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[alexandraerin]

Well, I had a very nice holiday with my family. I made a point to spend a little extra time with my parents this year, as they're very close to closing on a winter place in Florida. I was more than a little cough-y by the end of the weekend, but nothing too terrible for this time of the year. Certainly I was in better shape than a week ago. My cough has subsided, leaving me with a case of sniffles and sneezing. Generally I'll take nasal problems over lung ones, especially if they're considerate enough to not drip down the back of my throat and make me cough, but not if I'm to the point of sneezing myself into exhaustion. That seems to be over, thankfully.

On the "good news" front -- Geeks.com is shipping out a replacement computer today. It's taken a while and there's still time for something to go wrong with the replacement, but I've looked at the model they're sending and it appears that they're doing right by me. The replacement model is not only more expensive than the one I ordered, but it approximates or exceeds all the technical specifications. Once I have a desktop computer I'm going to be doing some site work that's been piling up, including giving Fantasy In Miniature a bit of a makeover and folding 3 Seas and Tribe into its site. That's just a little thing that will help with branding, ease of maintenance, etc. I have recreational reasons for wanting a working desktop, too, but that's going to be my first priority.

I'm working on the next Tales of MU and MoarMU chapter. One or both of them should be done during the day tomorrow, I expect. The front half of the week's going to be quiet because I'm coming into it with a bit of an energy deficit but there should be some good stuff to read before it's over.

On the personal front, things are going well. My life is good and getting better.

I've broken out my Christmas icon. I'm not fully happy with it... I think I could do much better on the lettering... but it would take way too much time and effort to try to fix it on my netbook versus what I could do on a desktop with a big monitor and real mouse, so I think I'll wait until the new desktop arrives and then celebrate by breaking it in with a little icon editing.

Comments

[cielamara.livejournal.com]

I love the Christmas icon, personally. It's pretty lulzy.

...

I knew there was a type of icon I needed...

[alexandraerin.livejournal.com]

I like it, I just think the writing's a little squished.

[stormcaller3801.livejournal.com]

Minor note, for personal amusement (yours more than mine): there's a new Dragon magazine article in issue 381, Sorcerer Essentials that offers up some melee powers and argues in favor of daggers as implements. That might be interesting to read in light of your melee arcanist sorcerer/monk idea you had a while back.

The Fighter Clas Acts article's also interesting simply because it combines a lot of new options in terms of weapon choices, without focusing on a particular style (one-handed, two-handed, tempest, etc.); similarly, if you haven't played around with it yet, the addition of Primal Power to the Character Builder makes life very interesting if you try to do a two-weapon Ranger/two-weapon Barbarian crossover, and pick up the Barbarian feat that allows you to use any weapon with the off-hand property as a heavy thrown weapon. Given that both classes allow you to treat one-handed melee weapons as having the off-hand property, and the Ranger's various 'melee or ranged' powers...

[alexandraerin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I actually blogged about the Fighter article at GOGT... I loved that article, saw a lot of potential in it.

I loved the inclusion of the two "hurl" feats in Primal Power (the improvised weapon "rock throwing" power and the one you describe) but I haven't done much playing around with them. I saw the potential of a Ranger/Barbarian hybrid immediately but didn't catch the axe hurling fun implicit therein.

My lappy is perfectly suited for writing on but it's not great for anything else... the Character Builder's fancy formatting takes up so much screen real estate that I can only scroll through a couple options at a time. It's easy enough to look up options I'm already familiar with but it makes it hard to do anything new with it.

[syphilis-jane.livejournal.com]

Sorry to laugh at your misfortune, but reading "I was more than a little cough-y by the end of the weekend", but hearing in my head "I was more than a little coffee by the end of the weekend" amused me.

[alexandraerin.livejournal.com]

Well, I am best slow-roasted and freshly ground.