I'm not ready yet.
The rest of my life for the last several months has been work, work and work. Some of that is interesting, a lot is pressure. But I don't get much pleasure out of discussing my work, just some in actually doing it, when it works. Of course I teach what I do, so maybe that's why - I get to talk about it to strangers on a regular basis.
On the creative side I have not been doing anything. No writing, nothing else. Ha, creating characters on CoH was about one of my few outlets in that respect. I've been playing a lot of mindless games on my Kindle Fire.
We finally got wireless in house. That's a story in itself but it would take too long. Or maybe I already posted about it.
Robert A. Heinlein wrote, No woman ever ages beyond eighteen in her heart. And this is so.
I don't have children and never shall. I still live with the love of my life and have since age 19. The fact that she's a woman is almost inconsequential.
My maturity has been slow in coming, or shall we say that when I was young, I was told I seem to have the maturity of an older person, and now... I have very little maturity at all.
What I have instead is a little bit more confidence and hopefully a portion less arrogance. But I won't swear to either one.
This year was the Year of Bigfoot.
I still count Supernatural as my favorite TV show, but I haven't felt a deep connection so far this season. Some things please me, a few don't. But my TV boyfriends, I ain't quittn' them. Just shifting back a little.
Mint M&Ms are good.
Everybody, keep having a lovely winter holiday season. If I don't see you before, we can touch base after the end of the world, post Solstice.
Peace out.
~