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I’m not sure entirely what triggered it this morning – but I’ve been cranky since I got to work. Wait, I think I just figured out what started it…<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’ve been cranky all morning. Snarky, even. Biting comments, grumbling, and occasionally growling. It’s been a lot of “People insisting on doing things wrong” and “People making things more difficult than they need to be”<\/p>\n

So, I figured I should go get a swim and I’d feel better. Isn’t that the way it’s supposed to work? Well? No, apparently, it isn’t. Or I did something wrong ’cause I’m still cranky. <\/p>\n

I’ll get over it, eventually, but for now I’m thinking of putting up the orange cones in front of my cube as a warning.<\/p>\n

So, swam again today – 6 laps. Tired when I got done, but no longer feeling like I might die. Which is a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n

Played a game over the weekend called Dungeon Siege. Pretty good, though it’s got some quirks. For starters, no teleport option. So, no gathering a bunch of loot and teleporting home to sell it. Nope, you gotta carry all that shit to the next town – however far away that might be. The answer to this is to buy a mule to carry the loot around. So I did. And then poor Midnight got scared during a fight and ran the wrong way. He promptly got beaten unconscious by a pack of trolls. I was really pissed off and set all the trolls on fire. They hate that. So, it was on. Later on I shot an arrow at a box that turned out to be filled with explosives. Mistake. It killed three of my characters instantly. And all their stuff fell on the ground. I revived them and spent the next 20 minutes trying to sort everything out. It was like going to Burger King and getting custom orders for a bunch of people. <\/p>\n

“Okay, who had the Granite Great Sword of Bashing? Come on, one of you had to have it,”<\/p>\n

“These aren’t my gloves! I’m an archer, not a magician,”<\/p>\n

“I wanted 2 rings of health and I’m not sharing,”<\/p>\n

It was annoying. But, otherwise, a good game. I also beat Onimusha 3 on easy mode. Pretty cool swords and a whole lotta ass kicking.<\/p>\n

I also watched Descent this weekend. There were a few “pants-wetting” moments, but once you got used to the pacing of the movie you could tell when they were coming. The ending was a little weak and the characters were a little one-dimensional, but not a bad flick.<\/p>\n

So, that’s it for now… time to get back to work…<\/p>\n

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