Category: Real Life

Worked with H&R today to finish both mine and my mother’s taxes.

I find it ironic that i owe almost as much as my mother will be getting in refunds. Bleh.

But, at least it was pointed out that my work W4 is configured wrong (not enough taken out), and they gave me the info to correct it. I guess I’ll see next year…

–TSK

(With apologies for the somewhat hokey title – I could not resist ;).

Anyway. J’mee and myself are reworking the old Honor Guard from UU – hopefully in time for the Parade in 10 days. There will be a new name, new uniform (probably several for different occasions), and once the DST patch thing has settled down, better ways to contact me. :/

We need a total of 12 members for the Parade – two in each of the six host hoods. We’ll be given our own voice comms channel to co-ordinate through the parade. We’ll need to make sure the routes are clear before each march, and for Rand’s final arrival at the Party hood.

Ways to contact:

1) Forum PM to T_S_Kimball or J’mee in Uru Obsession. I can also be reached by PM on Guild of Greeters.

2) KI Msg to # 131567 (dunno how reliable this is).

3) Comment to this weblog entry, and/or filling out the contact form at the bottom of the T_S Journal post.

What needs to be sent:

Your KI#
‘Name’ (in particular for KI Msgs, since sender is still borked)
Any hood preferences (we’ll try to accomodate)

I will need an initial list by next Tuesday, the 13th, so that various things can be finalized.

Let’s help to kick off this New Cavern on a good note!

–TSK

[OOC Disclaimer: The Guard, in whatever its final name will be, should be considered ‘neutral’ or ‘OOC’ (depending on event) for the sake of Cavern/DRC politics and the RPG portion of MO:UL.]

Lots of things happening today that elicit the above response.

First up, today is the fourth day in a row that one of the apartment’s garage doors is dead (a new record). While dropping off the monthly check, they mentioned the motor finally died and there will be a replacement on Monday. Argh…

Second, early this afternoon I lost internet access to a select set of sites, up to and including the ISP’s homepage (Tis OptOnline for anyone curious). Well, when I called them up, they said that the modem was in a ‘locked down’ mode due to suspicious activity (i.e. running a server of some sort).

Excuse me? I take pride in having my PC as clean as possible (a must for Oblivion), and running something like a p2p client would be nuts. In fact my XP install boots to less than 200 meg memory in use, and that was with a moderate amount of work. What I *do* run are VPN and other relatively low-useage connections to work, but for very long periods of time – hours, or even days…

Anyway, after explaining what I actually do with my PC, the tech mentioned they have to escalate to an engineer and it may be up to 24 hours before they can unlock the modem and get back to me about a long-term fix. Though I was miffed, I thanked them and gave a callback number – then took a walk to cool down. Thankfully, things appear to be back to normal (so far) as of an hour ago, but this may be ‘interesting.’

And now, I’m trying to login to MO:UL to make sure I can make it tomorrow afternoon for the Parade Meeting. I bring up MOUL from GameTap, a new updater appears, and – ack! – I get an updating screen that says ‘420 meg remaining’ and ‘approximate time remaining 1 hr 30 mins 2 hrs 15 mins (total).’

This is turning out to be a long weekend. And I’ve not even mentioned work yet…

*sigh*

–TSK

Some new and unusual things happening with me this past week (outside of the normal MOUL-related stuff).

First of all, during the past weekend I applied to the 2000 Bloggers site (and as of today that’s been accepted). I don’t even remember now how I ended up at the site – It was random net-cruising again, which is something I’ve not done in ages. Not even a full day from its addition though, the Bad Behavior logs are starting to climb, so upgrading to the latest rev will be prioritized for the next couple days (WordPress itself was upgraded a while ago, and I’ve also been quietly cleaning up some stuff on the site too, like my links).

Also, last night I tried something *really* different (to me anyway) – speed dating. This one is sponsored by a matching site, which I heard about from a radio commercial several weeks ago (will disclose which site if this actually turns up with anyone in a few days). Though I had my doubts, it was actually quite fun, though six minutes per person is intensely short. I may goto another, but not until all the DST stuff is behind me.

–TSK