Sun 8 Jul 2007
I love my job. I LOVE my job. And yet, lately, I’ve been a little stressed out by it. The surprising thing is, every time I think, “Holy cow, I’ve never been this busy in one day”, or “I’ve never seen this amount of work come in in a week”, I am surprised to see that a few days or weeks later, I’m thinking it again.
Anyway, I did just get a big fat promotion a few days ago, basically a grade up in responsibility and pay for a job I already do. So that recognition was nice.
Next week, I’m out all week for Linux training.
Also, I’m sending thanks out to Matthew Gandy for recommending I watch the fun anime series “Full Metal Panic”. I love the comedy-only offshoot “Full Metal Panic: FUMOFFU”, and recommend it unilaterally to anyone who seems interested in anime (even my folks love it), but I didn’t watch the original series that it was based on. I had seen the manga at a bookstore somewhere and skimmed it, but it sucked. Matthew told me to give the anime a try: Apparently the light novels came first, then the anime (based on the light novels), then finally somewhere along the line the manga came out, and it was apparently godawful.
Knowing that, I went back and downloa rented the anime series, and sure enough it’s really entertaining. I can’t recommend it as much as the “FUMOFFU” series, but it is *really* fun. A delicate balance of comedy, action, and para-military.
-Andy
July 8th, 2007 at 16:33
[…] RULES SECTIONS (all are in summary form, though, being fleshed out and written as to be readable) - introduction - game terms - character generation - basic rules - combat rules - “zero” rules: scenes, acts and intermission rules, GM advice, etc - karma rules: fates, destinies, and the flow of karma - archetypes STILL SCRATCHING OUR HEADS OVER - The included scenario. We’re thinking of either creating a new one, creating two new ones, or going with the one in the book (it’s quite railroad-y, but accessible). Though my real job tends to get in the way these days, I’ve really been putting my back into getting the game out by the end of this year. As you can see, thought, the progress made thus far has been significant. Hopefully the wait won’t be too much longer! […]
December 5th, 2007 at 16:52
Maybe it’s the penis-pills spam, but the abbreviation FOMOFFU sounds very Japanese and pornographic.
January 25th, 2008 at 22:42
Hi,
Amazon has a nice offer which ends Monday, Jan. 28, 2008 - you can get 5 HD-DVDs for free
if you buy a Toshiba DVD player.
More about this on Bargain Hunter http://bargains-hunter.blogspot.com
February 16th, 2008 at 2:22
Just discovered a complete list of all marked down products at Amazon, sorted by category
and % off, ranging from 50% off to 90% off (thanks Sonja for the effort).
Actually I never thought Amazon would have articles with 90% off, but only in the category
Electronics there are more than 3000 of them - look for yourself, the list is on
Bargain Hunter (which is a blog of a woman who specializes in finding good deals at
Amazon, like Britain’s “Jeanie”).