Sewer Trial

Had a session of Patrick's D+D game tonight. This time, Ed was the one who was missing, being off in California.

( game summary )

Ah, forgot something...

Saw the doom movie Sunday night. It was okay, although it wasn't much of a doom movie, not having anything to do with demons or hell (despite using the words 'demon' and 'hell' a lot) and instead having a plot straight out of Resident Evil: the Movie, complete with the hero being turned into a super-human savior by the same virus that turned everyone else into zombies. Although in Doom they claimed that *most* people would be turned into superhumans and only a few (those with psychotic tendencies) into zombies, despite the percentage of zombification being rather high.

I think whoever wrote it must not have played Doom recently, because it's really hard to confuse 'teleporting into hell and bringing back fireball-flinging demons' with 'genetic engineers accidentally create zombies who bite people on the neck to infect them'.

Anyway, Doominess or the lack thereof aside, it wasn't a bad movie, just a mediocre and kind of boring one.

morning download progress:
#######......... 690mb/1.6G @ 3.0k/sec; 106:91:23 remaining. v.v
[underneath the window telling me the updater crashed again; I've had to restart it soooo many times]

I asked Murdock to burn me a copy of the file... otherwise I don't think I'm going to have it by next Monday, when it's supposed to go live.

Geneva Convention

In the interest of bringing some measure of fairness into my war on productivity, I'm attempting to add 'reading messageboards' to 'MUCKing' and 'online games' as activities completely prohibited at work.

No, I don't consider LJ to be a messageboard; while I'm capable of wasting a certain amount of time reading it, it's nothing like the amount I spent yesterday arguing on the City of Heroes boards. And yesterday wasn't as bad as some days, recently...

The problem is the word 'attempting'. I'm not exactly known for my willpower.

twitch

Enhance your CALM

There is a feature of doom at work, that I previously related an incident where, during its 'feature demo', I lost my temper because nothing worked. The next day, I fixed everything that was broken during that horrible demo, but couldn't schedule a do-over because everyone had left on vacation.

Anyway, now they're back and breathing down my neck over it, so I said 'okay, okay'... but before rescheduling, I decided to run through the demo script to make sure everything was still working.

Nope. Nothing. Not one single FUCKING THING was still working. Some of it looked like it should *never* have worked, but somehow it had when I was testing it previously. Some of it was obviously not my fault. Some of it, once again, was no fixable by me. At any rate, I have to go back to working on that piece of shit feature. Again. Again.

Then I get home to find the CoH pre-downloader crashed fifteen minutes after I left for work, so no progress today either.