Thanks For The Tacos

Another busy day at work today. We were still short handed, which made the above average call volume seem all the more brutal. Again, no major outages, just a ton of calls. The coworker with the sick child emailed in apologizing for his absence. We made a joke response, thanking him for all the breakfast tacos he would be bringing on Friday. LOL

When I got home, I got Clara a snack, got dinner started, set Colin to work cleaning his room and started searching the office for D’s security badge. Colin’s DS broke some time back, and I sent it in to Nintendo for repairs. It arrived yesterday and I started it charging so I could give it back to him ready to use, but I wasn’t about to give it to him without him cleaning the horrorshow scene that was his room. I told him I had something that I really wanted to give him, but he needed to clean his room first. First time he came to tell me it was all done I checked up on it, and I’m glad I did: he had pushed everything under the bed. Every the thing. I explained to him that doing that would just make it harder for him to clean later and that he should take care of it now. He spent another 15-20 minutes actually cleaning his room – at least you can walk in there without fear of losing your foot.

He followed me to the office where I gave him his stylus back. Very perplexed, he thanked me and just kinda stared at it. Then I told him that he would need it if he wanted to use the DS that just came in the mail. :D He was very excited to get his DS back, but I told him to be more careful this time with it.

I must have cleared out a tree’s worth of junk mail, papers, paper plates, wrappers, old ketchup packets and decayed food from DeAnn’s desk – no security badge. I even filed some of the non-junk items in the filing cabinet to prevent them from taking up more room and getting any more crap spilled on them. I’m generally pretty thorough when searching for something that is lost; I told her that she “lost it real good” when even I can’t find it.

With Colin playing, baby fed and office torn apart to no avail, I sat down for Dynamis – Beaucedine. This time, we had Ventrilo running, and it was like the good old days again. I think it’s really easy in this game to forget that there are real people with thoughts and feelings behind the pixeled characters and the green chat text. We joked and had out Soulfire Late Night chat. It was the most fun I’d had at a dynamis, or any other event, in a long time.

DeAnn was feeling a bit down all evening. She had a really long day at work, and was feeling kind of lonely all evening with me gaming. So I decided to leave dynamis early to hang out with her. I had to go out and fill her car up, and brought back a big Heineken for her, and we talked for awhile over some popcorn and the Ken Lee YouTube video. I’ve been really stressed out lately about all the changes going on, in life and in game, but tonight I was finally able to just relax and breathe.

BLM static tomorrow night. I dunno if I will feel in the mood to want to go somewhere new or just stick with the familiar rats. We have a few spots we could do in Halvung, if Ame doesn’t mind dying. A lot. >.>; Also need to revisit our schedule. It appears that our linkshell is heading toward using a 75% attendance model, meaning that you need to aim for attending 75% of the events you are online for. It’s a little high in my opinion; not impossible, but it will require us to drop to one night a week if Keri and I are to meet this kind of requirement. It might be a good thing in disguise – with all the drama and stress surrounding this venture, I’ve been kinda getting burned out on BLM.