Chillin’

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So the weather icon on my sys tray says it’s 74 degrees, and yet I feel chilly *kicks worthless weather icon*

Today is very Friday-like, for tomorrow is Veteran’s Day. I think I need a good morning where I can sleep in. Sadly, as I get older, sleeping in seems to be 8 or 9. Ahhh, I remember the days when sleeping in meant 11 or 12 🙂

I think they’ve changed LJ a bit. Or maybe it’s just me. The textbox for the journal entry side scrolls. Usually my browser’s size is somewhere in the 800×600 range–maybe I’ll switch to one of those LJ clients 😛

I had a dream last night that I was running. I wasn’t running from anything, I was just running–I don’t think it was around the complex, but in some town or neighborhood. I think I need a good run 🙂

So, Keith sent me pix of Wrigley as it is today. I never thought I’d see the day where it was being torn down–unless they won a World Series (HAHAHA). I hope they get the bleacher expansion and such done before opening day. I could just imagine some big freakish blizzard sweeping into Chicago, delaying completion.

Wrigley 1
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Wrigley 4

Anyhoo, nothing much else going down this week. I’m doing the gaming thing tonight–maybe even late tonight, since I don’t have to work tomorrow 🙂 Actually, I’m sure everyone else probably will have to get up in the morning.. That’s how it always is; I’m always off when everyone else isn’t. lol.

Happy Halloween!!

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Oh, I so love this time of year. This is, by far, the best secular holiday ever invented. I was quite lazy in that I didn’t carve a pumpkin. But, I’ll probably hand out candy to the kiddies–maybe even as a Jedi. Either way, I’m going to probably read some Poe before the end of the night, in traditional fashion.

I deployed an app at work on Friday. I stayed 2.5 hours late because of it. Maybe I’ll make up for it with an early Friday this week 🙂 Now I just have to wait for any bug reports to roll in *shudder*

The weekend was quite spiffy and awesome. Ruthie and I are WoWing hardcore and have gotten to be Level 7 Gnome Mages. I’m also just a hair under Level 24 for my Human Mage.

The LAN was pretty awesome, although no one really dressed up except for Meacham in his Darth Vader outfit. We played some Battlefield 2, UT2004 and Half-Life 2 Deathmatch. Ruthie even came around and WoWed with her undead character a bit 🙂

I got Age of Empires III this weekend, but I might take it back. It’s a fun game, and all, but no fun if I’m not playin’ with the bro. I might see if he wants to get it before I do take it back, though. We had some network trouble over the weekend, trying to play Call of Duty between here and there–I think it might be on his end, because I have all the right ports open on my side *le sigh* If I do take AOE back, I’ll probably use it to credit an Oblivion purchase. If that game’s anywhere near the kewlness of Morrowind, then I’m going to be lost in WoW and Oblivion 🙂

The White House has a new nominee for the Supreme Court. I really don’t know much about Samuel Alito at this point. The media was so concentrated on a couple of potential women nominees that this seems out of left field to me *shrugs* It just shows how much people need to listen to the 24/7 cable news speculations *flips from Fox News to watch some SciFi* 🙂

WoWin’ the Night Away

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Well, kinda. DSL is now up and going at Ruthie’s place. She had been in the dredges of dialup, not a good place for an aspiring Level 6 Undead 🙂 It looks like she had a pretty okie throughput of 1.2Mb, with an upload cap of 256Kb. Not too bad; I think that’s about the rate my cable was at when I first got it. I think DSL can be quicker than that, but I’m not sure where she is relative to the nearest DSL station. Now I have to get her an 802.11g router 😀

My bro has a Clear Channel email address now. It certainly beats the geepers out of a Cumulus one 😀 Apparently, he’s all unpacked and Milwaukee is treating him well. Just as we had the traditional Zaxday on Friday (Zaxby’s is a local chicken place we always went to on Friday to celebrate the kewlness that is Friday), he has Potday–Potbelly’s Sandwich Works is something he was introduced to in Chicago. They have the most awesome subs ever. It looks like the lil guy is having some fun up there.

LAN party tomorrow.. It’s a costume one.. I’m still pondering on whether to go as a Jedi or SG character. Perhaps I’ll flip a coin tomorrow or something.

Friday! w00t!