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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
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7:38 am - Ren-Fetching
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Well, I'm off to pick Ren up from the airport now! Her plane won't land until 8:45, but it's a long and confusing way to the airport and I want to have extra time for being lost. The airport website says the flight is on time, too.
I'm sure she'll make a brief update of her own once she's home, and a fuller one once she's fed, showered, rested and coffeenated. :)
current mood:  energetic
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| Sunday, July 6th, 2008
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1:23 am - 1:23:45 6/7/8
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The time is 45 seconds past 1:23 AM on the 6th of July 2008.
1:23:45 6/7/8.
Oh yes.
current mood:  Fnord
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| Thursday, June 5th, 2008
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1:46 pm
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Well, Ren is 40 minutes away from the beginning of her mighty journey to the States. It's certainly about time - the last time she saw her family was about four years ago.
Byebye, dearie. I hope your trip will be pleasantly boring with no difficulties. I'll see you on the 8th of July!
current mood:  lonely
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| Sunday, May 11th, 2008
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3:01 am
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I haven't updated much in a while, but today was fun enough that I'm motivated to do so :D
The plan for the day was going to my brother's place for a session or few of Battlefleet Gothic, a more-or-less discontinued Games Workshop wargame featuring the massive kilometers-long spaceships of the Warhammer 40K universe. As my brother lives a difficult public transit trip away with a bit of walking thrown in, it all had to start early, meaning 11 o'clock.
After showering and waking up (in that order - I'm a bit of a zombie in the mornings), I soon headed out to my friend Toni's place for a brief prelude of gaming. He started with some drinks and we faced off at an old Virtua Fighter game, with him winning most of the time. An hour and a half was spent doing that and watching some Youtube laughs before our Helsinki journey began.
Toni had a card game to pick up from a gaming store and I had some club flyers to deliver, but the main quest was having a massive pizza each (at a very reasonable 5E price, considering the almighty size). There's a small pizza joint called Sky Express right in Helsinki downtown with very reasonable prices, very large servings and very few seats. We got lucky and had plenty of room.
( Cut for the uninterested in some wargaming details... )
After much wargaming, it was time to head home. My brother graciously donated funds for a cab ride, and after reaching Toni's place I walked home.
All in all, a very excellent gaming evening. BFG is a great game and I'd love to play it some more somewhere sometime. :) My brother took cellphone photos and perhaps he'll write a report and (gasp) maybe even post it somewhere. If that happens, I'll link it to the interested parties.
Now it's 3 AM and time to sleep! Goodnight.
current mood:  Entertained
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| Friday, January 4th, 2008
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2:45 pm
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| Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
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2:18 am
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The old year is gone and a new one has taken its place. This is good, because 2007 by and large sucked, for me and for most of my friends.
2008 already promises to be better, if for no other reason than having such a low threshold to pass in order to beat the previous one.
Happy new year, people! Let's make this one good. :)
current mood:  contemplative
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| Monday, October 15th, 2007
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2:25 am - Safari danger!
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| Monday, August 13th, 2007
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10:16 am - Stupid modem, and stupid weather.
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Well, our net connection has borked. Yesterday there was a thunderstorm around our home area, and the connection dropped around then (Ren had turned the computers off for the duration, to no avail) while I was at the RPG convention a few miles off.
I called my ISP's tech support this morning. They said they didn't seem to have any particular connection issues in that area, but it could be that I was simply the first caller about it (since the tech support line was closed on sunday and I called three minutes after the line was open this morning). In the meantime, I'll have to check and see if my modem or our apartment's line out is broken by testing our modem and having another modem tested at our house.
I'll have to call my dad to drop by and help us figure this out. I'm hoping this won't turn into the same kind of a snafu as last time we had connection issues, where we had to call an expensive repair line to sort the trouble out.
I wonder if I'd have less or more trouble with a different modem... Or a different ISP.
