so, one of the things that they recently added to World of Warcraft is the ability to make your character a jack-of-all-trades.  or, really, a jack-of-two-trades.  but whatever, it's more than you could do before.  before, you were either a tank (big brick who kept the bad guy's attention), or a DPS (skinny little guy who killed the bad guy while ( Read more... )

hey, i have a sizeable number of friends around here who are some orientation other than straight.  if you would be so kind, there's a friend-of-a-friend of mine doing graduate research on the workplace climate for GLBTQI folk.  it's a short survey, so just hop on over to: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=uqmzZRKmxilxsGv_2bEOdKiw_3d_3d  and ( Read more... )

not feeling internetty much.  i'm a hermit and i'm staying a hermit.  nothing's wrong, i just don't have words ( Read more... )

hey, all... i'm still being a hermit.  i wish i knew why, i wish i had the motivation to do something different about it, but i don't.  and when you don't have words inside you, blogging/journaling is about the last thing you need to be doing.  at least, in any public way...  i'm flashing back to some of the awful, overwrought, angsty garbage i ( Read more... )

i still have no desire to post.  i have nothing to say.  sometimes i get almost wound up enough to make a post, but by the time i get half of it written, i'm over whatever i was writing about ( Read more... )

played rugby this weekend.  i've got a swollen knee to show for it, but we had very good times.  we hosted the visiting team and they were sweet kids and it was fun to have them around for the weekend.  i am officially old and decrepit, as i gave them directions to the bar but didn't even bother myself to shower.  i just hobbled off to bed with my ( Read more... )

i'm not posting much right now.  every time i feel like coming in here to rant about some silly thing i usually come here to rant about, i think about what's going on in my sister's life and with my niece's health.  and, honestly, my little pile of crap just evaporates.  it just goes away ( Read more... )

hey, gang...  i wish i were posting good news about my niece.  not so much, really ( Read more... )

hey, gang. i've really enjoyed my time away from the grind, away from the internet, and away from clocks. alas, it couldn't last. i spent new year's eve reminding myself of the following lessons:

1. thou shalt not drink champagne. much.
2. even if it is made to taste like sour warheads candy.
3. grrrrrl, you canNOT sing disco.
4. do we even need to tell you ( Read more... )

my niece got her gastric tube yesterday. it went fine, and she sailed through surgery ok ( Read more... )