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Thursday D&D, Friday spontaneous socialization
So, yeah. I spent Thursday afternoon baking smores brownies. Makes me feel good to bake again. I guess maybe I should start cooking again. I dunno.
I brought said brownies to D&D, which kinda made up for me forgetting a baseball book for Josh and forgetting to get a new whiteboard. I think. We had a decent session... came back into the fight right where we left off, with a large shadow dragon attacking us. Fortunately Josh had some prodigious uses of Bigby's Grappling Hand or whatever to hold the dragon at bay, and I did some nice spell penetration checks and zapped it with a bunch of big spells like Chain Lightning and Disintegrate and some maximized bolts and fireballs and whatnot. Arr.
The dragon went away for like 12 rounds so our spells would wear off, so we raided its hoard in that time, getting bunches of big gems and magical items and whatnot. Then it came back and we kicked its butt again, and it left again, and we took the entire hoard to spite it. Hee. Then we tried to teleport out of the Underdark and found out that oops, that's a BAAAAD idea. And then we called the session so everyone could sit around talking about WoW and I could go home and hang out on PP. Or something. Weaver lost his Ultimate in Spades trying to help me get my full one back (since I logged in to find myself leg/ult out of nowhere. Now that's dedication.
Today I attempted to make plans with people while also attempting to get somewhere in Tedv's unknown swords tourney thing. I didn't get far in the tourney, but I did make plans. So Brian came over and we played Pokemon Puzzle League until Jack and Llyne showed up, at which point we talked some, then went downstairs to Romio's for dinner, then came back up here and played Carcassonne, which I narrowly beat Brian out by 2 points after he Templed my ubermeadow away from me.
I feel all Deanna-like, connecting people, since Jack and Brian went to college together, so now they have more local friendage and stuff. Yay. It was also good to have people over here. I should invite people over more often. It was also good to see Jack and Llyne. I saw them exactly a month ago, yet it feels like it was "pretty recent". What's happened to my sense of time?
I am still up because my computer is acting weird. It has been lagging a lot in PP. It's not a network thing, as other things are lagging too. I'm betting it's either my HD ready to die, or my CPU ready to die... right now I'm running memory tests from some memtest86 thing that Weaver pointed me at. I'm kind of not sure what to do. I could try getting a new HD and see if it helps, or I could start looking into replacing the computer, but you know, I've only had it 3 and a half years, that shouldn't really necessarily be dying yet. I suppose I don't do it any favors by running two PP clients at once, but eh. The PP clients is what seemed to trigger the subtle slowdown until it's just become this awful lag in the last 2-3 days.
I also have a weird issue with my firewall router randomly deciding to disconnect from the network, which sucks for PPage as well.
I wish I knew more about computer hardware. I can kinda troubleshoot stuff and flail around, but I don't know how effective I am at it all.
I brought said brownies to D&D, which kinda made up for me forgetting a baseball book for Josh and forgetting to get a new whiteboard. I think. We had a decent session... came back into the fight right where we left off, with a large shadow dragon attacking us. Fortunately Josh had some prodigious uses of Bigby's Grappling Hand or whatever to hold the dragon at bay, and I did some nice spell penetration checks and zapped it with a bunch of big spells like Chain Lightning and Disintegrate and some maximized bolts and fireballs and whatnot. Arr.
The dragon went away for like 12 rounds so our spells would wear off, so we raided its hoard in that time, getting bunches of big gems and magical items and whatnot. Then it came back and we kicked its butt again, and it left again, and we took the entire hoard to spite it. Hee. Then we tried to teleport out of the Underdark and found out that oops, that's a BAAAAD idea. And then we called the session so everyone could sit around talking about WoW and I could go home and hang out on PP. Or something. Weaver lost his Ultimate in Spades trying to help me get my full one back (since I logged in to find myself leg/ult out of nowhere. Now that's dedication.
Today I attempted to make plans with people while also attempting to get somewhere in Tedv's unknown swords tourney thing. I didn't get far in the tourney, but I did make plans. So Brian came over and we played Pokemon Puzzle League until Jack and Llyne showed up, at which point we talked some, then went downstairs to Romio's for dinner, then came back up here and played Carcassonne, which I narrowly beat Brian out by 2 points after he Templed my ubermeadow away from me.
I feel all Deanna-like, connecting people, since Jack and Brian went to college together, so now they have more local friendage and stuff. Yay. It was also good to have people over here. I should invite people over more often. It was also good to see Jack and Llyne. I saw them exactly a month ago, yet it feels like it was "pretty recent". What's happened to my sense of time?
I am still up because my computer is acting weird. It has been lagging a lot in PP. It's not a network thing, as other things are lagging too. I'm betting it's either my HD ready to die, or my CPU ready to die... right now I'm running memory tests from some memtest86 thing that Weaver pointed me at. I'm kind of not sure what to do. I could try getting a new HD and see if it helps, or I could start looking into replacing the computer, but you know, I've only had it 3 and a half years, that shouldn't really necessarily be dying yet. I suppose I don't do it any favors by running two PP clients at once, but eh. The PP clients is what seemed to trigger the subtle slowdown until it's just become this awful lag in the last 2-3 days.
I also have a weird issue with my firewall router randomly deciding to disconnect from the network, which sucks for PPage as well.
I wish I knew more about computer hardware. I can kinda troubleshoot stuff and flail around, but I don't know how effective I am at it all.
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