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( On Work )
( A Piece of Writing )
Firefly is also a pretty darn great. I haven't watched it in a long time either. Just due to not having watched it in a while. Now that I watch it with the GM part of my mind working, it's almost better. Just seeing all the places where I can say "Oooh, I can use that."
Speaking of which, Fate-renity. I'm attempting to kludge together a ruleset for Serenity based on Fate 3.0 by Evil Hat and the licensed Serenity RPG by Jamie Chambers. It'll probably take a while, seeing as some large chunks of Fate 3.0 have to be mined from Spirit of the Century and lots of details need to be hammered out (skills, stunts, flying), but when it's together, I'll likely be running a game of it.
Slowly but surely catching up on my webcomics list, which I've attacked in a truly random manner, taking comics from the top to the bottom. Some of these comics I don't even remember. Like ... Striptease. Which isn't what it sounds like and I've caught up on. Erfworld is also kinda fun.
Oh! I cleaned out my friends list. Mostly I got rid of communities and people who don't post anymore and people I already had filtered out. And I added some dude who added me who I'd never heard of. Stormy Wulf something or other. You know who you are. Let me know who you are.
Lemme explain the X though. People are prone to not showing up at Elmore Academy. There's no attendance policy ... so nothing's really done about it. However, since it is what it is, if someone doesn't show, someone from the previous shift has to cover. The X is who is the first cover person on the night shift. The O is the second person. After that, it's every dorm for itself. This system only exists on the night shift. An expanded version (with ON CALL) would be great for the day shift though.
Anywho. I looked at an apartment in Blue Earth at 8am, then went home and slept. Then showered, made lunch and looked at an apartment in Elmore at 4pm. Then I called Paula, intending to sleep in my car. I never was able to fall asleep. Of course. If I had been smart, I would have gone to work and slept in the empty dorm. Chief Joseph. Eh.
One of the people was out sick and I was the X. Soooo, I had to cover. Thankfully, they'd called out on the phone and I only had to cover four hours of the shift and then another fella would pick up the rest. Yay for that. Although a truly organized system would have an ON CALL person on the PM shift that does that. Ah well.
I forgot to mention in the previous entry that I bought The Well of Lost Plots and Something Rotten at Shopko the other day. They were six-dolla hardbacks. How could I possibly resist? Even though they aren't my favorite books, they are good and quite different.
Oh! I also called the MN DMV to get my license straightened out. Yay for that. Um. I don't think there's anything really newsworthy left to cover.
I suck at flashlights.
Work is fun. I like talking about how the place is managed and stuff like that. Hopefully, when I've been around for awhile, I'll be able to get trained as the night point person. Which basically means I'm the go-to decision maker for the night. It's something I'd like to know how to do - and it would look good on a resume. And they just lost two of their trained people on it.
Yay for coming in at a good time. Although I wish I'd been around when the old night supervisor had quit so I could have had a shot at that. It looks like one of the easier jobs in the salaried part of the whole gig. Other than the more office-y type jobs, which I'm pretty sure would go to a Team Leader/Group Leader more logically. If they apply.
Um. I hope to have an apartment somewhere within the week. I have been preliminarily accepted at an apartment complex in Elmore, but I'm hoping that the apartment in Blue Earth will come through. It pays for more and it's closer to Paula. And costs less. It's full of good features. Except for contacting me about what's happening with it.
Wow. I wrote more than I thought I would.
Oh, my car gets 22.8 miles to the gallon, according to my calculation.
I've recently read The Three Musketeers and The Bone Collector and am working on The Count of Monte Cristo. Libraries are good things. And Jeffrey Deaver book was surprisingly good, for a mystery-thriller novel. Oh noes, I have a low opinion of genre fiction. Bad snobby me.
I love hi-speed internet. Not that I do a terrible lot with it. I actually do a whole lot of nothing with it. Okay, so I do look at cars and read Livejournal and catch up on Schlock (or try to), but really, not a whole lot.
I picked up 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 of the Dresden Files books and Syrup, by Maxx Barry too. Yay for ordering books from other libraries.
I don't really have much to put in this entry. Hmmm.
I'm alive!
Broad Sword
You are personal power and internal strength. You are not the fastest but you get the job done like no one else.
Okay, time for a spooky story. A few weeks ago I was reading a miscellaneous Pratchett. Which one it was, I can't quite recall. It's immaterial to the story. Anyways, I was laying on my bed with my head toward the computer. I was tired for some reason and fell asleep. The book and my glasses fell off the end of the bed. When I woke up, I couldn't find my glasses. I had to use my spare pair.
