Through the Looking Glass

For anyone who hasn't asked yet, doesn't know, hasn't figured it out, whatever...

Saturday we successfully moved to a new apartment. Jamie and I are living on our own again. No roommates. Just us and the two cats we have left.

In the two days since our move, we've pretty much got everything unpacked and arranged. I'm amazed with our efficiency. The office is HUGE and it seems like there's way too much space to fill. The cats seem to like it, though they no longer have a basement and only one set of stairs, but the carpets are a nice change for them. We used to have hard wood floors. They're lounging around more in various places where they hadn't lounged before. Like ... right under foot.

Anyone wanting to know my address, drop me a hint as to where I can e-mail you.

Other than that I don't have much more to say other than these few things: Community pool = win. And I'm still fucking tired from all this moving business.

Meanwhile: I'm also now currently talking with Mike about what we can do to improve Mutual Endeavors. If anyone has any suggestions on layout and the like, please let me know.

Today is the last day I will spend in this house. It was a good house. It was a nice big house. I will miss this house. I will also miss James and Anne, despite the times we all wanted to kill each other for stupid random shit. We all actually got along rather fine, in my opinion.

Have to spend the majority of my day, today, finishing packing. There really isn't that much left to do, but if I keep putting it off and putting it off and putting it off like I usually do, next thing I know it'll be 8:00 AM tomorrow and whatever's left wont' be ready to toss into the truck.

With that in mind, as much as I'd like to get some play time in before tomorrow morning, I don't think that's going to happen. See that 8:00 AM thing above. Somehow I'm going to have to make myself sleep at a reasonable hour so I can be up by then. Tomorrow is going to be a long day.

If all goes according to plan, nobody's really going to notice that I was gone. Cable gets shut off here tomorrow, but gets turned on in the new place some time in the late afternoon. I think the only people who are really going to notice are Anne and James. They're both going to come home from work tomorrow to a mostly empty house.

One thing I'd like to say before I sign off: Tomorrow is also the second year anniversary of Mutual Endeavors. Our little community went live at midnight on July 11, 2007. We've been active for two full years and are moving into our third. I'm hoping to be able to make a news announcement about this on our front page, but it might not come until late in the evening, or prematurely. We'll see which whim strikes me first.

So anyway. Happy birthday, Mutual Endeavors website! Off I go to get a move on with this move! I can only say happy birthday to the website, because as many of you know Mutual Endeavors itself, the concept, the theory, the belief system, the group -- whatever! -- has been around much longer than that.

See you on the flip side, everybody.

OKAY!

As you all should be aware of by now, my husband and I are moving into a new apartment. We are moving on the 11th of this month. Good news is, I will not be offline as long as I expected!

Just got off the phone with the cable company. They have scheduled our transfer to happen on the day we move. If all goes according to plan, we should be moved in (though likely not unpacked) and back online some time after 6:00 PM at the latest. The technician is scheduled to show up between 4-6 on that day.

So this means I will still be Internet active until the very day before we move! Yay! They won't be shutting us off until the 11th, so until next Friday I am still here. Saturday is going to be one hell of a day. Just because I will be capable of being online does not necessarily mean I will be online.

The rest of this week and all of next is going to be packing extravaganza on top of all my extra curricular activities. As much as I would love to just play to my heart's content, I really should concentrate on being a responsible adult. At least for the first half of the month.

Mutual Endeavors will be renewed before this time. Not to worry. The site will be celebrating its second anniversary, going into our third year of activity. So yay for that!

To anyone who has my current phone number, be aware that we will be canceling our phone service along with this move. My husband plans on getting me a cell phone through his service. As soon as we get that sorted out, I will be sure to inform you all of this change. As well as providing you with the new address for those of you who like snail mail.

That's the most I've had to say on this since we figured out we were moving. Probably because now we have everything sorted out. Here's hoping everything goes smoothly.

Stay tuned!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, elf_fu!!!

That is all.

HAPPY AFTER BIRTHDAY, corlanthis!!!

I knew it was t'yesterday, but I forgot about the posting.

I suck! Forgive me!

I now have two dragons that need loving. Instead of posting their code, I'm just going to link to my page. Their names are Tsuchi and Kaze. On the left hand side you should see a button to push for both of them. Please visit them here: ehzoterik.dragonadopters.com

My husband also has two dragons, and they need visiting in the same way here: avarieladored.dragonadopters.com

virescentelf may still be a bad mommy. So while you're at it, give her dragon some loving here: MissCatlady.dragonadopters.com


Meanwhile. In other dragon news. I finally successfully bred an alt-vine, but I don't know what the heck to name him! His parents names are Nepenthes Mirabilis and Drosera Peltata. Take a look at him on my scroll, as well as the many others on the obligatory list which will be tucked behind this cut.

