Incidental Vampires

Today we had a session of the body-swapping demon campaign. We reached a major landmark, where many of our enemies had set up shop, and began the slow process of invading it in order to regain our identities.

Dave and Michelle were gone, but we decided to go ahead without them - 4 of 6 players is enough. There were some loud angry arguments, but this time I wasn't involved in them, which means that from *my* point of view it went better than the last few sessions.

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Things Unsaid

I got 'The Spine Surfs Alone' in the mail from the TMBG website, or whoever they have running their order form. At first, I was angry, because it didn't seem to work -- the CD player would just skip and hiss and come up with '0:00:00' as the total track length. Then I tried it in a different player and it played fine, so I guess my (rather ancient) CD player is just... well... rather ancient.

It has a few good songs on it, although not that many because it's so short. Lots of crap, too, but 'Skullivan' and... er... 'It's gone strange'? are good. TELL THE SKULLIVAN WHAT YOU WANT! TELL THE SKULLIVAN WHAT YOU TAKE IN YOUR TEEEEEEA!

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I've been having some trouble registering for the Apple tech talk, although I think I finally got it resolved. Basically, the firewall at work keeps you from registering, but some people (not me) were getting false confirmation letters saying that they were registered, confusing the issue, so that I thought it was only me and a few others who were having trouble.

This got escalated to Apple, who told me to call some person so that she could walk me through the process... only her phone was always busy. For like a week. Eventually, she called me and asked why I'd never called her... I told her I kept getting her voice mail. "Did you leave a message?" "Um... what good would that do?"

At any rate, I got walked through the process several times, before they decided it must be the firewall and that I should try it again from home. I don't know why only THAT part of the site was failing, but they seemed to think it was a reasonable thing to happen -- apparently registering for a tech talk is so sensitive that they need to have extra security that they don't have for, say, changing your password. v.v

So, I went home and did it from a machine not being the firewall, and it worked. Except that they asked for way too much information. Ugh.

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I also got a survey at work telling me I was randomly selected to tell about my 'CPE' experience. Nowhere in the mail, or in the survey, did it mention what 'CPE' stood for, so most of my answers were 'not applicable', 'strongly disagree', or 'What is CPE?' for the essay questions. I hope I don't skew the results too much.