Caught In The Whirlwind
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5 Day Update
Dec 14th 2009
Woah, it seems I haven’t posted here in a couple days. Eeep.
So, time to catch up. First up, I got my bonus money on Thursday and it ended up being a bit more than I was anticipating it would be. So I went out searching for a new desk chair for my office. At Staples, after selecting the chair I wanted, purchasing it and getting it home…it ended up not being the chair I picked. However, after sitting it it…it ended up being more comfy than the chair I was interested in to begin with, so…a happy accident. I ended up with the Tillman Leather Executive Chair. It’s very comfy.
Friday was the official last day of the semester, so my friends and I celebrated by heading out to Tom Cavallo’s for their excellent chicken wings and the fact that they have Newcastle on tap for a bit of a celebratory dinner. Their wings are…out of this world. Their pizza is pretty bad, but they totally make up for it with the wings.
This weekend, aside from getting myself a haircut, I spent the time mostly relaxing due to the stressful work week that I had last week. Urgh. Basically if something could have gone wrong, it did.
I’m getting more interested in playing City of Heroes again after a discussion with Wassy where we figured out really neat story arc idea involving 2 of my characters and one of hers. We need to wait for the expansion pack to come out (sometime next year hopefully) in order to fully explore it, but it’s gotten me back interested in the characters again. I’m currently compiling a sort of story bible on my main characters in an attempt to define them better and work on some backstory stuff that I might be able to turn into in game story arcs.
Lots Of Waiting
Dec 7th 2009
There’s lots of waiting going down this month.
First, I’m waiting for next weekend because of Dexter, the second to last episode of the season having aired last night. And what a season it has been. I’m going to continue my policy of no spoilers, but lets just say that unless they totally screw this up, this is going to be my favorite season of Dexter ever. They’re handling things so well, from the twists and turns to Dexter’s character development. And John Lithgow better win SOMETHING for his performance.
The second thing I’m waiting for is this Friday I get a bonus in my paycheck (that ends up being about 1% of my pay. Long story short, we’re getting back 4% of the 10% of our hours we lost earlier this year, but they budgeted 5% and instead of giving us 5% of our hours, we get 4% and a 1 time payout for the remaining 1%. Gotta be some sort of tax reason) and I desperately need a new office chair, as I believe I have mentioned before. So I’m curious as to how much I’ll have to work with on my chair hunt.
I’ve put the desk plans on hold for a while, by the way. I’m hoping I’ll stumble across something that will work out in the meantime.
In other news, Wassy was working on a model sheet for one of her City of Heroes (well, City of Villains, but it’s really the same game) this weekend applying her new skillz from this semester to her comic book style linework. Seeing how that turned out is going to make waiting (patiently) for the christmas-inspired Frost piece she had mentioned that much harder. Quite looking forward to that.
All that’s in addition to waiting for the end of the month with Christmas and New Years, spending some time with my family and a long (and needed) vacation from work at the end of the year.
So needless to say…there’s a lot of waiting going on. And it’s making time slow to a crawl.
The Quest For A Desk
Dec 2nd 2009
I’m starting to feel a little cramped with my current computer desk up in our office location in the apartment. I really need a little more space for writing and storage, and I’d definitely like to get my own printer for the times when I really need to print something out. I’d like to get some sort of an L shaped desk so I could have my computer setup on one portion and anything that I need to write/look at on the side.
Unfortunately, I’m a bit space limited as the side part of the desk can’t be too wide or else it will push me too far towards the middle of the room and really make it hard to move around in there. It’s a smallish room to begin with and nearly at capacity.
I’ve been scouring the stores for a desk that will work out and so far I’ve come up pretty much empty. I’ve even taken a road trip out to Syracuse on Monday and checked out the stores over there with no real luck. Heck, I even checked the Ikea website. So I think I might have to come up with an alternative solution. Maybe I can fit a couple desks together or get a table or something. I just don’t want to have unusable space in a corner since that’s where I want to (eventually) store a printer…
Finding the right piece of furniture that fits is annoying. I’m going to be redoing most of my office area eventually though since I also need a new chair. My current one is quite literally falling apart. Several of the bolts are broken and if you sit on it too much to the left hand side it kinda tips over a bit. The chair will be purchased, hopefully, with the bonus money we’re getting next week.
Stuff needs to stop breaking so I can use that money elsewhere…
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