Nothing in particular...

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Dreams of being lost in the suburbs of Charlotte at three AM (with Tessa, Rav3n, and a drive-by by Axis), a twenty minute "Pimp: The Softwhoring" to wrap up yesterday's time at the office[1], and some quality OOC time doing missions with K's WoW-ette[2].

Semi-Relative[3]'s health scare averted. Very much looking forward to meeting the new niece and a half next weekend.

What would I do alone in a room with most of you? Make wise-ass remarks and wax geeksolophical, most probably.

Had a lovely catch-up chat with a couple people last night. Also booked C11 airfare (via Southwest, into Ontario CA, is $220 r/t, and a couple friends have offered to shuttle my butt the hour or so from there to SD proper).

Need to dust off the small drift of unfinished literary business I've got shuffled into the corners of the My Documents folder. I blame/thank deviathan and aynjel. K's got animal sitting intermittently this weekend (basically breaks even for what we paid her to watch our beasties).

WoW-ness will invariably happen because, yanno, I'm a geek like that. . . I need to earn another 2GP in order to afford artisan-level skinning, but otherwise, I'm all about the XP for the next level and a half. [/gamer geek]

[1] - The founder of the company whose software makes up the bulk of my visible productivity along with their "product innovation director" were here yesterday to meet with The Big Cheese (N), so I become the de facto dog and pony show, because we've done some interesting/dramatic/possibly questionable things with their app, and I'm the only remaining team member with any personality around strangers. I also have a tendency to make N grin, because I don't censor myself around the office, and I think she gets a kick out of watching vendors blanch when I tell them, "Your program's $feature offended our group's sensibilities, so we hacked the shit out of the backend to make it do what we want; see? Now it does this, this, and this; we automated that and that, and we can track foo and bar. We also made it look a hell of a lot better and load faster," just so she can step in and say, "We believe in full disclosure." Of course, it impressed the hell out of them (I've never seen someone try to take notes so fast on a Blackberry in my life *grin*), and we're apparently going to be featured prominently when they have a big conference down here in May. We also coerced them into giving us free stuff that's actually meaningful (interactive/learning game content, as opposed to keychain flashlights or can cozies).

[2] - I haven't played a mage (warlock) essentially ever; once I figured out my/her most efficient way to deal death, it went pretty smoothly (only lost my minion twice, and didn't die myself, though I was swatting relative patsies), and discussed strategy with her afterwards. Send pet, stack three DOTs (or 2 DOTs and a weaken), then start swatting with direct-damage spells or a big stick.

[3] - What do you call your SO's _________-in-law?

Comments

[ladysoleil.livejournal.com]

Rock on with the airfare. That's temptingly reasonable, but I know I can't get time off that week, so, feh, done deal.

I'm not massively enthused about C11- timing and location being bad for me, but I'm slightly bummed by knowing that I probably won't get another chance this year to interact with folks I like to spend time with unless we do a well-attended CG outing or I make a couple of private field trips. *sigh*

[etcet.livejournal.com]

*nods* SWA happened to be running a special to ONT this week, and there were a couple locals there willing to make the trek. I'm mixed about it - happy I'll get to see some folks, bummed that K won't be able to do the same (a'la C9).

I have an inconveniently large. . . . conscience. ;-) But at least it tends to keep me out of trouble.