tuesday before carnival and i'm frantic of course

Today I went to work and then I went home and then I went to Megan and Josh's house. We were supposed to RPG but Megan and Heidi had book group so we didn't. Instead, Justin and Josh and Cory and I ordered pizza and played board games all night.

First we played Puerto Rico, which I haven't played since November. It was fun, but I need to learn how to play it well. Josh and Justin tied for the win with 26 points, and I had 23. Hm. Then we got out Starfarers, which was really wacky and skewed thanks to numbers. Josh and I both totally outfitted our ships with tons of crap (he had 11 mods at the end when he won, I had 14). It was pretty damned close, but we KEPT ROLLING 5's. Grumble.

Went home, and finished doing my Sakuracon 2003 pictures. For now you can find them at http://www.dr4b.org/pictures/sakuracon2003/ but I just nuked my entire picture archive aside from them. I wish people would respect my requests to not post and link and steal my pictures. I'm gonna figure out some good way to password protect them shortly...

Umm... as for where we're staying during Carnival, I gotta talk to people again tomorrow. I've done SUCH a bad job planning this trip because of how busy I've been with crap lately.

picture perfect... or not

Okay, I need a second opinion.

Recently I've been getting VERY frustrated at the way people seem to be taking my picture archives for granted, as if it's just an obvious thing that I'll go to events and snap lots of pictures and spend a lot of time resizing/editing/captioning/etc them and put them up on dr4b.org for everyone to do whatever they want with them.

Well, I'm getting sick of that, to be honest. Yes, I might just be having a really bad day (I forgot my keys, I'm stressed over this trip, I need to do my taxes still, I spent last night resizing pictures instead of packing, etc), but considering I seem to keep revisiting this theme, maybe it's time to do something about it.

So I basically nuked my entire pictures directory an hour or two ago. Whee!

The question is, "now what?" Your input is greatly appreciated:

[Poll #122318]

Also feel free to post any advice. Whee.

well, it's time to go

Well, today I went to work, and I got all stressed out over the picture thing and over work, and so I went to Gameworks with Edgars for my lunch break. It made me feel a lot happier :) First, he let me use his GW card for 3 games of DDR so I didn't have to get a GW card. Second, he let me pick songs most of the time and then when he picked songs, he picked stuff like Janejana :) Third, he bought me ice cream afterwards. It was this gelato stuff, and despite that I hate pistachio, I got pistachio and mint oreo and it was fabulous! Rawr! So aside from the 2P side of the Gameworks machine sucking so much ass you could start a donkey farm on it, it was a nice way to spend a lunch break and I should do it more often (next time we'll get Rumi and Gilly too, maybe!)

After that I did more work, and I also had a cookie outing with Dale and he asked me bunches of questions about my projects and I guess I answered them okay. And a bit later I ate noodles and headed home. And then I slacked instead of packed. But now I am packing. Eli will get home soon and we will drive to the airport and we will get on a plane and we will go to Pittsburgh and we will stay with Ralph and Lori and we will see lots of you crazy people. If you're on my friends list, my cellphone number's in an entry a few days back, and it's still Pittsburgh-local. I should be checking email and LJ and all. PLEASE feel free to give my cellphone a call any time during Carnival (well, maybe not from around 1am until around 9am). I want to see as many of you as possible!

God, I'm so nervous. Planes. Pittsburgh. Seeing everyone. RAWR.