Dinner and WoW...

Natalie called as I posted my previous tappings, and we arranged for her to come down around 6 pm. I took a brief nap, and then called her to tell her to pick me up at the Kroger down the street, so that I might make use of her car to take home some heavier items.

Dinner was leg of lamb with store-bought mashed potatoes, which went well. After dinner, Natalie sat down with me and shepherded me through some first baby steps in WoW.

The game struck positive and negative chords. Positive, because there's a modicum of interest in developing one's character and solving "quests," and there is something of a "wow" factor associated with the graphical environment and all the work that's gone into creating it (though that may pale); negative, because I can see just what kind of time sink this game can become (indeed, I have, with Natalie).

I took advantage of the free trial at Audible.com and find it interesting that I can get a 52-hour reading of Atlas Shrugged as my free download. (I don't think so.) The jury is still receiving instructions on what to look for in a freebie.

Cheers...

The blahs...

I've finished my first pass through the 12,000-word job and expect to send it off tomorrow morning. Then I'll have to call Enterprise and see about renting their cheapest car for a couple of days. In between, I have about 2,200 words of woodworking to translate, to be done by the end of the day on Tuesday.

I will do my level best not to take any additional work that's due in that time frame, I promise.

I spent a couple of hours after completing the translation in Second Life, and I'm trying to figure out what all the buzz is about. Supposedly, there are people making money hand over fist in SL (in addition to the folks who run the thing, naturally), but I'm not anywhere near trying to figure how that works; I'm just trying to figure out why anyone would want to spend time there. (I mean, what good is it to go shopping in a virtual mall to buy a virtual tee shirt for virtual money? To have something to wear to a virtual disco? I'm missing something here.)

I biked around the neighborhood for exercise today, not nearly enough. It seems all I've been doing is eat.

Cheers...

What am I doing?

When I start to whine and put up the decorations for my very own pity party, I should go watch this, to remind me of perspective.

Cheers...