Friday Six-Shooter (5/13/2011)
Shootin' from the hip today... let's see what I can come up with:
Hmm... One bullet left. Russian Roulette, anyone?
- MUSIC: Okay. So the CD is done. I have a master, and the artwork is now very nearly ready to roll... but now the money has suffered a hit. Our air conditioner broke last week - or more specifically, the motor in our furnace shuffled off it's mortal coil and left the air conditioner without a means of cool-air-magic dispersal. The motor - plus installation and some basic service on the AC units - cost about $350. Unfortunately, removing that much money from savings took a chunk out of my personal CD fund. Not a huge chunk, mind you... I've collected a nice bit of cash from the preorders (available if you're interested at our website)... but enough to slow the process. I'll be getting some more cash here in the next week or two, so it's just a slight delay. Which is annoying.
- SCHOOL: I'm really torn about my last two psychology classes - my current classes, that is; they're the last two classes for my Associates Degree. One of them - Abnormal Psychology - is extraordinarily interesting. It's pretty involved, covering a lot of clinical analysis in a kind of condensed fashion, but the material is fun to absorb and the assignments are actually pretty cool (if challenging). The other class - Biopsychology - is also interesting, but not nearly as much fun. I can understand why the functions of the brain and nervous system are extraordinarily relevant to psychology, but the material is very challenging to absorb and the assignments not nearly as enjoyable. Still... I'm only seven weeks from graduation, so it's hard to not be excited about it.
- GAMING: The War of the Burning Sky campaign grows ever nearer to completion. The group is in the second-to-last adventure, which means that the characters are around 17th level and the challenges are very, very cool. I stress again that this campaign is just exceptionally well written... the players are having a good time, and so am I. The challenges and puzzles of the campaign are starting to come together as the climax approaches, and the vast amount of original story I've been able to inject into the campaign - with original backstories, NPCs, personal drama, and events on the world stage - has given the campaign a lot of life. The characters are like old friends now... it will be tremendously satisfying to see them succeed in their epic goals, just as it will be hard to put them away and move onto something new after it's done.
- FAMILY: I should be getting the paperwork for the motion to adopt from my attorney by today. demi_sakura is, I think, ready to see it happen... I noticed that she opened a new GMail account the other day, and she used my surname. It's only one letter different, actually, but she's ready for the change. Unfortunately, she's also selected this particular period in which to act the petulant teenager. *shakes head* I could do an entry on that alone... she's never been a very disagreeable child. Not since I've come along, anyway. But she is lazy... stupidly so. And she's begun to paint herself a victim. She does everything she possibly can to avoid doing housework, to the point of outright disobedience. And her schoolwork... it's ridiculous. She's a bright girl. But she can't seem to make herself bother. She's made a fool of her mother and I... we took her out of brick-and-mortar school to get her away from the bullies and to give her an academic advantage with the tools available in an online school. But she's consistently fallen behind. And now... well, it's pretty obvious that she doesn't care whether she succeeds or fails; she's accepted her failure so that she can shrug off the effort of trying to finish her assignments. It's a daily battle.
- WRITING: I've recently started reading my book again. The one I wrote... well, was writing. I have more than 70,000 words down on digital paper, but after a couple years I just kinda stopped. I was trying to figure out why, so I picked it up and started re-reading the material... and it's GOOD. I need to finish this book. It may never see the light of day, but it's definitely got potential. Oh! And I'm reading the file on my Kindle! That somehow makes it much more fun...
Hmm... One bullet left. Russian Roulette, anyone?