More random bits and pieces
Sep. 28th, 2006 08:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missroseroseIt seems like a lot of folks on my friendslist are having uncool things happen in their lives, or are simply having a difficult month. I just want to send good wishes out to all of you, whether you read this or not. (I've been lucky enough to be pretty okay, although I had a bit of a scare yesterday morning when Brian appeared to fall off the face of the earth. Fortunately we found him and he was perfectly okay - he just hadn't told anyone except BD that he was going to be working first thing that morning in a place with no cell reception. And since BD doesn't generally get here until 10:30 or so and nobody else had seen or heard from Brian, I was getting pretty anxious.)
I managed to give Kitty her first really nice scuff this morning - I was driving between a very wide minivan in a very narrow lane with some of those large decorative rocks on the other side, and managed to *WHAM* right into one as I was driving past. To be honest, I'm not that upset about it - mostly, I had been scared that I'd dented the body, but the scuff isn't actually that noticeable (it's on the bottom right corner of the front bumper). So maybe I'll pick up some touch-up paint, since I'm guessing a body shop would charge me to sand the whole thing down and repaint it. Since it's a plastic part, though, it's not too urgent.
Brian and I went climbing again last night, and finally invested in month passes to the Rock Dump - it's going to be our goal to go at least six times in the next four weeks, which will more than cover the cost. Meantime, I feel like I'm actually making progress again - I've managed to make it up a couple of more difficult routes, which is a nice feeling. I'm still nowhere near in Monica's league, though - I swear she looks like the Amazing Spider-Woman going up those walls. Of course, she goes two or three times a week if she can, so maybe it's not that surprising.
I invested in a copy of Advance Wars: Dual Strike for my DS recently. (I hadn't planned on buying it right then but it was one of the games that I really wanted to play and they had one copy left at Fred Meyer's for weeks - and I knew from experience that if I waited until I was planning on buying it and came back it'd be gone.) If turn-based strategy games are your thing, it's pretty awesome. Gets pretty complicated later on, but that's not a bad thing. The hardest part is remembering all the various little details - some of them can have a pretty big effect on the tide of battle. Maybe I'll invest in a strategy guide - the one I had for Final Fantasy Tactics Advance was pretty essential.
I managed to give Kitty her first really nice scuff this morning - I was driving between a very wide minivan in a very narrow lane with some of those large decorative rocks on the other side, and managed to *WHAM* right into one as I was driving past. To be honest, I'm not that upset about it - mostly, I had been scared that I'd dented the body, but the scuff isn't actually that noticeable (it's on the bottom right corner of the front bumper). So maybe I'll pick up some touch-up paint, since I'm guessing a body shop would charge me to sand the whole thing down and repaint it. Since it's a plastic part, though, it's not too urgent.
Brian and I went climbing again last night, and finally invested in month passes to the Rock Dump - it's going to be our goal to go at least six times in the next four weeks, which will more than cover the cost. Meantime, I feel like I'm actually making progress again - I've managed to make it up a couple of more difficult routes, which is a nice feeling. I'm still nowhere near in Monica's league, though - I swear she looks like the Amazing Spider-Woman going up those walls. Of course, she goes two or three times a week if she can, so maybe it's not that surprising.
I invested in a copy of Advance Wars: Dual Strike for my DS recently. (I hadn't planned on buying it right then but it was one of the games that I really wanted to play and they had one copy left at Fred Meyer's for weeks - and I knew from experience that if I waited until I was planning on buying it and came back it'd be gone.) If turn-based strategy games are your thing, it's pretty awesome. Gets pretty complicated later on, but that's not a bad thing. The hardest part is remembering all the various little details - some of them can have a pretty big effect on the tide of battle. Maybe I'll invest in a strategy guide - the one I had for Final Fantasy Tactics Advance was pretty essential.
