An actual update

Administration:
Happy belated birthday (barely) to lilabbs! I'm surprised that nofunk81 didn't harass you about being old yet. :-p

Light Shows:
We had some pretty cool storms last night. It was like watching a strobe light outside my window when I went to bed. Of course, it caused me to decide to stop playing Civ 3 a little earlier than I wanted to, but oh well. :-p

Visitations:
templar_rose and brigittefires were camping outside my door when I got home from work yesterday. Chatted a bit about the franplosion, talked about game (it's on hiatus until October, which is when Fest will finally be over), and they gushed (sorta) about their new townhouse they'll be living in. It's $1200 a month, but it's going to be split between six people! (EEP!!!)

That will be the townhouse of ill repute. :-p I can see it already. :-p

One good thing about not having game on Sundays for a while is I can spend the days with Keith. =^_^=

Weekend Goodies:
Speaking of gaming... I have werewolf this saturday. Here's to hoping it's coherent. Rather, here's to hoping that I'm coherent. And hope I can get lots of cleaning done when I get home. Well, at least a clean living room and dining room table would be nice. I'm not counting on it, but it's a plan.

Work:
I'm going to actually try to be productive today* (so far I have succeeded to a small extent) so off I go to work land.

*As opposed to the non-productiveness that has been the constant perusing of http://www.civfanatics.com over the last two weeks

When Worlds Collide

LiveJournal is an interesting place.

I was just reading tyskkvinna's journal and a thought occurred to me.

LJ has caused two of my "worlds", which are incredibly different, to collide headlong into eachother in a fairly random fashion.

A big part of my net identity is the character of Ruann E`Paul, halfling druid of the fourth_wall. Also known as Ruann Epaul, Briton Friar of the Fourth Wall. Also known as Ruann, the Solitus Martial Artist of the Fourth Wall. I use this name over on EZboard, which is where the guild had it's forums for quite some time. Through EZboard, and a slight addiction to The Sims, I found Neighborhood 99. This lead to much hillarity and gender confusion. See, Ruann's a girl. I am so totally NOT. I still confuse people on those forums when I tell them that yes, indeed, I am male.

Mind you, Ruann was originally Ruanne Paul in a Forgotten Realms game. If you can't figure out who I modeled the character after from that spelling of the name, I suggest you go here and find out. :-p

So, my EZboard identity is how a handful of my LJ friends know me best. In fact, there is a big contingent of people from Neighborhood 99 who are now on LJ. Some of them are on my friends list and get to get used to my more accurate identity of jdotmi.

Now. My gaming friends. Local people who, for the most part, have nothing to do with The Sims.

amberthistle added tyskkvinna to her friends list a while back. One of my gaming friends, who is not in the Sims community at all, added one of my Sim friends. :-p

Of course, this is really just the latest. frezzen added kageneko ages and ages ago. Mind you, I didn't really meet frezzen from Neighborhood 99. I meat her through Sim Fever, but it's all still Sims stuff!

When worlds collide, indeed!

Intersting Trivia Tidbit: I used to actually have a filter for all of my Sims friends here. I even gave them their own custom colors, carefully matched (as closely as possible given the limited pallet here) to N99's colors of choice. :-p I am a true and utter dork.

Note To Self:

Don't eat that much at work ever again.

x_x

This is why you were doing the entire buying groceries thing before the great power outage of 2003. Start doing it again, spazmonkey.

x_x