Mini-LAN Party
Well, my attempt at hosting a LAN party faired rather poorly. Out of the dozen or so people I invited (directly or indirectly), ONE PERSON was able to make it. ONE. And, of the people who couldn’t make it, only three took the trouble to TELL me they weren’t coming, the rest of them just disappeared. I know it’s been a long time since I hosted a LAN party, but it’s never been this difficult to get people to show up, even on incredibly short notice. Oh well, I did have a great time, got my tail kicked at Starcraft. It’s just disappointing because this was my last shot at a attending a LAN party before August at the earliest, and I haven’t been to one since February (March if Madicon is included, which only barely counts), which is a LONG time between gaming parties for me. Maybe someone will host one on a weekday next month.
In entirely-unrelated news, I finally got a chance to go to the new Indian Trading Post store in our mall, which is a wonderful store, especially for someone like me who’s freakishly fond of wolves. I could have blown several paychecks there, but I held back, sorta. I bought three cool wolf posters, one with neat transformation/animal spirituality themeing, the others were just plain gorgeous. I also got this little howling wolf pup plushie, he’s SOOO cute in this “I need a hug” way, I couldn’t resist. And he actually looks like a wolf, too, no weird distortions like most wolf plushies I’ve seen. Now he just needs a name, I’m thinking something in Spanish would be fitting. My project for tomorrow!
Ooooo, off on a tangent, I finally named my other wolf plushie. I’ve had him since November, and he hasn’t really had a name until last week, when it just came to me in a dream: Lakuta. I haven’t the slightest idea what it means, but in this dream I saw a large wolf running through a shopping mall, and I remember it having a collar for some reason, with “Лакутьа” on a glowing tag. I woke up with the image still in my mind, said the word a few times, and it flowed nicely, so that’s my other plushie’s name now 
And now, it’s off to bed I go, I was going to try staying up all day, but that’s not happening. Wee!
May 23rd, 2004 at 12:57:03
Sorry it wasn’t a better turnout puppy.
May 23rd, 2004 at 14:42:43
Maybe try again once people at Madison’re back? I know that I, at least, would be up for a LAN party almost any weekend in the year. *Shrug*
May 23rd, 2004 at 14:51:18
I’m sorry about those pricks not even telling you they weren’t coming. Not to steal a line from Stephanie in Full House or anything, but: how rude…
Is naming stuffed animals a past time of yours? Or only those that match your furriness?
-Jamie
May 23rd, 2004 at 19:27:45
Well, I LOVE stuffed animals, especially foxes & wolves, and the companies give them silly names like Musher and Nanook, so I usually give them new names
I have three husky beanie babies in my car, named Axl, Slash, and Bowie (has different-coloured eyes). Then there’s Lakuta, who’s very huggable, and he comes with me on most of my trips (and he got to ride around Pawpet Megaplex on my camera bag). The new pup will probably sit at my computer desk most of the time, but he still needs a good name, since the company who made him didn’t even bother to give him one
May 24th, 2004 at 4:00:08
Unfortunately, I can’t fit a lot of people in my house, but I’ll look into organizing some small LAN parties later on. I’ll keep ya posted
May 24th, 2004 at 9:23:56
Sounds good to me. *Nods*
May 24th, 2004 at 17:31:01
Softie, was that Russian, written in Cyrillic?? Can you read that at all, let alone in a dream???
May 24th, 2004 at 22:37:20
Yes, as a matter of fact I can read the Cyrillic alphabet just as fluently as I read English characters, I often switch between them when I write stuff. I just wish I had an easier way to type them on the computer, I used to have a nice font that did it without changing the encoding of the document or the keyboard.
I know the letters, I just don’t know many Russian words. But I can pronounce ‘em