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May. 20th, 2008 12:34 am
prog: (PKD)
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 [livejournal.com profile] 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.



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.



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.

What else

Apr. 15th, 2008 10:39 pm
prog: (Default)
In other news:

I screwed up my ability to pay taxes on time. I have the money, more or less, but it's not in the right location. I'll spare you the details. So anyway, I filed extensions for the first time in my life. The thing that people seem not to know about extensions is that you're still supposed to pay what you owe on-time; the extension's just for the paperwork.

Fortunately(-ish), tax slackers are a common case, so the gov't will happily take your payment later, plus interest for however long you slacked. The rate is based on the Fed so it's cheaper than credit cards. They won't raise too much of a stink so long as they see their tardy money in a reasonable period of time.

The feds got an in-good-faith payment of $1K from me, and the commonwealth got NOTHING. I'll have to make it up to them next month. I need to be a busy beaver with Appleseed work for the next coupla weeks to make sure I can pay all that and everything else, but the work's right here in front of me.



Climbed back on the exercise horse. I guess it's better that I keep fallin off and gettin on than just stop altogether. The funnest thing about getting back into shape is objectively observing your strength come back, day-to-day. I could barely do five push-ups last week, and now I can do six smoothly. Let us forget that I could do ten easily a coupla months ago. Stupid, slippery horse.



Been playing a lot of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The best parts of the game are wandering the countryside on a mission, as it really is quite beautiful, and getting into utterly insane encounters due to the fact that monsters and NPCs can, if they wish, locate or follow you to literally any location in the game world. Once I had an ally from the game world's main city show up three levels deep in a dungeon to ask me about a quest I had left half-finished. Also, if crazed goblins ambush you in a cave, you can let them chase you right into the middle of the nearest city, where the imperial guards'll be like "wtf?" and stick 'em for you.

Yesterday I did this by accident, except that I got into a situation where two assassins were chasing me, and a guard was chasing them, and I got them all to run into the middle of a deep lake - I have magic boots that let me walk on water, see. None of these guys had any issue with either buoyancy or oxygen, and the assassins stood around directly beneath me, puzzled, as the guard methodically relieved them of their hit points. Presently their bodies floated up like dead guppies, which was nice, coz they're easier to loot that way. Moments later, the guard burst out of the water on a shore dozens of yards away, and zoomed off over the hills, back to wherever he came from. I laughed.

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