Well I’m back. I didn’t end up doing anything meaningful today. I dont think I got any work done, but I guess that’s the way mondays always are.. If I dont have specific direction I just end up wandering around in circles aimlessly trying to spend the time left of the day. I did stumble upon an interesting site in my travels however:

http://www.geekissues.org/quotes/


It’s an IRC quote site, you submit funny quotes from irc and they are weeded through, and the funniest ones are put up on the site. I went looking through them, and on a whim did a search for my nickname… and there was actually a quote from me!! Ahh… I have a terrible friend out there %) … want to know the quote? Bleh! Go there and see for yourself, search for “PrincessLeia2” … anyway, I submitted a few this morning from the #13thHour quotes pages, some of my favorite funny ones. So that was about an hour of fun %)

Later I was sitting in #13thHour, minding my own business when this guy comes in and pm’s me saying he just wanted to ask me a question. I was like “ok, shoot” and he goes “Where are they hiding all of the wonderfully talented and amazing geek women these days?” At this point I was like “ugh” and my hand was moving toward the kick button. The last thing I needed was some perv being obsessed with me again. But I left him go on, and made it quite clear that I had a boyfriend. He turned out to be a really nice guy, and messaged me ’cause he liked my site and wanted to invite me to a LAN party. Apparently he lives in a town like 15 minutes away, and is arranging this SummerFest LAN party at a cabin in his town. I guess he was looking for gamers in the area to randomly invite, and he was bored so was looking for people to talk to. So he invited me, and Myk of course, and as many people as I can gather up to go play at a lan party in like 2 weeks. It’s a whole weekend thing, sounds pretty cool %) I’ll talk to Myk about it, maybe we’ll end up going… Anyway, I guess this guy found my webpage and my usual haunts (#13thHour on the scifi server) through ICQ pages… which I rarely update, but just happened to last month. So he’s on my ICQ now, and I have his email addy, if anything meeting new people is kewl, and even if we can’t go to this LAN party it’d be cool to hang out sometime, someone in real life, wow. Then again he IS my age… older by only about a month or so, and he loves games n stuff… does php and sql stuff for his page, I’d have a hard time convincing Myk that it was strictly friendship, bleh %( I hate being a girl geek sometimes. Oh well, Myk is just gonna have to see one of these days that I’m absolutely crazy about him, and my interests just happen to be more common among men than women. Really, if I could find a woman who shared my interests she’d prolly be my best friend, but it’s just highly unlikely… most the geek girls I have ever met didn’t want other female friends, and didn’t want to share all the attention they got from men… ho hum.

Moving on, something really strange happened this weekend that I keep meaning to mention but keep forgetting about. On saturday, Myk’s birthday, I went outside to take the trash out (it was Myk’s birthday, I didnt want him doing it, hehe), and it was all foggy out, which isnt too abnormal, but it smelled like smoke. I came back into the apartment and told Myk, and he just thought I was being silly til he went out and smelled and saw it. We just shrugged and assumed someone had a BBQ or something AND there was fog. So sunday I was wandering around Yahoo! And came to the weather, the current forcast gave a tempurature and instead of a “partly cloudy” or “raining” or “sunny” picture on the current conditions it had “Smoke”.. I all of a sudden remembered how weird it was outside on saturday and then I noticed the severe weather report… it turns out the report was about the smoke! Apparently here have been big fires up in Quebec, and the smoke has been drifting as far south as the carolinas. Noew I am sure this is not new to people who keep up with News and stuff, but I don’t %) … It’s just so weird. I guess today most of it’s gone away, that’s what the weather report said, and when I stepped out for a bit today it seemed to be gone… but it was quite strange while it lasted %)

Hmmm… oh I’m almost done with the 4th book in that 5 book David Eddings series, I have about 40 pages left… I’ll probably finish that tonight… it’s a really good story, yes, this from the formally “science fiction not fantasy!” fan… and I am gonna read the 3rd Wheel Of Time book next… bleh, what’s become of me? hehe… I think I am gonna start shopping at discount book stores though, with how quickly I am getting through books, even spending half the price for a used book would be worth it, I dont *need* my books to be new… and I’m used to trading in old books that i’ve read for new ones, that’s what I had to do all through high school while my mother did everything in her power to discourage me reading (she is a weird mother…. she’d say stuff like “why do you need more books? you havent even read the ones you have!” … why do I need more books?! That’s a silly question, arent parents supposed to support their children’s reading habits?? oh well…). Anyway, yeah, discount bookstores.

Ah something else I remembered I kept meaning to write about (uh this post is getting pretty long… I think I found out why I worry about anything and everything so much, or at least an excuse… It seems to run in the family, the Krumbach side. I was talking to my cousin, who lives down here, recently and she was talking about how she was worrying so much about her job, and then joked about how she worrys about everything way too much and goes crazy ’cause he boyfriend just doesnt seem to care most of the time. Then she said that her mother is the same way, my aunt was all stressed out ’cause she’s worried about little things that she cant do anything about. And that’s when I was like “so that’s where I get it from!” My unnaturally insane size of my worry load is genetic, lol… ok so it’s probably a mental thing, that’s not healthy, but at least I have an explaination for it (other than I’m friggin crazy)…

Well I guess I’m gonna go play with my neopets or something ’cause that’s what I do when I’m bored… Myk should be home within an hour anyway, I’ll prolly make spagetti since we dont have much else, ugh and I hate grocery shopping %( Oh well… I’m out.