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January 29, 2007
January 25, 2007
Super MP5 Jesus Christ.
Warning: WoW Nerd Chat
Warning: WoW Nerd Chat
My mana regen is bugged right now, I get like 400 per tick in and out of battle. I have no idea why but this is AWESOME.
Ok after fiddling with it I found out I'm getting 5100 over 30 seconds (like the Filtered Draconic Water) but I'm getting it all the time. If I drink the water then I "reset" the bug and I go back to normal debuffing.
I took a video of it, not the best but shows you something. My hud is kind of transparent so I try to move it around enough so you can make it out. My mana bar is the inner section of the two you'll see in the battle scene.
The first part is me just casting my buff and wasting all mana, then getting it back in super fast time, not drinking or anything. I then mouse over to show my spirit which is normal and that I have no crazy odd buff on or anything. In the second half I just try to dump mana, half way through the fight I just do nothing but spam drain life (destro warlock here) and I finish with pretty much full mana, takes two ticks and I'm done.
regen.wmv (6mb WMV)
WoW Nerd Chat Over
January 20, 2007
New Television
Hello, what is this?
Oh it's THE NEW TV. WOO.
46" Bravia. It's pretty fucking amazing.
January 16, 2007
A Weird Burning (Crusade) Sensation
16th is here, that means the object of many nerds' desire has finally hit store shelves. I wasn't about to go camp out to get Burning Crusade but I did swing by last night around midnight to go pick up a copy of it which I'm patching to play right now. Of course joining myself in the crusade will be a good chunk of the 2+ million active subscribers to the game - meaning it will be more along the lines of a login screen simulator and rolling restart server tester.
[On a side note I am reminded of the line ride from a certain theme park]
Also last night I had a wicked weird dream. I usually don't share my dreams because dreams in general are kind of randomness your mind is piecing together into some kind of noticeable pattern. Because I'm now actively thinking about it however I am having problems thinking of how it started, or if it had any kind of "start". It involved me being taken hostage, or captive more likely by several people, each weirder than the last one. This lasted for weeks in total and through it I somehow lost my clothing. The Whoopi-Goldberg-esque woman that had me captive last left long enough for me to break an escape, naked for some reason. A couple of punk biker guys came and tossed me this small towel that covered my front. Wandering around I found a park and asked a family if they had any clothing I could borrow for the time being - I had just been in a situation. Obliging me they handed me their daughters pajama sleeper (which I fit into magically). Blue and orange with hands and feet coverings.
Then the dream kind of morphs into me trying to find a job, and then me doing backflips on rollerblades in the snow - which was pretty 
if you ask me. Around this point I kind of stopped caring and following it, not as if I had any kind of conscious control over my dream.
Oh well. At least I have my pinatas Burning Crusades to keep me happy.
January 9, 2007
iPhone
January 2, 2007
Becoming a Zombie
I have been working a lot lately. Keep in mind I'm working *part-time*. Apparently when you're short staffed part-time means 35-45 hours a week. Then add in the fact that I'm a waiter (not an 8 hour a day job) and you've got yourself a hunk of problems. Lately all I do is work. I don't even have time to go shopping for food, which we've been out of since the 27th.
Just to let you know how much I'm working here is my schedule. Because I'm a waiter I don't have set "off" times, whenever it gets dead I go home.
Monday:
Open at 10:00
Shift at 4:00
(Monday's usually leave me with about 2 hours break in between, about a 9 hour day total.)
Tuesday:
Shift at 4:00
(This is one of those "day off" kind of feelings. I don't have work until late so I can sleep in and recoop from the heavy weekend - which you'll see. I work till around 9 or 10, easy day.)
Wednesday:
Open at 10:00
(Once again, this starts my "weekend". I have this night off after an easy morning shift and then I get Thursday off. I'd love to get 2 days but I have to just settle for this.)
Thursday:
Day off.
