He's been awfully quiet...

[digitaldiscipline]

The first week of PS (post-Sil) work went pretty well. Richard, the guy we now report to, is getting groomed for management, and we're the low-impact techie types that were available for him to ease into the process by directing. It's a good fit professionally and personally (not to mention, he's the guy I golf with, so now it's ostensibly work-related, and the balloon has been floated that it's not altogether unlikely that 3pm "meetings" may be held off-site, with physical representations of goals and targets *grin*). Be that as it may, gearing up to do the work of a person and a half, rather than three fourths of a person, has an obvious impact on my ability to slack. ;-)

Friday night is a pleasantly drunken blur of shredding potatoes, "100% Kosher," good-naturing arguing with ross_winn and discussing tits with critus & netgoth, also known as Sil's Chanukkah Bash (a/k/a The Twelve Sins of Jewmas)

- Twelve Yiddish Curses
- Eleven Kosher Viewings
- What's "Ten" in Hebrew?
- Nine Kinds of Liquor
- Eight "Goth Is ______"'s
- Seven Musical Interludes
- Six Jewish In-Jokes
- Five Kinds of Cheeeeeeeeeese
- Four Sea Conch Surprises
- Three Cups of Shame
- Two Jedi Mind Fucks
- And Some Latkes from my Sweetieeeeee

Good friggin times, even if I woke up composing that on...

Saturday morning: Attempted not to exacerbate K's red-wine hangover (ph34r the liver of a Jedi, for I was ready to take on small portions of the world), and dove into "Tomorrow's Forecast," which I can solidly blame deviathan for both inciting and continuing to provide motivation (I want to finish it tonight, pore over it tomorrow, and get it in the mail before Wednesday's deadline for Polyphony 5), in and among assorted sessions of World of Warcraft with K.

Sunday was more of the same, with a few loads of laundry and an early-morning trip to Best Buy & the gym (including one lovely, if fleeting, moment when I stepped on the scale, and it read 174). My first brush with circuit training has my biceps and delts a little sore today, but after our first dilligent week of gym membership, I'm already noticing good things, which I hope to improve upon by GC2 and beyond.

In the "stuff angel_renewed will get a laugh out of" department, we have two items today:

- MBI put "125 gallon fish tank" on his xms list (I have not yet laughed at his ignorant folly)
- There is a Night Elf player character in WoW named "Sil" that K & I ran past last night. . . in a play zone called "Westfall." *muahahah*

[Also: mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa on the rest of the Props - they're in the queue. Really. I just need to get "Forecast" out by Wednesday]

Comments

[critus.livejournal.com]

Man, that wine must have been brutal. My K. was feeling it the next morning too, but I was fine (and obviously much more intoxicated).

Hooray for Jedi Drinks!

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Worst. JMFs. Ever.

And they were still pretty tasty.

Just remember, if you want them on XMS Eve - good vodka, real Midori, and non-shite pineapple juice. Also, a transparent-ish pitcher of 24-48 oz capacity is a must.

[critus.livejournal.com]

Well, I've got a goodly amount of the Vodka left in my bottle of Absolut. I can get the pineapple juice. Can you supply the Midori? Together, we can do this!!! :)

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I'll bring the green stuffs. . . yessssss. . . .

We also need to determine if K & I will be bringing the bird that night or using it as the centerpiece among the hangover cure comestibles at our place on Jebus' birthday.

[netgoth.livejournal.com]

Hang on, pineapple?

No wonder I was sick the next morning!

<-- allergic.

[netgoth.livejournal.com]

No, if they were using pineapple stuffs, that's why I was sick. It makes sense now.

[whomajigi.livejournal.com]

10 is eser.

(Too tired to read what context that was in. Too stressed to care I'm replying out of it)

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Did you have any Jedi?

Yes, it's got pineapple in it.

Perhaps, in that case, you should stick to Shame, Guilt, and Pain. *grins*

[etcet.livejournal.com]

By the time we got around to watching Sesame Street in Hebrew, not too many of us were anywhere near sober. . .

[netgoth.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming that was the green stuff that I could only half finish the cup of before I was feeling ill?

[etcet.livejournal.com]

That would be it.

Sorry, hon. Normally the only warning label on 'em is for alcohol content, not allergens. *hug*

[ladysoleil.livejournal.com]

That sounds like Jedi to me.

As fond as I am of the Jedi, I'm really getting to like Shame. It's tasty and easy to make.

[netgoth.livejournal.com]

ehh, 'sok. Once in a while I can handle it. I just usually take something before I eat/drink it so I can stave off the sick before it hits.

