Gaming, Geeking and Gaming some more.
So the dorkiest awesome thing has had me bouncy for the last couple days. Diziara, my Klingon-Trill red-headed lunatic Star Trek RPG character, the one who I tell people represents my ID, finally got promoted to a full Lieutenant. I created this character back in high school for an RPG a friend of mine was creating, and I made her as a Lieutenant junior grade, one that had held that rank for a couple years already. My friend David had already been talking big about promoting her once the game got rolling, and there was talk of exploring the helpful GM hook I'd provided of her father being MIA in Starfleet. Unfortunately this group died for meta reasons not too far into it, and I moved the character for another game because I liked her that much. That group also stumbled a bit, I moved her to a game I started, and that stagnated quickly also. Then I transferred her to the game she's in now, usstakedashingn and after a year, meta, and two months, in game, I got her promotion rammed through. This makes easily seven to eight years, meta, and nearly seven years, in game, for her promotion to happen. So I'm a little bouncy that it finally happened.
I now own a jump drive that's bigger than half a gig. It's pretty purple and I intend to install kubuntu upon it. Should be a fun project and an interesting challenge. Then I get to lock down my geek cred once and for all, and set Paul up with a working dual boot laptop. He insisted I don't get proper geek cred 'til I run a dual boot system, but since I don't want or need windows, I offered to violate his machine instead. So that'll be a fun project once I get to give it a go.
In other news, flamingchords has been kind enough to drag me along to gaming nights with his friends. While I'll admit that originally I'd mostly gone because he'd asked me, I've found it's been pretty awesome and everyone's crazy. That said, they feel the need to fix my lack of exposure to a nearly infinite number of movies that they consider as required viewing materials. We'll see how far they get into that list before I start trying to kick out the slats. I did earn major points right off the bat between bringing my talking Tribble to use as a projectile (flamingchords' suggestion), various pirated goods and my inappropriate zingers along on the first visit. One of the guys there is a big Doctor Who fan and is making recommendations on how I can best tackle the best of the old Doctor Who. He he will be hooking me up with tasty digital bits on this subject, and has already teased me with one good bit.
The biggest issue in being able to continue going will be my work schedule, since I typically work Fridays. That said, I'd been getting Fridays off the last few weeks straight, so maybe I'll get to do more than pop in for the last hour or so on a reasonable basis. We'll see, usually when my schedule does something unexpected, it changes again once I've learned to accept or benefit from it.
Annoying development in the last 24 hours or so. I hadn't been attention whoring so much, but suddenly now I want all sorts of insane attention. It's frustrating. There are also things I plan to wax poetical in protected entries too, as they're not exactly thing I want to come up on Google when searching me out.