(Sleep until 2pm. Wake up and realize I slept until 2pm and have no day left)
Friday:
Shift at 11:15
Close at 5:00
(Friday's are a good money making day. I work from 11:15 till around 4, then finish up my tables, take my 20 minute break and start working from 5 till 1am, when we close. I get out of there around 1:30ish)
Saturday:
On Call 9:00am
Close at 5:00pm
(This is the second worst day of my week. I'm on call at 9am. That means after getting home and falling asleep around 2, I get 7 hours of sleep before having to wake up and call them to see IF I have to come in for work. If so I usually have to be in by 10am. Then the same thing like yesterday happens again, work from 10-11ish all the way through until 1am, then finish up.)
Sunday:
Open 9:00am
Shift at 4:00pm
(This is the absolute worst day. I'm already tired and worn out from the other two days and when I have to turn around and be back at work at 9am, after getting home around 2... it really just breaks me down. Then I turn after that and go into work on Monday for that double, two easy shifts and then my day off. I get those 24 hours to recoop and I'm back into the double hell)
So that is my schedule. When it does change I usually get a Wednesday off instead of a Thursday - which isn't much. We hired someone right before Bryan and I went down to California. When I came back up I found out she'd already been fired and because of that and the other two servers we lost beforehand I needed to work harder than before.
I'll try to find the slip of paper that shows but we had a massive power outage here. Imagine the entire bay area but hayward losing power - that's what happened. Most of the Pugent Sound area went down and my Applebee's was one of the few places with food AND power. This was the busiest I've ever seen a store in my life.
Friday: Power went out Thursday night so the morning wasn't too bad. Around 1pm we had a wait. Around 5pm it was out the door. The wait died around 11pm. This was the busiest day in the store's history.
Saturday: I'm in to open, there is already a line out the door. We literally could not make coffee fast enough. We had a wait from the doors being open till around 11pm. I pulled 15.75 hours this day without a break. I went to my car after it and just cried, I was starting to break down fast now. This became the busiest day in the store's history, beating Friday.
Sunday: Now people have been without power for a bit and are just pissed the fuck off. Once again we couldn't get breakfast served fast enough (we only do it on Sat. and Sun.) and so because of all the problems we had to pull the menu early, serving lunch from that point on. Food was being bought left and right because of the problems everywhere. People were angry and cold, and we had nothing but places to sit really. It took about an hour to get sat and then after your waiter rang in the food another hour before the food would get to your table. If you had to send something back it would be another 40 minutes if you were lucky before it was taken care of. It wasn't as busy as Saturday but this was the store's breaking point. Half our menu we couldn't serve during the second half of my shift - we just started to run out of food. I worked 12 hours this day, bringing my total hours this week up to 48. Went back to my car and cried some more - everything hurt and people just have a way of making you feel even worse than things should be.
Monday: Power's coming back up for many people, lunch was a bit busy but nothing unheard of after this weekend. I worked a double this day and after that I went down to California for the Christmas time. I really couldn't take another day.
I get back from that and I am told I have to work MORE. I love this store and I'm not thinking of quitting but everyone there is now being worked to the bone. Not one person isn't working a double, many people like me are pulling 4 doubles and 2 normal shifts with possibly a day off. It's ridiculous. And I can't even get anyone a job there because I don't KNOW anybody who wants a job at the time.
But a zombie? Yes. When I come home from work I'm glad to see Bryan but I don't really want to socialize with Alex, I don't want to really socialize on IRC or chat. I just kinda go play Guitar Hero or Viva Pinata until 2am, then fall asleep and drag my ass out of the bed to repeat the process. I know things will get better and I have to admit, the extra chunk of money coming my way is quite nice. All things aside however, I don't think my body can really take this much longer. I don't think my mind can take it much longer - I'm just such a zombie right now. I look in our fridge and see my roomies have gone shopping. I don't even want any of the food, I've grown accustomed to just eating whatever is at work, I think the last thing I had to "eat" in this apartment was some Coke Blak before I left for California.
Someone at work wants to start a WoW guild and they want me to design and run the website. I was really excited and I said I'll start working on it whenever I can. That was last week and I still haven't had any "free" time to sit down and start messing with it.
I hope this doesn't last too much longer. One of these days I just won't wake up. The phone will ring and I will not have enough care or energy to answer it - I will just sleep through an entire day. I really don't know how else to get a day off. I can't ask - there are people that are twice my age there and need a day off just as bad. We all do.
At least my pinatas are keeping me happy.
