:: So It Is Written... ::

:: Monday, April 28, 2003 ::

 

wow... no comments... I must be losing my fan base...

so I'd like to announce an open casting call for this summer's RPG. I'm thinking I want to run a D20 modern game. Fairly simple concept: it's d20 system set in the modern world. You can be anything that people can be. soldiers, doctors, laywers, criminals, teachers, engineers, mechanics, get the idea? There are no "classes" like fighter, druid, etc... there are classes based on stats, i.e. str = strong hero, dex = fast hero, con = tough hero, wis = dedicated hero, int = smart hero, and chr = charismatic hero. and multiclassing is highly encouraged, as there are absolutely no penalties. There are no alignments. The idea is much like the real world. none of us are lawful good 100% of the time. And very few of us completely rely on only one aspect of our person, such as only strength, to get us through life.

I'd like to see how many people would be interested in this type of campaign. Please email me if you are interested in playing, or if you have a character idea, we can go ahead and start to develop it. The more we get developed ahead of time, the more we time we can spend playing this summer.

If there's no support for d20 modern, but people still want to play, we can switch back to something more traditional like 3rd ed set in Odoraloc, maybe?

:: posted by Tmber :: 1:57 AM ::

 

did you know that my sex life is what defines me as a grown up woman? yeah, I didn't know that either until msn told me.

karate was fun tonight... there were only two of us, so we got to decide on what we wanted to do... and we both wanted to do unrehearsed, unscripted, unchoreographed self defense... so we did... and it was good... I mean, this is stuff we did at green belt back at Mr. Blackstones... but apparently here you have to have a self defense technique in mind to defend yourself... did you know the first degree blackbelts up there can't defend themselves unless they know ahead of time what attack is coming at them? It's downright embarassing... I digress... tonight, Sue and I did "improvised" self defense... Basically, we did modified one steps. One attack, unknown until it gets there. Mr. Brown did limit the type of attacks into groups, and we had to stay in one group at a time: grabs, pushes, hugs/holds, locks, punches, kicks. punches and kicks I did ok on, but pushes, I just ruled. The whole point is to not be where the push is when it gets there... and I just throughly enjoyed stepping off line and making sue run into some random punch, kick, or knee... I even worked in spinning strikes... ok, so everything else I did was pretty stiff... it's been a while since I've done mod 1 steps, but for a few minutes there, I felt like my old self again...

Quote of the Day (beware of corn growing out of your computer)

"A house without a toilet is just... uncanny" - Sue

and speaking of houses... am I just being my normal foolish self thinking I should buy a house? I'm getting a lot of mixed feedback... Originally I got positive responses from my parents, which I valued greatly... Even my dad thought it was a good idea... and he never likes any of my ideas... Jessica hinted today that I'm shooting too high. I don't want to buy a run down piece of crap house, and every house I've looked at that I like is between $91K-$95K. There's one house I like that's only $83.9K, but other than that, most of the ones below 90K are old, falling apart, too small, and/or just plain ugly. I'd rather rent an apartment than get one of those, but then I'm just throwing money away, and it's not that much more to buy a house... even an expensive one, given the low interest rates... oh well... maybe I'm just doing what I normally do, and try to live above my means, as someone once told me. ......................

:: posted by Tmber :: 12:33 AM ::

 

my roommates are in the other room planning something to do with/to me... and occasionally I hear this evil laughter coming from the room... I'm worried... the fact that they shut the door so I wouldn't hear what they are planning scares me even more. I guess we'll see what happens...

my life... kinda sucks right now. I have a lot to do and not much time to do it... and instead of doing it, I get on here and complain about not having enough time to do it.... I am a master procrastinator... the fact that I have a brand new 12 string Fender guitar sitting right here isn't helping... No, it's not mine... I'm still broke. It's my mother's, but she doesn't get it for another 2 weeks. Found it on sale up here for way too cheap, so I told her about it and she bought it. It doesn't have a case, so it has to wait and come home with me in two weeks... but until then, it's a brand new guitar sitting less than 6 feet away.

I miss Deedee.

My house was sold. I've been looking at houses for sale in Po'Dunk (pronounced Starkville). I had three picked out that I liked, two that were within my immediate price range, and one that I really liked... Well, the one I really liked sold today... and the other one I liked that was within my price range was taken off the market. joy... I still need at least one roommate, though. Anyone want to move to starkville and rent a room in my house?

also, does anyone want to drive to boulder just to help me carry stuff back to memphis? my car's too small and a trailer is too expensive and would slow me down too much. we can go to six flags and hang out and go up into the mountains and then drive 18 hours back to memphis??? doesn't that sound like fun?

here's a thought... does anyone have any videos they want transferred to DVD? I thought it would be cool to transfer all my family's home videos to DVD this summer, but that would require a DVD burner, and that would require money. But if there were a couple of people who wanted it done and were willing to pay a few dollars each, then maybe I could get one and recoup a small portion of money by burning DVDs for people. I have a nice labeler, so they'd be very professional looking and stuff...

someone should make a candle or air freshener that is the exact scent of juniper right after a rain.

ok, I'm in random mode... I have a bunch I wanted to say and can't think of it, so I'm just looking around my room hoping I'll remember something. but I can't. so I guess I'm gonna go do laundry now... and maybe play guitar... and watch tv... and talk to people... and everything else that isn't what I'm supposed to do. Later...

