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Wheee

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That was a rather fitting end to my horrible week, and rather interesting month.

Basically, we had kind of an emergency at work on Wednesday, and I spent the day debugging and fixing it. The scheduled patch release took place from 3 pm until 9 pm (much longer than I’ve seen any patch release go), then we did an e-release for my fix. Things seemed fine, until we realized the patch broke some customers… so it was back into the office to make another fix for another e-release that finished around 3 am. I suppose this release has given us so much trouble that I shouldn’t really be surprised at this point.

Yesterday was the release party, and it was held at Temple with an open bar. I proceeded to get fairly drunk… turns out having 5 drinks in the first hour, then another 2 before leaving is probably not the best of plans, particularly when my previous record was 3 in about an hour and a half. Still, the result was drunk karaoke at Sharon’s place, which might be one of the best experiences I’ve ever had. I also apparently drunk texted at least one person. Whee. Also, Chambord on the rocks might be the best drink ever, despite tasting like it’s pure melted sugar. I believe three of my seven drinks were just straight Chambord.

Here are some photos.
(There’s apparently also some video clips of drunk karaoke. I should go look through these at some point.)

















Today will be more random fun. Good end to the week. :)

Japanese food and karaoke

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Yesterday was a very nice departure from the normal monotony.
There was awesome Japanese food at Kappou Gomi.



Then there was real karaoke at Do Re Mi (where we, of course, did “Don’t Stop Believin'”) followed by Karaoke Revolution at Sharon’s/Charles’ apartment.

More photos are here.
Many, many thanks to Sharon and Charles for organizing things.

I also made a few tasty things yesterday. I experimented with peanut butter and jelly brownies. They didn’t end up half bad, although the jelly kind of crystalized and got rather strange to eat. I also made mac and cheese with veggies… pretty basic and easy, but tasty. I also bought like a pound of deli turkey to snack on, and it’s already over half gone. Mmm meat.

Today will be awesome tasty Mexican food for lunch.

I’m feeling much better. :)

Photodump

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I uploaded photos from Sharon’s/Charles’/Matt’s party thing to photos 2.

Anyway, after a long hiatus of photos, here’s a bunch of random photos from recent life:
Alice being Alice

Random board games


Indian food before the 162 R1 release



Jayesh

Ben giving a talk during the regular Friday meeting

Tasty Dim Sum

Signoff for the 162.7 patch release (poor Release Team… by Sunday, they will have done 9 straight days of releases)

I’ve been playing Baten Kaitos Origins lately (since it arrived before Baten Kaitos). I am a huge HUGE fan of the battle system… it’s partially real-time, but so much more strategic than most real-time systems. I now have three RPGs I’m in the process of playing (Baten Kaitos, Baten Kaitos Origins, and Evolution Worlds). I should probably not try to do all three concurrently…

Random thoughts

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Random thoughts of the moment:

  • Relationships seem to last longer the older you are. In middle school, I remember people changing boyfriends/girlfriends every few weeks or months. Now it seems every other Facebook status update is, “Yay one year!” or similar.
  • Last night’s PSO game is what PSO should be. Despite being an open game, the 3 people I played with were awesome. They shared items openly, were good at their respective jobs, were extremely supportive (resta, anti, moons), and just generally fun to adventure with. None of this “Mage, buff me.” (just because it’s my job doesn’t mean you have to be rude about it) or rare hogging stuff.
  • Relatedly, my newm can survive Falz in ultimate now. Well, except for his rabarta wave of doom. Boo rabarta wave.
  • Facebook is getting creepier. There are now apps that aren’t served from the site itself but external locations (through Facebook Connect?). As such, they still have scary amounts of access to your private data, but there is no apparent way to block them (as you can only block Facebook apps, not external ones). Also, I found a bit of my private, visible to “No One” data in an ad this morning. WTF, Facebook.
  • Seafood is tasty. Last night’s dinner was really tasty. I want scallops.
  • I seem to have fallen out of touch with all of my friends from middle school (sometimes purposely, on their end… seriously, wtf is your problem?). This makes me sadder than it should, sometimes. This is primarily on my mind because I had a dream about this last night, and woke up rather upset.
  • My ribcage hurts. I think I’ve been sleeping on it wrong. Bleh.
  • If you send me a “kind of urgent, please respond ASAP so we can set this up” email and I respond, not responding back for days is kind of rude.

Poop.

Dreams

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My dreams have been awesome lately, leading me through tons of different emotions every night. I find myself often waking up in a panic, or completely content, or really upset.
I keep intending to document some of these dreams.
Unfortunately, the instant I wake up, I forget almost all of the content. Sigh. So it goes.

Tried PSO’s challenge mode yesterday and ended up failing 1C1 twice (AKA the easiest challenge in the game). Fail.

My hard drive has less than 10 GB of free space. I need to buy a 1 TB drive soon, but I’m trying to delay until Thanksgiving sales.

My laptop is being even less cooperative, freezing when I try to launch windows explorer. I should perhaps do something about this, but meh.

Work is good.

Life goes.