No harm, no foul. Besides, M enjoyed having the other half of mine! :)

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Advanced Shame is not recommended. Blending one part OK coconut vodka with two parts hideous coconut rum before Fanta-sizing it is. . . well, not good.



. . . I bet you thought I was going to say "shameful." ;-)

[ladysoleil.livejournal.com]

No, I know better. And define hideous coconut rum? I'm picky and will stoop as low as Cruzan or Parrot Bay in a crisis, but generally if it's not Malibu, I'm not drinking it.

[critus.livejournal.com]

Indeedy do I did.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

You'd have to ask Sil what that stuff was, other than 80 proof and harsh.

[geekers.livejournal.com]

Sil's Chanukkah Bash aka The Twelve Sins of Jewmas definitely need more kinds of cheese!

[etcet.livejournal.com]

there might have been more than five. i didn't count, or eat much of them. i had a couple latkes, a bunch of raw veggies, and enough liquor to stagger a small rhino.

you know, the usual. *grin*

[geekers.livejournal.com]

... which is why 2 JMF confused me as well.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

that could probably be swapped with the shame line. and "sea conch surprise" is actually a shot, not a mollusk hors d' ouevre. *grin*

[geekers.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'm not interested in consuming anything with the word "surprise" in it's title and/or description.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

the surprise is that it tastes like cinnamon and cream with a dash of nutmeg.

[angel-renewed.livejournal.com]

The pineapple juice wasn't the problem. The vodka and faux Midori *were*. Also, the ratio was way off.

[angel-renewed.livejournal.com]

Coco Mania. It's made by the Appleton Rum folks. You can get it in Jamaica, though the local folks *will* warn you away.

[angel-renewed.livejournal.com]

125 gallon fish tank. See also: tank that has been darkening my living room for 6 months.

[geeki.livejournal.com]

I can NOT believe you are playing WoW and you wont come play with us!

I am seriously going to pout and be pissy!
How could you?!?!?!

[etcet.livejournal.com]

it was just not a good night to be force-sensitive. ;-)

[etcet.livejournal.com]

EQ is teh ev0l.

I had a fat, disgusting, slovenly, unwashed, unemployed, unmotivated housemate who would schedule plane raids overnight and then take the next day off (when he still had a job), and who accumulated a fucking bushel of empty soda cans and worn socks & underwear around his computer desk. . . which was in the living room. . . while playing EQ.

That's why I won't play EQ. Four hundred pound men in elf ears are a disincentive.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

yeah, i'm going to have to talk to him about how far his head's up his ass on that score. granted, he's not gutting and restoring a house or anything, but i don't think he realizes the work and cost involved with one.

[geeki.livejournal.com]

Right.

And me running around as a cute elf isnt incentive?

*shakes head*

You will play WoW but not EQ...I am really upset over this...

[etcet.livejournal.com]

my two oldest and best friends and I play it together. guilt won't work. ;-)

he runs around like an elf. . . in person. fat, nasty, unwashed LARP action is a compelling argument.

if you're going to get bent out of shape over my irrational bias against one game, dearie. . . *poke, poke* I hate EQ, despite the assurances from certain parties that it isn't irredeemably dorky. That's not changing.

Besides, I'd rather get in at the beginning of a new game and be on relatively even footing with everyone than be a complete newbie in a system where all my friends are really advanced players, and feel like the weak-sister charity case.

pfoo.

[geeki.livejournal.com]

So you cant play two games?

Oh and it is completly irrational, hence I will continue to poke at it!
You have the EXACT personality which would appreciate it yet you continue to unjustifiably reject/fear it. And yes it IS unjustifiably!

Also I am discussing Eq2, which JUST came out, and is EXTREMLY different from EQ1. There arent a ton of twinked out characters because the game is BRAND SPANKING NEW, and they didnt port characters OVER. Game, gear, its all brand spanking new. The tradeskills are new, the graphics are new... and you wont even try it, yet you bash it.

You arent a racist, you are a gamist.

So there. On that note I have something extremly person to ask of you, and it has to be taken offline. Where do you want an email?

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Did I bash EQ? No. I merely said I wasn't going to play it. If it's so similar to WoW. . . why would I play the same game twice? *shrug*

I don't have time to play two MMORPGs. I'd end up with half-assed characters in both of them. Shit, I don't even play Halo 2 much these days. I do still have a life offline I'm trying to maintain, you know. ;-)

you can use my digi-dis email or rafe dot [lastname] at gmail. or use my lj email, which boinks over to my yahoo addy. . . *puzzled expression*