So I got a horse for the first time in Lord of the Rings Online. Nine levels after I could have, because I never saw a point to it ( Read more... )

Apparently Google is unable to find a single active website across the breadth and width of the entire Internet that sells actual, usable, silver bullets. Bulletforge used to but apparently went out of business or are just hard-up on their luck at the moment. Google finally cut me off at 32 search limitations and I had gotten down to "About 1000" ( Read more... )

Well the initial terror and despair seems to have worn off. Now it's just a race to the finish.

I noticed something today that should have been painfully obvious through the many years of my life. The highs and the lows, the hope and the despair, they change not with my circumstances...but with the wind. Today the wind began to really blow for the first time in a long while, beginning late at night during a thunderstorm, then carrying on ( Read more... )

Well, 'strip-mining' was a good way to describe what I'd be doing to my room. It's kind of eerie sitting here in a much more empty room than I was two weeks ago. All that's left is to dismantle the bed, haul the furniture downstairs, and shampoo the carpet. The remnants of a wasted life, washed away at last ( Read more... )

This is it. Just one more thing stands between me and freedom, and that is only the final task of clearing out my room, packing it all away, and going. If I miss this chance, it may not come again so easily for months, or even years. So I go, resisting the Pavlovian response to striking out on my own ( Read more... )

( More Useless Ranting )

It's always comforting to get stuff like that out of my system. Then I can go back to pretending that it doesn't really bother me and that the world's fine and I'm just dandy.

So I was driving to a job fair in a town about an hour and a half away. The highway lead through a fairly wide-open stretch of endless fields, and the day was exceptionally beautiful. As I was driving on my endless trek back home, it occurred to me that my foot was already fairly sore from driving since my cruise control doesn't work for some ( Read more... )

Well, I shut this journal down because my friends weren't posting to it anymore by and large. Recently, however, that trend has changed and everyone is coming back. It seems only fitting then to turn the lights back on and get to work ranting about my life ( Read more... )