Jeremy's Blog

Today wasn’t exactly the best day for me. I got buried under a lot of work, at the beginning of the afternoon. Which wasn’t particularly a bad thing, because none of it was hard. It’s just tedious, repetitive, and gets really boring after about three hours of doing it. For those of you who haven’t caught on, no I haven’t done any programming work today. Except for a minor bugfix.

So, at about 2-ish, I get an e-mail from the game admin over at Geas informing me that I’ve been banned from the game. I’m not going to go into some huge flamefest here, because I did get what I probably deserved. I overreacted to a lot of information that I later found out was false. It still sucks because that MUD was by far the best I’ve ever played and I’m going to miss a lot of the people I role played with on there. The wizards did a good job of making me look like the bad guy, and I admitedly did a bunch of stupid things out of anger, but I hope none of the actual players hold it too strongly against me. As much as I’d like to stay in touch with some of them, I don’t want it to look like I’m trying to get other players to stop playing because of what happened to me.

In any case, it doesn’t stop there. We had what could’ve been another perfect plan to finally get Onyx out here and her mother shot it down. No surprise, there. Again, I’m not going to go into a huge flamefest, because I’ve already taken my aggression out on my headphones which are now laying in the garbage can in several pieces.

So, as the day goes on, things get progressively worse as I’m upset because of the shootdown of the plans and the Geas banning, and more and more work is being levied on me that has to be done at a certain time… Then came the breaking point. In the middle of work, my computer was hit by something very mysterious but it seemed like a virus was taking control of a lot of things. Internet Explorer locked down. I killed it and couldn’t start it back up. The task manager refused to function, and my anti-virus program flat-out died. So, after everything that had already built up, I just snapped. Yanked my headphones off and hurled them in a random direction where they managed to slam against the bookshelf and shatter into several pieces. I shut my computer down and when I calmed down enough to come back upstairs, I turned it back on to try to assess the problem and everything just worked.

In any case, I’ve been getting a lot of “We’re going to miss you on Geas” notes today, so I want to extend my gratitude to those of you who may read my blog. I’m going to miss all of you, too.

I tell you what… I do everything efficiently. What’s a better way to eliminate a distraction than to get yourself banned from it, eh?