Dreamed my family was living all together in a big mazy house with at least one other family, like roommating but whole families. This is a recurring dream feature by now I guess. What I most remember is sneaking off to a bedroom (must have been my bedroom shared with some other function, my futon mattress, a couple pillows, comforter, dark green and beige sheets were there) with a twentysomething daughter of a (the) other family and going down on her. She was menstruating lightly, not enough to put me off... (...more)

With the Cartographer, Navigator, and Merchant skills squared away and close to 100K gold in the kitty, it's time for some shopping. The top-notch gear is at Atlantium's blacksmith shop. I haven't figured out if the "Today's Specials" menu is fully randomized or what so some of these might not be 100% available: Knight: Plate Armor +1, Helm +4, Great Shield +1, Broad Sword +2 (base dmg 10), Great Bow +2 Paladin: same as Knight Archer: Chain Mail +2, no helm or shield, Flamberge +2 (base dmg 16), G... (...more)

Having wandered around MM2 a bit, leveled up to 5, vaguely remembered the hoops to jump through to maximally boost stats beyond regular level-up gains, and filled in memory gaps from online guides, I decided to restart the game and avail myself of some early advantages. The party starts with 200 gold and one throw-away weapon each. Getting to the first exploit requires one character to have the secondary skill of Navigation, which is learned in the town of Tundara at a cost of 750 gold. So at the very l... (...more)

Had a useful discussion with Morgan about tattoo/piercing studios in the area yesterday. Her ink was done at 2 places, neither of which is anything like "convenient" for me, so I mentioned the studio I was eyeballing, Big Kahuna in Boca. She seemed to think they're reputable. Now I just need to shed the last 10 pounds to the top of my "healthy" BMI range and save up a bodmod fund. MM2: found Corak's Cave (C2(5,11), same world map sector as Middlegate, easy with Pathfinding) and got the Lloyd's Beacon sp... (...more)

Ear cushions for the Koss KTX Pro headphones: replaced successfully. (Radio Shack branded as model# Pro35A, but all the same stuff). I was nervous about disassembling the headset and popping out the drivers because that's usually when something plastic breaks, but it went smoothly and now is refurbed. (The volume slider still tends to drop a channel randomly, but I can cope with that.) Turns out that removing the driver mount assembly wasn't even necessary. The driver pops out of the mount easily enough if... (...more)