Donno if this will work, but it might...

Corn maze photos:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/album.php?aid=338907&id=848570693&ref=nf

Halloween party photos:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/album.php?aid=338917&id=848570693&ref=nf

Halloween party setup photos:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/album.php?aid=338940&id=848570693&ref=nf

Thought you might like this one...

http://fullcirclenews.blogspot.com/2007/10/she-returns-halloween-witch.html

Anyone out there reading this playing Champions Online?

http://na.aiononline.com/en/news/serverlist.html

This is the list of servers that will be available at launch, including region.  They will be doing polls to let people choose the unofficial roleplaying server(s).  I believe you will be limited to having only Elyos (white wings) or Asmodae (black wings) characters on any given server; no mixing and matching.

So, anyone out there reading this who is planning to play...shall we pick a server (or two)?  We can always change our minds if we want to move to the roleplaying server(s) when those are announced.

On East Coast servers, I'm liking the names Lumiel and Ariel...but it doesn't really matter.  I was playing on Israphel during closed beta, but it's on the other coast.

http://www.geekchichq.com/index.html

I've always thought there might be a market for this sort of thing.  Too bad fine quality is so expensive.

Okay, April, you win.  You kicked my ass.  Hopefully May will be kinder.  :)

( Some random things in lieu or a real update... )

Well, Issue 14 is live and we can now make and share our own content.  Which, to quote a recent movie, is FULLY AWESOME!

For your Eastertide enjoyment, I present:

Save the Easter Egg Hunt!
#24672 - 2 missions
A mid-to-max level adventure
The Easter Bunny's helpers are preparing a park in Paragon City for a big Easter egg hunt!  But Tuatha keep harassing them - this isn't even Tuatha territory.  What's going on here?  Can you save the beleaguered bunnies, help them hide their eggs, and drive off the nuisances?  Oh, and watch out!  It looks like the Summer Court from Faerie are the ones behind the mischief - they might not be so easy to get rid of, though Titania and Auberon seem willing to leave if you can best them each in battle...

This can be soloed, but you'll probably want or need to rescue your bunny allies before trying to tackle the Faerie King and Queen.  Aimed for a group due to the two AVs.

Hop To It!
#30677 - 5 missions
Levels 1-50
Someone has stolen a lot of Easter eggs!  It looks like moonlighting Arachnos agents are the thieves, but they're delivering their ill-gotten goods to...the Snakes?  What's going on here?

This is really just an excuse to load up all the fun bunnies I made and allow you to fight alongside them.  There is a custom AV at the end, but you should have some very tough bunny allies with you by then, so this should be soloable.

Bunny Stomp!
#31203 - 1 mission
Levels 1-50
The Bane of Bunnies knows where you can find some cute, furry, magical bunnies...to STOP INTO THE FREAKING GROUND ALREADY!  If you're sick of running cute Easter adventures, load up a villain toon and come stomp some bunnies!  But be careful - these bunnie stomp back...hard.

You know those tough bunnies who were fighting alongside you in the last mission?  Now they're fighting against you, and it's no joke!  Still...stomping bunnies!  This mission may be insanely difficult.  I wouldn't try to solo it, unless you are a masochist or have uber 1337 skillz.  My level 50 BS/SR scrapper (whom I was using to test it) was getting his drow behind handed to him in an Easter basket...

ENJOY!

Serious content to come eventually...

There are 239 films on this list. Copy this list, post to your LJ and paste this as a note. Then, put x's next to the films you've seen, add them up, and use your number as the header. Apparently, if you have seen over 85 films, you have no life, but I would like to point out that a lot of these memes are created by younger peeps, so being over 30 and having seen 85 of these movies is nothing.

( Read more... )

http://www.pvponline.com/2009/03/02/ombudsmen/

He's done (well, is doing) it again!  Another excellent homage by Scott Kurtz in PvPOnline - an ongoing version of The Ombudsmen, which is essentially Watchmen using old comic strip characters.  It is teh awesome!

http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2009/02/spoiler-alert-watchmen-is-fucking-awesome.html

*preemptive squeeeee*

I'm sure you've heard, at some point, of these ... loons is too mild, really - demented fanatics at some point.  The Phelpses, a "church" group who are into inappropriate picketing, such as picketing the funerals of soldiers with claims that the war and all the deaths caused by it is actually divine retribution for our country's tolerance of gay people.  So is every other disaster and misfortune in the entire world, apparently.  They are now taking their idiocy international, it seems...

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,,25067362-2,00.html

Their plans to next go to England sparked this - a ban on the whole lot them from ever entering the UK!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/7898972.stm

You go UK!

The band plans to have a new studio album out this June, and to promote it with a Progressive Nation 2009 tour.  One of the bands signed on to the tour is Dweezil Zappa's group  Zappa Plays Zappa!  Also on the lineup are Swedish groups Pain of Salvation and Beardfish.

Dates haven't been announced  yet, but I'd like to go!  Anyone else interested?

