I was originally going to write a post about my last day in Renal Dialysis, but unfortunately a series of events that unfolded between 5PM and 9PM have drained me of all desire to write.Â
Don’t fret though, I will blog something within the next twenty four hours.
So it’s been a pretty ordinary week, thankfully I’ve only had to work three days instead of doing five in a row like I did last week.
I know I’ve been pretty bad with updates lately, which is really weird, since I come up with all these great topics to blog about while I’m at work, but by the time I get home I just want to sit back and read, and play a little WoW afterwards. The low, low temperatures don’t exactly get the blogging juices flowing either, especially when your feet don’t have a layer of fat on them to keep them warm. Which kind of brings me, in a roundabout way, to one topic that I’ve been especially enthusiastic about this whole week.
The EeePC.
“But you already have two computers, Brian!” I can hear you saying with exasperation, but hear me out. My desktop is primarily used for gaming and image editing (doesn’t image editing sound so much more professional than picture editing?), as well as internet browsing. My laptop pretty much does the same thing, but I only use it when I leave home for a few days at a time.
Here’s why getting the EeePC is such a great idea: It’s small, it weighs less than a kilo, and it boots up pretty quickly, all things that I love in a portable computer. Just think about it, you’re on the train for an hour or so, and you want to watch something, or possibly type a blog entry. Would you rather pull out a heavy notebook that weighs 1.67kg and takes forty seconds to boot up? Or would you rather slip your ultra portable EeePC out of your bag and turn it on pretty much immediately?
By the time you’ve pulled the heavier notebook out of your bag, you’ve either lost the urge to blog, or the idea of going through all that trouble just to watch a movie saps all the energy out of you so you end up staying on your iPod, listening to a playlist you’ve heard over a million times.
Getting the EeePC also has two more marks in the plus side of the paper because of two points: 1.) You can customise the hardware of the EeePC, adding a touch screen or embedding more hard drive space and a USB modem into the tiny, tiny packaging, and 2.) It comes with Linux. Now I know those two points may not appeal to everyone, but that little computer embodies two things I’ve wanted to get into for a long time. Working on actual hardware, and learning how to use Linux. =D
So to sum up the post, I should totally buy an EeePC because
Sure, call me a geek. But at least I’ll be a geek with an ultra mobile pc. A cool ultra mobile pc.
Ok, I know blogging about WoW is kinda geeky, but I needed to write something today.
So a whole bunch of us just rerolled on a US pvp server, Magtheridon to be exact. Now this wasn’t your average reroll, no. We went over to the Horde side. Gasp. Horror. It’s actually pretty good playing the other side, you get to hear their story and Horde do seem to win more battlegrounds… Which had nothing to do with our decision to roll Horde.
So it’s 10 o’clock on a Saturday morning, and Rhys had just called and woken me up from my sleep in. By the time we had finished talking I didn’t feel like sleeping anymore, so since everyone else is either at church or still sleeping, I decide to hop onto WoW. I’m sure most people would agree with me when I say that solo questing is boring, even when you have people to talk to on Vent. After reaching 29 on my belf mage, and finding that no one else from the guild was on, I decided to do Arathi Basin.
Now my troubles began when I got past the loading screen and I appear in the starting area, and my first thought was, “This isn’t Arathi Basin…” Did I accidentally queue for a different BG? Was I the victim of a microsleep where I had teleported to a whole new zone that I had never been to before? Happily neither of those things were true, and the reason that I was so confused was that the view from the Horde starting area looks over the Farm, which is pretty, but looks very different from the Stables.
Another incident that gave me +rep with Silly occurred about halfway through the game. Both sides were on about 1200 points, and I’m sitting at the Gold Mine with a priest and a hunter, when I check the little icons at the top of the screen that indicate how many points either side has. Happily for us, four of those nodes belonged to us. Unfortunately it turned out that I was looking at the Alliance points, and we were in fact losing the BG.
Hopefully the reroll jetlag wears off soon, so that I can actually function in BG’s.
I do have a redeeming story though. In a Warsong Gulch game later on, I managed to capture the flag all three times, with the help of Adam as healer, without whom I would have ended up as a squishy smear on the bottom of a raptor’s foot. Damn hunters.
So now I’m faced with a dilemma, level or do BG’s at 29? Life’s full of tough choices.
[4:32:13 PM] Josh (Work) says: why don’t you ever come watch me play soccer anymore?
[4:32:21 PM] Brian says: because
[4:32:24 PM] Brian says: I don’t have time!
[4:32:35 PM] Brian says: do you think I don’t know what I’m giving up by working this job!?
[4:32:47 PM] Josh (Work) says: don’t have time for your own son!
