Hibernating

I remember when, over the summers, as a child, once I got into a rhythm of sleeping when I was tired and waking up when I wasn't I would naturally wake up around 8 in the morning. Now I have to set an alarm to get myself up even when I don't have anything scheduled or I will practically sleep all day. I have decided that since I am in a colder climate my body is trying to hibernate.

Although I can turn into a bear in World of Warcraft, IRL I am NOT A BEAR. Do not be fooled.

In spite of oversleeping I did manage to update the website and write a book review.

Can bears do that?

That's what I thought.

Making a Website

So, I spent some hours today working on the website. You can see the under construction version of it here. I still need to make the rest of the pages and make a style sheet for the whole site.

Not only did I learn how to do things like line up text on opposite sides of the page and how to embed the YouTube video (you can't just use the code YouTube gives you, apparently), but I also learned that John is really intense when he plays World of Warcraft by himself.

I actually did the website construction on my own with support from John when I had specific questions. But, so that I could have him nearby, he let me use the spare desk in his room. (The one I use when we play WoW together.) I guess I had never been in the same room with him before when he was playing by himself and really getting into it.

Kind of scary.

Pirithous

Last night John was making himself a new WoW character. He yelled to me that he needed help coming up with a name. He wanted the name of a dark hero.

I told him he should call his new character Pirithous. I mean, Pirithous got stuck in the underworld. That's pretty dark. He and Theseus went there to kidnap Persephone and got stuck. Hercules rescued Theseus, but nobody rescued Pirithous.

John said he wasn't convinced. He tried some names. They were taken. I suggested Phobos or Deimos. They were both taken.

Finally, John asked, can't you think of any other names?

So, I told him, Pirithous is pretty awesome, you need to give him a chance.

So, John looked him up. He agreed that he is awesome. And, that name wasn't taken. So, his new character has an awesome name.

Weird Things That Really Happened

First Weird Thing
John stayed up really late last night to watch the national championship game. Sometime after he finally came to bed I heard him say, "Hey."
I wasn't sure if that was just a random exclamation or if he needed something, so I asked, "Do you need something?"
John: "Yeah, I need you to grill those things."
Me: "???"
John: "I need you to grill those things we skinned."
Me: "zzzzzz"
John: "zzzzzz"
Later in the afternoon when he finally woke up he had no recollection of this conversation.

Second Weird Thing
I was expecting a call from Ancient House this morning about volunteering this weekend. I was running and listening to an audio book. (I have taken note of the recommendations, but am currently listening to a random book I downloaded to test out how Georgia Download Destination works.) This audio book has jazzy music between the chapters. My phone plays jazzy music when it rings. The call came and I just listened to it ringing thinking it was the end of the chapter in my book! Then, when the book came back on and it wasn't a new chapter, I realized what happened. I called back, found out they do need me this weekend, and went back to listening to the book. The chapter ended after another minute or so, and the music that came on was totally the same riff that is my phone ring. Different instrument, but same riff, I kid you not.

Office Space

John and I each have an "office" in separate rooms of the flat. My office is now in our bedroom, and John has his own office in the spare upstairs bedroom. My office pretty much takes up one desk. John has a desk, a folding table, and, well a whole room with papers and clothes strewn all over it.

When John first cashed in on his Christmas gift back in Georgia, we attempted to play WoW together in his room. I called the desk, and John had to try and play from his bed. He was very unhappy with this arrangement. So, he has decided that when we play WoW together in the flat we will both play in his office. He sits at the folding table and I sit at the desk. (I had to bring in the chair from my office beause the extra chair in John's office is holding the printer.) When John proposed this arrangement to me I was all, "Aww, I have a desk in your office."

And what did he say? "Umm, no. Just for World of Warcraft."

Nota bene: FiveUS shows CSI pretty much every night of the week except for Thursday. Thursday night they show a movie. We don't want to watch the movie, so Thursday is now WoW night.

New Years in London

During my freshman year of high school (1998-1999), the marching band learned that they had been invited to march in the Millennium Parade in London the next New Years (never mind that 2000 wasn't actually the start of the new Millennium). The band promptly put out the news, started collecting payments, and didn't go on a trip that year so everyone could save up. I couldn't go on the trip. And although I understood, because it cost a lot of money, I was very disappointed.
Sophomore year, New Years came and went, and all my band friends came home with stories of all the fun they had.

Well, John and I flew out of Atlanta late in the day on December 30th and arrived in London early in the day on December 31st. To avoid doing too much travel at once, we stayed in the airport hotel and took the train home to Norwich today.

Yeah, we could have taken a train from the hotel into London proper and watched midnight fireworks while Big Ben chimed the hour. But instead, we stayed inside where it was warm, watched the festivities on TV, shared a bottle of champagne, and played World of Warcraft. (My Christmas gift to John was a promise that I would play WoW with him.)

I bet my London New Years was nothing like what my band mates experienced during the Millennium celebrations, but John and I had a good time.

Fun note:
One of my college Latin professors pointed out the fatal flaw in the name of the Mazda Millenia. The word "millennium" comes from the Latin "mille," which means "thousand," and "annum," which means "year." Thus, a "millennium" is a thousand years. Mazda spells "millenia" without the second "n," making the word a combination of "mille" and "anus," which means "back side." Thus, the Millenia is a thousand bottoms!

Pre-Holiday Cleaning

John finally cleaned his office today and we put sheets on the bed (no pillows for that one yet) so I thought I'd show you how nice it looks! Guess what John is doing there at his computer....

Migration

I moved my office upstairs into our bedroom. This is partly because I felt a little crowded in the old office and mostly because I felt cold. It is much warmer upstairs.

But future visitors, don't worry. I'll get a nice fluffy comforter to go on the bed in the downstairs room.

I had a picture of my new office set up but I can't get it to upload. I will withhold my theory on why this has happened. It is probably unrelated to the fact that John just got an expansion pack for World of Warcraft and is using up all our bandwidth playing it. At least, that's what the computer genius man says.