I was blind but now I see....

[vernard]

Turns out that my roommate is pretty good with fixing things. He did a lot of model/figurine work and is quite handle with a tube of Krazy Glue(tim). So I can see again and the world looks that much better. I really do need to budget for some new glasses. As a matter of fact, I'll be working on my budget later today and trying to do that. Sad that a single man with no dependents and a full-time job can't afford to buy his own spectacles. I'm such a slacker.

In other news, I got a chance to play Everquest again. Its been quite some time and I rejoined recently to help my guild decide if they wanted to do a merger with two other guilds. Its not a big thing really but I spent many years of my life helping to build my guild and before I left the game it was really coming into its own. THere is an opportunity again for it to be impressive but its going to have to do it without me. I'm just here to help get it jumpstarted. It was nice to get a chance to chat with some folks I haven't chatted with in literally over a year. And they were all quite surprised to see me online. But one things seemed to be very constant, oiver half of the folks that I talked to had failed marriages. I'd love to blame it on EQ but its about communication and lack of understanding. Forever is a mightly long time and I don't think we as a people really grok it when it comes to marriage. It seems like more and more folks have at least one "starter marriage" just to figure out what it is supposed to mean.

But I digress.

The ice outside is melting. Lieutenant was properly introduced to it and was non too pleased about it. She doesn't like the cold. She spent that night sleeping between my knees curled up for warmth. She also would occasionally reach out and snag the "family jewels". I would love to believe that was simply her stretching while she made herself comfortable for sleep but its more likely that she was returning the love for having her paws be placed on cold,wet, slippery surfaces. Cats are funny like that.

I'd also like to welcome my friend trincula to the interesting but sometimes full of too much drama world of Livejournal. Feel free to nose around her journal. She's a bit shy to strangers but she can warm up quickly if she thinks you are her type of person. If you can figure out where the hell she got her LJ name then you are probably the right "type of person". (We will ignore the fact that I was more than a bit clueless about it myself for now.)

oh yeah, and the power at my apartment died again. *sigh* At least it was during the day this time and it was only out for two hours. I should have used that time to read more phd papers but I ended up spending it on the phone instead. Such is life.

Anyway, gonna eat and get some fun in and then get back tow work. I can see my car from here and it actually appears to have mostly thawed out now. I can actually dirve somewhere if I need to.

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

OK. Crossreference the handle and the interests list, got the nickname figured...

As for starter marriages... some folks get married because it seemed like the right thing to do at the time. Some folks don't wait until they really get to know each other. Then some folks get to know each other real well and then finally decide "y'know, maybe we oughta do something about it, after all..." Some folks even wait until the middle of a snowstorm when it "just wouldn't be right" for her to stay at his place the night (but the preacher just *happens* to have front wheel drive and can get there)... no, nobody with a Livejournal...

Me, I think this "save it until your wedding night, then you're stuck with him/her 'til the end of time" business is a load of bovine scatology. It leaves a lot of people praying for the end of time. I could get a big rant on about the whole subject... but let me address one issue. Whatever it is you do, it's only truly a failure if you didn't learn anything from it. Some people don't. Some do.... and this is a goodness.

[bozini.livejournal.com]

Oh my, what server?

I played, and I am still happily married... we never played together. I have heard from other people that once they stop playing together they do get along in RL better...

We never did the trail marriage thing. We were together for 6 years before we tied the knot and its been nearly 6 additional years, and all is great. Those first few years in my opinion are the toughest. I can understand how the weight of the ring could weigh things down. We didn't have that pressure.

[vernard.livejournal.com]

I started out on The Rathe server. When we had a server split due to size issues, my guild moved over to Zebuxoruk. Been there ever since. I do have a baby Shadowknight on Rodcet Nife but its a one time kind of thing.

[bozini.livejournal.com]

Please do not take this personally, it is simply required by anyone who plays primarily on a red.

Pussy Blueberry!

So what guild?

[vernard.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've heard about the Blueberry stuff before. And I take no offense at it at all. There are different styles of play after all. I did try the PVP servers for a while. Clerics are pretty ruthless over there. Plate armor tha can cast *ouch*

But I played the game 100% because my girlfriend at the time (and eventually wife) played it. Was a thing we could do together. Turned out to be one of the worst moves of my life with respect to our relationship. Ah well.

The guild is called Lodestar. I'm one of the 4 original guild leaders and the last original one left.