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It's almost too cute. I was eating at the table(first time in....16 months?), and hear a guy playing with his kid. Looking for money I guess. So I look out the window and it's a dude with a little 6yr old or so. The kid is looking around the grass for money, and the guy is "helping" him look. Helping being that he's tossing quarters into the grass and luring the kid over to discover it. It's absolutely adorable.
I haven't written in ages, mainly because it's the same old. Work is no longer enjoyable. I'm a configuration manager now, but without the official title and without the pay. I'm waiting until march, which is when the typical raise starts, but truly, I'm not happy at work. I should quit, but I'm just too lazy to, and my skills have atrophied at the moment. I've been brushing up on them, but things haven't gotten so intolerable yet that I might as well stick here until something really angers me.
WoW is my escape for the most part. I'm running SSC and the Eye now, it's fun.
My family is doing well, though I don't see them nearly as often as I'd like.
I'm alive!
Yes, it's true. I'm still around. Work has pretty much beaten me down. Didn't update much because the biggest thing of note is my growing discontent with work. I'm considering quitting here shortly. We'll see.
Little bro is home for the holidays, it's good to see him. I bought him a nice new laptop, so he could stay in touch with us without having to call all the time, because oh...my ear was getting tired and he usually called while I was in Zul'Aman or something.
I downloaded Kodomo no Omocha, a cute little anime that I'm fond of, but can't seem to find any reliable place to buy it from. So I downloaded a sub of it. I watched about 10 minutes of it before I realized that it was in japanese like I expected...but the subtitles were french! And I'd been spending the last 10 minutes reading french without realizing it. Of course I have a few years of french under me, and I go to french sites often enough to be able to pretty easily read anything there, but it was just bizarre that I didn't notice right away. Tired I guess.
So I'm still alive. Updates, updates...
Work:
One of the 3 oldest developers quit. When I say oldest, I mean in length of employment. I'm #3, my supervisor is #1, and the quitting developer was #2. Very sad to see her go. I'm now the only female developer left, though it doesn't bother me nearly as much as what people seem to think it should. When I got into this field I figured that I would always be the only female on the team, so having as many females around me was cool, but not "oh I'm so happy". All I got to say though is that people are very worried. The atmosphere of the workplace has changed again, to a tired, silent, waiting game. I'm glad I've been saving.
Life:
Nothing of importance. Been watching the housing market, been looking into the stock market, been thinking about gym and taking different classes. I play video games mostly. To stressed from work to think. If I wasn't in such a fun guild with people to talk to I'd probably be a wreck right now. Went out to a couple parties to socialize, and while people had fun and enjoyed my company, I come home just grouchy and want to be as far away from the noise as possible.
WoW:
We cleared Karazhan. Amazing.
Tuesday:
Moroes
Opera
Curator
Aran
Chess
Prince
Maiden
Friday:
Attumen
Illhoof
Nightbane
Netherspite
Nightbane took us a few tries, but we managed to down him for the first time. I got the Stonebourgh Jerkin for my healing set, which again, if I ever respec, I'll instantly be pretty well geared.
Netherspite...we've never done it. I got to try him once with another team, and we were mangled. We had to look up on the internet to get the idea of the fight. We tried once, and got him down to about 80% pretty quickly. Then we died.
Round 2, we tried to switch it up and tried again. And died.
Round 3, we tried yet again, and this time we killed him. Our first time seeing him, we killed him on our third try. And with that, we cleared Karazhan for the first time in guild history. Very happy.
Oye. My parents went back home. And it all seemed well until just a few minutes ago I heard on the news that they had reports that people can see flames from Chocolate Summit, south end of El Capitan reservoir. Very near to home. I called my parents and they said they were already watching it from their own street, which means it's pretty close. They haven't moved yet, but that's bad news.
Tired. Vet is tired.
So far so good. Last night was rough, as I tried to keep an eye on the Mt Miguel fire, which provoked the evacuation of Spring Valley, which is below El Cajon, my city neighbor. My head began to ache, and it got steadily worse. I tried to sleep for an hour, check the news, sleep for an hour. With the headache however, I pretty much dozed for 20 min, moved to doze on the floor, and then move back to the couch, or doze sitting up. Around 3? 4? They had a Santee Vol Evac warning, which I looked for again, but it didn't repeat. So I checked on the net and there was a evacuation warning for parts of Santee. However, about 2 minutes later it came down, so I think there was a mistake. Either way, I started sleeping in 30 min shifts. My headache got so bad that I took some Tylenol, and then a couple gulps of one of those frappachino things from Starbucks(the liquid one, not the blended frozen one). That didn't sit well with me at all, so I spent about half an hour feeling nauseated. Drank some water, then went back to my shifts. Around 5 I must have missed setting the timer, because I slept until 8:30. I woke up and my head was blissfully clear, I think it was a nasty caffiene headache, I haven't had any since sunday.
