Moving, Reg stuff and other notes

Yeah, this blog is moving. I have had this account with blogger for three years now, or close to. It has been a surprisingly big part of my life. Very teraputic to write down your thoughts and feelings and angry rants. Same goes for LJ, though I had that for a lot shorter period of time, only one and a half year, but I will be more or less leaving that too. Everything will move to the new wordpress blog, and we are in the moving phase now, but this will take full effect on the last day of classes, as that is the last day when I have the class I originally got the wordpress account for. I will still have my accounts with blogger and LJ, just that my updates will all be on the word press account. I am also starting up the DEE project again their (that might be in full effect before the main blog). IMPORTANT NOTE: Some, possibly a lot, of post will be password protected. I tend to lean towards being as open as possible but sometimes that is not possible. If you want access to the password, email me, comment here or comment on the wordpress account.

Registraion for fall classes went fine. I got into everything I wanted. I am exited about Astro. Been wanting to take that class for a long time. Then there are Assembly and Operating Systems which will both be fun, I hope, if a lot of work. I am also looking forward to taking german again. And I got the section with a teacher that have been recommended to me.

In the rpg world, things are going ok. I am a little bit out of it, because every game I have played this year feels like it have been very political, this might not have been the intention, but that is how it feels. And lately I have been wanting to do more swashbuckling. You know, fights, insults, treasure, fight monsters, so on and so forth. Something that is lighter and more fun and less heavy on the political plot. This I guess is reflected in my last two characters Adrian and Ramon, both essencially swashbucklers, though only Ramon is an actual pirate. So I am looking into how I can do that. There is also two games I want to play, both of which can fit this style. Shadowrun and 7th Sea. 7th Sea is a swashbuckling pirate game already, but I only have the player's guide and don't really feel like dishing out tons of money. Shadowrun has a very dark and gritty overtone, but the underlying consept is very much that of swashbuckling. But it is also futuristic, character gen is confusing and it seems to be hard to recruit players for it and get the ones I have to be enthusiastic about it. Is that my fault? Am I doing something wrong as a GM? Or is it simply that people don't like futuristic games? I don't know.
But I have a few links for people
7th Sea, link to the game, has loads of interesting resources
Victorian Slang Glossary, just exactly what it sounds like

Costuming:
The bones arrived today. So I thought I should give you all a break down of the cost of the projects so far
Black sorceress:
Pattern and shipping $30
Fabric and shipping $90
Bones and shipping $86
Total cost $210 (estimated: no more than $250)
Total time so far 3-4 hours (estimanted: a lot)
The Shaman:
Pattern $7
Hooks ~$10-12
Yarn $13
Bones $9
Total cost $40
Total time so far: maybe an hour

A litttle tired

Heh, yeah, I am likely to ramble here. I am far far too tired. Maybe I am in a great state to do a DEE post. For those of you DEE is here. He is an amusing character. Talks a lot about random stuff. And drinks more than he should. But hey, that is the fun of him. If you wanna comment, just do it there. Incharacter comments are appriciated, and either way, if you make a comment and does not state that it is fore the author Dee will be the one answering.
Another character that has been noisy lately have been Ramon. He gave me a few stories from his childhood and not so long ago. I might type them up and post them here. They are just drabbles, but I find that drabbles are a great way to get to know a character. They describe the characters mood at that particular point.

First Blood-A Ramon story

Ramon stared in horror at the man at his feet, the blood seeping from the man's ear. So red, he had never imagined it would be so red. The stone fell from his hand. Blood spattered it. Blood spattered Ramon's arms and face, but he didn't notice. All he saw was the dead gaze in the man's eyes. He shivered, unable to tear his eyes away. Everything that happened around him was a blur. His crew mates fighting, gunfire, the sounds of swords clashing, smoke stinging your eyes. Far away, in a dream, he hear someone yelling his name. He wanted to answer, but his voice couldn't work. He couldn't move, couldn't speak, couldn't tear his eye away. He was captured by the dead man. The man he had killed. He had killed. Him, a killer. He was damned. He had seen men die before, seen them killed, but not by his hand. He felt filthy, he wanted to turn, to run away. Far away he knew his crew mates were fighting. Loosing. They were yelling at each other, at him. A strong arm wrapped around the thirteen year old boy, lifted him and carried him away. He didn't register where, all he could see was the accusing gaze of the dead.

