Oi vey

I’m in a full-blown head cold. My sinuses are plugged up, but I can breathe through the left nostril. I think it’ll go into an ear infection in a day or two. I really, really hope not because I don’t want to be in that much pain again. I tried calling more doctors and none [...]

Rainy days

I wish I had the ability to do what I tell myself to do. I told myself to stop scratching my arm, but I still did it with the knowledge that it wouldn’t heal if I did. I resorted to cutting my fingernails down to the quick and thought the worst I could do would [...]

Downturned for 15 years

“It’s not paranoia if they’re really after you.” I don’t know who said it first, but it’s holding true with my ILs. I’ve lived with them for 7 years because I can’t afford to rent an apartment.house. Hell, I can’t even pay most of my bills now. I know they don’t like me anyway and [...]

Rounded corners

Empath and I went out shopping, mostly for groceries, but we stopped at one of the role-playing stores in town, Sword & Steele. There was a Magic tournament going on, so we couldn’t browse the whole place. We bought a set of the 4E core rule books (PHB, DMG and MM), Dungeon Delve (30 quick [...]

Mouth engaged

Empath bought me a new computer core yesterday from Staples. We tried Future Shop, but the salesmen in the computer dept. vanish when we show up there. Anyway, it’s a Compaq/H Presario with dual processors, a DVD lightscribe drive and a 160Gb hard drive. It came with Vista Home which isn’t a problem now that [...]

Opinions and ponderings

Various ones I’ve had today:
Scott Speedman and Scott Stapp = separated at birth?
Travis Fimmel (A&E’s The Beast) looks like he’s tweeking on meth.
To the designers of these lag-the-fuck-outta-my-computer ads: hope it happens to you! Said ads also definitively prover I am not an epileptic.
Age is not a boundry for stupidity.
Bill Watterson’s Sunday editions of Calvin [...]