Showing posts with label Babylon 5. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Babylon 5. Show all posts
2005-07-19
2005-06-20
You've washed your hands clean of us
I still haven't gotten around to posting the rest of the follow-up to me leaving Sonic. Luckily, there's not much more to post after that - I've just been hanging out at the apartment, playing WoW and marathoning my way through B5 with David. We're one episode into season 4, which means we've watched 67 1 hour episodes, plus 1 made-for-TV movie. About 60% of the way done, though that's altered slightly with the other movies.
Starting at Domino's tonight, in about 40 minutes. And I'm... nervous. Very much so. It really doesn't have anything to do with Lilie, as some have suggested. It's just... I haven't been the new person in a *long* time. I never moved during school, and I've only had one job previously, and that lasted 4 1/2 years. I'm also scared of screwing things up and upsetting people. I hate doing that through ignorance.
Went and bought pants today, and realized I really need to lose weight. I know I've said that before, but now, I finally have complete control of my life, and can do it my way. Won't be easy, but what choice do I have?
Things with Lilie are still... well, the same, I s'pose. I'm not going to go to in-depth in that here, partially because I only have a few minutes right now, but mainly, because I don't want to spread her business around. Later, when I have some more time and inclination, I'll explain and explore what I can. I don't know how much that will be, and I doubt I'll break any new ground. It tends to go in circles in my mind anyhoo; I don't see much chance of a significant breakthrough anytime soon anyway. But I'm stubborn and don't give up easily.
Got kinda ansy last night and finally got around to cleaning up my room and organizing it some more. It's basically done, except for the dresser and some more boxes that I can't really do anything about until I get a bookshelf, which I plan on doing, well, maybe tomorrow. We'll see. Not sure where I'm going to put it - either in the closet, or between my bed and my desk. Ooh... I could even rotate my desk 90 degress towards the other wall, then put the bookshelf where the desk was. Interesting... I'll have to explore the myriad possibilities. But later.
Started my own guild on Feathermoon - 'Super Duper Awesome Guys'. The name sprung out of a conversation between David and myself. I'll tell the story later, but needless to say, it involved the phrase 'Decimating Ruiners' (though they originally spelled it wrong.)
Starting at Domino's tonight, in about 40 minutes. And I'm... nervous. Very much so. It really doesn't have anything to do with Lilie, as some have suggested. It's just... I haven't been the new person in a *long* time. I never moved during school, and I've only had one job previously, and that lasted 4 1/2 years. I'm also scared of screwing things up and upsetting people. I hate doing that through ignorance.
Went and bought pants today, and realized I really need to lose weight. I know I've said that before, but now, I finally have complete control of my life, and can do it my way. Won't be easy, but what choice do I have?
Things with Lilie are still... well, the same, I s'pose. I'm not going to go to in-depth in that here, partially because I only have a few minutes right now, but mainly, because I don't want to spread her business around. Later, when I have some more time and inclination, I'll explain and explore what I can. I don't know how much that will be, and I doubt I'll break any new ground. It tends to go in circles in my mind anyhoo; I don't see much chance of a significant breakthrough anytime soon anyway. But I'm stubborn and don't give up easily.
Got kinda ansy last night and finally got around to cleaning up my room and organizing it some more. It's basically done, except for the dresser and some more boxes that I can't really do anything about until I get a bookshelf, which I plan on doing, well, maybe tomorrow. We'll see. Not sure where I'm going to put it - either in the closet, or between my bed and my desk. Ooh... I could even rotate my desk 90 degress towards the other wall, then put the bookshelf where the desk was. Interesting... I'll have to explore the myriad possibilities. But later.
Started my own guild on Feathermoon - 'Super Duper Awesome Guys'. The name sprung out of a conversation between David and myself. I'll tell the story later, but needless to say, it involved the phrase 'Decimating Ruiners' (though they originally spelled it wrong.)
2005-06-03
My oh my, do you want to say goodbye?
I'll probably use that lyric again on my next post, since this one isn't going to be very long. Just checking in. Last night/today was a ton of fun, for various reasons. More on that later. Apartment's working out rather well, more on that later (picture tour). Finally got Carrie's letter out; need to remember to send her some flowers for her birthday. Work's... work, I s'pose. Few updates there, though I have met some cool people there. Actually hung out with one. Getting a ton of hours right now. Up to 'Babylon Squared' on our B5 marathon; we're really ripping this up.
