Nepenthe

I did the heroic on Tython, and that was already quite a bit of fun.

Mass Effect 3!

SWTOR. Probably going to be the sum of my gaming until March, anyway.

Curiously, a lot of the Euro English servers that were really hammered during the beta have been on a really low load. + if you're gonna play an MMO, why not do it on a server that sound vaguely like a gay porn movie?

I'm on Rogue Moon, like in the Beta. Going the painfully foreseeable Jedi Knight route (and so far enjoying it a ton more than I ever did the consular). If anyone of you happens to be on the same server and for whatever masochistic reason wants to team up with me, pm me here and I'll give you the necessary info.

Well, I've been more or less moving on since I heard she was pregnant, certainly when I switched jobs. Yesterday was more like a relapse, it still feels a bit odd, but I think I managed to not let it show - for the aunt's sake, mostly. I've had a lot of irons in the fire lately, but again, either they have 2+ children and a nigerian ex-husband lurking somewhere or are friends' kid sisters who make our krezack seem like michelle bachmann. The economist-chick is literally the first (at least) semi-sane not-totally-weighed-down-by-baggage girl I've met in a year. I'm not really piling up the expectations as up as it might seem, I'm just hopelessly analytic about this sort of thing after, especially after the recent run of disasters, and I feel better talking about the vague stuff here than with my friends, which always seems to jinx things. :D

The old one or the tryout? The Prospect is a conundrum, she's ridiculously good-looking and classy (a rarity in Finland, where it's either trashy or latest trends) and seems more shy than introverted, but really hard to tell at this stage. While we work at the same place, it's a completely different department and floor, making it less of an automatically bad idea to at least look into. There's also a lot of young and soon-to-be mothers at our office, which traditionally makes the climate better for nice, reliable lawyers as opposed to minor league hockey players. Still, calls for slow movement, definitely no crowding her type. I should point out that there really isn't a "dating culture" here, so the whole getting to know part is a lot more complicated. I really should find a new way of meeting people, the bar crowd doesn't interest me (or the other way around, to be fair) and my friends work way too hard (and are breeding way too fast) to organize parties for me to meet their single friends. Old one is all about diapers now, seemingly happy in her suburban life. Of course, when we knew each other I was a skint grad student and now... well, it's different. Kid was nice, but even if it were an option, I'm not sure I could play daddy to some other guys kid - even if I'm slowly starting to think that fatherhood might not be that bad.

Also:

Captain Tinrib Live

Yeah it's called email . Except one hasn't shared his, the other never checks his. A friend and her husband do something neat, they use Outlook calendar events to arrange appointments, dinners, what have you. Another button ceased to function on my phone, so gave in and got a smartphone, well with no data plan. That's actually pretty common at my new workplace, since we're basically always "working" you have to put most of your personal stuff there (even if it's just a blocked off "personal meeting") so it doesn't conflict with power golf, opera or God knows what else.

Met my ex, her baby and her aunt. Took them to a nice greek restaurant. Probably secret aim was to make said aunt ask her "why did you ever leave that nice young man?" but almost definitely failed. Funny how even at this stage, the chemistry is still there and doesn't even miss a beat even though we haven't seen in six months (and three of those have been with the young gent around). Meh. OTOH, I've finally met an interesting girl, but all I basically know about her is that she's sweet, feminine, pretty, smart (an economist) and straddles a fine line between quiet & shy and sexy as hell. Couldn't imagine why she'd be interested, but appears to be single so I'll have to at least give it a look.

Still haven't had the time to start or even pick up my CE. Hopefully get both done by tomorrow evening...

Yeah, I remembered that too. I thought they could do no wrong?

^^

Thought I could get to play today, but wound up going for a couple of drinks with coworkers so too tired to start now. My CE box has also arrived, but the store has since moved to the back of beyond and the weather sucks.

More like non-news.

Finland's had to cut butter exports because of an unexpected spike in demand. I gotta admit I switched back to butter earlier this year, so I guess I'm partially to blame. I've also lost 12 lbs. since then...

I've always thought that "cool story, bro" is the best summary of kotor2. Meanwhile, I got my early access invite, but can't start until Thursday evening at the earliest, anyway.

Considering they just took a year and a half to form a government, Guard Dog might not be far from the mark.

They are "invading" some of the coastal cities and buying up all the butter.. So no need to donate.. Like the proper vikings they are.

Woke up three times during the night, at 12:00, at 3:15 and ~5:27. It was... odd. (In case that needs explanation I was checking them off an analogue watch). Another heavy day at work, but I had the ultimate luxury of being at home at five, so kinda ecstatic. All for shorter intense days over the grad student schedule.

Well, a couple more rounds of austerity measures and you won't.

Wasn't it supposed to start Thursday evening?! O_o What, you missed my posting of the news last week? Yeah, they decided to extend the Early access to 7 days in total. Emails will start to go out at noon gmt tomorrow letting people know... Sorta busy with the new job. But I appreciate is posthumously

Wasn't it supposed to start Thursday evening?! O_o

I've beat the first one several times, yet couldn't bring myself to finish even the demo of the 2nd one. S'yeah. Maybe the demo just was really really bad and the rest of the game ok.