A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work

I finished the main quest in Oblivion and then immediately threw away all my fortune and glory to fight in gladitorial combat in the Imperial Arena. I got a real kick out of this - I felt like the CRPG Andy Kaufman.

But then I finished that quest-line and still I kept playing, so I gave the disc to classicaljunkie to hold in escrow until further notice. I have accomplished stuff since then using time that I know I woulda pissed away Oblivionating instead.

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My beard is fully grown in, by which I mean I've had to start trimming it. I really like it! My facial hair is thickest in the goatee area, and it matches my top-of-head hair nicely when so isolated. (And I feel like I can go longer without a haircut this way, too.) I'll have to hack it off for the next Gameshelf shoot (whenever that is) but it will come right back. afterwards.

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I've been meeting my daily billable-hours goals well enough, and have been finding success cautiously looking for ways to slowly grow my business - I have enough experience, personal and vicarious, to convince me that any other way isn't worth doing. (Also, I have played many gams of Sim City in my day, and I know what happens if you build, say, 10 power plants just because you have $10,000 in the bank.) I'm still shy of seeing to Project X every day, but I've been attending to it maybe every other day, which isn't terrible.

My attention is cycled away from all other projects right now. I know myself too well to fret about this; the motivation will come 'round again. But some people are waiting on at least a modicum of a volity webclient release, and I have started to nudge that around again but i'm not exactly champing at the bit about it.

It's been nearly six months since my last haircut. People have started to notice. No less than three female friends have spontaneously offered compliments on my hair; I note this because it has historically been women who dictate the shape of my hair, and therefore this is a major reason why I haven't hit the barbershop.

I need to shave more often this way. It took me a while to get up to speed with this. With short hair I can let some stubble grow and look vaguely manlier, like that one Dr. House LJ icon you have. With longer hair and stubble, though, i look like some sort of dirty clown. Picture Ronald McDonald with three days of growth on. Hi kids.

Should I cut it back down to size before all these business meetings and mixers I have coming up? Probably I just think too much about these things.

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rserocki looked up the correct gesture for using the magnifier in Trauma Center — you need to draw a "C" around the bit to magnify, not a circle, even though your dumb nurse tells you to draw a circle. I got through the operation pretty easily with that information.

Actually, I can't help but notice that your nurse isn't depicted as wearing a mask during surgery (even though the player-character is) and also you have to visually find and pick up all the tools yourself, instead of just holding your hand out and saying what you want like we've all seen 'em do on TV. Stupid nurse, spraying mouth-cooties into my patient and not handing me things!

However, I did figure out tonight that the protagonist's name, Dr. Stiles, is probably a play on "stylus". Clever. (And it spells "DS" too.)

Side effect of being clean-shaven: When I sneeze, if I cover my face with both hands, it produces a loud farting noise.

So I've been shaving about as often as I used to trim my beard; once every few days. Usually when I catch myself in the mirror and think, "Ugh, that looks terrible." And then I let it go two more days.

Today was a shaving day and I didn't slice up my thumb like last time, but I did give myself a hundred invisible cuts, the kind that you don't notice until you splash water on your face. I can't see my face right now but I'm guessing by the lack of people staring at me in horror that I look OK, at least. Unless they're actually averting their eyes in shame OH GOD

Maybe I should actually dispose of the disposable razors after I use them. I hate throwing things away, though. Surely they've invented some sort of non-disposable razor by now.