In other news. Life is good. I am slightly on top of things. Mainly due to not going to practise yesterday. I don't think I will go on wednesday either. I have other stuff that I need to do. Project, paper and one take home exam

"Walk on, walk on
What you got, they can't steal it
No they can't even feel it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight...
You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been
A place that has to be believed to be seen
You could have flown away
A singing bird in an open cage
Who will only fly, only fly for freedom
Walk on, walk on
What you got they can't deny it
Can't sell it or buy it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight
And I know it aches
And your heart it breaks
And you can only take so much
Walk on, walk on
Home...hard to know what it is if you never had one
Home...I can't say where it is but I know I'm going home
That's where the heart is"
-Walk On by U2

I don't know why I wanted to start with that song. It doesn't really have much to do with anything. Except to bring home a point I made the other day. Walk on. It is all we can do. And don't be afraid.

A brief note on the new title of this blog. Brief Mortality. The blogger account have the full sub title, LJ does not. Anyway it is 'And the sound makes it's way outta the window Minglin' with the traffic noises outside, you know, an' All of a sudden I'm overcome by a feelin' of brief mortality', it is from the spoken intro to the song Woke up this Morning by A3. The reason why I chose this is because often I am over come by this feeling. I see something beautiful, or grand, or ancient or so larger than life, and I am reminded about how small I am, and how little I really matter in the big picture. And you know what, it is a good feeling.

I bleached my hair, was intending on dying it blue, but now I like this, I might stay blond.

Maria Victoria is now unplayable. She's in jail. And is going to stay there for a while. So yesterday I statted out Ramon. He is going to be fun. He's an Egyptian orc. Tall, and when he isn't having problems with the ground moving (ie. on a boat or drunk) quite graceful. He is young and handsome in that slightly dangerous way. You know someone confident of their abilities, and those abilities include being able to hurt you badly. In the shower I realized why he is in London, must remember to tell Sibs. Ramon is a pirate and I have to figure out the way he speak, I have a feeling he swears by a ton of different gods. Heh, he is going to be fun, mainly because he'll rub Jaq the wrong way so badly..

Long long week... I am finally taking a little break, I have been doing homework for most of the day, apart from waking up real late for lunch, but that was mainly Claire's fault. But overall day has been nice, now I am going to do some artsy stuff for a little while and then see if I can kick Sibs into more Trigun.
Went to game yesterday. Was very interesting. Adrian ended up in jail, not a big surprise there but for once he hadn't really done anything bad. They had gone into Jessica's house and after getting rid of the damned woman, checked out the basement where they found Faith's mother. And Faith's mother was in such a state that I really have realized that Kay is as good as I am about torturing NPCs. Though from what I have seen she goes a lot more physical torture than mental as I do when it is called for in a game. But yes, Adrian got her out of it, sent the other people home and then called the cops and an ambulance, and of course he got taken in for questioning. And then the painkiller high went away, and he realized he really was shot in the shoulder, and had ripped said half healed shoulder seriously. So now I am imagining him in a jail cell, you know the kind they put drunk people in, curled up in a corner muttering about pain.

Updated Todo List
Final programming project (in flash/actionscript)
Final project presentation
Final datastructure presenteatation (I am talking about disjoint sets)
Assignment 10 (graphs)
Design Lab (I am making a circuit that only lets though frequencies of 2000Hz and above) + labreport for said baby
Design Lab presentation
Lab report for chem x2
Done: Chem exam (self scheduled)
Math problemset x3
Engieneering problem set x2 (or 3)
Engineering quiz x2
Chem problem set

Chem exam
Engieneeing exam
Physics exam
Computer science exam

Register for j-term classes
Return keys
Figure out what I am giving the following people: Dad, Anna, Sister, Farmor, Cheryl, Thomas, Bunny, Danna, Claire, Sibs, Miriam,
Shop Christmas gifts (send me a wishlist people)
Mail gifts to the ones I wont see
Buy bus ticket
Repay part of the loan
Find my paycheck
Go to work
Go to game
Done: Talk to Kep about gaming space next semester
Send Christmas cards

Pack
Clean room properly

Bad Weekend

So.. I don't like this weeks programming homework. I went to work on it, but the TA didn't show up, so I didn't get very far, since this was one of those hard ones where I would need help. And that just makes me feel unproductive. On the other hand I did start the Engineering homework and it does only have five questions this week, a bit different form last week where we had 16. And you know that homework I said I wanted to get more than 50% on? 58/90, that is 65%. Combined with a quiz of 11/10, I think we can say I am really doing better.

