Rock Band comes out tomorrow. It has Livin' on A Prayer. I think I've said enough.
D&D Update: Turns out we're starting up again next weekend, not two weeks. Which is even better. I've shifted my ranger to a dark, stealthy guy by getting different armor that boosts his stealth abilities. I did the math, and I decided that, if I put my mind to it, I can get my stealth level up to 21 by the time I reach level eight. That's absurdly high. I would pretty much be invisible at all times.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
You can have my heart, but it will cost you yours...
So I haven't updated in a long time. Mainly because I haven't had the time to sit down and write in a long time, but also because I know only one person reads this, and I keep her well informed as it is.
So what has happened since I last updated? I started classes. They're going reasonably well. My Music Entrepreneurship class is madness. The teacher is one of those guys who asks you rhetorical questions directly, and you can never tell if you're supposed to answer. Plus, it's a 500 level class, and he expects "500 level amount and caliber of work" from us. I don't know how I feel about that. On the plus side, two of my other class decided that the scheduled times were really just too much for them to fill for a full semester. I started out with 15 hours of class a week, I'm down to 10. Music teachers are cool like that.
Last night, Rachel and I and a couple of friends went to the Paradise Rock Club for a Parker House and Theory. I would guesstimate that before the show began, I was the least excited for it. By the end, I was definitely having the most fun. Rachel and the others left early, but I stayed by myself to finish the show. Parker House rocks. If you don't know them, you should. I don't know why I wrote that, since the one of you who reads this turned me on to them in the first place. Anyway, we watched most of the show from the balcony, but I left the group for a few songs to hang out on the floor and it was a completely different show. You could feel the music in your body, and everyone around you is grooving and dancing. That's right, I danced. Me. Dancing. With people. It was uncanny. I never dance, but I think the live music made it a lot easier to let go. Something about the live band and the other fans was dance-inducing. The gin and tonic helped too.
I've kind of had this new philosophy since I shaved my head. New look, new attitude, kind of a thing. I go to parties now, I have conversations with people I don't know, and, apparently, I dance on the floor at concerts. Two months ago, I would have spent the night up in the balcony with my friends and left early. Now, I walk around clubs by myself, stay late and dance on the floor with hot strangers. I kind of like this.
Now I'm at work. I say "work," and not the name of the actual business, because in my last post, I actually wrote out "J--spot" and my blog appeared on my boss's Google Alerts. He forwarded me the alert, with the note "You can't hide from Google Alerts." I can't tell if I'm in trouble...
I got a message from Matt, our DM for Dungeons and Dragons. We're starting back up in two weeks! So excited. I've started refreshing my memory on the rules, equipment and what-not. Plus, he decreed that we can trade in any loot we picked up, such as armor or weapons, for anything of equal value. I trade in my Safewing Amulet (+1 to Reflex, Fortitude and Will saves, -10 ft of fall damage) for some Bracers of the Perfect Shot (+2 damage to all ranged attacks). I was gonna keep the armor I picked up, but then I started looking at the other armors available and I might change my mind.
Tell me what you think of this: A Fire Ranger. I'm already gonna purchase a flame augmentation that turns my arrows into flaming arrows of doom (my words, not theirs) and I found some fire armor that has similar effects. I definitely would love it if my character had a theme, like fire. Other people just take whatever equipment they can get their hands on, and you end up with a frost mage carrying a flame staff and wearing necromancer armor. It's kind of stupid that way, but whatever floats your dragonborn cleric's boat.
On a related note, Jay sent me the Player's Guide to Mutants and Masterminds. It's essentially the same thing as D&D, only instead of playing as elves and dwarves in a Lord of the Rings type world, youplay as mutants and superheroes in a comic book world. Totally more my type of thing. Jay said, and I agree without stealing his original ideas and claiming them as my own in a "Dear Kellie" fashion, that the most fun of D&D is the dice rolling, action stuff. The characters are cool and all, but that's not the kind of world we enjoy. The superhero thing would be so much better, but I doubt there's any way we can convince the other people to give up their game.
This is a long one. Maybe I'll take a break and come back later, if I find something else to say.
