Monthly Update
Originally published at When the Sh*t Hits the Fan. You can comment here or there.
Well, It’s been a busy one, that’s for sure.
The last few weeks have been full of work, fun, school and sick. Before I get into that, I need to share a few bits of awesome.
First - “Domino, Muthfucka!”
Second -Â Zombies!
So, after all the usual pre-convergence drama, C13 turned out to be a wonderful time. We met a lot of new people and stayed away from any of the drama successfully. I traded a few club nights for sleep, and it was definitely worth it. I had a lot more fun that way. I know diane doesn’t like too miss stuff, but she went to a couple things without me and had a good time from the sound of things. Interesting thing about Portland, the people there are *really* nice. Like, Stepford nice. Like “we have a secret, but so long as we act nice, no one will look” nice (as in Hot Fuzz :). I’m pretty sure they put drugs in their tasty tap water as well because after we got back I got pretty sick. It had to have been withdrawal.
Going on two full weeks of sinus infection now, and I’d like to state, for the record, that I don’t like it.
The weekend after we got back I did the last two classes of my weekend intensive Asia/Pacific Rim Society and Culture class. I have a man-crush on Dr Werther’s brain. I took my European/Russian Soc. & Cult. from him as well. I’m quite sure I will never get to speak with him again, but he was a damn good teacher. With that class ending I now have 4 1/2 classes left.
- Database Management (started in May over 1/2 way through)
- Project Planning and Execution (just started)
- Evaluation of Application Software (July)
- IT Management (Aug)
- Capstone (Sept)
July and August classes will be interesting since the last week of August we’ll be in San Diego and the first week of August I’ll be in Las Vegas. Looks like Diane won’t be going to Defcon with me, but he will be going to Batsday without me instead
Good for her - I think that will be a lot more fun for her anyway!
Kaneva has faded in my mind, much like MySpace - a neat toy, but not very engaging. Ourtbeat came into beta. A few issues with tab-indexing, but over all it works - not a whole lot of features are enabled yet, so it’s hard to say how cool or useful it will end up being. There are currently few enough users to not require any searching, but at some point I expect that will be enabled. As well as the 3D interface.
I was off sick for a few days last week and during that time I tried out the Lord of the Rings Online game. All in all, it is fun if a little to linear. I’ve started a few characters and it’s frustrating to only play the goody goody characters - until you hit level 10. At that point you can enter the only PVP area as a level 50 (max) evil character. Regular players can enter this area at level 40 and above. Instead of earning XP you get points towards better armor/spells and abilities. So, it’s a fun diversion from WoW, but I can’t see me playing it for years. The graphics are incredible but it just doesn’t suck me in like WoW and EQ1 did. Now Warhammer Online, OTOH, looks quite bad-ass. I hope they don’t mess it up as was done with D&D online.
Well, I need to get back to work - figured I’d better post something before I forgot how
Have a good week!