On the other hand I have done art. I have been in an real arty mood. Two character portraits and a comic page colored. And uploaded to dA.

Yesterday was D&D day. I went to Modern Myths with Sibs, and we gamed. The GM was hilarious, the game fun (classic dungeon crawl, little story, tons to kill), and we got loot. Three minis, two d20s. And yeah it was well worth it, will do that again next year.

I also talked to my advisor. I am looking at ENG 208 Spec Fic, EGR 260 Mass and Energy Balances, EGR 320 Signals and Systems and MTH 204 Numerical Methods for Engineers. Only the math class has a lab and that is a one hour thingy. So this is looking better already. I am hoping to have time to upgrade to Conbust Staff and join Hells Bells. And have Tuesday and Thursday free before lunch..

My advisor also wants me to intern with Google... Or at least interveiw and apply next time they are on campus. Sounds interesting, but I want to do some more research on what it actually entails before I apply.

T-shirt galore

So... Fall break, yesterday was real nice, after some problems with finding Claire's sister, her bus was full so she had to wait for the next. I chilled on the lawn, reading Bunny's story, fairly good. Bunny will get my comments next time we are both online. Talking about writing, I have been considering NaNoWriMo. Really don't know. Don't know if I'll have time, don't know if I'll have an idea, but I wanna do it sometime.
So I have been ordering a bunch of t-shirts, three from Geek Label and four from Threadless. The Geeklabel ones arrived on friday. And I was very positivly surprised, the fabric felt real nice. The shirts I got was the Beta Clone Number and the 'I comply' from 7th Son, and one saying "GM, fear me". I wore the 'I comply' shirt to SSFFS and I found someone else interested in podcasting, really cool. On friday evening we tried out the Window, a system Kayleigh found online. Seems interesting enough, but I'll wait with my comments until we are done with testing it. I am also reading up in d20Modern, I really like some of their take on d20. Yesterday at Deadlands, I went just to chill in the Out of Game room, I had this long discussion with a couple of guys on modern games. Quite interesting, got a bunch of games recommended. I also wanna run Project Chupa (which no longer is called project chupa, but will always be project chupa to me) possibly in the Vegas after Midnight setting. Sounds cool. I need to get back into listening to podcasts, I am way behind on 7th Son, and I need to listen to the Passenger from Scott Sigler.
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Ok I have been bad.

I admit it. Today I was supposed to work on the costume for my larp character. At least that is what I had set as a task for myself. Instead I ended up working on the garb to go with my corset. I put the bodice together and made the skirt, now all I need is the chemise and some work on the corset. With the chemise however I might have done a mistake in the early construction so my mom and I need to sit down and figure out what to do there. I'll wait with pictures until it is all done. But I am wearing it all now, and can I just say, my little brother does the tying up damned tight. But heck I like it this way. I am drooling at at least one more corset, this baby, there is a bunch of things I am a sucker for: fire, metal(music, though I don't complain if I get to play in a forge), guitarists, black make-up, spikes, leather, corsets and so on, and when two of them can be combined, it's just *drool*. Yeah I have been ranting on about this baby for quite a few posts already, deal with it. If I don't finish the chemise later tonight and don't work on the EF one, I'll start the shadow run one. Or maybe I should spend some time with the family in stead of the sewing machine?.. Well, the EF costume I can work on downstairs. I am working on a piece of tablet weaving for it, that I can do while watching the telly. My mom have since I came home been working on the cronic knot in my back, it is getting real painful, but it is helping.

My little corner of the Shadow run world is starting to take shape, mainly thanks to Claire who keeps asking me to run scenes in it. I have even managed to come up with a non arrogant elf, pretty amazing. And I can't wait to spring some more stuff on her about Huang's past. Huang is an NPC who I didn't really know that much about until when I was peeling potatoes an hour ago, when he suddenly started speaking to me. He is acctually quite fun. Maybe I'll do a Sibs and bring him back.

