game day

so today was the big game day. we made a plan of it throughout the week, then executed the plan nearly flawlessly. go us.

those of you who are familiar with direkobold have already heard of dreamblade. this afternoon, i was sucked into it as well. it is actually a pretty fun and interesting game requiring good strategy, decent thought, and an extremely healthy dose of luck. so far, i am 1 and 1 in the win/loss ratio. i can live with that.

the evening was occupied with D&D. the current eberron campaign is going well. we have completed yet another of the adventure path, and begun our journey into the next. we did come pretty close to dying to finish up the last one, so i have high hopes for this one.

well, very little else to report in my life right now. i stalled out on my huge redo my life project. now half of my stuff is in my living room waiting for me to finish it up and i can't seem to put together any energy to care. kind of bad i know, but what can you do?

so i leave you to it.

enjoy.

gml

ummm... hi?

so my good friend satan (see last post) linked to said last post from his blog, in which he cements the title as truly belonging to himself. oh yeah, if you came over from that link, "hi". [waves]

i'd really like to be able to link you back, but i am still learning basic html so i don't know how to do that yet. hopefully soon. in the meantime, you can find a link over there in the sidebar.

edit: you will now notice i have included the link. yes, i am smarter than the computer. get over it.

so in the never ending saga of my friends, i have been having a little dilemma with one of them. we were really good friends for a while. then i was told we couldn't be friends anymore. i missed them a lot. now all of a sudden i am receiving text messages and such from them again, almost like we were friends again. i am a little confused. you cannot have it both ways. either we are friends or we aren't. which is it?

so i need to go right now. i will add some more later.

ok, its later. much much later.

and i really don't have a whole lot to say. or maybe i do, but i'm not sure i want to say it here. or maybe i do but i don't really want to say it at all. or maybe i'm just not too bright and should shut up and go away.

yep. that one.

friends in even lower places

a while ago a friend of mine introduced me and some of the rest of our group to a little game called galactic civilizations II. this friend of mine (that we will from here on out refer to as satan), did a little demo for us. it seemed like a fairly interesting game. one of the other guys has always been very interested in turn based games such as this so he began looking at how to upgrade (read: buy a new) his computer. during this phase, and the subsequent technical issues he faced, i found myself purchasing this little slice of evil.

now i have never been too terribly interested in the turn based, take over the country/planet/universe type of games. its not that i didn't like them, just they never drew me in. but something about this game seemed intriguing. so i got it.

this game is evil. pure and simple. once you start it, you cannot turn it off. you will find yourself sitting there for hours on end, frantically trying to remember which planet you were doing what with, as you build and rebuild and upgrade and redesign your military fleets over and over and over again, adding new toys to each successive generation, taking advantage of lower tech civilizations as you colonize planets and put them to work as slave labor in your factories, making deals with pirates and destroying almost-sentient lifeforms between battles for the supremacy of the galaxy.

ok, maybe not all that, but if you get this game, and i highly recommend you do (insert evil laugh here), be prepared to forget about food, sleep, work, family, or anything else of value in your life. at least until the blush is off.

some friend, huh?

continuing the friend theme, i just found out a good friend of mine is in town right now. of course she didn't bother to let me know until she was already here, but what can you do. hopefully we will be able to get together so i can point and stare at her unborn child. ok, maybe not but i am sure i will find something funny to say. or if not, something fairly stupid or inane that will serve to make everyone around me more aware of their intellectual as well as moral superiority. but i guess we will see.

i have become more aware of, and more grateful for, those in this world i can actually call friends. i have made a lot of mistakes, bad choices and horribly glaring errors in my life. somehow, throughout it all, i have managed to find a select few individuals who can get past all the crap and still speak to me. some have even been helpful or dare i say instrumental in changing my life (hopefully for the better). some have done so just by still being mt friend. i know most of them have never heard me say it, and i suspect i never would to their faces, but thank you.

now shut up and let's get back to the game...

off kilter morning

speaking of distant friends...

this morning i received an email from yet another friend in far off lands. it was fun to hear from them. especially when you have no idea whether you will ever see or hear from someone again when they move to far off lands.

wow. strangely incoherent this morning. perhaps i will write some more later today. but i think that is enough for now.

gml

Friends in far away places

ever wonder about the nature of friendship? how do we pick our friends? why do they become our friends? how could they ever stand to be friends with us?

friendship can mean everything. or nothing. what defines the "level" of my friendship with any one person? what will i do for my friends? what, if anything, wont i do?

apparently, i will spend money and call far away places for my friends. not that i regret it, either the time or the cost. it was most definitely worthwhile; speaking to someone i haven't seen or talked to (other than the rare email and twice in IM) in almost a year. i missed the time and the conversations. so at two am, i placed a call to that distant land, where it was already tomorrow (or at least quite a bit further into tomorrow than i was), and spent a great time talking with a good friend.

hopefully they felt the same.

friends are god's way of compensating you for your family.

apology accepted.

gml

today

is the first day...

yeah yeah. but what good does it do? what about tomorrow? isn't today the tomorrow we worried about yesterday?

short of cliche, little can be known of today. or tomorrow. only yesterday is fully know. yet it is past, and thus lost to us, the oppurtunities gone, taken or missed.

so we have today. live it.

learn from the past. plan for the future. live in the present.
awareness.

gml