Becca Stareyes

My weekend was good. I went to the annual Dept. of Astronomy Salsafest (the food, not the dance, though there was salsa music playing). I spent an hour helping to chop tomatoes for the Big Val of Salsa. (Seriously, picture one of those large Rubbermaid storage boxes that you keep in your closet. Then imagine it full of chopped tomatoes, peppers and onions.) There was also chili, black bean soup and hamburgers. After that, I went to anime club.

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On the other hand, my apartment needs to be cleaned urgently. If I can get some plots made tomorrow morning, I might go out for a late lunch, then go home to clean.

Spilled some tea on my desk. So I had to not only mop it up, and hope nothing important got wet, but also make sure my computer was still okay. Given my laptop looks like it's been through the war, Sharvari, my officemate, was not terribly surprised that the worst protest it had was a bit of a hum that died off. (I swear, this laptop has done more to cement my brand loyalty to Apple than anything else -- I've had it 3 years now, and have dropped it, spilled things on it, and generally mistreated it. Aside from a CD drive that likes to make funny noises occasionally, and a case held together by duct tape, it still runs fine. (Granted, I am on power cord #4 and battery #3, but I'm told all laptops have problems like that -- and I lost battery #1 to a recall.)

I'm in two RPGs right now, digital_dive and quaquenocte. Both are multiverse games, though DD allows original characters. I'm playing Michael Carpenter in QN, and Zelgadis Greywords, Harry Dresden, and Ken Ichijouji in DD.

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Offline, i finally got around to calling Adobe Customer Service about my old Flash disk, and despite the heroic attempts of the Customer Service Rep (seriously, I am kicking myself for not writing down her name -- she was awesome for putting up for me), we were unable to track down my serial number. Flash remains expensive, but the student discount is excellent -- seriously, Adobe will sell me a $700 dollar program for $250. I'd love a free, legal alternative (if you know of any that run on Macs, please post links), since I'm all for supporting freeware, but that's not a bad deal. I could even splurge and update my copies of Photoshop and Illustrator, and get Dreamweaver and Flash for $500. I even intend it for partial use for work -- pretty animations to explain concepts don't make themselves.

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