I've been having password issues across the board: City of Heroes, Newgrounds, here, ...uh...UConn email (big oops there). Apparently I was off the grid long enough for nearly every service I am subscribed to, including Norton, to effectively squelch me. Oh well, all is righted again...kind of.
But first, lightning round!
May term came to a close without a hitch. I have a much greater appreciation for history now and it became rather obvious that I did way too much research on 1961 for my PowerPoint presentation. It was a good, well-rounded presentation, I just spoke very fast :).
During the two days between my real summer vacay and the end of the first summer term, I spent roughly a day at Dan's house playing DnD. Yes. You heard me.
I am a cleric. For some reason they made me team leader; apparently I'm cool under fire and I listen well. Go figure. Anywho, the game was executed well, that is, when we finally got underway. We were expecting a few late arrivals (I was first), so we planned to bring other games. Well, this burden was supposed to only fall upon myself to bring gang favorites like Bang! and Fluxx, but our DM also brought a plethora of computer games (Worms2 included). This soaked up too much time, even when we got underway, then took a break for dinner, then played Worms AND Bang!. Bad Idea.
With another team member dead, the party wounded, we worked out a truce with our enemies which could have a huge payoff later, all of which at around 1 AM. However, from my point of view, I feel pretty bad as a leader, especially because Armin's death could have been avoided. But that is the beauty of hindsight. The good coming out of this: we know not to bring as many games as to decrease the level of distraction and work on the quest when we have to; get a better webcam and mic so Andrea can actually quest with us effectively; and I leveled, which means I can actually heal people now instead of just shouting orders, which also means I can a more effective leader. Yay for me.
In other news, City of Heroes sucks. Tuba practicing is much better. Today was the last straw: lost connection to the map server 17 times, and the game tried to duplicate Pokemon's initial effect on half of Japan by suddenly and vociferously flickering the screen on top of freezing when I'm walking forward. Blah, books are much better.
Which is another thing. As part of a personal summer project, I am reading all of the books in my bookshelf and setting them aside, either to be donated, stored, or set back in the bookcase. I suppose I became sick of glancing at my bookshelf and realizing I haven't read most of the literature in the case. But I do say this: Harry Potter's stayin' put.
From July 7-15th I will be in Michigan visiting friends. Should be a raucous time. ;)
That's all for now. Thanks for reading, have a great day.
Adam
PS: Got to see A Prairie Home Companion. Funny, musical, great heart. Kevin Kline's character = disposable. Open-ended and strange plot. Meh. I love the middle.
