I'm now the proud owner of a share of a share in Fae Hollow and Sea Fire Productions! Even with as cash strapped as we've been with the game store, I couldn't ignore the need of one of my favorite musicians. Fae Hollow is the home of Alec James Adams, and Sea Fire Productions is the recording label for Heather Alexander, Uffington Horse, and Alec James Adams. I'm hoping to scrape up the money to buy another share on Friday.

If you haven't already, you might want to check your latest journal entries for evidence of this exploit: http://news.livejournal.com/117957.html

My last post got hit with it (thanks vixyish for the heads up to go check!) even though my last post was 7 weeks ago and the last comment was 5 weeks old! Looks like the powers that be have it all shut down/up/whatever now, but you should still check your most recent post and edit it if it shows the mentioned signs of tampering, especially if you were reading LJ last night.

Okay… I’ve had a couple requests from folks in the store that I type up Dubhain mac Dhara O Raghailligh giolla Romero’s adventures in journal format. I could start another journal just for that, but I’m really not doing that much with this one and there might be folks here interested in reading this as well. I will be LJ cutting the journals to keep from eating everyone’s friends pages alive.

For those who played with Lord Drachenheim, Dubhain mac Raghailligh o Dhara three years ago the back history for this character is almost the same (as I really missed playing him and reset him back to 100 points for this game), save for the fact he did not return to Inismore after the War of the Cross and get hired as Rhiannon ni Nolan’s bodyguard. Instead he hired on as a bodyguard for a Syrneth artifact hunter from Eisen named Nikolas von Insel. When Nikolas retired from active collecting in late 1667, a Vaticine priest who was also seeking Syrneth artifacts by the name of Father Romero hired Dubhain. This journal covers the adventures of Romero’s group of artifact hunters.

( Dubhain’s Journal )

Once again I have allowed a long time pass between posts. I do read LJ almost daily, but the 20 minutes or so I can justify most days doesn’t allow for much more than reading the 40 or so entries that have popped up in the last day. I have finished my chores early tonight, so to catch everyone up on things: ( Really long update about Owning a Game Store, Moving a Game Store and My Wedding cut for space. )It’s getting late and I need to get to bed. I will /try/ to update a bit more often in the next couple of months.

Sam Hat

Some of you locally know most of this, some of you locally don't and almost all of my LD friends have not heard all this, so since I've been nudged by a couple people and have computer time at work today I’m going to try to give a highlights update since my last one almost a year ago… (I’m a bad girl, I know).

( This is going to be long.... )

Most of you already know this, but damn Target is on crack.....

I have a new idiot boss to replace the old one we finally convinced to listen to us just before he left. So we're back to doing things to stupid way. ( work related rant here. ) So I'm suddenly going to have time next week, though it probably won't last. I am officially shifting to 4am on the 19th, so at least I'll be able to use the time to set up my character for the Saturday game at Hat's I'm joining on the 24th when I'm free in the afternoons. 5th level Scout in the Dungeon from Hell. That, at least, is going to be fun! Work can hang.

Well, I've got an update on the whole Checkers dead battery mess. The corporation sent me a letter saying they'll cut me a check for $100 if I promise not to sue.

This one took some thought. It's not even half of what I lost, but I did get the battery out of the Van before it did any real damage to the alternator or starter. The amount they owe me isn't enough to really be worth the court costs if I wanted to fight them on it. Finally I held my nose and signed their little waver. The battery is the only part from them that /had/ been in the Van, so I at least don't have to deal with them again, thankfully; nor worry that something in the wording prevented me from getting redress on a different problem.

I'm not happy with the final solution, but at least they gave me enough to pay hamner to cat sit the babies come Highlands and still have some spending money.

All I gotta say about this one is damn that's scarily accurate in some cases.....

There have been a couple of inquiries of me for a wish list for my birthday and I figured this would be the best place to put it.

Books (HB or PB okay):

Harry Turtledove:
Drive to the East
The End of the Beginning

L.E. Modesitt Jr:
Wellspring of Chaos
Ordermaster

National Geographic Society:
The Gospel of Judas (The white cover version)

RPG's:

Riffs:
Sourcebook 3: Mindwerks
Worldbook 12: Psyscape
Worldbook 16: Federation of Magic

D&D:
Complete Adventurer
Player's Guide to Faerun
Mysteries of the Moonsea

SG1:
Core Rules

If you want to buy something off this list, contact satharn first as she's co-ordinating the list.

This has /not/ been a good week so far. I needed a jump to get back to this side of town from St. Mary's hospital on Monday. Well, the battery's almost 4 years old. Out here in the land of the baking sun, that's all but ancient. It was under warranty still, so I went straight to Checkers Auto Parts where the previous owner had bought the last one at just after selling the car to me. The employee came out with their little electronic test box and said that no, the battery was fine. It's the alternator. It's overvolting. I happened to glance at the screen when she told me that. It read 14.6 volts. I know next thing to nothing about car electrical systems, so I took her at her word. I asked if the car would be okay through Friday since- those of you who are reading this would know what a large amount of gaming stuff I picked up /last/ week- I was only 3 days from payday and I didn't think the $140 I had left in the account was enough to get the alternator fixed. She assured me, yes, the battery was fine. Just get the alternator replaced soon, before the alternator fries the battery.

I got home and went to take a nap for work. A few hours later I go to try to start the car. Nada. I end up having to call out from work. There's 10 hours of pay, gone. I managed to get a hold of great_cthulhu and made arrangements for him to give me a jump in the morning before he went to work. Still Nada. The van didn't want to even /try/ to turn over.

After trying for 1/2 a hour I gave up and called my mechanic and got a tow..... A few hours later (he was busy) I got told:

The battery has a dead cell.

That's why it wouldn't even jump. The battery was interfering with the attempt. Not only that, but when I mentioned the alternator and the "overvolting" he said that volt reading was normal. Nothing is wrong with the alternator. Total bill: 139.56 (After he cut me a deal on the tow).

I took that battery right back to Checkers and informed the manager of what happened. After a little running around to get the paperwork proving I missed work, he's started to write up a claim for corporate to review.... It might take a bit, but hopefully I'll get my $225 I lost on this mess back (lost wages, the tow, full price on a battery that I had come to claim the warranty on the day before). Thankfully he had been there the day before and saw me, so I /didn't/ have to insist he review his tapes to prove I had been there. But still, very aggravating. Then my higher ranking boss fussed over me missing work when I came in the next night... He was getting to the point I really wanted to deck him.

I'm really getting to the point where I don't need anything else stressing me out this week. Life has just been too high strung of late.