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I think the move away from Stargate.com will come a lot sooner than I had anticipated…
There was nothing wrong with the car, thank G-d, it just needed a new battery. Still a financial hit, but nowhere near as hard as I feared.
I did get to stay home, too, which is always a plus, and did quite a bit on the layout for Lonnie Ezell’s novel. Didn’t gather my notes for the podcast, but managed also to get some stuff done for my Rabbi (who has drafted me as his and the synagogue’s unofficial secretary). Also got two patches sewn to my travel pack (about time, too, since I’ve had most of those since our Europe trip in 2001!).
Like I said, in the end it turned out it wasn’t such a crappy day after all.
You know what they say about staying in bed some days?
My day began ok; went to morning prayers and came back to have some breakfast before heading to work. My car started giving me problems yesterday (actually, it began a week ago, but it had gone away), not starting when I turned the ignition. A quick jumpstart fixed it the last time it happened, and so it did yesterday, though it didn’t have nearly enough running time to recharge the battery. I figured if anything I would jumpstart it this morning, go to work, then drop it at the mechanic later on. No such luck.
The car simply did not start up today, even with a jumpstart. I’m afraid the alternator may be busted; could be the starter, though, I think. I really have no idea; there’s a reason I have a degree in English and not in auto mechanics. It’s one of the two, I know that much, which means that, either way, I’m in for a big slap to my already hurting wallet. All this with our vacation just 2 1/2 weeks away. I’m now waiting for the tow truck to take the car to the shop (thankfully, just down the street from my house).
I knew I should have stayed in bed.
On the plus side, maybe I can actually get some other things done here today, like doing the layout for Lonnie Ezell’s novel, and gather the notes for the first episode of the Gamer Traveler podcast.
I’ll be offline for the next two days in observance of the holy day of Shavuot.
Everyone take care, have a great weekend, and to the Jews out there, Chag Sameach!
I’ll put this very simple: IT ROCKED!!!
I thought the movie was great, even if it was a little under the quality of the first two. I liked that the storytelling was gutsy (even if it did suffer from too-much-in-too-little-time sindrome at parts) and that actions had consequences, no apologies. The movie was more comic book-y than the parts 1 and 2, but it wasn’t cartoonish, and I thoroughly enjoyed the various nods to fans of the comic. It wasn’t flawless, and there were a few things I could have done without or with more of, but overall I left the theatre pleased and psyched, as did my non-geek wife.
I’ll come back later with a spoilers-included full review.
X-Men: The Last Stand – 4 out of 5 stars.
I just wanted to take a moment to tell you about a couple of changes I have done to this blog and things that will be coming along.
First of all, I changed the layout to one that mirrored my personal webpage. Along with that, I have made this blog my personal site as well; going to www.dmperez.com now brings you here. Little by little I’m going to transfer the pages I had on my old site to backdated blog posts that I can then link here. I have started to use tags (linking to del.icio.us) as well, but I forget to use them all the time, so they aren’t as comprehensive as they should be yet. Eventually I want to move this blog to be hosted at my own server where I can then keep a copy of it for posterity.
Second, for about two weeks now I have been linking two other of my blogs to this one, the Miami Daily Photo blog, and the Destination: Earth Travel blog.
The Miami Daily Photo blog chronicles my city one picture a day and is part of the City Daily Photo network, covering cities all around the world. I have lots of fun with this project, and I’ve actually learned a lot about my city through it. Instead of redirecting the daily posts here, however, I will post a weekly summary of the previous week’s daily photos, probably on Sundays or Mondays. That way I showcase my work on that blog without overwhelming this one.
The Destination: Earth Travel blog serves as a news blog for my travel company, where I post interesting travel news bits and updates about our company’s services. These two blogs are specialized and expanded expressions of things I would normally cover here anyway, which is why I decided to link them up.
Third, I have now started a new project that combines my passion for gaming and travel, a podcast called The Gamer Traveler. This mini podcast will play as a feature inside the Dragon’s Landing Podcast every two weeks, more or less, and will feature me talking about some site around the world, giving it the travel show treatment, then talking about ways to incorporate it into your games. I am very excited about the podcast, and thank Chuck and Lonnie at the Dragon’s Landing Podcast for the opportunity. The show notes for the introductory episode are now available at The Gamer Traveler blog and future show notes will appear here automatically once posted there.
I’ll most likely take the Highmoon Media Productions site to a blog format as well, though that will probably happen later in the summer, as June is going to be a very busy month: there’s regular work, the Jewish holy day of Shavuot, finishing Targum Magazine #1, finishing the layout for Lonnie Ezell’s Daughter of the Sun, overseeing the launching of the new joint project between Highmoon Media and Reality Deviants, overseeing the Montdargent line being developed by JC Alvarez, doing at least one podcast, and leaving for my summer vacation, two weeks in Holland and Belgium (aka. The Hellhoot Adventure, see the ticker on the front page).
Off I go. Have a great Memorial Day Weekend!
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