Sleepypete's Pillow

[chuckle] That’s a symptom of me writing posts when my mind is buzzing from playing those games !

Must avoid them so I can regain a little clarity 😉

Although I did not understand most of it, I wish you a good day. I am here via Michele and sorry for bein delayed in arriving here.

I’ve discovered a new idiotgame site and am currently coming down from getting addicted to several of the games on there … I call those idiotgames because they are so simple, any idiot can play them. It takes some doing though to figure out the strategies. The one I’ve linked above is especially maddening. It looks oh so simple but it’ll be weeks of pounding before I even approach the high score table.

Had a bit of a frustrating day, I took today off work because the Gas people were coming to change my meter. Figured that with an appointment time of between 12.00 and 17.00, it wasn’t worth going in for the 2 hours or so I’d have been there before needing to come home to shepherd Gas Person. So I have a lie in, which I think I needed (hours are a little strange cos of cricket on telly!) and got a few more things watched off the Skybox before settling in to wait from 12.00 noon. On goes iTunes and out comes the book, both things I can interrupt at a moment’s notice, unlike a game or a taped TV programme. Said Gas Person actually turns up at 16.15, with me getting lots of exercise jumping up to see if that engine sound outside was them. Was starting to rehearse a rant to the people who said I needed to be in to shepherd Gas Person before he turned up.

Managed to get through 120 pages of David Weber’s At All Costs, the latest in his Honor Harrington space opera series.

I’m now looking to calm my thinking down again, as it tends to go into hyperspeed and intense focus when doing those idiotgames. What didn’t help was what’s best described as a Heated Discussion breaking out on the Mercs forums, centred around one of our older players who is leaving due to dissatisfaction with the other players in the guild. He’s got a point, we’ve moved a long way away from what we were in the early days which was a guild of only the best players. We’ve grown a little too much to still deserve that tag. We have players who are only along for the ride and aren’t too comfortable on the horse at that.

Maybe it’s time to disappear from World of Warcraft again ? To be really honest, I haven’t been in the game enough to justify £8 a month on the subscription fee. I’ve only been coming on to raid and although I settle for no less than a committed raiding performance from myself, I’m not particularly interested. I come on to help out the team. Good selfless reason but is playing a game for someone else’s enjoyment reason enough for staying in a game you’re not enjoying ?

There’s also other politics going on, including some strange decisions taken with reference to the leadership of the Warcraft guild. So I’m irritated with various people over that as well, because I’ve been overlooked with no direct explanation as to why.

Ho hum – if a game starts getting irritating instead of fun, then maybe it’s time to find another game. Just wish there wasn’t so much expectation from a whole crowd of people looking at me to decide what they want to do.

This one is in honour of Gary Gygax, father of pen and paper role play gaming. Gary Gygax died on 3rd March 2008 at the age of 69, his influence will be missed.

Thirteen Things about Fantasy series and games 1…. Pen and paper D&D, although I’ve not had the chance to play the versions Mr Gygax was most comfortable with. 2…. Baldur’s Gate series – D&D brought to the PC, with occasional non-player character interaction that rarely fails in bringing out the grin 3…. Neverwinter Nights – D&D again, this one rewrote the book on how these games were done (as did Baldur’s Gate!) 4…. Dragonlance – and especially the writings of Richard A Knaak 5…. Elder Scrolls – never really got into these but this legendary series would most likely not have happened without the inspiration of D&D 6…. Greyhawk – template for many a fantasy world. Make the setting believable and you inspire great stories to come. 7…. Drizzt Do’Urden and company – R.A. Salvatore’s work is always worth a read, bringing that D&D world to life. 8…. The highly amusing Munchkin card game, inspired by the rules written by Gary Gygax. 9…. GenCon, the USA’s largest annual hobby game gathering, started by Gary Gygax. 10…. The Dungeons and Dragons animation series, co-produced by Gary Gygax. 11…. Warhammer – possibly my favourite role play system at the moment, if a little magic-light. Definitely the system that really brought fantasy battles to the masses, this time by Games Workshop. 12…. Ultima. Led the way in pioneering the Massive Multiplayer Online game, although Everquest was really the breakthrough here. The big one that everyone hears about now is just cashing in on what Ultima and Everquest broke the trail for. And those built on what D&D had started. 13…. Robert E Howard’s Conan stories

May have to see if we can persuade a couple of people to smuggle some over 🙂

Chocolate Buttons are manna from heaven. Especially Giant Buttons. But I had to give them up after realising that they were doing weird things to my heart rate. Doesn’t stop me being a rebel sometimes though 🙂

I’ve been very happy with the Ford I have now … It’s going to be a wrench to let it go. It’s reached the point where lots of things start breaking. Haven’t a clue what to get next, they don’t make my car any more so no trading it in for a younger model 🙁

Got a piccy here :

>Need Car

(must upgrade my blog template to make it easier to peek for old posts …)

The way the site I work on is built is to organise the buildings into 4 groups. To get my lunch, I could just go down to the canteen in the building group I’m in but I like to head over to the next one instead …

The people who work in the next one have caught my grin, which makes me grin more when I see them smile 🙂 Plus the walk over there and the fresh air will do me a lot of good.

Must get playing cricket again so I can satisfy the need for fresh air 🙂

Very cute dog!

I’ve had a VW Jetta for many years and it has been a frequent headache – their wiring is absurd and their parts cost a fortune.

Never again – I’d be better off counting on the dog to get me where I need to be

Gah! Cadbury’s chocolate buttons!! I haven’t had those since I fed them to the kids as babies. You know how it goes, half for you, 2 for mommy … and so on. LOL.

I don’t even know if we can get them out here in Canada. I’ll definitely be looking out for them!