Work was officially closed today, the building was under mandatory evacuations.
Also, thanks to all of you who have called and emailed me voicing your concerns. I didn't get to talk to a lot of you(zomg ur clogging the transmission lines oh noes!), but I really appreciate the concern and offers. I'm a smart girly, I'm not waiting for a mandatory evacuation before I get going. I have my bags packed and waiting by the door, and some stuff already in the car. If I get whiff of a vol evac being announced, or if smoke starts to thicken(it's pretty clear now), I'm heading out. Where, don't know. But I'll be gone.
So far there hasn't been a threat to my place, but there's no word on my parent's place, though I'm still calling them and getting the answering machine. Don't know about my grandmother's place either. I've been trying to watch all the fires and figure out where we can go if Santee becomes threatened. Right now I think the biggest threat is from the north, as the Witch fire heads downwards, but Harris is apparently making Spring Valley nervous, and they are south of us, past El Cajon.
I've gotten an hour of sleep since...3am monday? I can only imagine what my parents have had.
I'm a different person when I get stressed and there's a panic situation. I go from fairly relaxed and "who cares" to a calm, take-charge leader. Give my orders, make decisions, take action. I feel different too, less stressed, less worried, just very calm and centered. Order in chaos. I love my balance.
So my grandmother's place got the official evac notice for the approaching Harris fire, I'm watching the Witch fire as it approaches from the north. My family isn't here yet, but they managed to leave the dogs at a kennel deeper in the city, so they should be fine.
Left work early because of the fire getting too close, and the fact that work wasn't worth staying at when my parents and family are dealing with this.
My parent's power went out, so it finally flushed them from the house. They are headed this way. However, I don't know how good that is, as the newest evac notice was for an area just north of here.
EDIT: As they were walking out, the power came back on. Since they have those two dogs, they don't want to bring them around, so they are staying put for now.
EDIT: They changed their mind and yes, they are coming down. We're looking for a evac center where we can kennel the dogs so we can be more mobile.
Well, here we go again. Right on the anniversary of the Cedar Fire, we now have the Harris, and especially the Witch Fire. At least it's a cool name.
My parents are packing up right now, my grandma has already left her place, my uncle evacuated and came home to find his gutters melted, but his home okay, some on his street weren't as lucky. My brother and I should be okay, being deeper in the city and such, but we are also exposed.
Normal fires don't bother me. Wildfires do.
Well that's a first. I'm watching tv and I hear a copter circling overhead saying something over the loudspeaker. So I step out, and apparently there's a missing child. They are just circling over this small area, so I guess I'll go for a walk.
^_^
So tomorrow I'm not going into work. It's my vacation!
I played WoW, and was having a lot of fun. Saturday I did a ton of grinding and made roughly 1000g. Which I gave away, plus a portion of my current funds to help my guildmate/RL/MT get his epic flyer. He's pleased with it, so I am too. I enjoy seeing other people get stuff and be all excited about it more then getting something that excites me. Which leads me to today.
I did more farming, and we ran Shattered Halls for a guild/raid mate, and for once I didn't have to tank. DPS kitty yay! I end up having to leave for a bit, Lola did some crazy flying leap onto my back and ripped my shirt and left some pretty deep scratches on my back. Anywho, I get back, and I get recruited into a Mech run as tank. I'm not thrilled, but I'm not really against it, Mech is one of the easiest instances to tank. In the end before the last boss our mage(the RL) leaves the party and our hunter joins. We take down the boss and the hunter gets the nether, the pally gets a ton of stuff, and everyone basically comes out happy. I take my leave and start to head to Shadowmoon to farm since I had nothing left to do. Hunter, RL are talking in vent and I'm not paying attention. They were apparently looking for soul essences, which I had none, since I give them all to the hunter at the end of the raids, the AH was empty of both essences and the bolt of soulcloth they needed, and they resort to apparently putting a note into the LFG Karazhan channel. They finally get some, and then can't find a tailor. They're getting all odd about it, and I'm kinda wondering what in the world is going on that's putting them in a tizzy. They then manage to find a tailor, and apparently craft something. Finally the RL grabs my attention and asks if I can get to Shattrath. Being a good little follower, near the flightpoint, and distracted by the trickle of blood running down my back, I don't even think about it and hop a flight to Shattrath. When I land, the RL and hunter are there, and the hunter opens a trade with me and gives me the freakin [Shadowprowler's Chestguard]. I had been drooling over that piece since the patch came out, and the hunter had offered to make it, but I had sort of brushed it aside, thinking the mats too much trouble, but apparently afterwards the raid had been collecting the materials for it while I'm off in flippin lala land.
So I'm one pleased and thankful kitty. The piece unsocketed alone is a very nice upgrade, but to me, the item itself isn't as valuable as the fact that it was a group effort to create it. That makes me feel good. It's a good end to the weekend.