( all those dragon cave pages under here )

There are a couple of others I've yet to name. Not as creative on the naming process as I used to be. There's just so much else going on in my head that I haven't had room for dragons!


In other news, I'm going to write about this now before I forget.

July 11th, I will be moving to a new place of residence. Our service with Time Warner in this area will be cancelled around that time. Probably a couple of days before. So I'm warning everybody now that there's probably going to be a period in which I'll be offline. Not sure exactly how long that's going to be yet. I'm going to predict a week at most, but it could be longer. When I know for sure, I'll let everybody know.

And that's news. Not really too long-winded on the LJ these days, guys. Sorry.

I'm sure everybody and their mother is talking about this all over the nation, but for the sake of my roommate I'm obligated to say something. Rest In Peace, MJ. No, I wasn't really a fan of his, but Anne was, extremely. Today is a sad day in history. Totally unexpected. I may not be a fan, but even I expected him to live forever.

First thought at just woke up o'clock?: Harry Dresden

Today I'm going to post about something other than silly little browser games, dragons, and RP. We're going to blame this on lack of appropriate sleep, which is the first thing I'm going to write about. My first thoughts earlier today were as follows:

( I FUCKING GIVE UP ON SLEEP! FOREVER! THE END! )

In other news: Today Gremlin caught herself a mole. This makes me a proud momma!

And y'know what else? That stupid neighbor's dog KEEPS COMING BACK! Ever since he first discovered our house and his new friend Jack, this dog Harley is like a freaking Houdini. Maybe they should have named him that instead. I'm getting really tired of calling this lady to tell her to come get her dog, especially when she doesn't answer the phone or doesn't bother to call me back when I leave a message.

Curse my husband! He found another one of those silly little browser games that eats my time away. This one's a little better than the ikariam one that Cor and Randy got me into. It's prettier and shinier, and you can find it by googling evony. Or you can click this link here: Evony-Free forever.

This game is a medieval genre game kind of like Civilization, but a little prettier. It's completely free too! When you register, you have to choose a name for yourself, and that name becomes the name of your lord or lady, who you the important ruler are. So don't pick anything silly with numbers on it if you don't want to be known as something like gshfrgl123. Once you're all signed in, then you name your city and start building. You have a town hall to start, and from there you reinforce and populate like crazy! Upgrades gallore!

If anyone's interested in trying it out, here's some information you should know if you want to join Jamie and I and eventually create a kick ass alliance.

- I, of course, am Ehzoterik. My city name is Arcanum.
- Jamie is Avermine, and his city name is Abgorna.
- We are both on Server 14.
- We are both in the state of Moravia

If anyone is interested and does sign up, you can mail us in game and say hello! Then later on, once we all have everything built up, we can join the same alliance, or create our own, and take over the world! Muhahaha! So far it's pretty fun. A good time killer.

Also: Please don't forget to visit our lonely dragons.

Tsuchi and Khiryah

All right. What the crap? Even with 110 total visits so far, this little bastard is still lonely! I also told my husband that I'd post his dragon up here too. Please go visit them?

Tsuchi and Khiryah

I also named my male balloon dragon on the Dragon Cave. He is Pavarotti. If you can't figure out why I named him that...? Well. What can I say?

-hippopotamus
-statistically
-nativity
-hypothesis
-Deoxyribonucleic acid

These are the five that I remember off the top of my head. I think there are others. I forget where this conversation came from, but even mentioning them spawned a ten minute session of James and I forming a sentence for her to try to say.

"The hippopotamus hypothesized that statistically the nativity exists for Deoxyribonucleic acid."

Or something like that. Yeah. I know. It's a silly sentence, and it doesn't really make much sense at all, but it was a laugh riot to hear her try to say it all. And she kept trying! Laughing at herself every time she st-st-st-stuttered. Then told us to shut up, while laughing. XD

This lead to the question of what the longest word in the English language was. I had to think on it. Can never remember the stupid thing. So I looked it up. First there's this Wikipedia page that just makes me go "what? No. Really? WHAT?" Seriously. Look for yourself.

