Eseme's Den

A link to a con I'm working for is on the front page of the White Wolf site. Jess Hartley is one of our guests- follow the link to her con schedule and there we are.

Wow.

Currently very full of food and listening to my parents watch Pirates of the Carribian for the first time.

I went to visit my aunt, uncle, and cousins today with my family (and since I dragged Panther along we outnumbered the other side of the family for the first time ever).

Happy Holidays to freinds - I've got many all over the globe.

Flying Spaghetti Monster + Lego = much goodness

http://www.reasonablyclever.com/lego/fsm/

Not dead.

There was a con. It ate my weekend.

Was fun though.

More later when I get done with school stuff.

Spent the weekend being sick, when not at a Halloween party, looking at Panther's soon-to-be house, or having lunch with Panther's mom.

Still not well.

Hopefully did not make Panther sick.

In other important news, Montana Mills is making a specialty bread through Halloween- Pumpkin nut swirl. It is very good- it's essentially their famous Cinnamon Swirl with pumpkin, walnuts, and pumpkin pie spices. Yummy. Get it while you can.

It is so depressing driving anywhere. Nothing but branches, everywhere.

The power company has my admiration. Yesterday I called in the branches on the power line going to my house, and a crew was there at 8:00 AM today. This made me happy.

Then I looked around a bit more, and noticed that there is a line down in my backyard. It is one of the smaller lines, not all that noticable. I'm not sure if it was down earlier, or if the guy with a chainsaw in the tree cut down a branch which knocked the line loose from my house. Either way, I called the company again.

They can't turn on power with a line down. Sparks = fire. A frat house up the road caught fire last night from an unattended candle. I love my books. Fire is bad.

So still no idea on when power will be back. Sunday is the current "all fixed" date for the city. Cleanup of branches and damaged trees is done in some places, not others. My area has, no HAD, lots of lovely old trees. The college paper interviewed a town worked who said that they would obviously love to have the area cleaned up in a week, although this worker had heard that outside estimates on cleanup were more like three weeks.

On the plus side, it has warmed up some, and the thermostat said 55 this morning.

Attention Weather Gods:

As we all know, it is not supposed to snow before my birthday.

There appears to have been some sort of clerical error in Buffalo.

Please have one of your minions take care of this unscheduled weather.

Snow may resume next Friday.

Thank you.

So the big blackout did very little other than make me throw a few things out of my fridge. It was mostly a wonderful opportunity to play games by candlelight. Which is great fun. I love candlelight.

The drive back from Chris's place was kind of scary though. Power was back in some places and not others, and I only saw one other driver actually stop at a blacked-out light. Just one on the whole drive back. It was scary, as I had to make turns at some of those lights, and seeing people not slow down at all was worrying. Thankfully I turned at intersections empty of cars but me.

Work today was interesting. It was my last day, and I met with my replacement. I'd planned on actually showing him the systems I work with and the way files need to be transfered and stuff. But the entire CS department network was down. So I couldn't do a thing. The entire university was closed due to power shortages, and that meant they did not turn on the AC in our building. And since the people who designed our new building did not listen to the sys admins and give the machine room its own AC unit, we could not turn any machines on. The machine room was 80 degrees (in the Danger! Warning!) zone, and that was with all the machines turned off. So I just typed up all I could think of that he needed to know, and packed up my office- all the Legos and the Nerf guns. The rats were back for another visit- Sam's house had no AC and was hotter than our office. The girls are lovely, as always.

After work I got to hang out with Eugene. Which is damn fun. We walked around in a huge cemetery, talking for a over an hour. Very fun, though we both forgot to bring water. Then back to his place where I successfully chased down and ice cream truck and we played video games. I can play fighting games! My total lack of skill with a controller is much less of an impediment, you just hit buttons really fast, and laugh when your character does bizarre stuff. Lots of fun and a bit of silliness. I needed that. Thanks Eugene!

Visit my sister tomorrow, and get to have the first pick of any clothes she is getting rid of. She's decided she needs less stuff. Me, I've decided that more clothes is not a bad thing.

I will be gone, gone, gone after 4 today. I'll be visiting my lovely sister in a tiny little town. I will not be checking email, AIM, LiveJournals, etc. I will go straight from my mini-vacation to the Sabbat game with only a quick stop to pick up a shirt. Should things like Ren Faire plans actually get made, tell me at Sabbat or leave a message on my answering machine- I'll see that.

I anticipate a wonderful visit filled with good food, plants, a very handsome cat, and fun. Yay! I so need this.

Stuck in head: "Don't go chasing waterfalls, please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to."