Saturday night, I stayed up all night playing Civilization III with some friends. When I went home, I started reading the Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide. While I was reading it, I fell asleep and my glasses and book fell off the end of the bed. Later, I woke up and went outside to the camper (where there's AC) and went to sleep. When I came back up, I reached down off the end of my bed and pulled up my glasses.
They weren't my spare pair of glasses. Those had seemingly disappeared. These were the glasses I lost a few weeks ago off the end of the bed. What was quite odd was that the second time I fell asleep it was not with my head towards the computer. My head was at the other end of the bed. Strange occurences.
My Dad suddenly started talking about Spontaneous Human Combustion and other odd para-scientific things last night when we were eating ice cream. It was odd. Crazy people, when related to you and are actually crazy, aren't all that fun. They don't understand the basics of human interaction.
- Temperament:
hungry
Well, today I woke up. And then went back to sleep. I skipped Geography. It's the most boringestest class I have. I hates it. It is not my precious. Hence, I skipped it.
So I went in for Advanced C++, my favoritestest class. It was fun. We learned more about the Microsoft extensions to C++. And what we have to pay to use them. I don't know if I like the Microsoft extensions as much as I like Native C++, but you live and you learn.
Hehe, here's where the bit about "Thou Shalt Not Speak" comes in. See, I'm quite good with C++ and suchlike. And I have a good memory. And I speak up in class. Therefore, I do a lot of talking during the lecture whenever he asks a question. Finally, I answer a question and the professor looks at me and just mouths, "Can you shut up? Please?" I nod and laugh...
Then I went to my friend's apartment and we had lunch. And I sat aroung watching Tom and Jerry. I do not like watching mindless cartoons. It just doesn' work for me. Not amusing, not relaxing. Just terrifically boring.
From there I went to lab. We got to new Calculus labs, one for actual use and one for a bonus. The actual one was quite easy.
After that I hung around in the lab, helped my friend tutor a bit and listened to a girl talk about her relationship problems. I do a lot worse advising people face to face. In fact, I tend not to do it. I just think my advice, which is probably not the best approach.
Then me and my friend were supposed to code for the final project. However, our third group member didn't show. I put together my stuff and the stuff the professor had given us in class and made it compile. With a hammer. Muahahahaha. Die evil compiler. Die! Die! Die!
Ahem. Anyways, I find myself doing this a lot. Namely, getting my stuff done and nobody else having it done. And since we get a group grade, it worries me. Group projects are not a thing I like, at least when one of the members I don't see enough to bully into doing his work. And the other one just didn't do it, which really quite irks me.
I broke down and went to Borders at the mall. I was going into new book withdrawal, so I picked up Carpe Jugulum and The Once and Future King. My sister's reading CJ and I'm reading TOaFK. It's amusing, to say the least.
Nothing really philosophical at the moment....
- Temperament:
jubilant - Music:Ball and Chain - Ace Troubleshooter (ChristianRock.Net)
Some of you know me as Falar. That name is one of my preferred ones on the net. It is also one of the ones I use most often. Well, sort of. Actually, I'm only using it here, currently. But when I finish QBIII, I'll revert back to Falar at Terrouge.
Some of you know me as Torry. There are probably a good deal of you that think of me as Torry. This is from my involvement in the great thing known as QBIII. Personally, the first name bores me, but I do love saying, "Good Evening, Mr. Steggimses." Hopefully, the name Torry shall be buried soon except for when I use it to brag with.
Some of you know me as Achoo. I like this name. It causes much sniggiling all round. But this name, too, shall die in the near future with the death of the character.
Some of you know me as jhovemeyer, that odd fellow on AIM. This, for one thing, will never change. Namely because I'm too lazy to get another AIM name and I don't really see the point.
Some of you know me as UJ, and those of you that do are on MSN or were on my mission trip. This name, although not commonly used to identify me with, also shall not die. Partially 'cause I can't figure out how to change it on AIM and partially 'cause I really like it.
Some of you know me as Jesse. Those that do, probably have no idea that I'm posting this. Er, well, actually, they will. Or at least some of them will. A certain few, who are me good friends or favorite siblings.
Stay tuned for new developments in the life of Whoever I Am To You. Now, a thingey that you do in LJ's, this taken from my good friend, Digger.
1. Grab the nearest book. In my case, it happened to be the Writer's Handbook, 1985 edition, the year of my birth.
2. Open the book to page 23. Which happens to be the close to a letter Outside the Ivory Tower, a Letter to a Young Writer by B.J. Chute.
3. Find the fifth sentence. It's a good sentence that will go at the end of this post.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
"Right now, you have a lot to learn, and you will never stop learning."
- Temperament: amused
- Music:The tapping of keys and the wooshing of the Desk Fan of Retribution.
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