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Well, it's been a fun day, I guess. I got lunch with Eli at Lulu's, and it wasn't too bad. (For those who haven't been around in a while, Lulu's, which was formerly Yum Wok, on Craig Street, has expanded in the past few months, so now it's like four times the size it used to be. It's slowly swallowing the entire corner of that row of stores.)
Then I spent a lot of time in the afternoon futzing with Perl and reading LJ, which was good because I futzed with Perl but bad because I didn't achieve what I intended to. I think I've got this mental block with Perl wherein "if it doesn't take 5 minutes, it's impossible or not worth doing", where I sit there going "there's no possible way I should have to write this much code. It's Perl. Someone has done it already," and then I give up and read LJ to destress. Of course, I discovered some new people on LJ to read about, so that was nice and nonproductive. (There's now a CMU alumni LJ community which mostly seems to span "people in KGB in the early-to-mid-1990s" so far)
After work I went to play D&D at Tal's, and he decided to level us last time. That is, we gained another level, not got killed by something. So we spent a bit doing that at the beginning of the session, and then we played a while. Brook made a nifty chicken pot pie for dinner. My character is becoming more reasonable to play, and Tim's is just becoming a powerhouse. (I think I have about as much fun roleplaying Tim's character as my own though. (Tim only comes out to Pittsburgh every few months if that, and since my character's more of a fighter than anyone else, I've taken his character on as my NPC. (Tim, you'd be so proud of me. We were questioning an orc and I had Grundar say "Can I question him... with my axe?")))
It's funny, I really do write about all of the boring stuff I do in a day on here, because that's how I write journals, but something gets me in that "other people are reading this" sort of way, and I want to tell cool stories, except there's sometimes nothing to tell, and I figure I'm boring the crap out of most of you. Then again, that's what I've been doing all along.
And hey, I got my dr4b backpack today! It's so cool! It actually has "dr4b" as the monogram! Go L.L.Bean!
I seem to recall I wanted to post something in here recently, but now that I try to remember what the heck it was, I can't. I'm sure it'll come to me sometime when I'm randomly elsewhere far from a terminal, and I'll forget it again soon enough.
Then I spent a lot of time in the afternoon futzing with Perl and reading LJ, which was good because I futzed with Perl but bad because I didn't achieve what I intended to. I think I've got this mental block with Perl wherein "if it doesn't take 5 minutes, it's impossible or not worth doing", where I sit there going "there's no possible way I should have to write this much code. It's Perl. Someone has done it already," and then I give up and read LJ to destress. Of course, I discovered some new people on LJ to read about, so that was nice and nonproductive. (There's now a CMU alumni LJ community which mostly seems to span "people in KGB in the early-to-mid-1990s" so far)
After work I went to play D&D at Tal's, and he decided to level us last time. That is, we gained another level, not got killed by something. So we spent a bit doing that at the beginning of the session, and then we played a while. Brook made a nifty chicken pot pie for dinner. My character is becoming more reasonable to play, and Tim's is just becoming a powerhouse. (I think I have about as much fun roleplaying Tim's character as my own though. (Tim only comes out to Pittsburgh every few months if that, and since my character's more of a fighter than anyone else, I've taken his character on as my NPC. (Tim, you'd be so proud of me. We were questioning an orc and I had Grundar say "Can I question him... with my axe?")))
It's funny, I really do write about all of the boring stuff I do in a day on here, because that's how I write journals, but something gets me in that "other people are reading this" sort of way, and I want to tell cool stories, except there's sometimes nothing to tell, and I figure I'm boring the crap out of most of you. Then again, that's what I've been doing all along.
And hey, I got my dr4b backpack today! It's so cool! It actually has "dr4b" as the monogram! Go L.L.Bean!
I seem to recall I wanted to post something in here recently, but now that I try to remember what the heck it was, I can't. I'm sure it'll come to me sometime when I'm randomly elsewhere far from a terminal, and I'll forget it again soon enough.
