Guess it's been a while..
I haven't updated in quite some time, mostly because my life exploded. It does this well. Practice makes perfect after all!
Most of it, I'm just not going to bother getting into. It was long, it was exhausting, it was complicated - and it was a family member that caused it all. I guess they are the one's that really know how to hurt us..
Anyway, so my job did NOT end on the 30th of April. However, neither I nor the Temp agency have had any luck weaseling an end date out of them - I know there is lots of work to do, there always is. However, they COULD just hire people to do the work. So, really, I can pretty much go in any day and find they don't need me. It's a bit, uhm, unnerving.
Thanks to 'The Problem', I've been rather strapped for cash lately - this is VERY irritating. Not that I haven't been short on money before, but I actually got used to having money! Thankfully, things should be sliding back on track in the next week or so. Not completely, because it's going to take quite some time to fix it all, but I'm working on it. Still, it's annoying to have to refuse to do stuff because I'm broke, and I feel like a complete pillock when some else pays. Blarg!
My game addictions continue. Both CoX and WoW.
For my own sense of sanity, I booked myself a long weekend this weekend - taking off Today and Monday. I spent the day lazing around (minus a breif jaunt up to the store to get a pop), reading books and bugging the cat. Now, JeJe likes to sit on the balcony with the peoples. So, I took her out there. It was relatively nice out, and we're high up, so no worries. Noticed something weird at the 4-way. Like, camera's and shit. Hmm. I KNOW they are filming a moving at West Ed.. but, s'called 'Winter Wonderland' or some shit. Anyway, I'm watching with interest, since I've always been curious about the whole 'back stage' thing, snapping some long distance shots with my phone.. after about an hour or so, and sever people being dropped off by vans - a dude wanders over and tells me that I'm in the shot and can I please come down and watch from the grass (where a small crowd of about 4 women where babbling something about one of the people dropped off). I was VERY tempted to say no. Just.. ya know, to see what they did. However, I didn't. I grab the cat and my stuff and went down. Thats when the fangirls told me it was Patrick Swayze(sp?). And, indeed, it was he. Whoopde doo. I was much more interested in the rest of it. Not that he seemed to do much, from what I saw. I mean, he was only there, like, maybe 45 minutes.. probably not even that long. Anyway, watched them take everything down afterwards too. I think some people thought I was a bit wacko, but thats okay. :)
So, tomorrow should be game time. Unless I forgot something. Currently malkoten is running D&D for us. It's quite fun, really. Amusingly enough, where in dragon_dancer30's game I'm the ONLY magic user, in this game I'm the only NON-magic user. Go figure! Needless, I spend quite a lot of time snickering internally to myself while they mess about with spells and so forth. Anyway, we made it to level .. uhm, 3! With that group so far. Malk was a bit concerend about the things that his game-books where tossing us up against, but we seemed to do not to bad. Not suprisingly, we rocked the thing that was of the most concern, then practically got eaten my some stupid shit. *sigh*
I'm please beccause I'm getting a bit of a handle on my character. Fortunetly, I won't have to spend oodles and oodles of cash on her ALL the time - I hope. My next major item of purchase will be a +1 rapier, so people stop griping at me about useing the stupid long sword...
Okay, that probably didn't make any sense, I will explain. I made a Swashbuckler. They are.. rather like a fighter - with a wee bit of rogue, or possibly monk, tossed in. Finesse fighters. Hell, the first thing they give you is the ability to use your Dex rather than your Str on stuffage. I LIKE this idea. Means light armor and light weapons. I can live with this. A longsword is NOT a light weapon. Hence, my problem. Only, not for long if I can help it.
Anyway, I picked a prestige class - I won't be getting near it until level 12, and every one keeps ribbinb me about it, but I didn't really WANT any of the other prestige classes. I only considered taking a level or two or Rogue, but since one, if not two, other people will be doing that, there's no point. Since Malk is running an Ebberon game, I picked Heir of Syberis(sp?). Wich is, like, uber... only not to my character. :P See, in Ebberon, there's these houses, called Dargonmark houses. Dargonmarks are, like, inherited tattoos. If you aren't a member of the house, you won't have one (I won't talk about the exceptions). As a rule, most people have the 'lesser' dragon marks, wich give rather cool little abilities and so forth. I went with the Transportation guild. Like, messangers and stuff. Anyway, my character is not an important member of the house, and isn't really interested in increasing her standing. Not that she'd go out of her way to offend her house or anything, because thats just dumb, but she's something of a free spirit. Oh, yeah, I went Chaotic Good. :P Anyway, it will be interesting if we make it to 12 and she suddenly oozes a Syberis mark. Since these are the 'uber' marks, the Houses tend to keep a VERY close eye on the people that have them, if not a tight leash. ^_^ Wich, again, is why I DID that.
I had some fun last game, though. Like I said, getting a bit in touch with the character and, well, she can be a bit reckless (really, we're kind of lacking in Wisdom in our group. Smart we are, common sense, not so much). So, we're exploring this building and.. there's a living Flaming Sphere spell wich I managed to sneak up on. Everyone ELSE is waaaay down the hall.. and, just off to the side.. is a room full of water. I TOTALLY saw the big light bulb 'binging' over her head. As the wonderful rolling ball of flame notices her, she makes some 'come and get me faces' at it, then runs into the side room - totally failing to warn her team in any fashion. Sadly, the flaming ball noticed them first. :P Ah well, only the bird-cleric got slightly singed really. Hehe.
Now I'm looking forward to seeing what tomorrow brings!
Okay, this entry was not very logical, but thats fine. I'm rather tired (since sleeping in for me is not making it to 7:30am. >_<) and I wasn't making an effort. Later.
