[1:29 PM] numbers: things are rough for the rooihirado family [1:29 PM] Achaius: sure are 43. Burned to death in The Ancient Godcrypts Arcane (floor 8) (what a chuu2 level name). Floor 7 was a trip. The entrance was on a small island, and the Vampire Lord was spawn camping. He stole bo...
It’s fascinating watching BB develop a mental model of the world. A six-month-old lives entirely in the moment: I am hungry now (upset). I am chewing on a toy now (happy). I am being carried now (neutral). People could come and go, hand him off like a sack of potatoes, he didn’t care. At fifteen mon...
Two weeks ago, my parents bore witness to a historic event known as The Twelve Steps, in which BB walked twelve whole steps. Previously, he had only managed one or two at a time. By now, he has improved in steadiness and in confidence, and walking twelve or even twenty steps is not a big deal (exce...
One final Friday off, one last long weekend before the new boss takes the helm. Spending it visiting family. BB's starting to walk! Big hype! But first: WATER. MAIN. PIPE. BREAK. The construction down the street keeps breaking the water main. It's happened three times this past month. This time, the...
Been thinking about facial memory lately. This is the third time I’ve seen Kyle in person, and the second time I’ve seen Jasmine. I went in thinking I should try and remember what these people’s faces look like. I don’t think it stuck. If I saw them at work, I would recognize them by general body sh...
21. Burned to death by a bunch of bloats on floor 4. They were blocking the only way forward, and I had no range; when I went in to melee, they released flammable gas that was ignited by the nearby lava. Wonder if I could’ve run past them all. Bosses defeated: Big Jack (floor 3). Also, I defeat...
Rolled for the first time this year! (The last time was December 30.) It was just supposed to be a wrap-up day to get my affairs in order, but now I’m remembering all the reasons I would want to keep rolling, as well as all the reasons I stopped. Reasons to roll:The Center of the Universe squad is h...
Did the laundry, folded and put everything away, and only at the end did I realize…I have no memory of adding detergent. In retrospect, I’m pretty sure I forgot to add any. Well…surely the water still helped, right? The lint screen was full of crud. It’s fine. (Probably. Hopefully.) I’ll use deterg...
Most of Solution Nine is impeccably cool, but the Nexus Arcade is literally just a big Verizon store. Yeah, I said it. It’s savage time! We started a week late, because half of us were away for the first weekend. Kan cleared the tier before our first session. On the plus side, we’re ahead of ggg (t...
It’s wild that dream shards may be the limiting factor for my growth in Pokemon Sleep, after a full year of them being abundant to the point of irrelevance. The issue is that shard cost rises dramatically with pokemon level. For instance, using 300 candy on my Slowpoke (level 13) would take 23k shar...
We still don’t know what this mystery illness is. Could be covid, could be something else. My own theory was that it’s a pathogen that has been frozen in glacial ice since time immemorial and has only now been released due to global warming. Roommate’s theory was that it’s the bubonic plague. I coul...
Yesterday before roommate's weekend d&d session I gave him a cough drop, and he set it down on the table and did not eat it, and coughed all through the session. Today I learned he DOESN’T KNOW HOW COUGH DROPS WORK!! He was like “Well, you didn’t give me a drink. It’s like a pill, right?” So I ...