Antidisestablishmentarianism, which is the word most of us know, seems to have been beat out by a new official. By one letter. Floccinaucinihilipilification. lol! This is going to become my new favorite word. Not that I'll ever be able to pronounce it, but the definition alone is just beautiful. Just looking at it, trying to mentally pronounce it, makes me imagine excess phlegm oozing out my every orifice.

Then there's that protein. Click the page link for my new favorite F word. Scroll down. Good luck with that.

Really, scientific community? Really? Really. Ow.

( also )

So it turns out that I made the right decision.

This morning, I called the Humane Society. First I asked them if anyone had reported a missing dog within the past 24 hours. Nobody had, but I decided to leave some information for them in case anyone did call in asking about him. They also told me that I could put a free add in the local newspaper, so I also called them to do that.

Sure enough, about five minutes ago, I get a phone call. This lady described her dog for me exactly. Turns out his name is Harley. She had just finished giving him a bath and the next thing she knew when she turned around he was gone. Her daughter went to school this morning in tears because he was lost. But thanks to me and my wise choice, they were happily reunited!

Now I know, if I see him again, who he belongs to. These people live only on the next street over. This was a huge relief. I'm glad I found his family.

Prionodactylus

Random pick of the family Gymnophthalmidae, also known as Spectacled Lizards, from Wikipedia's list of reptiles, gives me an even larger list of scientific names to choose from in the Genera list. Given the wide variety of types of dragons that can be hatched and bred from this one type, I figured I was going to need something to fall back on, and the description of these dragons really don't give me much to work with when it comes to creative names. So here's hoping most of these haven't already been used for dragon names! So far, so good.

( dropping the obligatory list under here again )

Tsuchi has grown to his child stage, but the poor little guy is still lonely! Even with a total of 85 visits so far. Man, these dragons here really seem to be extremely social critters. Please drop by and say hello to him?

In other news: My roommate's dog has made a friend. He's still a puppy, about six months maybe. This big black dog who hasn't been neutered showed up yesterday and has been circling around our house ever since. Watching them for a while, I can't decided whether or not these dogs or gay or if it's just normal dog-like behavior. The wrestling I can understand, but face humping? Really. Seriously. Face humping.

This other dog seems friendly enough. He has a collar, but no tags. At first he was growling at me and wouldn't let me within two feet of Jack, but after I gave them some water and otherwise didn't go on the offensive, which my greater instincts told me to do, he seems all right. Just wish I knew who the heck he belonged to.

Dolly Varden

As I said, these dragons just look spooky. Got this female and did a google search on "spooky things." Found this site: www.spookyfiles.com that has a list of all kinds of haunted places and things. Took my chances on a click and found some information on a place called The Whaley House in San Diego. That link has some information that tells me: "The ghost of a dog, a terrier named Dolly Varden, can sometimes be seen running through a hallway and into the dining room." For a female dragon that looks spooky, and hey!, even doglike, I think this is a fitting name. Hoping to get a male to name better and abandon the other one I have.

Rosaceum

Named after the Tarahumara Salamander. A simple google search on nocturnal creatures showed me this wiki document about the genus family Ambystomatidae, also known as mole salamanders. Yeah, sure. They're amphibians, but they look dragony, so why not? There's a huge list of different species in this family, so I just grabbed one and used it.

Have a baby geode free to a good home. If I can ever manage to get on AIM one of these days soon, I was planning on gifting it to dramatica. Been a busy week, though. My husband's on vacation too and we've been keeping ourselves occupied.

( obligatory list behind this cut )

Additionally, I wish today would go away too, but it's not so bad anymore.

Also: Please visit Tsuchi. He's lonely.

Say hello to Tsuchi.



Click him!

Hello, Today.

Really not all that happy to see you again. But here you are, just as you are every year. You were here last year. You'll come back around again next year. Try as I might, I just can't completely cut you out of the calendar and eradicate your very existence.


Looking at Rings of Honor shows me that it isn't likely the Talon of Redwin tournament is going to happen. Not enough people signing up. Already the day it's supposed to start. And unless, if it does get underway, it happens to extend into the late wee hours of the morning, chances are I'm going to miss the first day of it anyway.

This week is going to be interesting. I hope I have enough distractions, but certain things are going to keep reminding me that it exists.

For one, my roommates have gone away for the week. They're on vacation with James' mother. Went to Myrtle Beach, I think? I honestly don't remember. Some beach on the east coast that's kind of famous, has a boardwalk, whatever. It's their anniversary this week, so they're gone celebrating and hopefully having a good time despite the in-law factor.