:: posted by Tmber :: 10:18 PM ::

 

time for an update...

school sucks, the end. ok, not really the end. other things are sucky right now, too. My car... power steering went out, and I took it in to get it fixed. while it was there, I needed to get some random, but important other things done before I drive home in a month... $530. And if it wasn't enough that I paid out the rear end, the didn't even fix it! I noticed it was having problems, still, so I took it to a different place today to get it looked at, and sure enough, the fixed the wrong parts. Parts that weren't even broken. Doesn't that just figure? Isn't that just my luck? The guy tried to tell me that the parts he replaced needed to be replaced, and so he went and got the old parts, and sure enough, they weren't broke. But then he threw it on the ground when he got pissed off when he realized he was gonna have to replace the parts I actually paid for. Now I have to go back in there and sit for 3 hours and watch them to make sure he doesn't try to put the old parts back on what he's already replaced. fun fun...

anyone want to do my homework for me?

:: posted by Tmber :: 2:51 PM ::

 

"I give myself very good advice... but I seldom ever follow it." --Alice, Alice in Wonderland...

yeah, that sums it up... It's Pi am. (3:14 am for non-engineers). My alarm is set to go off in 4 hours... and part of me isn't tired yet. the mental part... being mentally tired but physically awake is easy... you go to sleep... being physically tired and mentally awake is harder... I can't sleep when I'm thinking... and right now, I'm thinking... I actually feel productive... I want to finish this project I've been working on for 7 hours today... I want to write a 3 page paper that isn't due for another 4 weeks... I even feel like finishing my lab report that's 2 weeks late... however, my body disagrees...

I'll probably crash in a few minutes... can't yet... my hair is one giant fuzzball because the conditioner part of my shampoo-and-conditioner-all-in-one shampoo decided to take a vacation...

so... to a misc. poetess who refuses to answer the phone... and any other poet/poetess for that matter... Was "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron written about a dead chick or no? I came across that poem today and couldn't remember.

I may have a job in memphis! that's not the casinos! May be getting a tech support job at the hospital... a good paying tech support job, too... $16-$18/hour! that would just be so helpful... anyway, it's not certain... I'll let you know more as I know more...

ok... my hair's about dry... time to start thinking about crashing...

:: posted by Tmber :: 4:31 AM ::

 

Ah-happy birthday to Deedee, ah-happy birthday to Deedee, ah-happy birthday dear DeeDee, ah-happy birthday to Deedee.

:: posted by Tmber :: 2:18 PM ::

 

hey... my mom sent me this... thought ya might get a kick out of it...

"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, The Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the US of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war and the 3 most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon'".

:: posted by Tmber :: 4:28 AM ::

 

ok, so I haven't updated in a while... so what's going on in my life... let's see...

spring break: went home, had fun with caleb and chelsea and brian... went to starkville, had lots of fun with my fiancee who I had missed very much and whom it was very nice to see for a couple of days... also ran into almost everyone I know down there, and quite a few people I didn't know... was told I'm guarenteed admission into the MBA program there, with a very good chance at an assistantship. talked to aerospace about an assistantship (they pay more). may have an assistantship, and was also told there's a chance I'll be offered a guest lecturer position with the department... that would be cool... I'd be on staff with pay and benefits and stuff... went home... told caleb and chelsea I'm taking them to disney world :)

so now I'm back in the people's republic of boulder, and I miss home. I read sinfest yesterday and today. all of it... wow, it was long. but now I'm caught up. that reminds me, I need to read Megatokyo... brb... ok, I'm back... I feel better.

I looked at houses in starkville... I'm thinking, if I get a job that pays well enough, there's a good chance I'm going to buy a house there. It's cheaper than renting a house! It'll cost me $650-850 to rent a house, whereas I can buy a $80K - $110K house with monthly payments from $450-$630 with intrest rates as low as they are. and there are a couple of houses there I like the look of for less than $90K. of course, they don't have pictures of the inside of floorplans for the houses... I could tell a lot about the house if I could just see the floor plan... oh well... the houses I'm looking at are here if anyone wants to look... I'm kinda partial to the ones on sassafras, pinoak, hemlock and walnut... what do you think?

in other news, I had a freaky dream a little while ago... I fell asleep and dreamed I was taking part in the gun fight at the ok corral. it wasn't like a movie I had seen before, though, it was completely different. It involved shooting through walls of a barn and a bunch of other stuff that's hard to explain. I was fighting alongside virgil earp. then he got shot. Then, moments later, his ghost tried to kill me. somehow I just knew virgil earp had came back, and then people started screaming and then became silent. I knew that he was scaring them to death. sure enough, he came around the corner and started trying to kill me... things were going badly for me, but right before I woke up, they took an upturn. I managed to wrap a piece of barb-wire around his neck... and then I woke up... weird, no?

april fools was nice... I really got my students... they about lynched me... it was cloudy, and I waited for them all to get there, and then I said, "well, today's lab is based on the sun, and since you can't see the sun today, everyone can go home"... I've never heard it so quiet in that class... they were all fixed to jump up and run when I said, "or it could be april fool's day"... yeah, I think they might have been a little upset after that :) and I actually got both sections of my lab with that one :) the second section, someone immedately said, "really?" and I got to snap back with the line, "no... not really" :) it was fun.

umm... today's Quote of the Week may offend some, so you have been warned, but it comes from the tv cartoon King of the Hill, and is by far the funniest thing I have ever heard come from that show. What a way to tell someone you don't want to see them...

Quote of the Week:

Peggy: "So I'll see you on Tuesday?"

Bill: "NO! Tuesday is my designated ass scratching day!"

:: posted by Tmber :: 11:53 PM ::