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Julie's lesson for today is: if your work colleagues do not rat about your drunken behaviour, then they're generally good sorts and you're right to be friends with them.

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BLOODLIFE
13:15 Nov 27 2010

lol ... send em my way!!

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Nedra
15:17 Nov 29 2010

Love it

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So there's a rumour going about that Bethseda is in production of Elder Scrolls V, which will be a direct sequel to Oblivion.



I find this so amazingly fantastic that I literally squeed. Oblivion (and Morrowind, to a lesser extent) was my gaming crack of choice until Dragon Age and Mass Effect came out. I have spent many happy hours weeks wandering the plains and mountains of Cyrodiil marvelling at the scenery and dodging daedra. I am super excited about a new one coming out!



Fingers crossed that it is true!

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DarkCrystal
07:35 Nov 26 2010

Thanks for the journal entry.



I loved how Bethseda made Fallout3 and Fallout3 GOTY Edition.

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Drakontion
11:22 Nov 26 2010

I've not played the Fallout games. A friend recommended me to Fallout: New Vegas, but if I'm going to play that, then I kinda wanna start from the beginning. I don't know if I can even get the first ones any more...



And yeah, Bethseda is one of my favourite gaming companies. Along with Bioware ;)

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DarkCrystal
11:36 Nov 26 2010

In at the start of the Fallout3 game. You can blow up a entire town with a nuke.

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Work Xmas party last night. With free alcohol involved.



Free alcohol is NEVER a good idea.



NEVER.



The getting ready part was fun, got dressed up, put on makeup, put my contacts in. All of which I hadn't done in god knows how long.



The company was good. And we were on a boat travelling up and down the Brisbane River for about 3 hours, which was nice. Nice views, pretty lights. There were even fireworks, for some unspecified reason.



Just the free alcohol part was bad.



I haven't had a hangover in over a decade. I'd forgotten how much they sucked.



I think I'll just wallow in my misery today, k?

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Akeron
14:47 Nov 22 2010

Sorry about the hangover. :(



I always liked the idea of free alcohol myself.

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Drakontion
23:34 Nov 22 2010

Free alcohol is great. It's the next morning that's the bugger, lol.

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Well, it's 8am and so far today I have done the dishes, vacuumed, dusted and mopped the house, swept and mopped the patio, done some beta-ing, and am now about to get a couple of chapters out.



I have a package arriving this afternoon and then I'm off to the shops to go find something to wear for the work Christmas party tomorrow night.



I don't know if I've lost any weight on this diet so far (though I think my face looks a little thinner), but the energy increase is definitely worth it!

An update to my life.



Day 3 of diet today. I picked a really bad time to start a diet - night shifts, with Christmas fast approaching. Ugh. Work Christmas party is on Saturday night. Must find something to wear. I have no idea if I've lost any weight because I don't own a set of scales. However it's tasty and far, far easier than making my own food, especially on night shifts.



Somehow my VR level went down from 117 to 111 in the 8 hours from when I logged in last.







I am still not a member of the Scooby gang at work and frankly am not even trying any more. Point in case: our team leader is off sick. An email got sent out about it asking for a response so we can get a card. I didn't respond so someone asked. I'm like, WTF are you people talking about? At which point it was discovered that I'm now no longer even on distribution lists. *sighs*



After having my hair cut a week ago the grand total of people who have noticed it is now 2. Which is double what it was before work tonight so hey. At least that's something, I guess.



I have absolutely not inspiration to write atm.



On the positive side, I'm not currently ill. Yay!

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StitchedTogether
20:19 Nov 14 2010

I hate when people say they're going on a diet. You do know that a diet is anything you eat, right? Look, the only thing you need to do is drink more water and cut your portions. When you feel hungry, you're probably just thirsty. Your body doesn't know how to convey the difference. Drink about a gallon and a half of water a day and eat some sunflower seeds to get the salt you need and you're good. That's pretty much all you need to snack on. Especially if you get bored. People confuse being bored with being hungry a lot too.

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Drakontion
20:43 Nov 14 2010

Yes, I do know that "diet" refers to everything you eat. I am on a calorie restricted eating plan. If that makes it better for you. However, typing diet is quicker and easier than typing calorie restricted eating plan. So I use diet.



