malkav11

I think I've expressed my loathing for UPS here before, but I think this is the most I have ever wanted to blow them to tiny tiny pieces. I've been struggling with their tendency to not deliver my packages to my apartment ever since I moved in here and they've been resolutely completely unhelpful. But after my seething rage over my monitor not getting delivered...
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Not all that much new with me in the last several months. I'm enjoying my apartment's location and design a lot, although I wish the building weren't quite so hot. I can counteract that now that my A/C unit has been unsealed, but of course that costs money. I've taken advantage of the extra space to host a small group of friends for what in...
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I am still around, although my days of posting regularly to either blog or boards are apparently over. Also, I'm moving on Saturday. I knew it had to happen one of these days. This place is just too small for me and it wasn't really intended to be a long term living arrangement, so I've long missed things like having my own thermostat, having a...
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Man, way too many of my friends here have expired accounts.

In more exciting news, the third edition of Nobilis approaches at long, long last. This makes me so very happy, and I immediately preordered the limited, signed edition that's available here. Why? Well, Nobilis is almost certainly the best RPG ever made. Don't get me wrong, it's not going to supersede your D&D or your Shadowrun or your Vampire or whatnot. It's not about...
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This whole budget crisis thing is driving me absolutely crazy. Not only do I work for the government, meaning that every spending cut might cost me my job or make me work harder for the same money, but the sheer ludicrous fuckedness of the priorities is making me incandescent with rage. We've clearly got to cut $1 billion in funding for healthcare, education, and economic...
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You know, it's amazing to me just how many facets of the world my 17-year-old self was blithely oblivious to. I mean, I thought about things like food and towels and bedding and furniture and places to live, but only in passing, as things that, for the most part, were simply there and not my concern. I was occasionally asked to take an interest -...
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Like many people, I've kind of lost interest in WoW until the Cataclysm rolls in. That said, I got a chance to roll with a very good friend's elite WoW raid team this weekend in Ulduar. Result: I got the Firefighter achievement and, shinier still...the Starcaller title. Yessirree, I have successfully defeated Algalon. This pleases me. If I can swing one more run with them,...
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I'd been eyeing an HTC Evo even before they came out, but when they did I wasn't yet eligible for an upgrade and anyway they'd sold out everywhere. With more time and attention paid, I became a bit more skeptical, and now that I'd become eligible, it was starting to look like upgrading was going to be more expensive and less beneficial than it was...
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Up way too late, doing a For the Horde group for the umpteenth time...except this one wasn't fail and I've actually earned For the Horde at long last. And this after clearing Sunwell Plateau and Black Temple. So happy right now.

You know, I've long felt that a debit card was a better bet than a credit card because if it got stolen or compromised, the thief would only have access to whatever meager contents my bank account happened to have, rather than the potentially enormous debt they could rack up with a credit card. Turns out I am dumb.

Having almost $400 disappear from my...
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