Short version: ending very anti-climatic.
Long version under cut for those who are sick of me talking about this…
Dec 152007
Aug 112007
So. Um.
Today was Everest’s pre-surgery checkup. I brought him to a different vet than the one I originally went to because I wasn’t comfortable dealing with a vet that had that much against the chain I work at (note that this is also the vet that we send all our customers to!). The vet I went to is also the one where RH’s girlfriend works.
So I bring Everest in, and K (I forget her last name) checks the sweetie out and weighs him and stuff (and found that he’s awful chubby — I’m switching both cats to the lower protein food NOW). The vet comes in, and we start talking about the procedure.
Me: *blahblahblah male cat* *pause* “I hope his testes have descended…”
Vet: “Well, I think [K] would’ve checked, but…” *feels around* “…”
Me: “… er…”
Vet: *feels around some more — Everest is complaining loudly* “I don’t… um, I’m going to get a second opinion, but I don’t think that he’s a he…”
Me: “Oh God.”
So I sit down, because at this point, stuff is RACING through my mind. The vet comes back (with Everest looking really insulted).
Vet: “Well, it’s confirmed, Everest is actually a girl.”
Me: *snap*
Note that two guys, a vet and the breeder all said he was male!
So then the vet starts feeling around some more, and she starts asking me if Everest is an indoor cat. “Well, yes. He… er, she’s never been outside.”
Vet: “Are you sure? Because her tummy’s really swollen.”
Me: “…”
Vet: “Do you have other cats?”
Me: “Well, a male cat… but he’s fixed… … … the vet SAYS he’s fixed.”
The vet whisked him… … HER out again to get another second opinion. The two come back, and Everest looks like he’s sick of the whole mess.
Vet: “Well, the other vet checked as well, and we think this lump is just a low kidney… but you might want to keep an eye on your other cat. If there ARE kittens in there, you have a choice to keep them, or…”
Me: “Just abort the procedure if that happens…” (I’m not pro-life, but I can’t make this kind of decision for someone else.) “… … oh God.”
So it’s probable that Everest isn’t preggers, but, well, yeah.
When we came out of the exam room, K was waiting for us, and we basically exchanged “Oh my GOD”s for about 10 minutes and concluded that because she was dating the chief grape in the grapevine, the entire chain would know in, oh, five minutes. I got a new estimate for Everest’s, um, spay, and we left.
…
I’m still in shock. This really happened about six hours ago. I need to talk to the kitten buyer on Monday… everyone’s saying “Thank God it was only you and not a customer”, but hey, I went out of my way to look for a male cat, and I end up with a female one.
… On the other hand, I now have a rare female orange cat.
…
Oh, Everest. I still love you so much. Just that you gave me the shock of my life this morning…
Jul 152007
Okay.
The Blacksmithing quests in WoW are SICK.
Observe:
The Art of the Armorsmith
To become an Armorsmith, you must make the following items and return them to Grumnus: 4 Ornate Mithril Helms, 2 Ornate Mithril Boots, 1 Ornate Mithril Breastplate.
- Ornate Mithril Helm (4)
- Ornate Mithril Boots (2)
- Ornate Mithril Breastplate
Description
So ye made the smart decision.
There ain’t no love lost betwixt me an old Ironus here. That good for nothing toy maker knows who the true craftsmen round here be.
The truly great wars are won with a good defense. When it be go time, no offense is gonna be helping ye out.
Right, so let’s get to work. All ye need to do is show me that ye’ve got some raw talent. After that, I’ll yank whatever impurities be left in ye and mold ye into an armorsmith. Ye do know how to make ornate mithril, don’t ye?
Actually, I don’t. I didn’t think much of it at the time, so I continued trying to get the quests that I knew I could get.
I found the blacksmithing dwarf in Stranglethorn Vale (lolDorf) and he gave me the following quests:
Smelt On, Smelt Off
Bring forty Mithril Bars and forty Iron Bars to Galvan the Ancient in Stranglethorn.
- Iron Bar (40)
- Mithril Bar (40)
You will receive: Plans: Ornate Mithril Pants
The Art of the Imbue
Bring forty Mithril Bars and four Citrines to Galvan the Ancient in Stranglethorn.
- Mithril Bar (40)
- Citrine (4)
You will receive: Plans: Ornate Mithril Shoulder
The Great Silver Deceiver
Bring forty Mithril Bars and five Truesilver Bars to Galvan the Ancient in Stranglethorn.
- Mithril Bar (40)
- Truesilver Bar (5)
You will receive: Plans: Ornate Mithril Gloves
HOLY CRAP THAT’S A LOT OF METAL. Now, these are for other ornate stuff, not the ornate stuff he wants at the top. Is the rest going to be this bad?
*looks it up*
…
- I need to make the pants in order to complete the quest for the boots.
- I need to make the shoulders in order to complete the quest for the helm.
- I need to make the gloves in order to complete the quest for the breastplate.
…..
OH. MY. GOD.
…..
HOLY SHIT THAT’S 120 MITHRIL.