But it's time for work, so more later.
But it's time for work, so more later.
2004-08-31
Arby's Rocks!!
So we went and played D&D last night. It went alright, kinda weird. The party's starting to piece together various campaign arcs, and listening to their various theories as they learn new information is interesting. But the highlight of the evening? While waiting for Jarrod, we went to Arby's to get something to eat. The girl standing at the counter was *so cute*!! Dude, oh my god.
She had this long red hair that was in a ponytail, freckles across her face, gorgeous eyes that were fairly big with a beautiful expression, an awesome voice, the whole package. She was about... 5'6"? I'm not very good at guessing height. I didn't talk to her or anything, and we left. The guys, Michael especially, and Matt to a lesser degree, were giving me an incessant hard time about not talking to her. But seriously - I'm just a customer at her store. The *last* thing she wants is for a customer to come and talk to her - I've worked at Sonic for almost four years, and I've talked to the carhops about this kind of thing. There's no way to pull it off successfully, unless you're really hot (which I'm not) and the girl is interested (which she isn't).
Ended up winning that game of B5 with Bruce yesterday. That was pretty cool. Work time.
She had this long red hair that was in a ponytail, freckles across her face, gorgeous eyes that were fairly big with a beautiful expression, an awesome voice, the whole package. She was about... 5'6"? I'm not very good at guessing height. I didn't talk to her or anything, and we left. The guys, Michael especially, and Matt to a lesser degree, were giving me an incessant hard time about not talking to her. But seriously - I'm just a customer at her store. The *last* thing she wants is for a customer to come and talk to her - I've worked at Sonic for almost four years, and I've talked to the carhops about this kind of thing. There's no way to pull it off successfully, unless you're really hot (which I'm not) and the girl is interested (which she isn't).
Ended up winning that game of B5 with Bruce yesterday. That was pretty cool. Work time.
2004-08-30
Status report
I like to give my entries weird titles, but if nothing comes to mind, I don't mind sticking with something fairly dry that accurately describes the content or object of the post.
I haven't been up to too much since my last post. I'll work backwards from now. I'm currently playing B5 with Bruce. It's his new Valen ranger deck against my Minbari Vorlon Diplomacy. I'm definitely winning - the score is something like 13 (me) to 14 (him), but I'm holding a Support of the Mighty and about to win an Affirmation of Power for two points. I really like a lot of the new Vorlon cards. I had a blast playing that game earlier with stormcloak and azuredarkness. It was weird - for most of the game, I completely dominated in all four stats, though once stormcloak started drawing fleets, he had military. But diplomacy and intrigue, even the Minbari? No way.
Picked Freddie up from Austin last night, where he'd been since Thursday with Laurin. Lucky bastard. Also picked up this *huge* table thing from Mike's, except it's too big, so I have to take it back. That sucks. It was cool, though, 'cause I lifted it up and carried it up to the house by myself. I guess I'm still fairly strong.
School's been going okay, but I definitely have to review my calculus, hardcore. I've forgotten a lot of major things - Taylor Series, Radius of Convergence, etc. Got my Linux account today, and apparently I can do everything remotely, so that's good. That was one of my main concerns. Chem I looks like it's going to be a joke. Katie and Rose are totally down for helping me out with my Intro to Fine Arts stuff, so it looks like it's going to be a fun semester.
Work's... well, work. We've hired like five new carhops in the last week or so - Lacey, Kristen, Laurie, Ashley, and Elizabeth. Lacey is pretty cool - real sarcastic and talkative, but a decent carhop from what I've seen. She was a bartender back in Houston, but isn't one here because she's, "Not a size 2 like all the ones around here are" (her words). She's 20, so not too young or anything. We'll see how that goes. Laurie acts, talks, and just basically reminds everyone of Leah, which isn't a good thing. Kristen is a great carhop and knows how to fountain already, but is still kind of shy, except around the Sayes. I haven't met Ashley or Elizabeth yet, so I can't say anything about them. It was weird - I fountained with Sunny Sunday, and I really, really noticed her breasts for the first time, despite how Freddie's always been very pro-them.
I'm running a game tonight, in about ten minutes. Dragon's Lair opened a branch in town, in the butterfly shopping center. We'll see how they do.