[4:32:50 PM] Brian says: I miss seeing you play soccer, I WANT to see you play soccer!
[4:33:14 PM] Brian says: but we could not afford to send you to that international soccer school you want to go to if I don’t work this hard!
[4:33:18 PM] Josh (Work) says: YOUR A LIAR! U never make an effort!
[4:33:24 PM] Brian says: effort?!
[4:33:27 PM] Brian says: EFFORT?!
[4:33:32 PM] Brian says: I’ll show you effort!
[4:34:00 PM] Brian says: that month when you went to soccer camp, your mom and I were working two jobs each just to pay for the damn camp!
[4:34:00 PM] Josh (Work) says: You give your receptionist effort! you dirty man. I HATE YOU!
[4:34:10 PM] Brian says: oh you’ll regret that
[4:34:12 PM] Josh (Work) says: YOU DONT LOVE HER!
[4:34:15 PM] Brian says: no more soccer school for you!
[4:34:22 PM] Brian says: its normal school from now on!
[4:34:32 PM] Josh (Work) says: Ill do what I want! I don’t have to listen to you!
[4:34:41 PM] Brian says: you live in my house you live by my rules!
[4:35:05 PM] Brian says: you come back here young man!
[4:35:12 PM] Josh (Work) says: Fine! I’m out of here then
[4:35:17 PM] Brian says: don’t you turn your back on me
[4:35:30 PM] Josh (Work) says: You think I wanna be here!
[4:35:39 PM] Brian says: oh where would you go?!
[4:35:53 PM] Josh (Work) says: ANYWHERE! Anywhere away from you!
[4:35:54 PM] Brian says: your so called "friends"?
[4:36:07 PM] Josh (Work) says: leave them outta this
[4:36:13 PM] Brian says: oh great, I’d like to see you make more than 4 hours out there
[4:36:20 PM] Brian says: leave them out?
[4:36:31 PM] Brian says: I would if they would STAY OUT OF MY DAMN HOUSE!
[4:36:52 PM] Josh (Work) says: more than four hours aye! you cant even watch your only son for 1!
[4:37:03 PM] Josh (Work) says: if you were in it they wouldn’t need to be here!
[4:37:17 PM] Brian says: oh good call
[4:37:20 PM] Brian says: very good one
[4:37:25 PM] Brian says: you win this round
[4:37:31 PM] Brian says: I have nothing for that one
[4:37:51 PM] Josh (Work) says: haha
[4:38:06 PM] Josh (Work) says: sigh, that was actually mildly relieving
[4:38:12 PM] Brian says: rofl
[4:38:14 PM] Brian says: it was
[4:38:21 PM] Brian says: I got a rush from that arguing
[4:38:30 PM] Josh (Work) says: yeah, I was fully in the zone
[4:38:34 PM] Josh (Work) says: nearly started shouting in the office
[4:38:37 PM] Brian says: feels like I was actually in a huge argument
[4:38:40 PM] Brian says: lol
[4:38:59 PM] Brian says: I feel scared, angry and hungry
[4:39:08 PM] Brian says: putting that on my blog
Ok, as you probably guessed that wasn’t a real argument, Josh is not my rebellious soccer loving son and I am not the overworked, under appreciated father.I have to say though, throughout that whole conversation I felt like I was actually arguing with someone, never mind that I was making most of it up. There may not be any studies on this, but I think arguing is probably healthy, especially for those people who tend to suppress their reactions in situations that may cause them stress.So this first round goes to Josh, but don’t worry, he won’t be at the top of the leaderboards for long… Brian will strike back.
So.
Yes, it has been a while since this blog was updated, but I cannot be blamed for that. We didn’t have the internet in my new house, and the few times I was over at the res or at Abel’s, I had more important things to do. (like World of Warcraft)
Here’s a short list of things that have changed for me this year:
Onto more interesting news.
The NUM (nursing unit manager) in the renal dialysis unit where I’m currently working on a casual basis seems to have taken an interest in where I do my first new grad rotation. How do I know this? Well, things were quiet in the middle of the morning shift and one of the nurses I was working with said that the NUM had told her that I should go see the lady who’s in charge of new grads.
Long story short, I went to her office to see her, but it turns out that she doesn’t come in on Fridays, which is weird because the message she left said to come in today.
So it looks like I’ll be kept in suspense all weekend, just waiting to find out why she wanted to talk to me. Hopefully it’s to tell me that I can get in on the May intake of new grads, and that I’ll be in renal dialysis for all four rotations, if that’s at all possible. (Crosses fingers) Secondary plan, do a rotation in there, and then quit the new grad program and get hired in the unit full time. Yup, that foolproof plan will be put into action immediately.
Side note: Josh has started blogging again, check him out at Buccaneer Brucey.
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