So what has happened since I last updated? I started classes. They're going reasonably well. My Music Entrepreneurship class is madness. The teacher is one of those guys who asks you rhetorical questions directly, and you can never tell if you're supposed to answer. Plus, it's a 500 level class, and he expects "500 level amount and caliber of work" from us. I don't know how I feel about that. On the plus side, two of my other class decided that the scheduled times were really just too much for them to fill for a full semester. I started out with 15 hours of class a week, I'm down to 10. Music teachers are cool like that.
Last night, Rachel and I and a couple of friends went to the Paradise Rock Club for a Parker House and Theory. I would guesstimate that before the show began, I was the least excited for it. By the end, I was definitely having the most fun. Rachel and the others left early, but I stayed by myself to finish the show. Parker House rocks. If you don't know them, you should. I don't know why I wrote that, since the one of you who reads this turned me on to them in the first place. Anyway, we watched most of the show from the balcony, but I left the group for a few songs to hang out on the floor and it was a completely different show. You could feel the music in your body, and everyone around you is grooving and dancing. That's right, I danced. Me. Dancing. With people. It was uncanny. I never dance, but I think the live music made it a lot easier to let go. Something about the live band and the other fans was dance-inducing. The gin and tonic helped too.
I've kind of had this new philosophy since I shaved my head. New look, new attitude, kind of a thing. I go to parties now, I have conversations with people I don't know, and, apparently, I dance on the floor at concerts. Two months ago, I would have spent the night up in the balcony with my friends and left early. Now, I walk around clubs by myself, stay late and dance on the floor with hot strangers. I kind of like this.
Now I'm at work. I say "work," and not the name of the actual business, because in my last post, I actually wrote out "J--spot" and my blog appeared on my boss's Google Alerts. He forwarded me the alert, with the note "You can't hide from Google Alerts." I can't tell if I'm in trouble...
I got a message from Matt, our DM for Dungeons and Dragons. We're starting back up in two weeks! So excited. I've started refreshing my memory on the rules, equipment and what-not. Plus, he decreed that we can trade in any loot we picked up, such as armor or weapons, for anything of equal value. I trade in my Safewing Amulet (+1 to Reflex, Fortitude and Will saves, -10 ft of fall damage) for some Bracers of the Perfect Shot (+2 damage to all ranged attacks). I was gonna keep the armor I picked up, but then I started looking at the other armors available and I might change my mind.
Tell me what you think of this: A Fire Ranger. I'm already gonna purchase a flame augmentation that turns my arrows into flaming arrows of doom (my words, not theirs) and I found some fire armor that has similar effects. I definitely would love it if my character had a theme, like fire. Other people just take whatever equipment they can get their hands on, and you end up with a frost mage carrying a flame staff and wearing necromancer armor. It's kind of stupid that way, but whatever floats your dragonborn cleric's boat.
On a related note, Jay sent me the Player's Guide to Mutants and Masterminds. It's essentially the same thing as D&D, only instead of playing as elves and dwarves in a Lord of the Rings type world, youplay as mutants and superheroes in a comic book world. Totally more my type of thing. Jay said, and I agree without stealing his original ideas and claiming them as my own in a "Dear Kellie" fashion, that the most fun of D&D is the dice rolling, action stuff. The characters are cool and all, but that's not the kind of world we enjoy. The superhero thing would be so much better, but I doubt there's any way we can convince the other people to give up their game.
This is a long one. Maybe I'll take a break and come back later, if I find something else to say.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
I don't like this dice, give me the big, black one.
So I'm re-enrolled. Hooray for doing what should have been done months ago. My dad paid the tuition bill, and I got the account block removed, so tomorrow is my first day of class. Music Recording 2 at 10:30am. And that's it. I only have one class tomorrow, and on Thursday, and only two on Friday. It's a nice schedule.
Also, Rachel, Ali and I are going to a Parker House and Theory concert tomorrow. I'm pretty excited. Yesterday I was kind of excited, now I'm pretty excited. Tomorrow, I'll be very excited. Friday, I'll be pumped. I'm looking forward to it.
What else? I'm at JamSpot. It's a very quiet night, so I'm just sitting around. I've been listening to the guys from Penny Arcade and PvP playing a game of Dungeons and Dragons. They recorded their session and I downloaded it months ago, but I never actually listened to it. It's pretty freaking funny. It makes me want to start playing DnD again.
