Books! And BIG NEWS
Okay, so I ended up finishing the New Frontier omnibus in about five days. I liked the story a lot, but I don't believe I'm going to continue with them because this is, without a doubt, the worst e-book conversion I have ever seen. Every set of parentheses is reversed, no one has bothered to remove hyphens to account for e-readers' dynamic formatting, and there is roughly a twenty percent chance that "Thallon" or one of its derivatives will be spelled with a double i instead of a double l. (Every hyphenated incident is printed as Thai-Ion). There are also at least a dozen points where an entire sentence is transposed in between two words of the preceding sentence. It's maddening; I understand that converting the back catalog for the Amazon store is not priority one for Pocket, but if you can't put in at least the same amount of effort as the people reformatting 1970s porn novellas, you are not getting any more of my money.
Also, the word has come back from The Man and I will be leaving for Little Rock the first week in November, to take part in Lions World Services for the Blind's training program for the IRS. I will either be training to do "contact representative" work (basically phone-based customer service) or collections (with "tax examination" as a major duty). Neither is anything close to What I Wanted To Do When I Grew Up, but at this point I've wasted enough time looking for work--be it teaching, TV or something else. I'll be out in March, with a ticket to nearly any city that has an IRS office (Austin is the early favorite, because it's Austin, but I'm not averse to the idea of moving out of Texas), better pay than a lot of small-town schools pay (though a good deal less than I could've made in Houston) and the opportunity to hop to other branches of the federal government should I so desire and meet the qualifications. So, y'know, could be way worse.
I have barely touched City of Heroes since going back to it. Not really sure why; I'm starting to fall into the "I miss playing, but when I play I don't have fun" trap which makes me think I may be moving away from MMOs as a viable hobby for now. (The same happened with EQ2 before I went back to CoH) Max is about 3/4 of the way to turning Vigilante, though, on the grounds that none of his IC friends are around anymore and he was always my primary badge-whoring character, so why not?
I really hate these weekends when I'm home alone (my dad has gone to the Arkansas State University alumni weekend). They wreck up my sleep schedule something fierce since i can't really go anywhere and have no one here to talk to.
Also, the word has come back from The Man and I will be leaving for Little Rock the first week in November, to take part in Lions World Services for the Blind's training program for the IRS. I will either be training to do "contact representative" work (basically phone-based customer service) or collections (with "tax examination" as a major duty). Neither is anything close to What I Wanted To Do When I Grew Up, but at this point I've wasted enough time looking for work--be it teaching, TV or something else. I'll be out in March, with a ticket to nearly any city that has an IRS office (Austin is the early favorite, because it's Austin, but I'm not averse to the idea of moving out of Texas), better pay than a lot of small-town schools pay (though a good deal less than I could've made in Houston) and the opportunity to hop to other branches of the federal government should I so desire and meet the qualifications. So, y'know, could be way worse.
I have barely touched City of Heroes since going back to it. Not really sure why; I'm starting to fall into the "I miss playing, but when I play I don't have fun" trap which makes me think I may be moving away from MMOs as a viable hobby for now. (The same happened with EQ2 before I went back to CoH) Max is about 3/4 of the way to turning Vigilante, though, on the grounds that none of his IC friends are around anymore and he was always my primary badge-whoring character, so why not?
I really hate these weekends when I'm home alone (my dad has gone to the Arkansas State University alumni weekend). They wreck up my sleep schedule something fierce since i can't really go anywhere and have no one here to talk to.