It’s been too hot lately. It’s crazy-hot. It sucks. We have the a/c in the spare room and the door to the kitchen blocked off with a sheet, and it’s still around 80F in the living room (normally it’s around 70F). It feels like half of the a/c has died on us, which is to be expected since it’s about 6 years old.

The wedding we went to last weekend was pretty fun. I did the Electric Slide, and drank a couple of alcoholic beverages. The table we sat at was made up of WalMart people, most of whom also play WoW, so we all sat there dorking it up for the most part. The happy couple, who met on WoW, arranged to have the announcement of the bridal party done with the WoW theme playing. A good night for all involved.

I left work 2 hours early on Sunday because it was completely dead and I was working with a RPh that I just can’t stand. Had there been any other one on duty that day I would have stuck around regardless of how un-busy it was (hell, getting Sunday pay for doing nothing? I’ll take it.), but I honestly can’t stand the pretentious asshole. The rest of this work week has just flown by.

My video card seems to be dying a slow and painful death. Every now and then my whole screen will go fuzzy, like someone’s taken a screenshot and applied a 2px Gaussian blur filter to it. It sucks. Logging into FFXI is completely pointless, because the graphics are unbelievably choppy for me now (WoW works fine though). Speaking of WoW, I just spent the last 3 days working on the guild’s website, the plans for which were laid down at the wedding, naturally. After several complete cockups (such as me using the wrong character name a few times), it’s running fine.

I’ve had an assortment of morons chat me up this week. So far, this is my favorite, which starts right after he started requesting the I log into MSN and add him so I could watch his cam (a favorite way for the guys trolling a particular non-adult camsite to bypass the “no adult” content rule):

saadsaad :: adame.d@menara.ma
saadsaad :: i watch u now [Look! Up in the sky! It's Captain Obvious!]
silvadel :: I know you are, because you’re chatting with me.
saadsaad :: add me and block me if u don’t like it
silvadel :: Um, no. Like I said, I don’t watch cams. I have no desire to add you just to look at you. [Waste of my time]
silvadel :: Deal with it.
saadsaad :: okay
saadsaad :: u are so sexy i see ure pic in ure website [I'm sure he's referring to the 4 year old webcam archives]
silvadel :: Yes, so what?
saadsaad :: u excite me
saadsaad :: add me plz
silvadel :: No.
saadsaad :: :o(
saadsaad :: plz [Desperate much?]
silvadel :: No.
saadsaad :: plz plz plz plz plz [Super desperate apparently]
silvadel :: No.
saadsaad :: i have a big one
silvadel :: I don’t care. I’ve seen cocks before.
saadsaad :: but u never seen like mine [Good lord! A massive cock! I'll never be able to control myself!]
silvadel :: Listen you stupid fucker, I don’t watch webcams. Get over it.
saadsaad :: i want to fuck u bitch [Yeah, that's a line that will make the girls swoon!]
silvadel :: If I want sex, I can get it just fine.
saadsaad :: okay

Rent gets paid this week, and once we see how much money we’ve got, we’ll determine whether or not we’ll be buying anniversary presents next week or the week after (anniversary is next Thursday). Eddie still has no idea what to get me; in my opinion, as long as it’s not any more jewelry (which I most likely won’t wear) anything would be fine. He did make a reference to setting me loose in a Sanrio store, but alas, there isn’t one nearby.

After much annoyed grumbling and muttering under my breath last night, I managed to get WoW reinstalled on my computer and get it patched somewhat. I also found the interface that I used in the past, and will probably spend tomorrow trying to reaquaint myself with the controls. Eddie danced around, claiming he’d be a hero with our group of friends who have been begging him to get me to play again, but it’s still up in the air about whether or not I switch games. I fired up FFXI this morning and updated the latest patch for that as well and was able to successfully log in, so I guess whatever issue I was having the other day was just a fluke.

I’ve done nothing at all today except for chatting with people and reading blogs. Some normal people, and some freaks, but all interesting. I was pointed towards Assbaggery, which reads like something right out of my “freaks” category. Nothing like spending the morning listening to music and being comlpetely lazy.

I need to shower and find something to eat. I’m starving.

It’s the middle of the month, and we actually have some money. I’m going to toss an extra $50 towards both utilities and then put the extra in the savings account so we can start building up some cash for the deposit on the next place. I don’t want to live here any longer than we need to, but shit is just so expensive right now that we can’t afford to move out because even if we did have enough for the security deposit, the rents are higher than we can easily afford.

I took a break from playing FFXI at the beginning of the month, not really feeling the urge to log in even on the nights when I said that I was going to. I tried to log in earlier this week, but they were doing some maintanance and couldn’t get on so I held off and tried this morning, only to discover that my computer supposedly isn’t up to par and I can’t get in. Mind you, nothing has changed on my computer at all, so I’ve got no idea why it’s doing this. Oddly enough, I’m not all that upset about it. I have some good friends on FFXI, but I miss being able to play with Eddie and a lot of the people who made MMO gaming fun to me. Whether or not I pack up FFXI and switch to WoW (where everyone else is right now) is still up in the air; unless I decide to uninstall Poser and the 4gig of figures and textures I’ve got for that sort of thing, the two games can’t coexist on my computer. FFXI is currently sucking up about 16gig of space on the computer, leaving barely enough room for anything else.

Time to shower and get dressed. 8 hour of work and I’ll be back home, where I can continue to debate over video games.

It’s been raining off and on all day, which makes for a dreary day all around. I surfed the web for a while and chatted with some folks before logging into FFXI. I downloaded some mp3s, and just generally slacked off.

Last night was rather uneventful at work, even if I did go in early. I found a Vicodin in the drawer we have the bottle caps in on Monday, and then found another one (in a higher strength) in the same spot last night. Both of them got put back into their bottles, because I’m honest like that.

Eddie should be getting home in a little over an hour. Last night we were discussing what to have for dinner tonight, and decided on some chicken strips. I’m sure we pissed off the girls at the KFC near our house last night by showing up at the drive through 5 minutes before closing, but Eddie was craving it. That’s why tonight I get spicey chicken strips.

I did absolutely nothing of interest today. I chatted with a couple of people online, and surfed the web a bit. I made myself a couple of cheeseburgers, drank a liter of water, and sat down to play some FFXI. Shortly after I managed to get a group in the game, Eddie came home and we had some Humpday fun on our own before logging back into our games.

Eddie made chicken tacos for dinner tonight. They were hella yummy. Around the same time I grabbed another liter of water and have been working on that since then.

It’s back to work tomorrow. With any luck it will be a normal, sane day, with a minimal amount of crazies. Two more days and the weekend comes, and we can go out.