My husband took the week off, but he's working today. Starting tomorrow I have him sharing a nice quiet house with me for an entire week. The dog is staying with James' dad. So for a week, Jamie and I get to pretend to live alone, or something.

Tonight, one of my very good friends whom I haven't seen in years is coming by for a visit. He moved to one of the Carolinas (North, I think) a few years back. He and his wife finally got tired of being so lonely, however, and recently decided to move back up to Ohio. I should feel more excited about seeing him again than I really do right now, but...


Hello, Today. Could you please just go away?

So... My husband got me into another stupid little pixelated adorable game....



Cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.

Me and my friend sleep aren't getting along again. Insomnia strikes, which has me staying up forever, and then when I finally crawl into bed and pass the fuck out I sleep forever! Same stupid vicious cycle that's been plaguing me for years and I just can't seem to break it. Yesterday I was awake until 2:00 PM, until my brain couldn't take anymore Naruto Shippuden on the computer screen. I slept and slept until waking up this morning at about 2:00 AM. Twelve fucking hours later...

I feel like I'm missing out on so much role-play, but I have to keep reminding myself that role-play really isn't all that important. Besides, it seems anymore that the only purpose I have in playing is dueling. Everything else just keeps floating around with no conclusions ever getting done ever. Part of it's probably my fault, because I can never seem to be around at any set times in which everybody else is available. I don't even know when everybody else is available anymore, and even if they are they never seem to want to do anything anyway. At least not with me.

Yeah okay. Maybe that sounds emo. But honestly? That's really the way I'm starting to feel. Dangling on a fishhook waiting for shit to happen that never does because suddenly everybody's found something so much more interesting to do. Or, like me, they're dangling too. I should just embrace Limbo and enjoy my stay.

This is May, which also explains a lot of how I'm feeling. Ironic, really, that the Talon of Redwin Tournament is scheduled to start on the 16th. I'm just going to hope that it works well as the distraction I'm wanting it to be. Somehow I doubt it will, because it doesn't seem a whole lot of people are all that interested in it. That and DoS Madness. Just my luck, I guess. Finally get interested in something and it happens to be a something that's been stagnating for quite a while now. Poor duels.

Then there's Mutual Endeavors. My original plans and ideals for that entire group are getting flushed down the toilet by the member base right now. It's turning out to be a support group for DM and more rarely AOL role-players instead of the all around RP discussion group that I originally imagined it to be. I don't want ME to be restricted to just one type of role-playing. I want to open up and offer a refuge of discussion and information for all types. I've got a vision in my head of reorganizing the forums to reflect that, but so far nobody seems to like that idea.

On top of that, Mike unexpectedly replied to my discussion thread on the matter, and... Man, my head is spinning trying to soak in everything that he said. Complete overhaul recommended, what? I don't know what to do with the site at all now.

To make matters even worse, my muse hates me. No. I don't think it's that my muse hates me. I think it's that my muse is still uncomfortable with the current work space environment we have to work with. I really need to miraculously find a job somewhere. Need to make just a little extra money. Just enough to buy a new computer and have my own work space again. The rare few times I get the urge to write just aren't completely satisfactory anymore. I can't seem to get myself lost in the flow of fiction like I used to. To be honest, that's probably reflecting heavily on my efforts to RP too.

I fucking hate the month of May.

And Women Love It

The new female pink to compliment and pair off with my male. Their names go together! Hahaha! I really, really like the new sprites for pink dragons. They really do look so much better than the original, like I said. AND, like I also said, they now come in male! So now we can breed and drop a billion more unwanted pink eggs onto the abandoned page!

Willendorf

So named after the Venus of Willendorf, because ... just look at her! Balloon dragon. Pshaw. When I look at these dragons the first thing that came to mind was that fertility statue the crazy old bat in 13th Warrior has in her hand. It took me forever to google up something even remotely similar. This, I think, is the basis of that idol from the movie, and therefore that's what this dragon is named.

Photovoltaic Array

Look at me getting all scientific! I'm actually quite surprised it was so easy to get this name. Maybe I'm more creative than other dragon people these days. Or just quicker on the draw. Not the slightest clue wtf I'm going to name a female of this breed if I get one, though! Read up on photovoltaic arrays, and thank you Wikipedia.

That concludes your grown up dragon display for today. Now I need to get myself some more freaking eggs!