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I've always been interested in alternate worlds.  Like, fleshed out fantasy realms, like Middle Earth and the Star Wars universe and the Star Trek universe and all the stuff you get in fantasy novels and D&D.  I'd like to create one of my own, but I don't seem to be good at it.  I'm better at thinking of one little quirk and just thinking of how it might affect this reality, but then I never get past it.  I guess I've never put enough time in.

I bring this up because I was thinking today about how many people sorta just make up how the real world works as they go along.  Ignoring things they don't like, making up reasons for things the observe, creating a fantasy land to live in.

It made me wonder if there was a correlation between the two phenomena.  Like, perhaps people who try to understand reality as it really is tend to enjoy fantasy realms in their free time, and those who don't, don't.  That kinda fits with the stereotype of nerds.

Likely it's a continuum, like most things.  Just kinda a little thing I thought.

Do gourd and gordo have the same root?

do some people have straight pubic hair?

Watch me.

I'm at Aaron's.  He's like, asleep or something still.  Not really asleep probably, just laying down still.  I was kidnapped yesterday and we went to the Ren Faire.  There wasn't too much happening but we saw some stuff.  And afterwards I ran some D&D 4.0.  The way it worked out we had 5 players.  We didn't get nearly enough time to play, though.  Sad.  There's going to be a lack of playing in the future weeks probably as well due to people leaving.

Another 4 day week next week.  I get the 4th of July off.  I dun have plans to do anything though since people around these parts seem to be working or leaving.

Grandma's funeral thing was alright.  I dun really have anything to compare it to, but I can imagine many worse things.

At work I continue to tweak that original project, but most of my time is on new things.  I think my boss guy is handing me off to work with all my spare time on this website some other people have made a database for.  He said I should see if I could help them out, but they're acting like I'm going to do all the work.  They don't know ASP but that hardly seems like my fault.

If I have to do all the work it'll probably take me weeks.  It's a pretty big site.  They can't get off the hook entirely... it's they're thing, so I can't decide how they want everything to look, and I probably won't be able to figure out how to tie into their database correctly without their help.  We'll see.  I suspect if my boss guy needs me for something he'll put it as higher priority than the website.

Sorry about the lack of posts.  The way things are these days I just don't have opportunities to put up my awesome thoughts as easily as before.  So everyone misses out.

Well, I have to sleep now, like an old person, and get up in the morning, like a lame person, and put on pants, like everyone, and then work, like a square, and then go to Seattle, where I will have no internet, all, or most, of the time, like a idiot, and then, when I get back, I'll have to rest so I can get up and go to work again on Monday, like a stooge, so I'll be very out of touch until around 5:15 on Monday, and then I'll have a backlog of podcasts and internets the size of my ego to catch up on, like I do, but I'll find time for you if you contact me.

Yo.  Long time no blog.  Did you know I only have 5.5 hours of free time a day this summer?  Did you further know that my average daily podcast allotment is approximately 5.5 hours?  This is causing some problems.  I'm still reading all of the updates you guys make... like... all 4 or 5 of them.  :P

Mostly this post is to inform you, my loyal friends, that I have a cell phone now.  My dad gave me one and I pushed the buttons and stuff.  I haven't actually called anyone but I assume it works.  Anyway, you should all give me your numbers so I can be one of the "in" people now.  Or whatever.

I'm going to Seattle this weekend for to attend my grandma's memorial.  I will consequently not be around town this weekend to go to Kim's party, or buy Rock Band, both of which I might have done.  I will, however, please my mother and extended family, perhaps, and get further on my research into the function of D&D 4.0.

At work I finished the first assignment thing, at least for now.  My next assignment is different, and so far very vague, so I'm kinda back into that not doing real work part of work.  Maybe I'll catch up on some podcasts.

Dim demands job update but there isn't much to tell.  So far I've worked 4 days.  Day 1 was mostly getting the orientation treatment and taking all the tests so that you can work out at Hanford and getting a badge and whatnot.  Days 2 and 3 were spent in this meeting that most of my department was going to.  It was an exercise in using this software and this decision making process.  My boss guys were just watching, but there was a panel running through the exercise and stuff.  Day 4 my boss guys had big meetings and presentations to do so they didn't have time to do anything with me.  So, I've read a bunch of documents, I've gotten some software installed, I've sent in my timecard so I get paid, and that's about it.

Probably will get my D&D books on Monday.  Amazon says they sent them yesterday.  First they told me I wouldn't get them until July 14th, so I was concidering just buying them at a store or something, but then the changed their minds.  I wish I had them for the long weekend, like I probably should, but oh well.

I've got tons of podcasts to listen to.

That's what I do.  I dun really do real work at work yet, but I'm afk.  Maybe tomorrow.

Yesterday I played D&D.  3.5 version cause I has no 4.0 books yet.  Amazon e-mailed me saying they think I can get it by July 14th.  So, screw them.  Session was pretty short, but was fun.  My character performed well and I've almost leveled.

I learned that smoking kills at work today.  This picture has not be altered, nor was the subject posed.  At least not to my knowledge.

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