Moldy Basements

Yeah, the basement still stinks. No matter how many times we run R2-D2 over it, whether he's filled with cleaner or with bleach. It's industrial-grade carpet, so it should have been able to be cleaned easily. The moldy water must have gotten deep down into the tile underneath it.

My dad's going to call our insurance and try to get them to pay to replace it. I think we've got standard flood coverage.

In other news, four people from quiXotic popped over to Alliance-side for a bit to help me create the Delta Squadron guild! Mïlk even lent me 11 gold to create a girly tabard. It's glorious; pink with a white diamond (helping foster the pseudo-Sentai image) and a golden border.

I feel pretty.

Pictures will be forthcoming. Especially once I get around to updating my GuildProfiler and CharacterPaperdoll addons.



I need a Delta Squadron LJ icon.

Let it never be said that I am lacking in class.

First week of my new classes¹ is about half over, and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. At first I was worried; what if I wasn't able to keep up? What if I never got around to keeping up²? I'd have wasted seventeen hundred dollars if that was the case.

Fortunately, I discovered that my fears were unfounded. The classes, for the most part, are consisted of posting in forums. Why does that sound familiar? Oh, wait, I do that all day anyway!

The classes are designed to be taken together, in pairs. This first session is nine weeks, and the classes switch off on assignments. For example, I have discussion days this week in the Persuasive Writing course, while I have actual assignments in my Information Technology class. Next week, there will be assignments in Persuasive Writing and discussion in IT.

But man, posting in forums. It's absolutely glorious. Sure, my posts have to be "substansive"⁵ and frequent, but if there's anything I'm good at, it's wanton verbosity⁶.

After these nine weeks are over, I get a week break (which I can extend for up to a month if I so desire) before my next pair of classes begin.

This is exciting. I'm loving every second of it. I can barely contain myself to write a coherent post about it⁷, let alone one with footnotes.

The greatest thing about all this, which I think I've mentioned already? The fact that my company pays for all of it. Or, rather, pays me back for it. I have to stay with the company for at least a year after I'm done⁸, but it's worth it.

1. "This boy's too young to be singing the blues.", Sept. 18th, 2006.


2. A valid concern; while I may have been deemed a genius³ years ago, the apathy rose until I barely graduated⁴ high school.


3. In first grade, I was taking science with the sixth graders.


4. By this, of course, I mean if I had failed exactly one more class (due to never turning in any homework), I would have had to repeat senior year. I found out the bare minimum I was required to do to graduate.


5. Meaning no one-liners, witty or otherwise.


6. But at least I'm not ostentatious about it.


7. Trust me, you'd rather be reading this instead of the "ZOMG CLASS WHEE YAY BACHELOR'S DEGREE COLLEGE SQUEE BLARGH FROINLAVEN KLAATU BARAADA NIKTO MARZIPAN" that I am sorely tempted to write in its place.


8. Pushing the opening of whatever kind of store I plan on opening to at least four years from now, of course, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Nor should it be.