No, wait… I need 222 Mithril Bars on top of that to make the stuff in the first place.
…
HOLY SHIT THAT’S 342 MITHRIL!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
And there’s no way in hell I can afford all that, so I’m going to have to mine it myself…
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
God, I actually feel sick… why did I even think I could do this…
Nov 022006
*ahem*
Hi, my name is Cas, and I suck at Zelda games.
*shocked murmur from the crowd*
Yes, it’s true. It all started when I got Zelda 1 and 2 one summer from my parents. You know, the gold cartidges. Yeah. Anyways, I was finding Zelda 1 really, really hard. I somehow managed to finish Zelda 1, though I don’t remember how much time it took me, and I started on the second quest.
Well, I got to the point where I needed the Power Bracelet, and so I toddled up to the Argos Statues and, well, tried to kill the one so I could get down the stairs and get the bracelet.
THE DAMN STATUES KEPT KILLING ME.
Sorry if I sound frustrated, but I seriously went at it for a few hours before giving up.
If my battery still works, I’m still at that point.
Zelda 2, I wasn’t so bad at, but I didn’t understand the levelling mechanism, so I was weak à la Final Fantasy Legend (go go Mutant with 30 HP being the only survivor in the fight with Ashura). I wasn’t doing too bad, but I was stuck between the 4th and the 5th palaces (IIRC) and I was going in between them. That was really stupid of me, because I managed to lock myself out of the 5th palace by running out of keys. I could fly through the doors with Fairy, but I couldn’t actually pick up anything while in that mode, so I was SOL.
I restarted, but I never got that far again and I dropped it.
Zelda 3, well, that was in my glory days of gaming. I had a reputation for being a whiz at RPGs. I finished BoF on a three-day rental. Lufia on a two-day rental. Final Fantasy 2 in eight days. Final Fantasy 3 in ten days. Chrono Trigger in two days. (This with school, mind.)
So when I got Zelda 3, it was generally accepted that I’d finish it quickly. Because, you know, Zelda 3 is easy.
Say it with me, folks.
One year.
Four months.
Of playing almost every day.
I DIED IN THE FRICKING FIRST DUNGEON BEFORE SAVING ZELDA.
…
For the record, I didn’t do Turtle Rock myself. A friend from school said “Oh, you’re stuck at Turtle Rock? It’s EASY, let me show you-” and proceeded to finish the dungeon for me in 20 minutes.
…
Yeeeah.
I loved Link’s Awakening. I wasn’t too shabby at it! But I got stuck at the sixth dungeon (with those statues on the moving floors) and gave up.
I have a hate-hate relationship with Zelda: Ocarina of Time because of the sheer amount of spiders.
I never saw or played Zelda: Majora’s Mask.
I liked watching Sky go through Zelda: Wind Waker. Especially when Link got shot out a catapult. >P
I saw Sky play a little of Zelda: The Minnish Cap, but the sound effects were ANNOYING. Same with Four Swords.
So that’s basically it. I hate Zelda because I suck at it. I realize it’s not the game’s fault, but… you know. ^^;
This morning I turned my monitors on to find that my computer froze yet again. (It’s been doing that every night.) I restarted (had to try a couple of times) and settled down to login to FFXI and to make food/drink for the wedding tonight.
I login to FFXI, I crash.
I restart, computer freezes at the startup screen.
Repeat around 50 times. I dunno. I lost count.
I tried:
- Disconnecting my optical drives
- Swapping the HDD out
- Changing IDE cables
- Trying to get it to boot from the secondary IDE controller
- Putting everything back the way it was
(At this point, I was getting “Unmountable boot volume” errors)
- Putting in an older HDD and trying to reinstall (“Windows cannot find any hard disk drives in your system”)
Now I’m taking my old server (P4 1.4 GHz, 512 MB RAM, GeForce FX5200) and trying to reinstall FFXI on there. It’s doing a file check right now (I did the “copy overtop of the install” type of install). It’ll look like ass, but I don’t care. If I don’t show up at 7:00 PM Mountain tonight, the wedding WILL be cancelled.
I hope everyone will forgive me for not making cake and juice for tonight…
File check @ 48%…
It hasn’t really sunk in that my system is pretty much the equivalent to a toaster. Now I know it’s my motherboard, and most likely the IDE controllers. They really don’t make AGP motherboards for Socket A CPUs, so I’m kinda SOL on that. I could buy an IDE controller, but what if that’s not it? I feel like technology is advancing much faster than I can keep up with it. I know I can buy a pre-fab computer to replace the one I have for much cheaper than I could build/spec one, but I know that I have a couple of programs that need more than what I could get at Future Shop.
I priced out a system at both NCIX and MemoryExpress, and I’m looking at $1400. I’d have a much faster computer, and a much guiltier conscience. I barely have enough money on my credit card, and it’d ruin my dreams of financial freedom for a few months.
I’m not sure what to do. It hasn’t really sunk in yet. I’ll probably have a mental breakdown shortly after the reception.
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