Lumpy Paste Soup

Extra Life is almost here. I still haven't done my promotional video, but I guess it's been a little bit busy here lately with the car dying. GOOD NEWS THOUGH. I'm buying a new one. As of last night I put a deposit on a car. Should be about a week before I'm mobile again. Test drove it last night and this one actually accelerates when you press the gas! It's great!

Joking aside though, getting a newer car this time to get a little more life out of it. Either way, Extra Life this year will be like the first year playing at Kathleen's. Poor Kathleen will be stuck with me all day. I have a plan to do hourly update videos and smush them all together when the event is over.

We're not expecting that much locally this year because the economy and job market is really bad in Calgary right now, but here's Kathleen's donation page one more time: http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.participant&participantID=216662

She got past the $600 mark, so I think she said that she's wear a clown nose for the entire streaming session.

So new car, "saved" a community from its sad, slow, death (okay I didn't save it personally, but I believed in it until the person who could save it pulled a miracle out of his hat) and Extra Life on Saturday. Week hasn't been perfect, but it's definitely turning around.

Dishonored - The second game is coming out soon and even though I've heard bad reviews I'm still excited. I really liked playing the original game despite its issues.

I put way too much water in my oatmeal. Ugh it's like lumpy paste soup.

Thief - Yes Oliver, I will play it soon.

Nanowrimo is here. I never participate because I suck at doing these kind of things, but I'm still going to try and work on writing a lot this month anyway. The only person I actually know who has written an entire novel in a Nanowrimo is going to be participating again this year. Amy wants me to read her manuscript for her class and I'm sure I have something to do for Mesk that I haven't done yet cause I'm a lazy piece of shit. Either way, work continues in bits and pieces.

PSA on behalf of Shauna: Don't use the Steam overlay to browse the internet while playing games. Apparently she was looking up something on the PoE Wiki while playing, an infected ad loaded and it blasted her computer with a rootkit. I think she's managed to recover her data, but she had to reinstall windows on her machine. I've never really used the Steam overlay before to browse (done it once or twice) so I haven't run into these problems myself, but figured I'd pass along her message.

Also I think I did something to my finger. I can't make a fist without it hurting. Unless it's a leftover injury from dodgeball I didn't know I got, I have no idea how it happened. It started hurting after I got coffee yesterday so...?