stormyseasons

Spend the productive after lunch hours you were going to use on work.... looking at the options for setting up an online store to sell your own handcrafts... as inspired by many comments by people, who you've made jewelry for recently, that maybe you should set up a store to sell some...

The yearly air affliction has arrived, and in greater force than previous records. Wake up, get out of bed, feel like you can't breathe. Go back to bed at night, feel like can't breathe. Don't want to breathe, scared the air will hurt yourself.. If I could keep the windows all shut tight and run the air purifiers all the time I would... So easy to take clean air for granted, until you don't have it anymore.

http://katsuko.dreamwidth.org/54383.html

Because Katsuko said it better, and I can't quite figure out reposting at the moment.

Also: would that raising awareness about such crap would move the people who look like they're in power. Though they've all sorts of things to worry about these days. Not to downplay the importance of ACTA or anything, but problems with more basic needs like employment, housing, clean water and sewage handling, are equally valid points to lambast people about. ACTA is just icing on the cake, as it were. Or another straw fit to break the camel's back.

Gave in and altered the save file for more money to buy a military class ship which is fast and agile enough to dodge hostile fire. Most of the time. Only downside being a small size...But how zippy a Doestovsky class ship is! As compared to the venerable starting Llama, which is not bad for a cargo ship, but not really anything you want to take into a hostile area.

So, I'mma playing Vega Strike. And today, I learned how to run like mad from 3 different allied factions all suddenly mad at my PC for some unknown slight. Or rather, unknown kills of 4 merchant ships - somehow. Given that I don't target anything but a Luddite...

Spent at least 30 minutes at my comp, trying to run to a friendly system while the offended faction seems to get offended that I'm not dying yet, and sends heavier ships after me. Including capships and heavy ships, and their fighter contents. So, a jump into a system goes like this: Jump in. Search for hostile ships. Get target lock. Hit insystem special drive and bolt for a random jump point while dodging hostile fire. If autopilot takes too long to achieve this under fire, switch navcomp target to another jump point in mid flight, disengage auto pilot, turn it on again, and repeat until hostile ships lose target lock. Do this until perfectly lined up with jump point in straight line. Hit the accel and bolt for jump point. Repeat until reach reasonably peaceful system.

Just as soon as I find some Luddites, they're getting shot to hike as many faction ratings up as possible. And once I sort out which factions I don't mind annoying, some of those irritating attackers are getting some return fire instead.

Job interviews, job offer letters....

Vega Strike as an itinerant trader out to make a good nest egg and to get in good with almost every faction... By way of blasting the one faction just about everyone hates.... In a dinky little starting cargo hauler whose only teeth is 4 mounted lasers and a batch of powerful but non-guided torps. A dinky cargo hauler which is regrettably slow and sluggish to respond in combat. When I have enough cash, I'm splashing it on a nice milspec fighter for those useful bounties. And pirates...

So today I try to be productive, a little, and do some job searching.

And some Echo Bazaar ... with the pleasant effect of raising Dangerous.. In deadly duels with the Black Ribbon Society.. and their mysterious, deliciously intriguing leader Feducci... Also, uncovering secrets framed in Gold means my early work cultivating Bohemian contacts is paying off! Wonderful!.

And I check on the Dwarf Fortress forums, just to see what's going down.. Toady is awesome..4 bugfix versions out in over a week!

Though now the good region grass looks a bit.. hallucinogenic.. what with all the round bubble bulb...

....why am I posting this on my dreamwidth, the evening before 2 important exams? Why am I not revising? Why am I even on the internet at all? Argh.



.....pity I don't get how to make a living out of my addictions...

well. Most of the 'holiday' season is over

I got into a class i'm not sure i want to take now but well...

had a pleasant Christmas, very good church service. by which i mean i heard good sermons, that didn't sugarcoat things as 'all is well, carry on with whatever you're doing that you know you shouldn't'

watchnight service on the 31st, as well as the start of the university classes bidding period. fun times for all.