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  • Just thought the D&D playing readers out there would want to know that I’m starting to do updates and revisions to my D&D page on PeloVish. I’ve been inspired both as a designer and a DM, so I’m going to try to start making some headway here. Hope work doesn’t get too much in the way.

  • Damn, Mario Kart: Double Dash!! be rocking my balls. It’s the best game Heather and I have played together. Co-op play with your non-gamer spouse rocks the house.

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  • Eureka! I found it.

    We did our first GeoCache this weekend. It was a really long walk because we decided to just walk from the house rather than drive to a nearby location, but we still had fun. It was only a mile or so out there, so it posed to be a nice hike, but after a couple of wrong turns and double backs, we probably double the distance out there. Fortunatly the walk back wasn’t as bad since we knew where we were once we got there. Kind of an “oh, this is where we’ve been walking” thing.

    The cache itself was pretty slim pickin’s but you don’t don’t this kind of stuff for the treasure, you do it for the hunt. This one was really cool too, because you didn’t just put in a location and simply walk to it. You put in location and when you get there, you look for a number on a mundane item which gives you part of the co-ordinates for the final location. After visiting three such locations, you have the final location. It was a really cool four part cache. The location was obvious as we got closer and closer to it.

    All we took was a Pink Carabiner in exchange for the Green Carabiner that we had on Ia’s leash. I just thought it was funny.

    The other thing we did this weekend was start the dining room floor again. Heather had pulled up the carpet, cleaned up the staples and glue, and started sanding it, but gotten disheartened when the sander wasn’t doing that much. My parents lent us a belt sander while we were out there and we took it out on Sunday to see what it does to the floor. Dayamn if that thing doesn’t strip the floor down to the bare wood. We hadn’t intended on going that deep, but since it does it with only moderate effort, we’re gonna do a complete refinish, sanding, staining and all. Yeah, we’re idiots.

    Oh well, the semester’s started and my life hasn’t completely come to a screeching halt yet. We’ll see how I feel by the end of the week.

  • Quiz: What Movie Should I Be In? “”

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    “jesus saves but everyone else rolls a d20”

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  • Wow, I know it’s been a while since I’ve written anything, but that’s because I’ve been pretty much away from or avoiding computing for the past 2-3 weeks. I don’t get away often so when I get the chance to not need a computer for a while, I lavish in it.

    So now that I’m back at work, my friggin livejournal icon has been blinking almost non-stop. Apparently you people won’t shut up!

    Christmas was good, we had a decent drive out to Virginia. I always love going out there. Had beautiful weather, even without snow. I wanted to try out the Baja in the snow, but I was okay with Texas-y weather while we were out there. It was nice to see Jeremy and Christy again, even though they’d only been out of town for a couple months. I missed them and it was good to see them again. As usual, I was really happy to see mom and dad, at least for the first few days. Then mom went back to berating me for things I’m too old to be scolded for. I stay for a long time because I don’t see them often, but it seems like by the time I get through 4 or 5 days, I’d rather just be home. I really like my dad though (I do like my mom, I just get tired of her much faster) so I make myself feel better by trying to hang out with him more during the final days. Mom did appologize to me twice about treating me like I was 8. I think she was sincere, even if she wasn’t, it was at least nice to hear her say she was sorry.

    Gift wise, I did alright. Heather did a great job of getting me stuff that I wanted that wasn’t at all on my list. Almost everything she gave me was a complete surprise, and a happy surprise, too. I’m looking forwad to putting up my hammock, if it starts to get warm again, that is. I didn’t get my GPS as a gift, but I bought it afterwards with christmas money and some returns I made. I haven’t gone caching yet, but only for the same reason I haven’t put up my hammock, as of yesterday, it’s dropped to 30° and it’s just too darned cold.

    We got back in time to go to the New Years party, but for a number of different and individual reasons between Heather, Nur, and myself, we decided to not go. It was very strange to be sitting home, alone and quiet on New Years. Strangely nice though.

    Anyway, now we have a week before the semester to start and things haven’t started rioting just yet, but I can almost sense impending doom. I hope it’s just indegestion, I’d love to have a good semester.

  • I’ve been so damn busy with software purchases, hardware upgrades, audits and such at work, and the holidays at home, and gaming in Tulsa, I haven’t had time to up date at all. I’m sorry I’m keeping you all in the dark lately. Maybe when I get to Virginia and things slow down a bit, if my parents still have internet, I’ll send a little note.

    Sheesh, back to the grindstone.

  • A Letter to Discover – Am I over reacting?

    This isn’t a question so much as a comment on how I’ve been
    handled lately. Through some errors on the part of Discover Card,
    a ballance transfer was made twice from to my Discover Card from
    another store credit card I was working on paying off. There were
    some timing issues that resulted in Discover Paying them twice
    and as a result, my Discover account was put in a negative
    ballance. I was far over my limit.

    When I contacted Discover about this, they explained why it
    happened, and promissed me I would not be penalized for this
    action. I was thankful. When I asked if they could fix the
    situation, I was informed that they in fact could not, that I
    would have to contact the other Credit Card, get a refund from
    them, transfer that to a check and pay it back to Discover.
    Needless to say, that took almost two months (from the initial
    mistake) to get all cleared out and I’ve still sitting at a
    negative ballance.

    I called to figure this out, and I was informed that large
    payments to Discover can take over a week to process. That’s
    added yet another week to the already excessively long time that
    this error has been plaguing me.

    My opinion of this is that even though Discover Card made a
    mistake, and essentially locked my account for two months, all
    they’ve been able to do to make ammends for it, is to promise not
    to penalize me for their mistake. Seems like poor business.

    I just wanted you to know how I feel and how little respect
    Discover seems to give their card holders. Sure, my card says
    member since 1997, but I think I’ll probably be canceling my card
    once all my problems are all sorted out, if in fact they ever are
    sorted out. This is a poor business model and I hope you do not
    treat all your “members” this way.

    Thank you for your time and I hope your hollidays are less
    stressful than mine have been.

    Sincerely,
    Kenneth Close
    Member Since 1997

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