Most of it, I'm just not going to bother getting into. It was long, it was exhausting, it was complicated - and it was a family member that caused it all. I guess they are the one's that really know how to hurt us..
Anyway, so my job did NOT end on the 30th of April. However, neither I nor the Temp agency have had any luck weaseling an end date out of them - I know there is lots of work to do, there always is. However, they COULD just hire people to do the work. So, really, I can pretty much go in any day and find they don't need me. It's a bit, uhm, unnerving.
Thanks to 'The Problem', I've been rather strapped for cash lately - this is VERY irritating. Not that I haven't been short on money before, but I actually got used to having money! Thankfully, things should be sliding back on track in the next week or so. Not completely, because it's going to take quite some time to fix it all, but I'm working on it. Still, it's annoying to have to refuse to do stuff because I'm broke, and I feel like a complete pillock when some else pays. Blarg!
My game addictions continue. Both CoX and WoW.
For my own sense of sanity, I booked myself a long weekend this weekend - taking off Today and Monday. I spent the day lazing around (minus a breif jaunt up to the store to get a pop), reading books and bugging the cat. Now, JeJe likes to sit on the balcony with the peoples. So, I took her out there. It was relatively nice out, and we're high up, so no worries. Noticed something weird at the 4-way. Like, camera's and shit. Hmm. I KNOW they are filming a moving at West Ed.. but, s'called 'Winter Wonderland' or some shit. Anyway, I'm watching with interest, since I've always been curious about the whole 'back stage' thing, snapping some long distance shots with my phone.. after about an hour or so, and sever people being dropped off by vans - a dude wanders over and tells me that I'm in the shot and can I please come down and watch from the grass (where a small crowd of about 4 women where babbling something about one of the people dropped off). I was VERY tempted to say no. Just.. ya know, to see what they did. However, I didn't. I grab the cat and my stuff and went down. Thats when the fangirls told me it was Patrick Swayze(sp?). And, indeed, it was he. Whoopde doo. I was much more interested in the rest of it. Not that he seemed to do much, from what I saw. I mean, he was only there, like, maybe 45 minutes.. probably not even that long. Anyway, watched them take everything down afterwards too. I think some people thought I was a bit wacko, but thats okay. :)
So, tomorrow should be game time. Unless I forgot something. Currently malkoten is running D&D for us. It's quite fun, really. Amusingly enough, where in dragon_dancer30's game I'm the ONLY magic user, in this game I'm the only NON-magic user. Go figure! Needless, I spend quite a lot of time snickering internally to myself while they mess about with spells and so forth. Anyway, we made it to level .. uhm, 3! With that group so far. Malk was a bit concerend about the things that his game-books where tossing us up against, but we seemed to do not to bad. Not suprisingly, we rocked the thing that was of the most concern, then practically got eaten my some stupid shit. *sigh*
I'm please beccause I'm getting a bit of a handle on my character. Fortunetly, I won't have to spend oodles and oodles of cash on her ALL the time - I hope. My next major item of purchase will be a +1 rapier, so people stop griping at me about useing the stupid long sword...
Okay, that probably didn't make any sense, I will explain. I made a Swashbuckler. They are.. rather like a fighter - with a wee bit of rogue, or possibly monk, tossed in. Finesse fighters. Hell, the first thing they give you is the ability to use your Dex rather than your Str on stuffage. I LIKE this idea. Means light armor and light weapons. I can live with this. A longsword is NOT a light weapon. Hence, my problem. Only, not for long if I can help it.
Anyway, I picked a prestige class - I won't be getting near it until level 12, and every one keeps ribbinb me about it, but I didn't really WANT any of the other prestige classes. I only considered taking a level or two or Rogue, but since one, if not two, other people will be doing that, there's no point. Since Malk is running an Ebberon game, I picked Heir of Syberis(sp?). Wich is, like, uber... only not to my character. :P See, in Ebberon, there's these houses, called Dargonmark houses. Dargonmarks are, like, inherited tattoos. If you aren't a member of the house, you won't have one (I won't talk about the exceptions). As a rule, most people have the 'lesser' dragon marks, wich give rather cool little abilities and so forth. I went with the Transportation guild. Like, messangers and stuff. Anyway, my character is not an important member of the house, and isn't really interested in increasing her standing. Not that she'd go out of her way to offend her house or anything, because thats just dumb, but she's something of a free spirit. Oh, yeah, I went Chaotic Good. :P Anyway, it will be interesting if we make it to 12 and she suddenly oozes a Syberis mark. Since these are the 'uber' marks, the Houses tend to keep a VERY close eye on the people that have them, if not a tight leash. ^_^ Wich, again, is why I DID that.
I had some fun last game, though. Like I said, getting a bit in touch with the character and, well, she can be a bit reckless (really, we're kind of lacking in Wisdom in our group. Smart we are, common sense, not so much). So, we're exploring this building and.. there's a living Flaming Sphere spell wich I managed to sneak up on. Everyone ELSE is waaaay down the hall.. and, just off to the side.. is a room full of water. I TOTALLY saw the big light bulb 'binging' over her head. As the wonderful rolling ball of flame notices her, she makes some 'come and get me faces' at it, then runs into the side room - totally failing to warn her team in any fashion. Sadly, the flaming ball noticed them first. :P Ah well, only the bird-cleric got slightly singed really. Hehe.
Now I'm looking forward to seeing what tomorrow brings!
Okay, this entry was not very logical, but thats fine. I'm rather tired (since sleeping in for me is not making it to 7:30am. >_<) and I wasn't making an effort. Later.