Bleargh. Okay, I'm not only awake, I'm even sort of alert, in fact....

My allergies are acting up, in this case meaning that the roof of my mouth at the back, itches. I'm just so thrilled. So I've been up since about 5:50, being as I conceded defeat and got up then. It was kind of weird; I was dreaming about work and the text configuration files, and adding something to one properly, and then I was awake with an itching mouth and was thinking I didn't want to go into work today, but that this was hardly a reason not to.

I tried to go back to sleep to wait until the alarm, and failed utterly; then I remembered it was Sunday and didn't want to sleep any more, as I don't have to go into work today, after all, and if I'm going to feel blah on my weekend, I ought to at least get stuff done. Or something.

Just as well. As usual, sitting up has been helping, and of course I added some medicine to the equation, so it's better now. Hopefully it will be fine soon.... You know, I meant to do more yardwork when I got up this morning, but I think it's just a wee bit early for that.... And all the household chores make noise that might wake Scott, so here I am at the computer, doing the stuff I have listed for here, because, well, it's quieter. (Not "quiet", if you've had to hear me type, I'm a little heavy on the keyboard. My M and N keys have dents in them. And how's that for irrelevant digression?)

Game quotes.

Writing up the experience for our Tuesday game (because last session proved that letting people keep track of it casually doesn't work as we had to use my sheet to work out what everyone else likely had, and I'd lumped all the categories together), I hauled out my notes from the session. Most are brief and only of interest to tracking the plot, but there were two good quote sets. Both from the same, very strange, fight scene:

First up, the half-orc's player, after hacking into his opponent a few times:

"I'm cutting it, but am I hurting it?"
"You don't know. You've never fought a toadstool before. It does seem to be losing chunks of itself."

And then his master, standing behind the thing and therefore able to act more freely:

"Stabby stabby at the leggies!"

Yes, it was a weird session, even before we accidentally killed our NPC ally with a healing spell....

Ummm.

I logged out. I logged back in. It reset my site scheme from dystopia to the new Xcolibur.

That's really, really annoying. I actually wish you could get a cookie for site scheme on your computer and keep it even while logged out, but at the very least you'd think there would be some way to keep track of what scheme you want whenever you log in, instead of having it go away.

Bleh. It's still pretty, and it's still less than user friendly in a number of ways. At least it let me set it back (but took me a moment to find the link for it - that's at the bottom of the page, where all the other links are informational rather than control links...).

Yes, UI is a hot button of mine. No, I don't like this one, and I didn't like finding out it would come back after I got rid of it, either. Dystopia's so-so for appearance (I like it okay, but it doesn't knock me over, either), but it is still more usable. Thank goodness.

Photograph....

This was my entry in the latest challenge to complete, Flight, at dpchallenge. It didn't finish in the top 50% and I can see a number of things I'd do differently. (Some are after the comments, some were those 'ack! wait let me fix it!' moments that hit as soon as it's too late to do so....)


Flocking around the bridge

If you want to see some really nifty photos, click here to see the results of the challenge, starting with the top places. It was a pretty impressive challenge as far as quality of submissions - it's generally good, but a larger percentage than normal were really wowing me. :)

Update: I created a modified version of this image from the original photo. I don't like it either, but it does have different weaknesses, anyway....


Flocking without the bridge....