I am the operator of my pocket munchkinator

Today I went to Mudge for the first Ragnarok (CMU D&D club) meeting of this semester. Although things sort of crashed and burned hard last semester, I think we'll get on a good track this semester... Drew and Django are running campaigns. Since I was in Drew's last semester I decided to join Django's for this semester. Since Carl wants to be a miko, and Isaac and I both want to be ninjas, and Dan just wants to blow things up, Kyle wants to be a sneaky ass-kicker and Nasri wants to be... err, Nasri wants to be a munchkin, we decided that our campaign will be something like a bunch of people in a ninja clan going off and being semi-stealthy and semi-kickass. Hopefully that'll actually happen. My character right now is fourth level, one level rogue, three monk (Yeah, Ben, I know. Actually I could use advice on the character if you can tell me how yours is working out), with the intent to prestige class into Ninja as soon as humanly possible (sadly, I think it's not until 8th or 9th level for me, which we may not even reach).

So, we'll see how things work out for that D&D group this semester. Now that Drew is done with OS, I'm sure his group will be more cohesive, and assuming Isaac doesn't become too powerful as he usually does, our group should accomplish some fun stuff.

After setting up characters and stuff, I played Manhattan with Carl, Dan, and Django. Django won, by like two points over Dan. I think I see some strategy to it, and I think it is a pretty neat game, especially since I bet it would take like 15-20 minutes tops for a game once you know how to play... so it's a good quick game, but not quite as quick as Ice Towers, but has the same general idea.

Then I came home and goofed off for a while. I did some SSX, and some simcity experiments. Right now I'm trying out a city that started out completely as water, and I've been randomly raising up islands and building on them... already two islands have sort of grown together. It's interesting to see how I can lay things out with all water surrounding it.

We went to Sunday dinner. I need to get some fast film to bring over one of these weeks.

Yawn.

"...verifying..."

"Hi, this is ____ from L.L.Bean. Could I speak to Deanna?"
"This is she."
"I'm just verifying the monogram requested on a backpack. Do you really want it to say D R 4 B?"
"Yeah. And if possible can you make it all lowercase?"
"....Uh, sure."

Hmm, maybe I will feel dumb for having this in a few years, but at the very least it should be a conversation piece, and a much better identifier for me incase something silly happens like me getting married and changing my name or something, since I'll always kinda be dr4b. :)

But they're so fuzzy

You know, I'm finding it increasingly difficult to rationalize owning even the small amount of Hello Kitty merchandise I have, even though I must say I enjoy wearing my Hello Kitty earmuffs and gloves, carrying my messenger bag with two Hello Kitty plush keychains dangling from it, putting Hello Kitty stickers on my monitor and WordTank and all, and having Hello Kitty christmas lights in my office, and soon a Hello Kitty beaded curtain, as soon as I figure out where to put it up... and then there's the Hello Kitty purse and grab bag I got a while back that I still don't quite know what to do with. Hmm. That is a lot of stuff. Especially for someone who abhors the color pink.

But seriously, the Hello Kitty earmuffs are SO fuzzy! I usually hate earmuffs because they always make my ears itch, but these are all soft and furry-like, both on the outside and the inside. So they work really well.