beyond_the_blue's Journal: Cosas y Recuerdas

I can't fscking believe it. I had a BIG FREAKING post, and the STUPID DEFECTIVE proxy server lost it.

Let me explain: while I am serving my 8 hour tenure in damnation (work) as I am right now, I make it a point to waste as much company time, resources, and bandwidth as possible. Hence, that's why I usually only post in my journal every other day. I'm part time, and a slacker to boot. Deal with it.

And during this lengthly vacation from everything that I know and love, the only lifeline that I have to everything else is the Internet, or at least a mockery thereof. They blocked most of the best sites, but that's not even the worst part. The worst part is the fact that if the proxy server recieves an error when trying to locate a host name, half the time it just barfs up an error, but the other half of the time it locks the request down tighter than the fit of my socks. Naturally, when the request locks like that, the browser and all browsers that were spawned by that browser freeze with no hope of recovery. And that's what happened. I spawned a browser window off of the window that I was working in and tried to access something, therefore killing my entry before I could do anything to save it. Fucking. Weak.

Anyways, the REAL entry continues from here.

I can feel Priston Tale's hooks slipping from me slightly. It may just be because that leveling has gotten quite difficult for me over the last few levels. I'm lvl 17, and of the two places that I can go to level, one is too easy, and the other is too hard. My main problem is not being able to handle the monsters; quite to the contrary, I can handle most creatures just fine...one on one. It's when I get stuck inbetween 2 or 3 creatures that I get messed up. It may be because I messed up in appying my stats somewhere, but I think that it may also be beacuse I'm not approaching the game correctly. I've hit the same point that I did about 9 levels ago, where I'm just too strong for most creatures, but not yet strong enough for the ones that give me decent amounts of exp, although the reason for that is mostly because monsters are rarely seen alone, and if one is found alone it's almost a sure thing that more will spawn as soon as you start to fight it. Monsters travel in parties, so I guess it just makes sense for the players to do so as well. When I'm partied up with even 2 other people I can kick ass, so long as I don't have to take all of the hits and I keep a good store of health potions on hand. I'll probably keep at it for a while yet, just to see how far I can get. Plus the game is constantly under development, so there's bound to be all kinds of cool things that the developers are going to come out with in the time to come.

Money problems have arisen with me and Rhi. Right now, the paychecks are slim, and the bills are mighty and strong. Not only do we have to finish paying off hospital bills from over a year ago, the remainder of which totals $170, but we also owe the phone / DSL company $140 (setup fees are a bizzatch!) Fortunately, Rhi is going to be getting more hours at work in the weeks to come, meaning that we've only gotta tighten our belts for a couple more weeks, and then we should be fine.

I've been giving a bit of thought lately to making a page of my own, kind of like the homepage of my friend Blake. I mean, Slashdot is a great place for a blog, and I can read the daily news while I'm there, but I don't really see any traffic, and blogs are all about providing would-be voyeurs with the chance to feel all secrety and sneaky about reading someone else' innermost thoughts and ramblings, aren't they? Yeah, I thought so too.

When most people set up their first homepage early on in their 'Net experience they tend to give it an incredibly stupid name, like Deepz Crib or The Azure Turle's Lair. I didn't want my new creation to give that kind of an impression, so I started thinking of something alightly more creative than that. Whatever it was, it would have to be something that matched my rather unique personality. So in essence, something totally random and pointless. After pondering for some time without coming across any real gems, I then remembered the fictional production company that I made for my Video Making college course last semester; Left-of-the-Middle Productions. Yeah, I'd say that that's sufficiently random and non-mainstream.

So, I headed over to Mr. Iexplore.exe to check the domain...and found that it was already in use. At first I was afraid that the domain would be taken by some company that would never ever release it, as two of my previous ideas had been; Gryphon.com, and BeyondTheBlue.com. As it turns out the domain is owned by some guy from...somewhere. Actually I know almost nothing about that guy, except for the fact that his name is Butters, and that he likes banana smoothies.

He's currently using LeftOfTheMiddle.com as a blog / rant page, with a fairly concurrent update schedule. His stuff is very...stuff-like, and it's oddly satisfying to read, in a penny-arcade sort of way.

So, in the spirit of corporate America, I decided to buy him out.

I sent him an e-mail asking if he would sell his domain. This is the distilled-down version of his response: "No i'm not interested in selling. Plus I don't really know how to do that. What are you all about? I don't know, make me an offer." in response to his rather ambiguous answer, I will reply to tell him my grand scheme for that domain.

My Grand Scheme, which I have entitled "The Great Mess of Grey and Yellow," will be a blog space, but also a spot where I can host my own personal stuff, like art galleries, movie clips that I have made, programs that I have written, game music and movie reviews, etc. Basically, everything that Butters is already doing, but prettier, and with CGI-Perl as the base. In addition to that, I'm also going to offer Butters the ability to keep posting on LeftOfTheMiddle as much as he wants so that he doesn't have to give up his brain-child (or brain-tumor, or whatever he wants to call it. Seriously though, I like his content, and would like to keep him around.) Maybe I'll even get a few more blogs hosted on that site. Who knows?

Anyways (and I'm not sure that that's a real word...I think that it's supposed to be 'anyway') I'm going home now. Work = over, and I...just got a call...damnit! And it's an Arabian guy too. Just my fscking luck. It's not that I have anything against Arabian people, but DAMN this guy has the WORST accent ever, and he's about as bright as the underside of a rock. I swear, this call must be the gods of the queue playing with my head because I tried to stay on the phones for an additional 15 minutes tonight...grrrr.

Rhiannon's birthday is on Monday, so I've got a LOT of planning to do for her birthday party, which will probably consist of me and a bunch of her friends going to the bar for a couple of drinks. I fear that I may have screwed it up already by not talking to everyone before now...I hate myself sometimes. I just hope that it turns out better than I fear it will.