I do actually know the difference between being hungry and being thirsty. One of my problems is that being a shift worker I either don't eat at all, or eat entirely the wrong thing. Hence why this diet is good, because the meals are pre-prepared. And I'm afraid I'm far beyond the point where snacking on sunflower seeds is going to be of any benefit to me.



Speaking of which, it's time for breakfast and then bed.

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captainglobehead
17:29 Nov 16 2010

I noticed your hair, but I didn't want you to realize, I mean "think", that I was stalking you.



And trying to reduce your caloric intake this time of year is ludicrous at best. If magazines, commercials and other advertisers aren't surrounding you with images of food professionally prepared, then friends, relatives, co-workers and acquaintances are shoving homemade goods at you. If you turn them down for any reason including health, diet restrictions or religious objections, they treat you like you just insulted them and kicked their first-born. There is no winning.

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MyArmyLife
18:10 Nov 16 2010

I agree. If it works out for you, kudos. But check this out, exercising works wonders. I'm not saying you don't but when I joined the military I was pushing 200 lbs. I lost 60 lbs in 8 months just from the amount of exercising I was doing. Once you get down to your target weight, it's actually a lot easier to keep the weight off than you think. And I didn't have to count calories or change my eating habits that much. Just eat one meat, one starch, one fruit, and one veggie with every meal. I don't drink soda or anything either. I MIGHT drink milk in the mornings and the only thing sweet I drink is tea. I drink a lot of water. :) So I get to eat what I want, and do what I want. So long as I'm active, I'm good. If you've tried that already then I guess I just put this in here for nothing but hey, just trying to help. :) Let us know how your "diet" goes. :)

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Drakontion
20:02 Nov 16 2010

Thanks guys, lol.



Actually so far I'm having a pretty good time of the diet, and am yet to stray. So fingers crossed :) I'm eating regularly and they're proper meals too. With those funny vegetable whatchamacallits even. Haven't touched coke (the drink, not the powder) in over a week and though I'm craving it I haven't succumbed yet. And am down to one coffee a day. Exercise I'll work on when I'm not sleeping all day and working all night. I do try to walk too and from work as much as possible but sometimes that doesn't pan out. Overall I do feel heaps better, for example I'm not passed out right now after work, heh.

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So, funny story from yesterday. We had a game of Star Wars D20, in which I'm a soldier with a lot of ranks in mechanic, pilot and use computer. Probably loosely based on Carth Onassi from KotOR.



We're in the period of time inbetween episodes 3 and 4, so things aren't too bad for us at this stage. Our game has a lot of other sci-fi movie/tv/game crossovers in it. Our ship is an organic/metallic sentient starship who calls herself EDI, for example. And last game we accidentally space folded to another dimension where the ship was attacked by aliens with acid for blood. You get the idea.



So the Jedi in the party are off doing mystical Jedi things, leaving my soldier to do soldiery things. The GM advised me that the main gun turrets needed calibrating. So I giggled and said, are you serious? Yep, he was serious. So laughing my ass off, I wandered off to the gunnery, saying, "If anyone needs me, I'll be in the FORWARD BATTERY, doing CALIBRATIONS!!!!"



Sadly, my awesomeness was not picked up on as the other people in the group who play Mass Effect were not there yesterday :(



In that same game, however our psychopathic droid wiped out an entire sentient species, plus its planet. And I stole a thermonuclear device. HEHEHEHEHEHEHE!!!!!

So I'm kinda pissed. Just got home from work, and have been bombarded with phone calls and sms's from the guys in my team. Which would be touching, because they're all worried about me, except that it's the first time today any of them have said anything to me. I'm not in the Scooby club at work, I don't get to sit with them, but I choose to walk the 20 minutes it takes me to get home, at 10pm, because my usual lift wasn't in today and everyone else had already buggered off, and all of a sudden we're besties??? Sorry, it doesn't work that way. Either you are or you aren't. Don't act all touched now just so you can sit back in the unlikely event that I got murdered on the way home and act all cut up about it.



Grr.







... I should totally write something angsty now, huh?

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captainglobehead
13:08 Nov 05 2010

Well, I, for one, am genuinely glad that you made it home safely.

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Drakontion
13:27 Nov 05 2010

Well don't get me wrong, I am too.



And thanks :)

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