We took a break when we finished the first main quest, and during the week following, we threw around some ideas about upgrading weapons and inventories and stuff, but then people went on vacation, went to work, went elsewheres, so we haven't played in a long time, and I don't know when we're starting back up again. I rationalize this by thinking our character's have spent the last two months carrying the crapload of loot we picked up in the last mission back to the town and selling it, piece by piece. We got a lot of loot.
I miss the Unkindness of Ravens. I miss Tawmi's kill count and Twin Strike. I miss Raven's silent brute force. I miss Mortimer's benevolence and scaly skin. I miss Raoul's quick strikes and absurdly high damage. I miss Chet's "leadership" and inspirational talks. I don't really miss Joe's character. In fact, I don't remember Joe's character name. It was like Jack, or something lame like that. It was a lot of fun.
Anyway, this is what I think about when I'm at work.
Also, Rachel, Ali and I are going to a Parker House and Theory concert tomorrow. I'm pretty excited. Yesterday I was kind of excited, now I'm pretty excited. Tomorrow, I'll be very excited. Friday, I'll be pumped. I'm looking forward to it.
What else? I'm at JamSpot. It's a very quiet night, so I'm just sitting around. I've been listening to the guys from Penny Arcade and PvP playing a game of Dungeons and Dragons. They recorded their session and I downloaded it months ago, but I never actually listened to it. It's pretty freaking funny. It makes me want to start playing DnD again.
We took a break when we finished the first main quest, and during the week following, we threw around some ideas about upgrading weapons and inventories and stuff, but then people went on vacation, went to work, went elsewheres, so we haven't played in a long time, and I don't know when we're starting back up again. I rationalize this by thinking our character's have spent the last two months carrying the crapload of loot we picked up in the last mission back to the town and selling it, piece by piece. We got a lot of loot.
I miss the Unkindness of Ravens. I miss Tawmi's kill count and Twin Strike. I miss Raven's silent brute force. I miss Mortimer's benevolence and scaly skin. I miss Raoul's quick strikes and absurdly high damage. I miss Chet's "leadership" and inspirational talks. I don't really miss Joe's character. In fact, I don't remember Joe's character name. It was like Jack, or something lame like that. It was a lot of fun.
Anyway, this is what I think about when I'm at work.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
NOBODY would see that coming!
I lose. Rachel wins.
What did I do today? I went to The Q for six hours, and got out early. Then Jay and some other guys were watching football. I don't mind watching football. It's not bad, but I don't go crazy nuts for it either. I realized today, watching with these guys, that they actually care more about their fantasy league than they do the actual score. Three of them had their laptops open, constantly checking stats and scores, comparing players and yadda yadda yadda. I don't actually know how it works, but there it is. I'm not in any league, so I left. Jay was actually more interested in Samurai Girl on ABC Family than the game. We missed a huge play because he wanted to see what happened to the Samurai Girl.
Also, I think I'm gonna pull a Chris this semester. If you're reading this, then you're probably about to ask me what "pulling a Chris" means on IM, so I may as well just tell you now. Pulling a Chris means not being able to afford school anymore. I have an large unpaid bill, which puts a financial block on my account, which means I can't complete the I Am Here Registration for fall classes, which means they'll all get dropped Tuesday night and I'll be out of school for a semester. I don't know how my parents expect me to pay that, particularly when I borrowed money from them last week to make rent.
Other than that, life's pretty good.
What did I do today? I went to The Q for six hours, and got out early. Then Jay and some other guys were watching football. I don't mind watching football. It's not bad, but I don't go crazy nuts for it either. I realized today, watching with these guys, that they actually care more about their fantasy league than they do the actual score. Three of them had their laptops open, constantly checking stats and scores, comparing players and yadda yadda yadda. I don't actually know how it works, but there it is. I'm not in any league, so I left. Jay was actually more interested in Samurai Girl on ABC Family than the game. We missed a huge play because he wanted to see what happened to the Samurai Girl.
Also, I think I'm gonna pull a Chris this semester. If you're reading this, then you're probably about to ask me what "pulling a Chris" means on IM, so I may as well just tell you now. Pulling a Chris means not being able to afford school anymore. I have an large unpaid bill, which puts a financial block on my account, which means I can't complete the I Am Here Registration for fall classes, which means they'll all get dropped Tuesday night and I'll be out of school for a semester. I don't know how my parents expect me to pay that, particularly when I borrowed money from them last week to make rent.
Other than that, life's pretty good.
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