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Water Problems
Wednesday, April 16, 2003. Entry #213
Knocked my water bottle into my Mac keyboard today.
Luckily, I have a USB adaptor for my PC keyboard, so
I've been switching it back and forth all day as needed while the Mac
one dried out. Fun fun.
What is it with me and spilling my water at work? This
is the second time I've done it to a keyboard, and there was that traumatic
time I did it to my Titanium laptop and worried the whole weekend about
whether I'd killed it or not.
Normally, I'm very carefully about putting the cap back
on, but eventually, I just forget and...SPLASH.
Now that I'm making Kool-Aid at work in a one-litre
pop bottle to avoid buying Coke from the machine, I'm extra worried. No
telling what all that sugar will do to my space bar.
Created a new character for one of my online games that
I'm inordinately proud of.
Here's an except from his bio:
He doesn't talk much about
his travels (and what he does say doesn't make a great deal of sense),
but from his criminal record, it's clear that he's spent time as a smuggler,
con artist, pickpocket, vagrant, fortuneteller, cat burglar, sub-space
psychic, and spy. He's only been convicted of crimes twice (once for
pick pocketing, once for fraud) and has spent five years on different
penal colonies. Prison records indicate he has an extremely high I.Q.,
but also show a habit of compulsive lying. Ghenamar always denies this
strongly.
His name is fairly well-known
with various underground movements, and he has a wide range of contacts
with criminal organizations, intelligence agencies and other low-life
groups, all of whom basically agree on two things: 1) He is very reliable,
and never takes a job he doesn't finish, and 2) He's one odd duck.
As well, I decided to give him the oddest speech pattern
I've ever attempted. He uses a mixture of archaic phrases (mostly thanks
to the nice gentleman over at World
Wide Words) and poetic devices (mostly alliteration).
Here's a sample.
The shuttles path arced across the system, passing
by Mendes I and the asteroid belt that orbited near it. "Ah, such an
array," Ghenamar muttered, steering through the debris with a deft hand.
"However, its Brobdingnagian aspects will not interfere with my objective.
See? Ah! Witness to my stature! I am surely the proper mustard to..."
There was a light flashing on the console. "Eh?
The blasted contrabulation calls to me? Speak, daft artilect. Pronounce
your query."
"Explosions detected, bearing 145 mark 6," came
the cool voice of the computer.
Ghenamar's ears twitched in curiosity. "Detail
me the specifics, sweet abacus!"
Needless to say, he's the hardest damn character to
write for that I've ever attempted. It's fun, and reactions from him range
from 'Huh?' to 'I LOVE how that guy talks' so it's all worth it.
I just don't know how long I'll be able to keep it up.
  Well,
I was totally wrong about Survivor.
I did not expect Deena to be gone. Like, at all. Based on that,
though, I predict Kristy will be gone tomorrow night. She's the
only one who didn't vote for Deena, so she's the outsider.
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