I haven't been up to too much since my last post. I'll work backwards from now. I'm currently playing B5 with Bruce. It's his new Valen ranger deck against my Minbari Vorlon Diplomacy. I'm definitely winning - the score is something like 13 (me) to 14 (him), but I'm holding a Support of the Mighty and about to win an Affirmation of Power for two points. I really like a lot of the new Vorlon cards. I had a blast playing that game earlier with stormcloak and azuredarkness. It was weird - for most of the game, I completely dominated in all four stats, though once stormcloak started drawing fleets, he had military. But diplomacy and intrigue, even the Minbari? No way.
Picked Freddie up from Austin last night, where he'd been since Thursday with Laurin. Lucky bastard. Also picked up this *huge* table thing from Mike's, except it's too big, so I have to take it back. That sucks. It was cool, though, 'cause I lifted it up and carried it up to the house by myself. I guess I'm still fairly strong.
School's been going okay, but I definitely have to review my calculus, hardcore. I've forgotten a lot of major things - Taylor Series, Radius of Convergence, etc. Got my Linux account today, and apparently I can do everything remotely, so that's good. That was one of my main concerns. Chem I looks like it's going to be a joke. Katie and Rose are totally down for helping me out with my Intro to Fine Arts stuff, so it looks like it's going to be a fun semester.
Work's... well, work. We've hired like five new carhops in the last week or so - Lacey, Kristen, Laurie, Ashley, and Elizabeth. Lacey is pretty cool - real sarcastic and talkative, but a decent carhop from what I've seen. She was a bartender back in Houston, but isn't one here because she's, "Not a size 2 like all the ones around here are" (her words). She's 20, so not too young or anything. We'll see how that goes. Laurie acts, talks, and just basically reminds everyone of Leah, which isn't a good thing. Kristen is a great carhop and knows how to fountain already, but is still kind of shy, except around the Sayes. I haven't met Ashley or Elizabeth yet, so I can't say anything about them. It was weird - I fountained with Sunny Sunday, and I really, really noticed her breasts for the first time, despite how Freddie's always been very pro-them.
I'm running a game tonight, in about ten minutes. Dragon's Lair opened a branch in town, in the butterfly shopping center. We'll see how they do.
B5 game: jackalope, azuredarkness, Stormcloak
jackalope
azuredarkness
Stormcloak
Unfortunately, there was an error with my screenshot of Stormcloak's area. He had Ta'lon as his ambassador, and Na'Toth (Variant) in the IC; several smaller characters in the supporting row, Build Infrastructure, Establish Base, and a large number of fleets - 6?
Early game:
jackalope: Nug/Ulg, Crusade: Corporate
Stormcloak: Ambassador Ta'Lon, no Crusade
azuredarkness: Delenn (TF), Crusade: Crusade (I think - he forgot his Crusade card)
Storm did a fairly standard BI + Ko'Dath to get her promoted quicky while building, and threw in a Rapid Growth as well. azure sponsored and promoted Lennier (V) (who is used almost exclusively over Lennier, for obvious reasons), and threw in a Trade Pact for good measure (not sure if it was SH or a good draw). I dropped Diversity and Miziri, then double built to 8, at which point I dropped Diversity for Fulcrum of Power.
There was one scary moment where Azure had an issue with the engine, then it froze, but after a few seconds, everything returned to normal, and we were able to finish the game (saddeningly, a rarity with B5 engine play of extended length).
Two Legacy of Powers were played, and both were killed - one with Aldus, the other with Death Walker. I played a Rally the People with a lot of potential support, but it got YANR'ed. Which got NMtB'ed. Which, in turn, got NMtB'ed.
Dureena Nafeel made an appearance and got to use her mad thieving skills when someone played Short Term Goals.
The game did drag for a bit, but I eventually won by dropping Safety in Numbers for 4 power (I had 11 or 12 IC characters at this point), with 17 influence.
2004-08-05
2004-07-25
B5 game: 7/25/04
These are the two screen captures from our most recent game of B5 on gEngine. The setup was as follows:
Me (jackalope): Human PC Psi/Intrigue
Tim (BOT): Minbari Steal Babylon 4
Nov (Novelty): Human Replacement / Destiny
There were some fairly slow periods, but things definitely came to a head at the end, with the final score being 20 (nov) - 17 (me) - 14 (tim).
On a completely unrelated note, my profile views jumped from 32 to 74. Damn.
