10.27.05
Saving the world
So, now I’m a member of Greenpeace. I should’ve known it was just a matter of time, hanging out with fundraisers all day is bound to get you suckered for some of your money eventually. Well, they said I only had to pay 25 kr. each month, but I have a pretty good savings account and it’ll only get larger as long as I live at home and work full time, so I figured I might as well give them 100 per month. That got me pretty popular. They signed me up for “Action Support” which means I get a crapton of reports on their activities and what-not. I can always decrease the monthly fee to 25 kr. when I get my own apartment and become broke. And then increase it to 100,000 when I become the co-owner of Off Topic Productions and get filthy rich.
One of their campaigners asked me if I knew anything about computer hardware, and I told them I’d put together both my own and my dad’s PC from various parts I ordered in. Then he asked me if I could take apart 15 old laptops they have lying around and use the best parts from each to put together some more useful laptops and install some Linux or something on them. This proposal intrigued me greatly, seeing as I have never even opened a laptop to see what’s inside, and I have never in my life used Linux before. When I agreed, he asked if I would want to go to Stockholm where their tech support office is and help out there for a few days. I’m torn between “OMFG THAT’S SO AWESOME” and “ewww, that means I’ll have to leave my comfy home”. We’ll see which way the scale ultimately tips.
I picked up a reference to a medical lab from my doctor on my way home. One of these days, I’m gonna swing by there and get checked for allergies. Hopefully I won’t be allergic to cats. But even if it turns out that way, I’ll choose permanent snot-nosedness over a desolate, cat-less life any day. Speaking of doctors, I should probably visit Torsten at the hospital; his jaw surgery was today. Hm, I don’t know if I have time tonight, and I have an appointment tomorrow. I think I’ll call his mum and ask when he’s due to be released, with any luck I can visit him on Saturday.
I guess this week is Roleplay Week for me. Yesterday, I played the best NWN session in a long time in the Quest for Glory campaign. The DM had set up this really epic boss-fight, but we ended up talking our way out of it instead. Luckily Burrie is the kind of DM who will adapt to that and let us do things our way rather than forcing us to engage in the fight he’s carefully planned out, so it turned out really great. Tomorrow, I’ve been invited to participate in a LEF pen and paper campaign I’ve never played in before; I’ll be joining the fifth session, but the first four sessions were very long ago. That’ll be hopefully be nice, the first LEF campaign we played was my first tabletop campaign ever; from that, I got both some of the most amazing and some of the most frustrating experiences ever, so it’ll be interesting to see if the DM has softened up a bit since then. And then on Sunday, I’ll be joining the Crimson Age campaign in NWN which is DM’d by Maniac (who also plays in QFG). I’ve spent quite some time setting up my character for that, he’s heavily influenced by the Naruto series and he’ll really serve as an outlet for my gothic compulsions (not that he likes to wear mascara or anything, he just has a pretty traumatic past). I can’t wait to play, I’m sure it’ll be fun.
