Whew. Got my power back on. That was a scary couple of days, huh? I was very close to resorting to cannibalism to pass the time. Reading by candlelight seems wonderful and fun, but the novelty wears off quickly. And again, it isn’t that I don’t appreciate the help my friends forwarded to me, but I treasure my self-reliance. I’m just not that much of a people-person. Even when I’m with friends of mine, there can be too much of a good thing, ya know? I like being alone, I like setting my own schedule, and dammit, I just enjoy being master of my own whatnot.

Anyway, my inbox is belied by the actual facts of my issue. See it all gets back to my pole. The damn thing is just too massive for your standard crane. It laughs at the standard cherry picker and calls it weak and puny. The power company had to get a special truck to cope with the majesty of my pole.

I think that some contractor or other has the ear of city council and installs superfluously huge power poles as something of a kickback. But you didn’t hear suspicions of nepotism and backdoor dealings from me. No sir.

Anyway, I’m off to Disgaea. My plan is to advance my Recriut to Space Marine and my Rogue to Space Pirate, then work on specialists and item worlds, then in the fullness of time the Majin class will reveal itself to me.

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So yeah. Everything started sucking when Kristi lost power as well. And when I started going back to work. The whole “Oregon-Trail-esque air of adventure” just evaporated at that point. Day before yesterday I slept on a couch from the 60’s (thin arms, overall about 5 feet in length, which is a problem for a boy who is about 5′9″ minus boots). Then last night I showered at a friend’s house (Cristal is now my best friend, no lie) and slept on my girlfriend’s couch.

Still I am without power. It would not be a lie to say that I miss my own bed. I am very quickly tiring of couches. It isn’t that I don’t appreciate the help that my friends offer, without them I would be much more rank, and possibly sleeping in my car. It is just that I like my bed, my Playstation, and my wireless network. I miss the sound of my switch and related ephemera humming away.

The power company also says they have no idea where their techs are working, when they are scheduled to be in my area, and what they may be doing. This does not help that last night the tech said he “had a full day” and thought that sundown was a perfectly fine time to stop working. Suddenly the “Mother Earth News” plan with drilling for geothermal heating and power supplements no longer seems so pie in the sky. I hope those hippies are pleased with themselves.

Just geez, its not like my duffel bag is all that bad, quite the contrary, it is very cool. I just wish I knew where I was bedding down tonight. That is the big uncertainty.

And yes, this is whiny, thank you. You aren’t living out of luggage because of a government mandated monopoly on power generation and distribution that stifles innovation and leads to a system where one flaw denys paying customers power for four days and counting.

That’s the real problem. The fact that there is no real failsafe. My neighbors across the street have power, but I don’t. There is a very small problem at some point that breaks one link in the chain that denys me power.

Dammit.

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Correction: I’m off tomorrow as well. So in your face, space coyote!

Also, pictures when power is restored, or when I go back to my house to get the dock for my camera. I’m sleeping at my girlfriend’s. No, none of that.

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Yeah, so ice storm. Well, that’s really blowing everything out of proportion. I’d more accurately call it a little freezing rain. There’s ice on stuff, but well, not enough to stop me from driving around. The only problem is no electricity (so I’m at the woman’s) and other people seem to think that for some reason, the world will end in ice and now must then be “TEH APOCALYPSE!1!1!!” or something like that.

The upshot is, working for the school district, I have today off. Not much to do though, without power. My UPS tried to kick in and succeeded in powering the server for long enough for me to shut it down gracefully, but I don’t think that its batteries have enough juice to run my TV and either PS2 or DVD player.

On the plus side, no sleet, snow, or driving rain could keep my HLJ order from showing up. So I now have a really crazy looking Evangelion model and a Naruto headband.

I forgot my digital camera so the woman and I are making do with her mother’s. Pictures to come later (tomorrow?) and hell, the way it is looking I may have tomorrow off too. God bless that Ice-9 I bought on eBay.

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So I’ll be done with work in about 20 minutes then I’m heading home to talk to the girl and head up to Florence. I’ll bring my D&D stuff, my sword (see if Chris and Kristin’s cats are as facinated with asian swords as with european ones) and my Disgaea savegame. I mean hell, who can resist the temptation to whip it out when you’ve been doing as much work as I have?

Lets see, Ebi made Lord, my female brawler and warrior made Eternal Fist and Cosmic Hero respectively. My Mage is a Galaxy Mage, my Ninja is a Shinobi, my Cleric is a Saviour. I’ve unlocked Angels (and my first one, Sachiel, is an Ice Angel). My Ronin is a Shogun… etc. I’ve been up to stuff. Its all the first level of Celestia and a 300 statistician. Actually 310, thank you Math. I just need to spend some time in Cross-Point and get some cash to outfit everybody. Rather like me in real life, my Disgaea army is strapped. Other than that I’m about to top out my Archer (she’s level 101 now) and my Knight (She’s 110 or so). And then its all advancing and transmuting my male party members, then getting Majin.

As to money in the real world, I need to move a Cisco Fasthub 300 (I’m looking for atleast $35) and a 3com SuperStack Access Concentrator (looking for $45 or more, hopefully more). I think that the digi-cam and eBay will be my friends.

Other than that, just a normal day. I’ll see you guys in a few hours (just checking my mail and all that to see if my HLJ order arrived). If you are not one of the peoples I’m heading up to see then, well, I’ll talk to you monday or something.

(Read the article)

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So I’m doing a little work. When i’m done, the only tables will be those made by Movable Type (for the calendars). As you can see, the header is somewhat boned. Less boned in Firebird than in IE, but still boned. I’m working on that as we speak.

I also moved all the images around so let me know if anything is missing/broken.

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Not really drinkin’ that is. I do precious little of that (still haven’t finished that sake I bought months ago). Though the Pedrini Shot Glass is certainly helping me make a dent.

Honestly I’m just doing some background programming and the suchlike. Also I’m playing way too much Disgaea. I’ll pontificate at lenght eventually. Also I’m vaguely considering adding a category for anime mini-reviews, I’m watching a bunch of fansubs right now. Something like Nowhere. I’ve started reading quite alot of those type of ‘blogs, and because Kazaa’s player takes screenshots very easy, its something I could do.

Me and the girl are watching Planetes and Haibane Renmei, solo I watch R.O.D The TV, Naruto, Gunslinger Girl and various others (Macross Zero whenever it comes out, I’m falling out of favor with Mezzo, etc). So there is certainly much to talk about. I may also drop some digital pictures later today of the curtains my mother and I hung this weekend.

And Chris? That wasn’t supposed to be a stinging indictment, but if you want to you can hit me when I come up this weekend. Not that I won’t try out my new, patented Brooks Rising Dragon to Cat Throw Combo in return. I still haven’t busted that out for Sifu as I’m not sure that it works.

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Its too bad that Chris doesn’t read this page, because like me, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow would be right up his alley. Any movie that features a spitfire(style airctaft) flying ace hero versus hordes of Met-Al monsters that look like Gort from “Day the Earth Stood Still” is just… I mean hell, its like somebody got ahold of my dream journal.

The Jude Law/Angelina Jolie/Gwyneth Paltrow leads are something to be concerned about, but hell who thought that Keanu could be an action star?

And Chatty? I am teh jerk. There are gifts winging their way towards ya. Call them epiphany gifts? That’s Orthodox x-mas right?

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