CotSQ 4

Tonight we actually played more of City of the Spider Queen, in a way. The central encounter wasn't actually *in* the book, as such, although it seemed a reasonable thing for the enemy to do in the situation the players had put her in.

( spoilers for City of the Spider Queen )

Luis wasn't able to play tonight, which is why Abbey was absent. Hopefully he'll be able to make the next session, as the party won't be able to teleport back and forth so blithely in the next part.

Rambling

Work is being annoying. We hit our code-complete goal, but all that means is that we have to work towards the next goal now, that being ZBR. Yay. The 'Z' stands for 'Zero', so all the things we've been putting off until later have to get dealt with in some fashion.

Now, how do we make the program managers understand that? They thought they had until code complete to finish the specifications...

Anyway, been somewhat addicted to Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, although I haven't been playing it all *that* much. It's just fun. I tried to play FFT again (the old playstation one) but it seems sort of clumsy by comparison... especially the way abilities are split up. FFTA seems to have a better variety of stuff for each job, so that you can have a character pick two jobs to focus on (you can only use two at a time, for A-abilities at least) and be reasonably well rounded -- there's nothing like 'Charge' from FFT that does one thing extremely redundantly.

Well, black mages come close.

I'm also looking forward to having some time to sit around and do nothing, after a weekend mostly spent sitting around doing nothing. These are two very distinct qualities of nothing, mind.

Liar!

Four of the statements in this entry are true, but one of them is a lie.

I never graduated from high school, or got my GED. I lied on my college applications, and they never bothered to check. Or at least, the one I got in never bothered.

I lost all my teeth years ago, and wear what I like to think is a convincing set of dentures. I'm still trying to get over what I know is a neurotic obsession with caring for the teeth I didn't care enough for when I still had them... I carry a toothbrush with me everywhere I go. It's kind of sad.

I bought a pet rat, once. I was allowed to have small, caged pets in my last apartment. One night, though, I couldn't help myself, and tortured it to death with kitchen utensils. Ashamed and a little scared, I threw out all the evidence, and vowed never to get another pet.

If you can guess which of these paragraphs is the lie, I'll give you a million dollars!

Ouch.

( Why don't I just eat worms? )

Paradigm Shift: Aborted

My mother's in town, still, mostly visiting with my sister('s baby), but wanted to take me out to dinner tonight, just her and me and my aunt. She asked when would be a good time, last Sunday, and I told her I was pretty sure I'd be home from work by 7pm on Tuesday, but -- hey, she has a cell phone, right? I'll just call her and confirm.

Of course, it should have been obvious that a cell phone belonging to someone who lives in Ohio would be a long distance call from Bellevue, so I couldn't call from work as I'd planned. I tried to dial it as a local number, just in case (you can dial the 206 numbers that way -- leave off the '1') and got a mysterious, scratchy line. Hey, that sounds like a cell phone... maybe it worked?

"Please enter your security code:"

Um, nope, didn't work.

So I called when I got home, and got a generic voice-mail message ('please leave a message at the tone', in a generic phone-robot voice). I left a message, but didn't really have much hope she'd get it, since it was already 6:30pm and she was probably on her way (we'd agreed that if I didn't call, she'd come meet me at 7pm as planned).

And she did, indeed, arrive, but when I told her I'd left a message on her voice mail, she checked it -- no message. At least, not from me. Had I gotten a wrong number? Who can tell?

Dinner was nice, but I don't think I'll be getting a cell phone anytime soon.