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| Sunday, July 1st, 2007
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1:13 am - Some RPG blather
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We just had a session of a GURPS campaign I'd been working on for a while. It's imperial Rome, where the characters started off in the aftermath of the disastrous battle of Carrhae, and had to walk 200-odd kilometers back to Roman lands through hostile ground.
The scenario was a great success and everyone had a lot of fun! All of the stalwart band made it back to the Roman province of Syria (As one of our players put it, that's the first time he's been so happy to see the border of Syria XD), with a decent amount of loot, a grateful caravan trader and practically all of their limbs! :D
Will need to work on the next scenario and get more awesome in it. Whoo!
current mood: pleased
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| Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
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7:10 am
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Izzy got very sick yesterday, and we took her to a vet. X-rays and an ultrasound were taken, and they revealed her heart was acting funny and she had fluid in her lungs. She stayed at the vet for a few hours for observation and was medicated to get the fluid out of her.
We were to take her to a veterinary hospital first thing in the morning, and keep an eye on her overnight. In case of emergencies, we'd take her to an emergency vet clinic, clear on the far side of Helsinki.
Around 5 AM Izzy was wheezing for breath and making sad little cries. We called my mom, who came over with the car, and we took off towards the emergency clinic around 5:50.
All of us - my mom, me, Ren, most of all Izzy - tried our very best. Still, she died at 6:10 AM, still far away from the emergency clinic.
She was the best cat in the world. I'm going to miss her so much.
Rest in peace, Izzy dear. You'll always be in mine and Ren's hearts.
current mood:  crushed
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| Sunday, April 29th, 2007
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1:35 pm - A really bizarre dream
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I woke up several times in the night and the morning, but the last dream before I got up was pretty strange, indeed.
I was appaently Luke Skywalker, and I jumped out of a low-flying airplane on top of this mobile home travelling down along the freeway at a hundred-odd kilometers per hour. It was being driven by the Emperor (leaning forward and peering over the steering wheel), with Darth Vader sitting on the passenger side in a fairly lazy manner. They were chatting about various silly things (E: "You'll see, Darth, once we work our way up from these modest beginnings, we'll take over the world! Many worlds! All of them! We can BUILD ourselves one, make it into a fully armed and operational battlestation!" V: "Do we have any hot dogs in the mini-fridge?" E: "Yes, go ahead and get one but leave the other to me.")
I skillfully clambered down the side and peered in through the passenger window. The emperor, after a little while, got bored with Darth's words and had him turn the radio on louder, on the classical music channel. With him so distracted, I yanked open the passenger door and pulled the very surprised Darth right out. He hung on for dear life after grabbing a hold on the outer door handle, while I slipped to the passenger seat and closed the door. The Emperor didn't notice any of this.
I got up and moved to the inside of the mobile home and started rummaging around for... something important that I no longer remember. After a short while, the Emperor's cellphone made a text message beeping noise. He reached for the phone, thumbed it a little and read the message, then exclaimed "Holy crap!" before reaching over and opening the passenger side door. In comes Vader, holding his cellphone in his other hand (Can you imagine him hanging on the passenger door with one hand and desperately tapping a text message, doubtlessly something like "I'm hanging off psngr door, HELP!") and seats himself.
Right around that time I finished rummaging around, got out and climbed on top of the mobile home again. I think my plan involved jumping off the roof somewhere, but then I woke up.
What a weird, geeky dream. XD
current mood:  awake
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| Saturday, April 7th, 2007
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1:53 am
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I haven't posted anything in a while. I'll make a meaningful post in a few days, though.
In the meantime, have a hilarious youtube video. It's the Ballad of the Noob, made with and about World of Warcraft. You don't need to have played that game to get the joke, though, the song itself is hilarious and clear enough. XD
current mood: Entertained!
current music: Ballad of the Noob
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| Friday, February 2nd, 2007
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2:52 am
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| Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
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3:17 am
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Well, I haven't made a post in almost two months. They haven't been all that good in here.
