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Nearly a week without a post. :-p Creepy, isn't it?
Many things have conspired against my use of LiveJournal, but the biggest reason has been exhaustion. Very tired. Ready to not be so tired anymore. I have been online, though. I've even posted comments now and then. Shocking, really. Thankfully, this is a holiday week for me. Yes, this means I get an extra day of work at Booth, but it means I get one less day of work at Borders, which, oddly enough, means I get more sleep and relaxation time then I would otherwise.
So, what has kept me from posting other than exhaustion? Well, for one,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
satyr_mi made me cry (but in a good way!) by buying me Season 7 of Buffy last week. I'm slowly working my way through it, since my time has been divided in so many different directions as of late. So far, I have watched "Lessons", "Beneath You" and "Same Time, Same Place". Yes, that means I'm still on disk 1. :-p It's okay, though. I'm enjoying it. Especially since I already know how it all plays out, I get to watch for clues as I go.
EverQuest II has also got my attention for the time being. The "only four characters EVAR" bit is a major turn-off for me, and I can already tell that The Fourth Wall isn't as hardcore into it as would be necessary to keep me playing for a long while. At least Crafting, while still quite tedious in terms of resource gathering, is possible without making your head explode and your eyes bleed. I'm not a big fan of the character models. I think some of them look okay, and some of them look like shit. Kerran heads are very unnatural looking. Human male heads look like they had an encounter the wrong end of an insane plastic surgeon's knife. The hair and facial hair options for pretty much every race and every gender look retarded. It's like they took cyber-punk hairstyles and tossed them into a medieval setting. There are between one to three decent looking styles per race, but everyone uses those styles. Plus they look like play-dough or plastic wedges in many styles instead of looking like actual hair. When creating a color, the "color wheel" for skin tones and the crptacular color bar for hair colors don't even look remotely correct. You click on what should be a very beige looking color and wind up with bright orange. I think not. The eye color one seems to be the most accurate of all of them, and even it is a bit retarded.
City of Heroes has started to test Issue 3 on the Test server. It seems to be quite a mixed bag, and the forum response to a few things is overwhelmingly negative. There is some deeply retarded shit going on in the game storyline which to some smells like retcon, but I see how it is an actual evolution. Well, other than the BRONZE PLAQUE beneath the status of Atlas having the text changed on it. I'm sorry, a villain group changes overnight (over a few weeks in the storyline, and it had seeds clearly in place since the launch of the game if you paid attention) and suddenly Atlas wasn't defending the city from the 5th Column anymore? Retcon retard. ~_~
The Sims 2 has a new patch announcement that will be coming in the near future. It actually fixes a large number of major bugs people have written about. This is a big surprise, since EA could rarely be bothered to fix the major bugs people griped about in The Sims and pretty much had fixes for some things in later expansions instead of in patches. Although, considering current events I'm not surprised that nobody had time to work on patches for The Sims. They were too busy working 90 work weeks with no overtime on the next new thing.
( Stress )
Work has been interesting. Today definitely has helped to improve my mood. I got in this morning and there were newbies in the lobby, including a tallish guy who I thought, while a bit on the skinny side for my taste, was pretty damn cute. I thought "Eye candy! Hope I see more of him. Wonder where he'll be working..." Well, I found out. The supervisor of Waldenbooks Store Support was introducing his newest team member to the Walden techs and then the Borders techs. He walked up to introduce him to Kerry, my supervisor, who sits across the aisle me. I immediately messagedwinterlady, who sits one cube down from Kerry so she had already been introduced to him, "Ooohhh cute boy!"
So, yeah. Eye candy at work. :-p Cuz, ya know, I don't already have a lot of that here anyway.
Many things have conspired against my use of LiveJournal, but the biggest reason has been exhaustion. Very tired. Ready to not be so tired anymore. I have been online, though. I've even posted comments now and then. Shocking, really. Thankfully, this is a holiday week for me. Yes, this means I get an extra day of work at Booth, but it means I get one less day of work at Borders, which, oddly enough, means I get more sleep and relaxation time then I would otherwise.
So, what has kept me from posting other than exhaustion? Well, for one,
satyr_mi made me cry (but in a good way!) by buying me Season 7 of Buffy last week. I'm slowly working my way through it, since my time has been divided in so many different directions as of late. So far, I have watched "Lessons", "Beneath You" and "Same Time, Same Place". Yes, that means I'm still on disk 1. :-p It's okay, though. I'm enjoying it. Especially since I already know how it all plays out, I get to watch for clues as I go. EverQuest II has also got my attention for the time being. The "only four characters EVAR" bit is a major turn-off for me, and I can already tell that The Fourth Wall isn't as hardcore into it as would be necessary to keep me playing for a long while. At least Crafting, while still quite tedious in terms of resource gathering, is possible without making your head explode and your eyes bleed. I'm not a big fan of the character models. I think some of them look okay, and some of them look like shit. Kerran heads are very unnatural looking. Human male heads look like they had an encounter the wrong end of an insane plastic surgeon's knife. The hair and facial hair options for pretty much every race and every gender look retarded. It's like they took cyber-punk hairstyles and tossed them into a medieval setting. There are between one to three decent looking styles per race, but everyone uses those styles. Plus they look like play-dough or plastic wedges in many styles instead of looking like actual hair. When creating a color, the "color wheel" for skin tones and the crptacular color bar for hair colors don't even look remotely correct. You click on what should be a very beige looking color and wind up with bright orange. I think not. The eye color one seems to be the most accurate of all of them, and even it is a bit retarded.
City of Heroes has started to test Issue 3 on the Test server. It seems to be quite a mixed bag, and the forum response to a few things is overwhelmingly negative. There is some deeply retarded shit going on in the game storyline which to some smells like retcon, but I see how it is an actual evolution. Well, other than the BRONZE PLAQUE beneath the status of Atlas having the text changed on it. I'm sorry, a villain group changes overnight (over a few weeks in the storyline, and it had seeds clearly in place since the launch of the game if you paid attention) and suddenly Atlas wasn't defending the city from the 5th Column anymore? Retcon retard. ~_~
The Sims 2 has a new patch announcement that will be coming in the near future. It actually fixes a large number of major bugs people have written about. This is a big surprise, since EA could rarely be bothered to fix the major bugs people griped about in The Sims and pretty much had fixes for some things in later expansions instead of in patches. Although, considering current events I'm not surprised that nobody had time to work on patches for The Sims. They were too busy working 90 work weeks with no overtime on the next new thing.
( Stress )
Work has been interesting. Today definitely has helped to improve my mood. I got in this morning and there were newbies in the lobby, including a tallish guy who I thought, while a bit on the skinny side for my taste, was pretty damn cute. I thought "Eye candy! Hope I see more of him. Wonder where he'll be working..." Well, I found out. The supervisor of Waldenbooks Store Support was introducing his newest team member to the Walden techs and then the Borders techs. He walked up to introduce him to Kerry, my supervisor, who sits across the aisle me. I immediately messaged
winterlady, who sits one cube down from Kerry so she had already been introduced to him, "Ooohhh cute boy!"So, yeah. Eye candy at work. :-p Cuz, ya know, I don't already have a lot of that here anyway.
