*Lifts head from computer desk, waves clumsily*
Good morning, folks! Having a bit of trouble waking up this morning. Too tired for making coffee, but we'll get there. :)
I entered a photo in a halloween costume photo contest being held by the monthly record club I'm in, as I have no shame, and winning would mean $100 credit to spend in their store. There aren't too many members on the forums there, so my chances of winning are by default not-too-awful, but I'm a good five or six votes behind the current winner. Sadly, votes can only come from forum members, and forum members have to be active members of the club. Contest closes in less than 6 hours, so it's doubtful I'll catch up enough to win, but it was worth a shot. This reminded me though that this isn't the first time I've let my lack of shame work to try to win me stuff... when I worked in a call center for a health insurance company, I dressed up as Carmen Miranda for a costume contest one year, just because it seemed like a good costume for shock value / getting attention in that environment, and the first place prize in the contest was a portable cd player (and my cd player at home had just broken, so I HAD TO WIN.) I did end up winning, and used the hell out of that little cd player for years. ;)
I've gotten quite far in Dragon Age: Inquisition, and realized I was nearing the end of the main "story" quests, so I'm now just going area by area and clearing maps, wrapping up side quests. This is the point where the game feels most like an MMO, as I'm focusing so much on the less exciting / story-focused quests, but I get a nagging feeling that I'm missing something important if I skip entire areas or leave things unexplored in an rpg like this. I'm sure I won't collect all the damn shards and mosaic tiles, but I'll likely do most of the other side quests and dlc quests before wrapping up the campaign.
My computer has started acting out like crazy, and it seems both my system disk and secondary hard drive may both be dying on me, along with a few other parts I knew I was having issues with. As we were planning on getting new systems by the end of the year, the lady told me to go ahead and pull the trigger on mine. I placed an order this weekend and I'm quite excited. This machine has been good to me, but it's seen better days, and an upgrade will be quite nice. Going to try and spend the next week or two cleaning up my computer desk and surrounding area as much as possible (it's a bit of a nightmare in here, with all the flat surface real estate spoken for in some mad bid for space... it's good to have an inspiring excuse to clean up some of the "clutter disaster" stuff I usually ignore when trying to tackle the "do you want ants? because that's how you get ants!" cleaning... clutter is something I just stop noticing after a time, partly because I prefer for everything to be out where I can see it so I don't completely forget things exist at all. ;)
I hope you're all doing well today, and that you all have a great week!
Post edited November 02, 2015 by akhliber