I'm alive!
Work has been hell. My favorite boss quit, one of the developers quit, and the entire department is just short of the looney bin. Stressed and bitter we all are.
My stress relief has come in the form of my gaming. The more stressed I am at work, the less I want to deal with people. So I go play WoW, where I don't see many assholes, and the people I do talk to are all laid back and cool. Makes me relax.
We switched up our Karazhan run last night. Normally we take out the Horseman, Moroes, Opera, and either take a couple stabs at Maiden or call it a night. Well, last night we skipped the Horseman, one shotted Moroes, almost oneshotted Romulo and Julianne, except for a lucky heal when they were at 10% second time we brought them down easily and I got the Earthsoul Leggings for my healing set. Then we went to Curator, and oneshotted him, which was amazing considering we usually take 2 or 3 tries to get him down. For some reason I was doing massive damage to those flares so I was picking up aggro in cat, which was great.
By this time 3 hours had passed and it was pretty early, so the RL said he'd to a ready check and to hit yes if they wanted to swing back and take down the Horseman. Even before he got the ready check up people are spamming the raid channel with YES and running back to get to the front. Everyone wanted to bring him down. We get there, blow through the trash, and smash the Horseman in no time. Raid leader asks us if we want to attempt Maiden, probably our worst boss to attempt, and people were all ready for her too. It was at this point that I thought that our momentum would falter, we usually end up calling the raid after Maiden beats us 6 or 7 times. But we got there, and since we had 1 extra melee DPS I put on my healing set and took up healing. We attempted Maiden, and wow. We oneshotted her.
She dropped the Barbed Choker of Discipline, which earlier someone had mentioned our MT/RL needed. So we were all thrilled, I'm cheering, and I'm hoping that the MT doesn't remember..."Vet, roll" Damnit. I say I pass. MT starts hounding me, so I roll 2 out of 2. I keep saying I pass, I roll a 10/10. I refuse to take the necklace...and the MT masterloots it to me. Boo! Cheater. In reality, it was a big upgrade for me, and I won't need to replace it soon as there's only 2 other necklaces better for me. But my former neck piece was pretty decent, so I would have preferred gearing up the MT first.
So in the end we took down:
Horseman
Moroes
Maiden
Opera
Curator
Friday will be Shade of Aran, who we beat for the first time last week, and the Prince. Woo!
Did I mention I got an XBox? I have an Xbox now. Bought Blue Dragon and Eternal Sonata, and pre-ordered Assassin's Creed. I also got my HD DVD from Cox Communications yesterday and set that up. My old DVR was too big to fit in the alcove of my entertainment unit, and it didn't have the feature I wanted like PiP and recording one show while watching another. The HD DVR and service cost exactly the same as the regular stuff. Not sure why, but it did. I played with it last night and it's nice.
That raid last night perked me up more then anything lately. I've been feeling really bad lately. Stressed. Tired.
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Eliz, Your Karmic Alignment is: Optimistic!  |
| Score: 10 In general, you tend to create poitive actions. You have a caring personality which gives you positive Karma. Every now and then you slip up and harvest negative Karma. But, all in all, you follow lines similar to the Monks on their way to enlightenment. |
PC Games I'm looking forward to
Just because I'm STILL wrapped up in Warcraft, doesn't mean I'm not completely out of the gaming bracket. So here are the games...er...game I've recently picked up, and the ones I'm looking forward to.
Playing:
World of Warcraft:
Playing since 2004, but with only 1 level 70. Do I not play often? No. I play quite a bit. Am I in uber gear? No. Not really. Am I top in PvP? Nope, don't pvp. What the hell do I do? I do...well...nothing really. I help people with quests, I got my netherdrake, I'm working on the netherray, I'm running Karazhan, I'm helping others basically. I like escorting low levels, and saving them if I see them in trouble. Just me.
Overlord:
I'm enjoying the game. It's a bit hard with a trackball, but fun regardless. The humor is great, and I almost feel affectionate towards my little horde of destructive minions, incredibly stupid as they are.
Games I Will Get:
Bioshock:
System Shock 2. Nuff said. If they can pull off something in that spirit, I'm happy happy.
FEAR:
Psych thriller. Love love.
Assassin's Creed:
I LOVE Thief games. And the free range they are crowing about is a tasty idea. And...well hell. Altair...'s clothing...is hawt. If guys can play Boob...I mean Tomb Raider "for the gameplay"*wink wink nudge nudge*, I can play Assassin's Creed for hours just forcing that poor assassin to walk from one end of the city to the other. Shake that...awesomely designed costume...