Christmas and new year's were fun and nice occasions, and I've had a few pleasant days. The rest of these couple of months... Less said, the better. I'm just glad they're gone.
And the same can be said of most of 2006! What a difficult year it's been... Very little in the way of money, constant stress (I have a few strange, solitary white hairs growing on me, but that might be unrelated) and feelings of uselessness have contributed to it.
I hope 2007 will be a little better. I could use some peace, in my mind and around me.
Take care, people, and have a solidly decent new year!
current mood:  stressed
current music: Depeche Mode - "Suffer Well"
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| Friday, November 10th, 2006
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5:23 am - So, finally...
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| Saturday, October 21st, 2006
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1:30 pm - C64 games
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When you were little, did you play Commodore 64 games at all? Do you remember the music that tickled the imagination, the blocky graphics that brought more of the game between your ears than WoW ever could? What about the long loading times between levels or even at the start of the game, such that you could even go and have dinner before the machine was done?
Do you remember the hours and days where you tried to get through one event on one level late in one game, without an option to save anywhere, and if you croaked, you'd have to start all over again?
There are people who've taken videos, in avi format, of a goodly number of old C64 games being finished, all the way from the beginning of the game. It's balm for ancient wounds to see how an impossible game-stopper is passed effortlessly, and in a few cases what was the silly damn point in that game to begin with. Enjoy!
current mood:  Illuminated
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| Thursday, October 12th, 2006
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10:08 pm
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| Thursday, September 28th, 2006
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2:42 am
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In addition to Early American Chrononauts, the expansion/standalone game of time travel focusing on the history of USA, I've been playing Discworld Noir, an adventure-mystery game from -99. The noir-lens have been used to the maximum and Ankh-Morpork is a dark city where it's always raining, and everyone looks out for themselves only.
The plot of the game, that starts with a missing person case and grows into serial killings, is excellent and full of neat plot twistery. The graphics are aged and were originally designed in a rather caricaturish manner, and the voice acting leaves something to be desired in a few places, but those aren't really big flaws and don't spoil any of your fun. Discworldly humour with a dark tint in places abounds, and the very user-friendly interface is both flexible and functional. And best of all, the game is logical.
A good film noir detective story needs a logical chain of events and puzzles that make sense - just the sort of thing Vimes doesn't believe in - and this game definitely works in that respect. I was puzzled often but arrived at the solutions after some thinking, yay!
Blind Wolf recommended this to me a few years back, and I definitely agree that this game was super-excellent.
current music: Jazzy detective music
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| Friday, September 22nd, 2006
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2:48 am - It's made of people... Soylent green is MADE OF PEOPLE
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... I just saw the old movie, Soylent Green. It was pretty weird. I swear, 70s movies in general are pretty weird, and people act strangely.
I know it's a cheap shot, but I bet the book is better. I intend to read it as soon as I pick it up from the library.
Also, tomorrow (or today, considering the time) is the International Carless Day. Thanks to that, the mass transit in the greater capital area (Espoo, Vantaa and Helsinki) costs only one euro per trip for adults, fifty cents for kids, and a ticket is good for a hour and a quarter. Helsinki trip for meee! \o/
I'm hoping the RPG store has a spare box of American History Chrononauts. I'm looking to expand my Chrononauts game (and my American history knowledge) a bit. Perhaps Ren and I will also treat ourselves to a kebab dinner, and perhaps some window shopping and a cup of tea in some loud and ridiculously expensive café!
... Oh dear. Either I'm getting old or I'm getting cynical.
Oh, and still sick, with runny nose, coughing and a vaguely sore throat. O angst!
current mood:  sore
current music: Epoxies - "Synthesized"
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| Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
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8:32 pm - A must-see!
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Ren found this bit of super-awesome. It's a video done to Depeche Mode's "John the Revelator". Not the original, mind you, but brilliant nonetheless. About as anti-Bush as it gets.
current mood:  impressed
current music: John the Revelator!
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silly