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Environment
  • Sight: Reaper Man (Terry Pratchett)
  • Sound: Rush, Hall and Oates
  • Touch: Metroid Prime, Mega Man Anniversary
  • Taste: Mountain Dew
  • Smell: somebody's kettle corn
  • Virtual: Fark, KoL, Homestar Runner

    Other Projects
  • Token Pursuits: horribly out of date and soon to be decommissioned

    Book List 2004
  • Storm Front, Jim Butcher
  • A Game of You (Sandman, Book 5), Neil Gaimnan et al
  • A Season of Mists (Sandman, Book 4), Neil Gaiman et al
  • Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
  • Cerulean Sins, Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Dream Country (Sandman, Book 3), Neil Gaiman et al
  • The Doll's House (Sandman, Book 2), Neil Gaiman et al
  • Preludes and Nocturnes (Sandman, Book 1), Neil Gaiman et al
  • Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Mary Roach
  • The Walking Dead: Days Gone By, Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore
  • Offbeat Food: Adventures in an Omnivorous World, Alan Ridenour
  • Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating the DC Universe - Book 1, Stan Lee et al
  • JLA: League of One, Christopher Moeller
  • JLA: The Obsidian Age, Book Two, Joe Kelly et al
  • JLA: Terror Incognita, Mark Waid et al
  • Naked Empire, Terry Goodkind
  • The Rising, Brian Keene
  • The Devil's Novice: The Eighth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters
  • JLA: World War III, Grant Morrison et al
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
  • Green Lantern/Green Arrow Collection Vol 1, Dennis O'Neil et al
  • Batman: Knightfall (novelization), Dennis O'Neil
  • Fray, Joss Whedon et al
  • Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
  • Green Arrow: Straight Shooter, Judd Winick et al
  • Without Remorse, Tom Clancy
  • JLA: Justice For All, Grant Morrison et al
  • Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
  • Green Arrow: Archer's Quest, Brad Meltzer et al
  • JSA: Stealing Thunder, Geoff Johns et al
  • JSA: Fair Play, Geoff Johns et al
  • Zero Hour, Dan Jurgens et al
  • Lucifer's Hammer, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
  • Frommer's Las Vegas 2004, Mary Herczog et al
  • Green Arrow: The Sounds of Violence, Kevin Smith et al
  • The Zombie Survival Guide, Max Brooks
  • The Day of the Triffids, John Wyndham
  • Batman: Hush 2, Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee
  • DC One Million, Grant Morrison et al
  • Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
  • The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Amazing Colossal Episode Guide, Trace Beaulieu et al

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    • Monday, November 22, 2004
    Weekend Update

  • Pistons/Pacers fallout: Sports Guy Bill Simmons just wrote a column where he echoes many of the points I made. Sweet!

  • Mom's tumor has shrunk 25%. Dude! Sweet!

  • Oh, I have one of those "Livestrong" yellow wristbands now too.

  • Tonight I have to buy a turkey and the turkey preparation materials. (I brine the turkey beforehand, just like Alton Brown.)

  • Tomorrow I need to pick up World of Warcraft.

  • Actually, I'm off for the two weeks after Thanksgiving, during which time I intend to do all my Christmas shopping. Everyone should update their Amazon wishlists! I'll be doing that too. I also have a list at Funagain.com as well.
    posted by dwinn at 5:51 PM

    • Wednesday, November 10, 2004
    My Big Adventure Day

    Last night they opened up the World of Warcraft beta, and before I went to bed I got started on the 2.5 gig download. (!)

    When I woke up, it still had several hours to go. I had the day off of work, so I went out to see my Mom. She's been hit with the fatigue and non-appetite from the chemo she took, but she was happy to see me and vice versa. She's actually doing better with it with each passing day, altho I look at her moving so gingerly and it reminds me of my grandma when she was in the nursing home, and it just brings me so *down*... I'm not ready to give her up (I doubt anyone really ever is...) because she's the prime, shining example of unconditional love, ya know? I count my blessings that I had her (and my Dad) together in my life for all my life.

    As Bill Simmons would say, I think it's getting a little dusty in here.

    Anyways, enough of the sappy stuff... I fixed their computer while I was there, so I guess I didn't totally avoid work... although wrangling with spyware and their new antivirus stuff wasn't really that big a hassle. All they want to do is web, email, and IM.

    So I got back to town and went straight to gaming and had fun, then came home to find that my 5 dollar copy of Mega Man Legends finally showed up (it was so cheap from a Toys R Us gift card that my credit card rewards program gave me -- Amazon finally started taking them) -- sweet! Although I seem to remember the original Mega Man being a LOT harder when I was twelve. I'd almost forgotten about the WoW download -- it was done, and add another ten minutes for install -- and there I was.

    Hard to make an impression just yet -- the only other MMORPG I played was Everquest and that was when it first came out, and I didn't care for it -- but the translation of the Blizzard/Warcraft world in all ways -- the world, the character, the fonts, voice acting, etc -- is exceptional. I'm 'dwinn' on Test Server 20 if you're in the neighborhood.

    (Hmm, this post is full o' ellipsis... "dot dot dot!")
    posted by dwinn at 2:18 AM

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