Raithe

Okay, for the random collection.. and the legs..

The funny one I found is the Mayhem missions where technically you're meant to use a specific weapon. But you can just use your powers to run around and cause mayhem and it zaps up fast. The most noticeable was with the TK Mayhem. Grab a ball sure, but don't keep throwing it at things. Just use TK to hold it in front of you, then run at superspeed at every car you can find. You suddenly hit Gold within moments..

The one I had trouble with was Genki Mind Over Matter (hard). For some reason every time I was just about to get Gold.. I'd suddenly find things running in front of me exactly as I tk'd to pick something up. So I'd go to grab a person, and suddenly have several cars drive between and one of those get picked up.. Go to grab a car and a mob of people would suddenly run through in the way. I'd end up trying to grab the right thing and losing 10-15 seconds because every freaking time I was trying to pick up that last object I needed.. So that when I did manage to snag it and turn to throw.. I'd suddenly find it clocking to the Silver Award.

I kind of like the idea of all the Reputation stuff. But I find that it doesn't actually engage my OCD levels. I think it's because so much of it is stuff that you can only do once a day with a single toon. So to achieve any serious levels, you pretty much have to spend day in day out going through your toons to just repeat the same missions over and over. Unless you're happy to spend 9 months plugging away with just one or two characters... Hm, what do you have to do to capture them alive? So far I've run two henchmen missions with my Bounty Hunter and it was just a pretty straight fight to the death.. Or have I missed something blindingly obvious?

http://youtu.be/326uAynb__Y

"Remember, the 19th is International Talk Like A Pirate Day... So go practice your Somalian now."

Since we have this subject.. and for that flashback to the somewhat amusing breast cancer awarness she did..

Hm. never really spoken to any doctors about it. Things have shifted a lot over the years. I was always one of those kids who would end up laying in bed for a couple of hours having to spin various imaginings before I fell asleep because even if my body was bone tired my mind would be going a mile a minute. Which evolved over time to me not bothering to go to bed until even later. Of course, now I'm on a slightly different scale of things. Since I'm my mother's primary carer, I'm sort of on her cycle. And due to her assorted conditions and general pain levels, she doesn't settle easily. So most nights I'm helping put her to bed around 2amish, so I don't get to bed till a bit after that and sleep generally isn't till around 3am. With her morning meds, she's usually fairly dozish through the morning until 11amish, so I generally don't have to rush to jump up awake first thing in the morning. One of those odd things is that if I have to be up for something, or know there's something specific I have to take care of early, I can get 5 hours sleep, wake up and be incredibly fresh and out of bed and on with the day. If it's more a general "at vague points this has to be dealt with" I tend to wake up dozey and sprawl for awhile and stagger about before I'm really awake even if I've managed 8 hours+ of rest. That, and if I'm not in my own bed I pretty much always wake up with dawn, but that's pretty standard for most people I think. Then there's the occasional danger that when my internal clock is askew and I know I'm not going to settle easily, I'll usually read a chapter or two of whatever I'm reading. Of course, every now and then when I'm doing that I might get caught up in what I'm reading and find I've just finished the book and it's going 5-6am. So I'll just try grabbing a brief nap and get on with the day and try to reset myself by not sleeping till the next night. I've learnt never to start reading a new L.E.Modesitt Jr book when I'm going to bed.. So really, I just tend to try adjusting to things and making sure I have fresh cups of tea during the day (which I stop drinking once 9pm hits). The morning cuppa is very important...

I have to be honest but I don't know anyone else who seems to suffer from such sleep inconsistencies as you Raithe After a decade of it, you get used to sleep patterns going all over the place. Well, maybe not used to it, but start establishing patterns to get things done when you're meant to be awake... sort of.

Ouch. Condolences on that. It's always awkward talking with ex's especially with emotions running high. It's when you get the rather odd "yes, I do still love you, but I'm married now and I love my husband as well." That one gets really weird.

For a brief return to the cosplay moments...

On the more mundane, for some reason I keep waking up about 4 hours after I get to sleep, then realise what time it is and end up in that awkward awake-sleep phase in and out that's not really one state or the other.

http://youtu.be/I2cS5Fv5xIQ

They hunt mozzies. If you have bats, you're a lot less likely to get bitten by mosquitos...

It is what it is. I've had a few friends who suffered from it. Hell, I've struggled past bouts of it. Yes, even someone as charming and vivacious as me.. http://youtu.be/VYs05qPycYQ Sometimes it's the feeling depressed and sad even when things are going right, sometimes it's finding yourself running on an extremely blank keel where while you might not be "sad" you just can't find any joy or motivation or boost that helps you push along through each day.

No idea what I did, but I woke up having somehow wrenched my shoulder in my sleep. So the day is off to a good start. LadyC, it does sound similar to some general bouts of severe depression. Although a lot of people seem to view that as a nasty curse word rather then an actual problem. It might be worth having a look at it from that point of view and seeing if anything clicks.

It's all about the moral of the story, not the accuracy of the picture.. It might not be funny, but damn it all, it's still glorious..

Just found out the next member of my merry band of schoolhood companions is leaving the fine club of bachelorhood and has successfully proposed to the love of his life. It's reaching that point where the engaged, married and/or are now parents are starting to outnumber the pure bachelors.. I guess this means we are all growing up...

Hm, I would say computer augmentation can help inspire the imagination. It's a lot like if you pick up some of those Artists books, ala Syd Mead or Sparth - Sure, they've given you images, but those very images can send your imagination hurtling off in another dozen directions and creating your own wonders or picturing just what else could be involved with what you see on the page. Although on the "drive for augmentation" I would say that if you regularly use a calculator you start getting fuzzy on mental mathematics.. So there's also that side to the argument.

Woke up a couple of hours early and realised it, so tried to fall back asleep. Went into some weird dreams, then woke up at a more appropriate time albeit with an annoying brow-pinching headache. At least it's being a day with some sun rather then completely overcast. Also, my sister's birthday. After poking her a bit with electronics and text messages I finally got some ideas and thoughts from her and ended up sliding an amazon gift card to her. She's a serious pain for Birthday and Christmas presents.

I managed to get a bunch of friends to go see Serenity, but most of them had never watched Firefly so while they enjoyed the general sci-fi stuff, it never really clicked for them since so many references are based on the series. But then, I was one of those folks who managed to download the Firefly episodes when they were first shown in the US and before they got shown here in the UK, then picked up the dvd's the moment they were released. Now I've also got the Blu-ray version of the series as well. So it could be said I'm one of the serious fans.. Edit: I think it was Adam Baldwin who said something along the lines of "If we'd had 3 million more viewers at the time, the show wouldn't have been cancelled. If we'd had 3 million more seats sat in for the movie, we'd have likely been able to get a sequel or two to that."

I think part of the trouble is that a lot of the really interesting concepts for tv series tend to have more of an arc nowadays, rather the purely episodic style. So the first season always tends to be laying groundwork and establishing the frame of everything, while the actors are getting a feel for their characters and the writers are shaking down all the loose ends and how it actually hooks together. Which tends to mean when viewers miss a few episodes or don't start watching it until the 3rd or 4th episode it makes it harder to follow everything. Then it suddenly gets axed because the networks don't consider it "exciting" enough or hitting the "right" audience.