This winter is just full of adventures.
It has been an adventurous couple of days! The warm weather finally hit yesterday, getting up to a balmy 40 degrees. Of course, by the time I was headed to my friend Wizera's place an hour after work, the rain had turned to freezing rain. I crossed Wacker and started up the corner cut, and then found myself standing on nothing but ice and sloooooowly sliding down toward the street. Full of cars. And I couldn't move my feet or I'd fall. Fortunately I stopped sliding before I wound up in Friday night rush hour traffic. After that I moved off Wacker into the streets lined with restaurants, where they actually salt the sidewalk, and made it the rest of the way safely.
Originally we'd been planning to gather and watch The Lion in Winter as setting and time period are extremely relevant for the Dark Ages game I'm going to be running, the general premise of which is "fuck yeah ladies with agency!" because FUCK YEAH, but instead we ended up just sitting around chatting for hours, which was pretty great. The trip back included more epic ice adventures; I got back fine on the train (having taken a cab from Wiz's place to the station), but then I got halfway across the station park here and realized I was faced with a hill that was iced over. So instead I veered off into the mid-calf snow at the side. On the plus side, my new boots sure do keep my feet very dry! Good job, new boots! (I then ended up walking in the middle of the street because it was safer than the sidewalks; in my defense there were almost no cars, and it's well-lit and I was wearing a highly visible white jacket.) mostly because had I fallen and hurt myself, there would be no one to come get me, and I was not in the mood for calling 911 at stupid-thirty in the morning.
I got back home at 1 am and promptly passed out for eleven hours, which felt pretty great. Paladin finally got back from his business trip around 10 am and had a nap so we both ended up getting up about the same time at noon. Then I went to the grocery store, which was quite a goat rodeo, let me tell you.
And when I got into my car in the garage (before I got to the grocery store), I discovered a crack that definitely was not there the last time I drove my car (which was the weekend before Christmas; yes, shut up, I rarely have cause to drive). A crack that seemed to have started in the center and spread the full width of the windshield.
Fortunately, the first thing I did was call my father to ask how much such repairs usually cost, which led to him telling me that my auto insurance ought to cover this repair. I had no idea that was the case but I'm super thrilled about it! I am duly instructed to call my insurance agent and confirm that it will not do hideous things to my rates (it shouldn't; this is the first auto insurance claim I've made in almost 8 years), but that's pretty simple to do.
Anyway, I did that and then I came home and played FF14 for a while, but now I am starting to have a very nasty headache so I think I'm going to find something else to do.
Meanwhile, now that there've been several months to iron out the kinks and it is no longer NaNoWriMo (there are no upgrades of any kind in November; I do not risk my novel), I have upgraded both of my computers to Mavericks. This necessitated purchasing an upgrade of Parallels, which irks me (mostly because at this point I have recognized the pattern, and the pattern is intentional obsolescence after 2 versions of Mac OSX, but at least my two computers are on different upgrade cycles.) I have relatively few opinions on Mavericks thus far other than that wow, the Dock is getting pretty crowded these days. I might need to do something about that sooner or later. (This is a lie; I am lazy and will just adapt to smaller icons.)
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Originally we'd been planning to gather and watch The Lion in Winter as setting and time period are extremely relevant for the Dark Ages game I'm going to be running, the general premise of which is "fuck yeah ladies with agency!" because FUCK YEAH, but instead we ended up just sitting around chatting for hours, which was pretty great. The trip back included more epic ice adventures; I got back fine on the train (having taken a cab from Wiz's place to the station), but then I got halfway across the station park here and realized I was faced with a hill that was iced over. So instead I veered off into the mid-calf snow at the side. On the plus side, my new boots sure do keep my feet very dry! Good job, new boots! (I then ended up walking in the middle of the street because it was safer than the sidewalks; in my defense there were almost no cars, and it's well-lit and I was wearing a highly visible white jacket.) mostly because had I fallen and hurt myself, there would be no one to come get me, and I was not in the mood for calling 911 at stupid-thirty in the morning.
I got back home at 1 am and promptly passed out for eleven hours, which felt pretty great. Paladin finally got back from his business trip around 10 am and had a nap so we both ended up getting up about the same time at noon. Then I went to the grocery store, which was quite a goat rodeo, let me tell you.
And when I got into my car in the garage (before I got to the grocery store), I discovered a crack that definitely was not there the last time I drove my car (which was the weekend before Christmas; yes, shut up, I rarely have cause to drive). A crack that seemed to have started in the center and spread the full width of the windshield.
Fortunately, the first thing I did was call my father to ask how much such repairs usually cost, which led to him telling me that my auto insurance ought to cover this repair. I had no idea that was the case but I'm super thrilled about it! I am duly instructed to call my insurance agent and confirm that it will not do hideous things to my rates (it shouldn't; this is the first auto insurance claim I've made in almost 8 years), but that's pretty simple to do.
Anyway, I did that and then I came home and played FF14 for a while, but now I am starting to have a very nasty headache so I think I'm going to find something else to do.
Meanwhile, now that there've been several months to iron out the kinks and it is no longer NaNoWriMo (there are no upgrades of any kind in November; I do not risk my novel), I have upgraded both of my computers to Mavericks. This necessitated purchasing an upgrade of Parallels, which irks me (mostly because at this point I have recognized the pattern, and the pattern is intentional obsolescence after 2 versions of Mac OSX, but at least my two computers are on different upgrade cycles.) I have relatively few opinions on Mavericks thus far other than that wow, the Dock is getting pretty crowded these days. I might need to do something about that sooner or later. (This is a lie; I am lazy and will just adapt to smaller icons.)
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