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Today is my golden birthday! Some say your golden birthday is supposed to be the best year of your life. I don't really believe that, but that's not going to stop me from making this my year. My theme for the year is "Leveling Up." At 23, I started a slow level grind, and I'm starting to see some results two years later. Not yet ready to move out of my current dungeon, I'm going to spend the bulk of this year revisiting old caves, fighting the same foes, and retrieving some nice loot. Already I can see the item drops are growing more valuable, and my stats are slowly rising. Soon I'll return to town, loaded with extra potions and unneeded plates of armor, and sell them off to get the good stuff. Hopefully, by the end of this year I'll be at a high enough level to take on the beast of self-employment. I hope my augmented weapons of writing and illustration don't let me down.
I got a great haul for my 25th. First is a new 8GB iPod nano. Brooke and I bought two of the original nanos like a day after they were announced and we've held on to them for years. They were only 2GB, and at the time that seemed like plenty, but it soon got to the point that if I wanted to add a song I had to take one off, plus the battery charge lasted about 40 minutes. So last week Brooke asked if we had the funds because she wanted to get me one and I said sure. The next day I hit up craigslist and found someone selling one for $100, brand new. I sent in an email and we met later that night at a gas station and made the exchange. It was my first craigslist purchase, and I was very pleased-you never know with craigslist, there's that exciting element of stranger danger in every transaction.
These are actually the colors I had and have, but these aren't mine...I don't have Duke Nukem
A couple of days after the nano I got a great CD to put on it. Regina Spektor's Far, the special edition with bonus DVD. If you've been reading the blog for any amount of time you know I'm madly in love with Regina. Her new album is more polished than her previous four and I love it. She's reigned in some of her weirdness a bit, which I miss, but overall I think it's great. There isn't a weak song in the bunch to me.
My parents sent me a visa gift card from Italy with enough cash for a fun weekend. We'll probably catch a movie, eat some dinner, and then I think I might pick up RE4 on the Wii on the cheap. Funny how my enjoyable experience with RE5 coop has brought me to this point. I normally hate anything considered survival horror. I could only play Bioshock in the day time...
The folks at the office got me a gift card to Nothing But Noodles, a delicious noodle place a couple of blocks from our building. Some of my supervisors are wearily watching me from the corner of their eyes. It's no secret that I'm striving to leave the suit and tie life behind-you can't hide a trip to Yuma. In fact, just recently I found out they've been googling me to see what I'm up to. If you guys are reading this, you can stop worrying, I learned the hard way during my 24th year not to quit your day job when you don't have something else lined up. Plus I hope I've shown that I'm a decent enough human being to not only give two weeks notice, but also train my replacement. But like I said above, I'm not ready yet, I'm still experience grinding.
Ahem...anyways, I won't actually be celebrating until this weekend because we have to babysit Brooke's niece tonight, but who needs a single day of celebration when the whole year is mine? Level up!
- Posted Jun 25, 2009 6:30 am PT
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