Okay, I've decided to just go alphabetical, so this thread is (or will be) devoted to bands or artists beginning with the letter A, whereas previously i was going to go by genre.  So, no longer limited to prog - feel free to suggest any song from an "A" band or artist that would do well with a mix of bass, guitar, drums, and vocal (though there is a precedent for instrumentals).

http://daehith.livejournal.com/88818.html

Leave one memory that you and I have together. It doesn't matter if you know me a little or a lot, anything you remember. Don't send a message; leave a comment here. Next, re-post this in your LJ and see how many people leave a memory about you.

Comments are *NOT* screened so be nice...

...must grab an icon of the Repeated Meme from Dr. Who for this sort of thing...

Feel free to suggest songs; I'm really just making this list for my own reference and for eventual posting to the appropriate boards.  :)

This is a work in progress.  It's going to take me a while to compile, and it will be lengthy; figured LJ would be the easiest place to stick it so I could reference it from multiple computers with the greatest ease.

I'm trying to pick songs that are suitable for the game mix of guitar, bass, drum, and vocal...

( Music I wanna rock to... )

Check these out!  So cool...

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2009/02/annathereds-sci.html
http://www.wired.com/culture/art/multimedia/2009/02/gallery_bento_box

For any Whovians on my list who haven't already seen this, PvPOnline is doing a Dr. Who arc right now.  It starts here:

http://www.pvponline.com/2009/01/12/your-order-has-shipped/

I think Scott Kurtz did a great Ten!

And... one of these days I really do need to make and/or gank more icons.  I have no Who icon, bummer.

The Mac Pack is now available.  This gets you the client for Mac + the new Valkyrie Pack + a month of game time for $20.

"But I don't need to buy this for the Mac," you say.  Ah!  But there is a clever trick here!

You see, the Valkyrie Pack is going to come out as a stand-alone for $10.  But if you buy it in the mac Pack, you will also get a month of game time for $10.

Therefore, unless you are somehow already paying LESS than $10/month for the game, you will SAVE MONEY by buying the Mac Pack!  If you are paying monthly ($15), for example:

One month ($15) + VP ($10) = $25

Vs.

Mac client I don't need (free) + one month + VP = $20

But act now!  The Mac Pack is a limited time offer, and they haven't specified the cut-off date.

Did I mention the Valkyrie wings alone are MAJORLY AWESOME, not counting all the other costume bits in the pack, and the "TP me to my selected mission" (once every 2 hours) power is REALLY NIFTY (once every 2 hours)?

Bakkerkid and CptGreedle, I'm looking at you!

Okay, so I've had this recurring discomfort, weird feeling, sorta borderline pain in my left foot on and off for a couple of months now.  The sensitive spot is on top of my foot, between my big toe and ankle.  Sometimes it makes my big toe feel a little funky, too - like it is going to fall asleep or something.  It's hard to describe.

Anyway, it started up again recently, but this time the sensitive area swelled up and got red and warm.  These are not good things.  So off I went to the doctor!  Not the one I thought I could go to; apparently my insurance was incorrect in listing that doctor as on their plan... bastards!  I swear it's a miracle if I can go to the same doctor twice in two years *grumble*.  But I found a practice run by two lady doctors that's not too far away and off I went.

After asking a lot of questions and examining my foot, my doctor had her partner come in for a second opinion.  Their guts were both saying "gout" so that is now the diagnosis.  Apparently it's a bit odd that it isn't more focused in the ankle or the toe (joints) but that I'm feeling it between them.  Also, I have now learned that gout is a form of arthritis caused by a certain type of acid level being off in the blood.  There is a slight chance that avoiding more than a few ounces of meat a day (esp. red meat and organ meats) and not drinking a lot of alcohol (esp. beer) can help prevent outbreaks.  Which is kinda a bummer since I don't consume large quantities of any of that anyway.  However it may explain why the outbreaks have tended to come after holidays or trips when my diet had more of those sorts of things in it than usual and was less balanced and healthy in general.

*sigh* Stupid foot.  It thinks it's a 70-year-old man.  That's taking the roleplaying a little too far there, buddy.

At least the condition is not horribly deleterious or anything - though I am wearing a slipper in the office today instead of a shoe.  The weight of a shoe cutting right across the top of my foot and that swollen area?  No, don't think so.  That way leads to ouch.  And I get to take prescription strength ibuprofin for a few days until the swelling goes down.  Apparently it's an acute outbreak.  At least it's not actively painful.

Also, all the diabetes minimizing behaviors I am striving to build up and maintain should help, too.  (Not really looking forward to hearing just how diabetic I may be based on the blood test the doctor took, seeing as how I'd had the forethought to fast before coming in, just in case.  Won't be surprised if I've gone from pre- to definite.)  Bye-bye holidays!  Back to healthier eating!

Now I'm going to go back to enjoying the "drowsy or dizzy" side effects of the meds.  Please excuse me if I post anything particularly dunderheaded in the next few days.

:P