Category: journal

Links

Laura Highcove

I’ve used the same ftp program since…forever. I liked the layout, it was easy to use. But just about a month ago they decided that they just can’t afford to keep letting people just use it for free. Now I understand that. I mean it’s a good program, and they probably put a lot of work into it, but I’m still a cheepo and so I’ve tried some other ftp programs. I haven’t been impressed by any of them. As such those buttons I was planning to get up so the site looks less stupid hasn’t happened because I can’t get said ftp programs to connect. Now the program I have at work will connect, but I keep forgetting to bring the buttons with me. As such I’m just a lazy poopie head with ugly links. I’ll probably break down and actually buy the program I used in the past because…well my website is one of the main things in my life, and as much as we’re trying to save money and such, I need a stable and working ftp program. So in summary, there’s no buttons yet because I don’t have a working ftp program at home.

And on the note of being a lazy poopie head, next step in wedding (now that we’ve actually got the place and pastor for the ceremony itself, meaning the date is final) is sending out the wedding invitations that apparently should’ve gone out three months ago. I guess I’m just used to being a person who doesn’t normally have plans, as such two month is more than enough time. (I mean heck, it’s enough time for me to plan the wedding.) I’ve found places online, but I’m not exactly thrilled to either wait a week for them to come in the mail or pay way too much to have them shipped overnight, so now I have to see if some place like Kinko’s just has wedding invitations (You can tell how into this wedding thing I actually am.) that I can just buy and send out to all the people the parents have decided should be invited to the wedding.

It’s not as if I don’t like family. They’re cool enough, I’m just not much of one to make a big deal out of stuff like this. Everyone’s all like “YAY WEDDING!” and I see it more as a party that happens to be the same day as the legal ceremony society required in order for us to get tax breaks. It’s sort of the same as when I got a job. I’m positive my parents and siblings were more excited about it than I was. For me it kind of feels like business as usual. I’m more excited about going to Otakon than the wedding, though that could be biased a bit by the amount of work I have to put into the wedding. But then I always have been a bit of a freak.

No new story posts!?

Laura Highcove

Life is happening. Hate that; but several life changing things are going to be happening soon, one of which is marriage. (Yes, yay me!) As such, the writing has simply not been flowing, or even coming out at a slow crawl. I’m currently more worried about the temperature in September and how much lilies cost than Angelica’s little magic lessons.

So…I’m putting story updates on hold until at least August, possibly later but let’s see how things go. I’ll try and throw up little updates to show how things are progressing, but I can’t promise anything.

ZOMG!!

Laura Highcove

Lookie, new site look. This is why there was no update on Monday. I spent that time coloring the picture of Angelica which I had drawn by an old friend Ajinryu. Still have little tweaks, such as making the links a bit more prominent, but at least I’m finally rid of that silly little temp banner.

Kind of important

Laura Highcove

So I’m horrible at naming stories. A majority of the stories I have are named simply for a character or perhaps a place in the story. Angelica was no exception to that and while the story is indeed about her, it’s not entirely about her. So along with the site revamp, I have come up with a real title for the story and have replaced most references to ‘Angelica’ with ‘Shifting Winds’.

Sorry for the confusion this will cause. I’ll try to keep this post at the top for a bit so everyone sees it.

Site revamp

Laura Highcove

Things are going to be a little messy for the next…several days. I’m going to be redoing the theme of the site, but first I need to get the blog site’s pages organized to work with the new theme. That means links will be disappearing, reappearing, and moving all around. New pages will pop up, old ones might disappear, and some will change. I’ll try to make sure all the major links are always there and working. If not…I’ll probably fix it myself in short order. Anyway, thanks for your patience.

Words and Pictures

Laura Highcove

Every now and then while reading the vast amount of webcomics that I do, I begin to strongly wish that I was able to draw, to do something like a webcomic. One of my more recently discoveries happens to be a fellow who aspires to write movie scripts, and he’s gone out there and found himself artists to turn his ideas into pictures. It seems odd to me, that there are people out there who can draw so well…that don’t have ideas for their own stories? As a writer the very idea of being able to draw, and yet not being able to come up with a story to tell is ludicrous.

And it kind of makes me wish I could stumble across one of these unfortunate fellows (or gals as it may be) who would like to work with me to produce a webcomic. I even know what story it’d be (Nope, not Angelica.) though I suppose I’d have to finish writing that one as well. But then once again I’m not ambitious enough to go out to say deviant art and start emailing people. At least not yet. Maybe that can be a goal for the future: Add some pictures to my words.

Untitled

Laura Highcove

I’ve gone through most of my life wanting everyone around me to like me. I don’t like the thought of someone thinking badly of me. The only problem with that, is that it’s only possible with reasonable people. As soon as someone starts to not like you because of something unreasonable, there’s really not much you can do. I guess I was just lucky to be surrounded by reasonable people for so long.

Chalk it up as a life lesson.

On Raiding

Laura Highcove

I scared myself for a second this morning. I was thinking over the events of last nights raid, and how much of a pain it was, and how I hadn’t enjoyed it. And for a moment I thought I had lost my enjoyment of raiding. Suffice to say, I stopped to think what precisely it was about last night that I did not like:

1) That pull in front of Naj’entus. Every time I come up to it now, I have no clue whether we’re going to one shot it or wipe on it for an hour. I know we joke about it being a ‘hard boss’, but the general consensus is that outside of bosses, that is the hardest pull in the instance. Added to that, the fact that it’s right at the beginning of the raid, meaning a wipe on it effects the raid mentality for the rest of the night.

2) Supremus. I hate that boss with a burning passion. Partially because it’s seen as so easy a boss that people view it somewhat as a joke, when they really shouldn’t. Also because he picks you off slowly, so that you end up wasting a *huge* amount of time on any attempt that becomes a wipe, because it’s usually not clear until almost the end of his ridiculously long enrage timer that you won’t be able to down him that attempt.

3) Teron Gorefiend. Understanding the basics of my personality in that I really do want to try my best both to be helpful to those around me, and also to avoid ridicule, this boss was a major nightmare for me. Mainly that whether the raid lives or dies is set entirely upon my shoulders, in a way that it is clear that I messed up and how badly, with no way to practice. (The simulator is only but so good, and yes, I beat that many times.) The fact that I could feign death out of it doesn’t really help things, as I pretty much spend then entirety of the fight having to watch his cast bar to feign death. Last night was my first time doing it, though I didn’t pop my rattlegores until after the boss was dead. Which meant the raid had absolutely nothing better to do than watch me, with full knowledge that if I failed, they would be picked off by mobs they could not dps. Happily enough, it was easier than I could have imagined. I hope that this positive experience will make future attempts on this boss less stressful, but who knows, because it’s still better for me to fd out of a cast so I can continue dpsing.

And really, those are the worst things in the instance. Of course they are also the first things in the instance, which is why last night was just bad in general. RoS is not all that bad as long as we don’t have to teach new people important roles (ie holding fixates and kicking). Bloodboil, though stressful on healers isn’t really that bad for me. Shahraz is still a joke that just requires some situational awareness. And even Council seems like it won’t be that bad of a learn. I’m fairly certain we’ll have them down this weekend.