SimCity Societies:
Sim game. Even though Maxis isn't on board, I enjoy the social aspect of the game. To those who think it's girly to enjoy social games instead of FPS, well. I expect that from people who don't understand the enjoyment of a more managerial entertainment. You play your little single guy takes on the world game. I'll go back to my "OWNS the world" game.
Poison is better
I haven't gotten a virus in a long time. Health wise. I seem to be able to miss out on the colds and such that sweep through the area. On the other hand, while I can withstand those things, I'm constantly getting poisoned by one thing or another. I don't even know what happened this time. Didn't eat out, was it the cereal? Milk? Oatmeal? I cooked a roast last night, but didn't eat any, and I had washed my hands before, and after the roast had been started, and when I was putting it away, I washed yet again. Was it the pasta? That stuff is boiled though.
Maybe it's the plates? The dishwasher is a piece of crap, so I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't killing anything. Or even better, putting all sorts of nasty critters in there. But it does burn my fingers and melt any plastic I put in there...I don't know. But this is the big reason why I rarely eat out anymore. Getting my bowels ripped out 4 or 5 times is enough. That and I never recovered from the McDonalds incident. It's been over a year since I've eaten at that place. And it'll be 10 more before I do, considering I get nauseated just thinking about it. Pity, I liked big macs. If they bring the mcgrill back, I might grab one, but only while they are busy and going through their stock really fast. And you can bet I'll check every millimeter of it. I still do with any sort of bread item I get.
Please, when going into my apartment when I'm not there...
...leave my shit as you found it!
So coming home from work I have a notice taped to my door. Landlords are checking my smoke detector tomorrow(today) at noonish. Okay, cool. My smoke detector is in the hall, so I tidy up a bit. By tidy, I mean I threw all my crap in the bedroom. And let's not mention the bathroom. Let's just say that a collie in summer doesn't shed as much as I do, and that I brush my hair in the bathroom because I got tired of setting my vacuum on fire from the overheating, hair clogged coils. It takes less then a week to get a pretty scary carpet in there, but being lazy, I only wash/sweep the floor once a week, on friday. So being thursday, it's at its worse.
So needless to say, I WASN'T EXPECTING THE LANDLORDS TO OPEN EVERY DOOR IN MY APARTMENT.
The real beef wasn't really the opening the doors. If they had closed them, I wouldn't have known, and I'd still be happy.
What makes me angry is that left them open. My doors are ALWAYS closed when I'm not home. I've had times where I'm pulling out of the parking lot, wonder if I closed the doors, and instead of hoping I did, I'll turn around and go back to make absolutely sure the doors are closed.
Why?
Because of Lola.
You know how much of a pain it is to have your cat chew through your internet cable, mouse cord, sound system, power cords, lamp cords, headphones? It's a big damn pain in the ass, that's what. Every night I assemble a fortress of poster board, boxes, and plastic bags to protect my computer and delicate electronics from that fuzzy menace while I sleep. So when someone comes in and just leaves the door open, that's 7 years bad luck. And that's just the bedroom. My bathroom is a small chemical factory, and some of this stuff Lola thinks is tasty, but it's poison.
And they left the air conditioning filter on the floor. I hope they tried to turn it on, cause it smells like someone peed on it and something needs to be fixed, and I don't have a clue how. What else did they check? Sure wasn't "Just the smoke detector"
Regal Cinema - You Fail at emergency procedures.
So tonight was entertaining. Most of yesterday, and today, I wanted to see Stardust, I've been craving a fantasy movie, and Golden Compass isn't out yet. So after today's busy little day, I treated myself(watching budget kinda tightly) and went down to watch Stardust. Got my ticket, got to the sparsely populated theater, then settled down for the movie. All was well, until about 30 minutes into the movie, the one witch was young again and strutting in the buff, had turned to look at herself in the mirror...and 'poof', the movie stops, the overhead lights turn on, and it's dead silent. Someone gets up right away and walks out, and returns after a moment and says all the theaters went out. After a while I get up and head out. The hallway is dark, ushers are using their flashlights, and there's people wandering around. We were told in the theater to go to the upper landing, where they would explain things, so we did as we were told and walked there, with no lighting other then people's cell phones. We get out there...and there's only the people from our theater, and no one coming. And then, to make it better, the doors only open one way. So after a few minutes, we're by the doors, and someone comes through, and we hold it open and work our way back into the movie theater. Some kid comes over the PA and tells us that our tickets can be reimbursed on another day. So I left.
Bah.
*sigh* Today, I just hate my job.
Yesterday...well I wasn't happy either.
And the day before...yup.
And tomorrow...yup.
I don't want to be a manager. You aren't paying me enough to be one. I want to be a damn code monkey and just sit here and get told to do something, then just fricken leave me alone. When was the last time I got to do some good old coding, not text. You can't sit there, expect me to be a developer, config manager, project manager, and still be able to do ANY decent coding. And then have the f**king gall to ask me "so are you doing anything?"
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