spazzychic

I dug out the Windows XP disk and after some rebooting and disk repair stuff Zorg seems to be working properly again.

My ankle is still funny looking but is healing nicely. I now have a box of clothes to remove from my room. Next thing: put away miscellaneous trip clothes and then leap upon Chuck when he comes over and devour him.

:D

Amber

So I was just up in the break room getting a snack. They had two hard boiled eggs in one of the "get your stuff out of the door slot" machines but the cost label was missing. I put in $2, figuring it couldn't be more than that, and got my eggies and a shiny gold dollar coin in change.

Me: EEeee this thing gives dollar coins in change! I like those!

So I proceed to put the rest of my ones in the machine, up to $3 at a time (the most expensive thing in the machine is $2.75 so it won't accept more) and kept purchasing 75 cent containers of milk to get me shiny gold...

But I was so caught up in my nifty goal that I forgot to actually GET the milk out of the machine once I bought it. I bought the same container of milk over and over, and even the last time the door re-locked before I realized I was missing something.

Net result: 2 shiny gold coins and two hard boiled eggs from $6 :)

My eggs taste good and my gold is shiny.



Amber

The computer works!!! It was the power supply. It's still..quirky but functional. :D

Now to head out for a bit with refractednotion who was nice enough to fix Zorg (computer named now!) before taking him back to the ferry.

:)

Amber

In a strange turn of events, the internet is the ONLY thing working in the new office so far. It's usually the last thing to work.

Heh. Today is total, complete, unadulterated chaos.

Zoom,

Amber

Edited to add: 14 minutes before the end of my day, my phone finally started working. I have voice mail that I'll be listening to...tomorrow.

1: Since Joss can't help it:

[Poll #858875]

2: After I got done staring at my fire (omg water at my house!), I played Atelier Iris 2 on my PS2. It's an RPG prequel to the original, where you had this guy who could either create magic items through mixing items and elements or he could create some items on the fly in battle if he had the right mana elements.

Weeeellll...for 10 chapters of this next game, I assumed it worked the same. There are two main characters. One can create magic items through mixing other items and elements. The other is a fighter dude and magic slacker, but I noted he could create certain magic items during battle. So...that's what I did. Since some of the components needed to create things were pretty rare or expensive to buy, I had to work out a strategy to create only the magic items needed to get to the next part of the game and budget the magic items I used (though inexplicably the game had LOTS of places to use these magic items...how could anyone afford it?). It made for a somewhat frustrating but interesting aspect of the game.

It turns out that fighterman can make ANY item that the other character has even made one of...but without the expensive components. I'd already capped out on the elements he DOES need like... 5 chapters ago, so now I have 40+ of all the different magic items. But now I'm kinda bored because it seems too easy. :P Have a cookie for reading this far. :D

3: Kudoes and good luck to all you folks writing for NaNoWriMo! A large chunk of my friends list seems to be doing it. :)

4: I'm totally off MMOs. I had the barest interest in playing CoH for the Halloween event, but I missed it. Since I have no MMOable computer right now anyway, it's probably for the best.

Amber