They're charging $150 for this?? (Not Work Safe) - I could make one of those in a couple of hours if I'd already done it once before for the design! It's basic four in one, small rings but that's no issue, some expansion to make the pouch and much larger half persian for the chain - in aluminum, no less! What the hell? Why is all chain maille so damn expensive?

Edit I... take it back. That's not even half persian in the chain; it's just chain, like you'd buy at the hardware store.

The power was out for about two hours this morning; just came back on. Our computers shutting down and the fan turning off woke us up... so we decided to take a walk, on which we discovered that there was an underground fire a couple blocks up the road. Apparently our power lines are underground. Meh! So we walk around for a while, come back, and play Gameboys on the back porch until the power comes back on. :3 All in all, not a bad morning... exciting. Especially with the thunderstorm.

Computer is work now! But apparently I can't use the video card, cause it won't boot when I have it in.

So! Anyone want a video card? PCI Express, NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE 128MB

Edit: I don't know whether it's the card or my PCIX slot. The card may very well work fine; it's practically brand new, I haven't had a chance to throw away any of the packaging yet.

So, uh, my computer died. I haven't troubleshooted much yet, so I don't know how bad it is. But Lyra convinced me I wanted to play WoW with her last night, so I used my nifty Scroll of Resurrection (thanks, Alicia...) and re-patched everything.

As soon as I open it, though, my computer starts steadily beeping, like it did when it was overheating. Closed everything, put the fan on it, tried again... no luck. So I thought, hey! Maybe I should actually put in that video card I bought long, long ago for this particular motherboard. Shut everything down, put the video card in, boot it up. No issues, drivers installed beautifully, WoW started playing with no beeping whatsoever.

About ten minutes in, Lyra sneaks by and casts something on my character... and my game freezes. Completely. Even Alt+Ctrl+Del is useless. So I sigh, and reach down to shut the computer off... and it won't come back on. I thought it may have been overheated, so I left it alone overnight, but it still won't turn on... I'm about to get to trying to figure out what the problem is. >.< God, a busted power supply would suck. Fortunately I have a spare computer I can hook up temporarily, if it's not a relatively easy fix.

...ah, the travails of a Frankenstein computer...

How come all my relationships start with "....What? Uh..... okay!" rather than anything, y'know, *decisive*? :P

BORED

Happy Anniversary to me!

2nd wedding anniversary with lyrapuppy. It's not the more important anniversary (that's when we got together, sometime in late September), but we should still go out to eat or something.

We feed our cats twice a day - sorry, cats... yes, we've gotten another one that quickly. "Sugar" - she's sweet, and gorgeous, but too smart for her own good. We've already had to close the cats out of the bedroom when we leave because she leaps onto the rat cage, and move the bowls of food into a cupboard when they're not eating it because she climbs on top of the refrigerator and sleeps on the shelf above it.

Anyway, we feed our cats twice a day. Today, I woke up from a nap just about in time to feed them for the evening - and they both knew it. A chorus of "miao! miaaaaao!" greeted me as I went to the kitchen, but I couldn't help just laughing at what I saw when I got there.

Sugar had apparently found which cupboard we put the bowls of food in when they weren't eating. Now, this is not an easy to reach cupboard. It's in the line of cupboards mounted across the wall extending from above the refrigerator. It's not above anything that a cat could sit on, unless you counted a kitten with suction cup pads; the metal piece above the stove is right below it, which is smooth, brief and slanted. She *does* easily get up onto the tiny shelf above it - a space about ten inches high and deep, which stops about halfway through the top of this cupboard, and the door of it opens opposite the end of wood she could reach just by putting her paw down.

Anyway, as near as I can figure she jumped up onto the ledge, wrapped her paw around the six or eight inches of wood to the edge of the cupboard door, batted it open, reached down 14 or 16 inches to where the bowls of food were inside the cupboard, and neatly scooped a couple of tablespoons out of the small ceramic bowl on top without knocking either of the bowls onto the floor. When I went into the kitchen, a light scattering of cat food was *all* over the floor, and the cupboard door was wide open.

This cat is *far* too damn clever. I have no idea what to do with her. :P

You find the most interesting things going through boxes that have spent two years under your bed.

Not only did I find a neat little prop that an old GM made for my character (by the Japanese knowledge on it, I *think* it was Amanda... did she run the In Nomine game?), I also found a notebook kept by my only ex boyfriend, the first several (actually decent) comic pages for my short-lived webcomic, and a whole bunch of Kels-drawn pictures of my characters... including some light porn.

I think I may wear the prop to game today. :3 Keliel was named after that character, after all.

My internets at home, they work again!

My move is pretty much completed; I just need to go back to the old place and clean it up, find all the loose pieces of things on the floor (mostly leftover chain rings). Vacuum, wash... bunch of stuff to do before this weekend. But! I can has new apartment. Bigger, stronger, faster... I mean. It is bigger. And not too much more expensive. And it has a deck! With a little storage area off the side!

Soon, we shall be all set up. And we'll TRY to keep it cleaner than the last place... hopefully.

Keliel died in the night.

My kitty's in the vet hospital. Keliel, not Michael; which is a little strange, yes, because Kelly's one and Michael's about fourteen. It's not FIP, which I am oh so fucking grateful for, but there's something badly wrong with his liver and they need to find out what. He's been lethargic, had no appetite, lost a lot of weight... generally reluctant to respond to us. I'm glad that we've got him in the vet and that he's got a good chance to get better, but damn. $1000 estimate. Well... that's what credit cards are for.

Supernatural 2:17 is the saddest episode ever. Poor Sammy.

Pride parade today. I'll be marching with the zoo, as my sister is a volunteer there. This is their first year in the parade. <3 Everyone have fun today!

Priest (IMDB link)

I just finished watching this, and it's really an awesome movie. I usually start doing something else in the middle and just listen, because I get bored, but it kept me curled up on the beanbag and watching, and grinning and getting sad along with it. And no, it's not just because it's about a gay priest, dammit!

Edit: Okay, for an example (highlight - there are spoilers): imagine it's the middle of the night, two mid-thirties or forties priests have been talking together and drinking a little for the entire evening, whilst being "chaperoned" by a much older, retired priest who thinks that because one of them is gay, they're going to do awful things in his boarding house. So they wait until he goes to sleep - remember, these are middle aged priests! - and then start moaning and groaning against the wall like roommates trying to outdo each other in the manner of "I can pretend to have sex louder than you can!" And then they giggle. They fucking giggle after they wake up their chaperone with sex-groans! It's adorable!

Avenue Q was pretty awesome.

Stephen Lynch is more awesome, and I want him to come to Seattle (or, hell, Oregon, I'd go there to watch him) and play.

We're moving to a new apartment soon, up in Lake City; it's only a tiny bit more expensive and about 100 square feet larger, with a deck.

Anything else? Oh, yeah; I found out that the Supernatural TV series has many awesome fanfic writers, and I need to find it somewhere and watch it because if the dynamic I'm reading is true, damn.

Final note: Hellooooo, hot stuff. o.o (Worksafe)

Robert Lynn Aspirin died yesterday morning.

No details yet. But the Myth series and the Thieves' World series are some of my absolute favourites.

LARPing was incredibly fun, I found I enjoy PCing as well as NPCing, although the next event in Oregon (PC) isn't for quite a while, whereas there are a bunch of Seattle (NPC) events in the meantime... so I'll end up with a higher level character with no stuff. ::sniff!:: Ah well. The price I pay!

I may post later, because there were very fun things. But for now? I SLEEP.