Just FYI, I'm not going crazy again or anything.
I'm not going to be leaning on anyone or asking anything of anyone even though I've been reassured that I can but honestly I'm not because it's not necessary because I'm coping and doing quite well.
At the moment I'm thinking about keeping it off yet keeping it someplace safe. Right now it's hanging from the remains of the cord from a light fixture in my bathroom so I see it every morning when I brush my teeth. I want to diminish my superstitions and my insane ειδωλον screaming in the basement cell of the asylum of my head has been condemning this piece of humble jewelry as a collar and symbol of my servitude to my father, to any concept of "faith" and needing a security blanket.
Meh, we'll see how it goes. Reckon if I'm still reaching for it by the end of January I'll shell out a buck or two for a new cord and knot it around my neck once again.
NetHack is the best game in the universe. Mind you it's been four years since there's been an official release of NetHack by the DevTeam. Fortunately there are lots of patches to alter the game. Unfortunately NetHack has one problem and that's the endgame. In NetHack the final goal is to recover the Amulet of Yendor and sacrifice it at one's altar on the Astral Plane. To reach the fabled Amulet of Yendor one must retrieve it from Moloch's Sanctum which lay beneath the Valley of the Dead and Gehennom.
Gehennom is the most boring and tedious series of levels in the game. Why, I hear you asking, would Gehennom be so boring? Basically the player has to slog through annoying mazes to reach the final level where one can enter Moloch's Sanctum. Sometimes you encounter a demon's realm which can be interesting when the demon lord doesn't teleport away when he's about to have his ass handed to him.
There is some hope because of a patch called Heck^2. This revamps Hell and makes it a bit more interesting for the player. Over at Heck^2's official site it's mentioned that one can simply download the nhdat file, plop it into the folder and play NetHack to experience the new Gehennom. As you may or may not know I've been patching NetHack on my own. I'm not writing my own patches just applying them to NetHack. Whenever I'd put the Heck^2 nhdat file in the appropriate NetHack directory and visit Minetown I'd never be able to get Izchak's lighting store and everything would be messed up.
Friday night I realized that I should've patched it into NetHack rather than downloading, dragging and dropping it into the appropriate directory. Everything works fine and I am making a Windows binary of my patched NetHack available here at heptapod.org.
The important thing about the lighting shop is the fact that the endgame requires the player to have seven candles. Candles are rarely randomly created in the game making finding them quite a task. Not to mention that no one would want to waste a wish for seven candles when they could easily wish for blessed fireproof +3 speed boots or, if they're playing monk, a blessed +3 ring of increase damage to compliment their grand master status as a martial artist in addition to the damage bonuses from a pair of gauntlets of power.
Nota bene: It's considered bad form to kill Izchak in-game.
I brought my stuff into the laundry room and went out to find her. Black Leg was waiting in the bushes and ambushed me then ran up the stairs to the apartment building next door. Only thing I could do was let her into the stairwell so she could be somewhat warm.
On Friday morning I saw Tuxedo sitting on the stoop of Alaska Lady's house. She ran over to me and was acting all friendly too. It's still cold in COS and poor Tuxedo was outside much to her disappointment. So I figured I'd do the same thing for Tuxedo that I did for Black Leg. Tuxedo ran inside and as I got into my car I saw that Tuxedo had come out again.
Some cats aren't very bright.
In my dream, heh, I was at the ultimate corner store. An amalgamation of the Carvel on the corner of Essex and Main Street in Millburn and the Evergreen Deli in my hometown. Both places were important ports of call in my tender years.
Either I worked or lived in this strange corner store. Anyway a dame came in who was an avatar of the internet. Y'know a personification of the internet. Well padded without being fat, always appearing at angles which are more flattering than embarassing in addition to having an attitude. Internet had dark, curly hair and great big tits too but I never saw her legs. Sleeve tattoos covered her arms, only one piece of metal was shoved through her face and her lipstick was too red but avoided being trashy. She wanted to talk to me about my cat. Spot was outside in my car and this realization reminded me that I had left the door unlocked and the window rolled down.
I ran outside and saw Spot standing behind the steering wheel. She glanced at me and leaped out of the window and ran into traffic. My attempts to save her were for naught because she had made it safely to the other side while I was dodging traffic much to Spot's amusement.