Counter Strike and an update on the Horse.

The horse:
As some of you know my horse is having a foal. It is suppoesed to be due on June the 9. But a horse's pregnacy is 11 months and 11 days plus/minus 3 weeks.. Which means that she could give birth anyday. Yesterday my brother thought he saw the first signs of a birth, but it turns out he was wrong. But she is very pregnant and the foal can come any day. If it is a he we might call him either Sturla or Brage. I haven't thought of any female names, I think we might just look up in Kongsedda by Snorre. Any ideas? I want the horse to have a norse name since it is a old norse race. It is the type of horse that the vikings had, and the type that the icelandic ponies come from.

Today I played a lot of CS with my brother. I have missed playing on a regular basis with a group. It is a lot of fun and the adrenaline of jumping down into a cluster of enemies armed only with a Night Hawk (CS version of a Desert Eagle) is an amazing rush. Yeah I am a bit of an adrenaline junkie. I have to say the Night Hawk is my very favorite gun, and then the Magnum Sniper rifle on second place and the Maverick on the third. And whenever I have something that is not a pistol I have the NH as a back up. This is due to Ace and him, when I first started playing, telling me to run with only a pistol. People think I am crazy when I team up with people and they dress up in as strong as possible and I only get the NH. Or that I am cocky, or suicidal, or all of them at the same time. The truth is the second and that a NH is my best shot. I need to get better at using grenades though. I don't like them. And shields are just shitty, and I HATE the M249 (the machine gun). You have no precision. On that note I don't like the SMGs or the Shotguns either. In fact I only like pistols and rifles. Though the noob cannon can be very fun, it will stop anyone. But then again, so will the Night Hawk. But enough rant about fictional guns. Talking about real ones, this summer I am going to work on getting my hunting licence. Which means joing my dad and brother on the shooting range tomorrow. Hmm, maybe I can talk them into letting me try a shot or five.

In rpg news, I have come up with a little Shadowrun idea. It is going to take place in Hong Kong. Just because I can do it. And I might try running it as a AIM or Skype gaming session. That could be very interesting. Anyone have any expirience doing that sort of sessions? Bunny? Ace? And so far I think I have two players, Sibs and Claire, which means that there are some open spots if we can coordinate times...Anyone?

Kelly's Heroes

I watched Kelly'e Heroes again today. I really like that movie, it's just winderfully funny and serious at the same time. A feelgood movie. If I can talk my mom into it I'll bring it to Smith next fall, as far too many people have no clue what I am talking about when I mention it. So yeah, I need to educate these people... Black Adder, 'Allo 'Allo, and now Kelly's Heroes. I also have a feeling that Sibs might find some of the characters in it worthy of our Shadowrun campaign. If we ever run into Oddball I think I might laugh myself to death.

I have also decided that I'll be making some cool boffing weapons. San Jie Gun (three sectional staff) and Er Jie Gun (better know as the Japanese Nunchaku). There are far too few Chinese weapons in the boffing scene, the only Easteren boffing weapon used as far as I know is a Katana, and honestly, do we want more swords (well a Jian or a Dao could be cool)? So yeah, I am going more Eastern style. I still love the mace and the knives are my favorite. But a San Jie Gun? Would be so great. I can mix my aggresive staff fighting with my defensive short range fighting. I am a very aggresive staff fighter. I think it might have to do with having a range of almost 2.5 meters (that's over 8 feet as far as I know), but almost no defense on a short range. I am looking forward to try a staff out against say a long sword, or a mace (I am looking at you, Mel.). I think I might be able to hold two people as long as I have a staff, maybe not more, and not if either of them have staffs themselvs. Defending against a staff is hard, but do-able with a staff, don't think it is very easy to do if you have something else. A mace would of course shatter a staff if it hits it, but again I have speed and range to my advantage. San Jie Gun gives me the range AND the close defense which is very useful. It is known as the hardest weapon to learn though. But if I practise everyday during the summer... Er Jie Gun is mainly for show, as I can really imagine it being of much use unless your opponent is either unarmed, with Er Jie Gun themselvs or knives. Still cool... So I need to go to Kr.Sand to get the stuff I need for that, and also I need dice. I did a small calculation of the dice I am going to need for Shadowrun and I am going to need at least 20 d6 for my character and then I should have some extra for the others as well. So shopping soon it is. Weeeeee.....

