Saturday, November 21st, 2009
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4:53 am
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Gonna be heading out soon for KC. Dunno what time we'll get back tonight. Hoping for a couple good mods, rather than a shitty ride back.
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
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5:18 pm
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Tomorrow, I'm day tripping to KC with Cham and Mecha to play Heroes of Rokugan.
I'm going to have fun this weekend. I'm absolutely not going to think about work. Thinking about work is unacceptable.
And now I have to go to bed, because I need to be up at 4 AM to get ready.
current mood:  exhausted
current music: Nada
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
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10:39 pm
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Work is making me crazy. Completely insane.
I lost all my driving challenge progress in Gran Turismo tonight. The game crashed, and it turns out it only autosaves when you exit the driving challenges completely. I was -almost done-. So now I've moved on to Fate/Unlimited Codes, and also Persona.
In conclusion: Fuck you, GT guys.
current mood: exhausted
current music: Nada
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
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8:00 pm
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It's entirely possible that work -could- be worse right now, I suppose, but it'd be pretty hard.
I'm so fucking tired of this bullshit project, I'm tired of our retarded customers, I'm tired of half the fucking people I work with.
current mood:  angry
current music: Nada
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
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10:30 pm
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Ugh. I am angry and short tempered and I totally ended up taking it out on my players. I want this fucking project to be done, but it's not going to end any time soon. Fucking ARGH.
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
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6:52 pm
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I am getting so very, very tired of dealing with people. I really just want to go to sleep.
I think I will.
current mood: exhausted
current music: Nada
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
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8:10 pm
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I don't want to go to work tomorrow, but at least my current impossible task is looking decidedly more possible as of when I left on friday.
I'm going to bed now to read more Mistborn. Last time I did this on a work night, I stayed up until midnight, hit my sleep cycle exactly, and felt better all day than I have in weeks. I don't think I'm going to try actively for that, though.
current mood: exhausted
current music: Nada
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Saturday, November 14th, 2009
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8:25 pm
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Five PCs took down 3500 XP worth of monsters, most of it in a single massive batch. I am fucking amazed, even if my dice WERE cold.
Okay, so here's the situation. My players barged into a room. This room had an elite artillery/controller, two long range skirmisher demons, and a couple grunts to tank.
They proceeded to do incredibly poorly, burning almost all their healing and generally being in terrible shape by the end... when the last remaining grunt broke, ran, and triggered the boss fight.
The party, in response, -closed and barred the doors behind them-, allowing that guy to run down the hall and trigger -another- encounter, bringing an ogre and some orcs down the hall to help by bashing the door down.
So they completely improbably manage to hold the door against the ogre for a couple rounds, when the boss and -his- encounter come running out a secret door and start wreaking havoc. They abandon the door, throw up their hottest moves, and start fucking some bitches up.
They would probably all have died, though, if it weren't for one of the cleric dailies out of Divine Power, which was giving them ALL Resist 5(all) sustainable, and I didn't have a way to keep the cleric from sustaining it, aside from just pounding him into unconsciousness, which I didn't have much opportunity to do.
In the end, a bunch of people got pushed into pits, including a couple PCs, and only one PC, the monk who drops in every other combat, went down at all, and that wasn't until the last round of the fight. Literally. He made one death save and then the next guy up killed the boss, and a couple people jumped 20 feet down and stabilized him.
In conclusion: 3500 XP in one encounter. That's more than the final encounter of the mod.
current mood: exhausted
current music: Nada
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Friday, November 13th, 2009
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10:04 pm
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So I've been playing PBEM games of Dominions 3 with Schneeble.
It's been great and all, but we've never made it to the endgame without one of us being a clear inferior to the other, until this past week, when we'd been working up to a climactic battle of climacticness.
I had an army of 150 casters and 2000 troops, in a game where 20 casters/commanders and 200 troops is considered a significantly large army.
Schneeble had a much more sedate army of about 200 troops and twenty or thirty commanders.
I had my casters set up to pelt him with area effects, including Confusion and such to turn his soldiers on each other, and whatnot. (You don't get to command combat directly, only give dudes orders and watch as they're carried out or not.)
Then we get into battle and one of schneeb's mages summons the Morrigans, which handily pop up in and around my army.
And all 150 of my fucking mages decide to pelt them with area effects, turning all my troops on each other, because the AI in this game is fucking worthless.
current mood: infuriated
current music: Nada
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
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9:43 pm
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I fucking hate the project I am working on. There is too much pressure for not nearly enough reward.
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
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8:14 pm
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I am a sad, sad man. I have no games to play in. I am running one game a week, and running another game once a month or so, yet I am playing in one that runs sporadically and moves slowly. I am going insane.
This is unacceptable.
current mood:  sad
current music: Nada
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
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10:22 pm
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It's always been somewhat vexing to me how most L5R PCs are absolutely unprovokable.
current mood: exhausted
current music: Nada
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
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7:56 pm
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Back to the fucking grind, beating my head against shitty third party code to get shit done.
I'm already dead fucking tired. Someday. Someday.
current mood: exhausted
current music: Nada
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009
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7:54 pm
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Hmmmngh. I'm not sure how it manages this, but somehow The Well of Ascension grabbed hold of me last night, kept me reading for about three hours straight, and yet I only managed to complete maybe a third of the book. Well, I suppose I don't really -want- the books to go by quickly, so it's probably a good thing.
I really, really do not want to go to work tomorrow. At least I have a fucking job, though. For now.
current mood: exhausted
current music: Nada
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Saturday, November 7th, 2009
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9:10 pm
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I really don't want to go to work on monday.
Also, I need a game or two to join. I am not getting nearly enough gaming.
current mood: exhausted
current music: Nada
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Friday, November 6th, 2009
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9:11 pm
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Brandon Sanderson actually, honestly managed to put one over on me. I seriously didn't see one of the major developments in the first book coming. I officially approve of this bullshit.
current mood: exhausted
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
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10:52 pm
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The Mistborn books have a pretty interesting magic system. Very limited, as magic systems go. I'll talk about it sometime, but if you really want to know, hit wiki for Allomancer.
I turned off my alarm and slept in this morning. This resulted in me being ready for work an hour later than usual. Even though I didn't have to go to work.
In conclusion: I am such a fucking tool.
current mood: exhausted
current music: Nada
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
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5:46 pm
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The last fucking thing I needed to hear before leaving on a short vacation is that a 27 million dollar contract is riding on my ability to make a recalcitrant third party program do what we need it to do, which I have been working on fruitlessly for two weeks.
NOT FUCKING HELPING.
current mood: angry
current music: Nada
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
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9:07 pm
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Unfortunately, had to cut short the game tonight, and we didn't get very far anyway, and two new PCs had to be introduced. Luckily, this adventure is pretty short, we might still be able to finish it next week. We'll see.
current mood: exhausted
current music: Nada
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
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8:00 pm
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I hate sneezy days. I get so little done. And why the fuck does my mom think I'm a fucking network wizard? I can barely make my own network run.
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