Brrrr.  The last week has been cold with a bit of snow.  Well, the last couple of weeks, really, have seen a little snow.  I had to get a ride to and / or from work from Sunday to yesterday.  Tuesday night I would have been able to scooter home but it was really cold and the dang bike wouldn’t start.  That’s okay, though.  The streets were still a bit slick when I rode it home last night, so the night before might have still been too hazardous and a problem had I gotten it started.

We got a new tower for the kitties.  This is the kind of thing I have wanted to get for our cats for years:  It’s taller than me with several levels and a few dangly things.  It’s covered in a soft, leopard-print material.  The support posts have thick rope wrapped around them for good scratching material.  And it’s just freakin’ huge.  It’s only problem is…well, we’re in a small duplex and it’s freakin’ huge.  Ah, well, we will adapt to its presence.

I ordered a new desk for myself yesterday.  I think I mentioned last week I got a multi-monitor stand which won’t work with my current desk.  The new desk is a little bigger, with three drawers on either side.  Well, it appears to have a total of six drawers; I ordered it from Office Depot’s website and the picture may be deceiving.  Sometimes what looks like more than one drawer isn’t, I know.  I’ll find out later today.

In EverQuest, I have found a good place to take Shaka while I am at work.  There’s a special disguise I put on before entering the zone which lets me wander around it without getting attacked.  So if I have to take a call at work, I only need to focus enough to finish my current assault.  In spite of the fact that the mobs are relatively low level, I get decent experience, too.

All of my primary characters are making good progress.  Boom and Dan are edging quickly to their next levels.  Shaka is moving fast through her AAs.  They are knocking out tasks.  In fact, there’s a group mission I managed to take on with them and with great effort beat.  One of its three mini-bosses was particularly problematic as it does this pushback thing which makes it hard to fight, but I finally managed to get it down.  This is a big accomplishment for me, as I haven’t been able to do a whole lot of missions like this all by myself.

That’s it for this week.  See you tomorrow!