Character Emotions

Some time back Gamer the Podcasting had a show where they talked about character emotions. I would forward you to the show but I am not entirely sure which one it was, but it was quite intersting, if anyone know please tell me. Up untill a few days ago I had not been able to feel real character emotion, it had always been "Hmm, I think my character would feel this now..." rather than real emotion. Yesterday that changed. Claire, Siobahn and I was having a Shadowrun AIM game where Silver, my character, got yelled at for some stuff, loads of emotional issues and shit. At one point I realised that I was sitting there with tears in my eyes, and it was not me crying, it was Silver. This sounds weird, doesn't it? But this fictional character was feeling this real emotion. It felt odd..

Happy Birthday to Me!

Big thak you to Cheryl, Thomas, Danna, Anton, Nikola, Lore, Lisa, Vasco, Natalia, Shanell, Aria, Catherine, Katrine, Alex, Ingrid, Ellen, Kirsten, Mor, Far, Farmor, Miriam and Hope for having said Happy Birthday someway or another.

Here it is snowing, but it does not matter that much, I spent a fair amount of the day doing programming homework, but I had tea and music and the assignment was quite fun, making a trafficlight that would light up and change color after a set time. I had to build two classes for this, and play around with graphics, I used to not like graphics, but after we started classes I have really started liking graphics.
When I woke up this morning I found a mental note to myself "Dear Tonje. Happy Birthday. I am sorry not everyone is here to say happy birthday but Snow and Storm decided to celebrate you're birthday all night and you know them, Mercury is too stoned to know what day it is, Lilith have been keeping to herself since Mercury moved in and I have not seen her much and Val is out on a job. So happy birthday kid. - Silver"(if you had absolutely no idea what this was about, All of these are fictional characters living in my head, there will be an intro to them in a minute)
The Bone Dolls Twin by Lynn Flewelling was a pleasant surprise, I am about 1/3 in and I like it so far.

So yeah the characters I talked about a minute ago. They are all fictional characters that have moved into my head, they are my version of the minature angel and devil sitting on your shoulder. They offer opions and world veiws and they really amuse me. So here is an inrtoduction to who they really are.
Snow- my oldest character, she has been with me since before I turned 10. She is a mercenary, ruthless and cold, yet I love her. She started out as my version as a guardian angel and have evolved from there.
Storm- moved in last night, he was a NPC in Siobahn's Game of Thrones game. I just played him in a scene and he just decided to move in. He is a bard, of the good old fantasy kind, he drinks too much and would sleep with anything.
Mercury - Moved in on Friday, another NPC that I was just playing for a little while and then he refused to move out. He is from Kayleigh's Mage game. He used to be a MD but after his awaking he turned all hippe.
Lilith - moved in a few months ago. She is my vampire character, she is very egosentric and interesting.
Val - moved in skiweek in my first year at RCN. She is a D&D shadowdancer, she is an elf noble who is a rouge for fun.
Silver - moved in Conbust '07. Originally from a Shardowrun oneshot, have now evolved into something more. Elf with an 'ungodly' charisma. Is currently inlove with an orc.

Det snør, det snør.

It is snowing, it is first day of school for my brother and mother (my mom is a teacher), but my mom is upstairs with a migrene. I am sitting in the kitchen, waiting for the coffee to finish brewing. Mars the male cat is playing with his tabletoptennis ball and Gaia the female one is just sitting on the table looking out, even though she just came in. Ronja, the horse, is outside, I'll take her out for a trip later. The breads I am baking smell nice, I have been up for over three hours, but I have not eaten breakfeast yet, I want fresh bread for breakfeast. I am reading MET books and plotting for the oneshot larp I am running in a week or so. I should also so some plotting for the bigger larp I am doing this summer. Not to mention all the rpgs I have to plan. I really like all this plotting and stuff. I have been thinking about being a professional storytellers/GM. It could be a lot of fun. Maybe I should look into some theatre course for the art part of the latin honors, such as voice for actors.

I also plan on celebration winter-een-mas this year, I should get started..