Spring Nesting

This morning is definitely one of those ones where I am struggling to wake up.  It is chilly and I am currently swaddled in my fuzzy blanket after making a run to get breakfast.  At the moment it just hurts to think, but I am hoping the migraine meds will kick in soonish and remedy that.  In addition I have a cat who has decided the perfect place to be is on my chest between me and the laptop.  Today serves to be a day full of cleaning, organization and home re-arranging.

Spring Nesting

I really don’t have much gaming wise to report,  because yesterday nearly the entire day was spent going from furniture store to furniture store.  As with every spring, the nesting instinct has kicked in and with it a list of home improvement projects and minor renovations.  In this particular case, it has been decided that the living room furniture needs to go.  We had talked about this for some time, but the season has brought on a new sense of urgency.

Quite honestly my recliner is super uncomfortable and our sofa looks like crap at this point.  So we have needed to do something for some time.  We are both successful adults, but we don’t really live like we are.  Always in the past we have settled for whatever furniture happened to be readily available and looked nice, but this time we are working on holding out for just the perfect pieces.  However after spending all day yesterday going from store to store, we remembered that exactly what we want… doesn’t actually exist.

A Few Simple Requests

So there are a few simple requests that we had.  First that we had a recliner for me, since that is my favorite mode of seating.  Second that my wife who is fairly tall be able to lay down comfortably, because at this point we are resigned to the fact that we will never keep the same bedtime, and she greatly prefers falling asleep on the sofa and then having me bring her to bed later.  Lastly my wife has always wanted a chase lounge, or at least since a friend of mine from college had one that she fell in love with.

Ultimately after looking around all day, we stumbled onto a modular sectional that would potentially fit the bill.  After getting super excited about it, we went home and measured only to find out that our living room was nowhere near big enough for it.  After some shuffling around, we managed to come up with a combination that would fit all along one wall… essentially would be this awesome wall of furniture.  The above picture is of a similar configuration, but not quite what we were going for… also actors and fake house and stuff.

Problem is, after coming home my wife started freaking out because the manufacturer website lists a different length than many of the furniture stores do.  Today will involve a trip to the store and hand measuring a few of the pieces.  Either it is going to fit absolutely perfectly, or be 10 inches too long… so we may or may not be back to the drawing board with this one.  There is another configuration that is acceptable, but would end up with us needing to shop for an end table to complete the wall of furniture.

Hellbugs Ho!

So after the day of running around, standing, walking, sitting, squatting as we went from store to store looking for the perfect furniture, I was pretty wore out by the time we got home.  Add to that a great sense of trepidation for the server move that was scheduled to happen at 10 pm last night, and I just didn’t feel like I could get into much of anything.  My friends on mumble were happily scrimmaging over in League of Legends and engaged in the banter that only a LoL player could understand.  However each of those maps takes between 30 minutes and an hour, so with my oddly truncated play schedule I just didn’t feel like I could take the risk of getting into that world.

As a result I logged into Rift and wandered around aimlessly for a while.  I came to the realization yesterday, that each of the Carnage quests out in Ashora rewarded Infinity Stones. which could then be turned in for really nice level 60 gear.  So my downtime activity has been mindlessly slaughtering packs of mobs to finish out all the infinity quests.  I was in the middle of doing this when I stumbled upon an “Invasive Species” Rift, and before I knew it I was caught up in another roaming group in search of more “bug rifts”.

That is one of the things I have always liked, the way groups just kind of happen on their own.  Then when you have a group together, it tends to stick together for awhile as well.  I cannot count the number of times I have been randoming in Rift, and the entire group just stays together for two or three instances after the initial one.  The community as a whole just seems to have a better sense of cohesiveness. 

After a handful of Rifts on a slow mount, I had enough of the frustration for one evening.  Unfortunately the ports are in bad places out in Ashora, and it was extremely hard to keep up with the 150% mount folks.  I did not get any new mounts, but I did manage to get Skritt the red hellbug companion.  So in the grand scheme of things I would be happy, even if I didn’t get any more doodads since I now have a Hellbug mount and its matching companion.  I still would love to have the green ones, since green is my favorite color… but if it doesn’t happen it is fine by me.

Life Happens

I realize this is out of line with almost every post I have ever made on my blog, but I am hoping that my readers will be okay with that.  Thing is, Tales of the Aggronaut, more than anything else is my blog about me and my gaming happens.  Sometimes you have one of those days where very little gaming occurs, but a ton of life does.  These are the days that always in the past have thrown me into a writers block, because I thought that no one would ever want to hear about what actually happens to the me being the screen.

In this most recent binge of daily posts I have decided that a goal of mine is to be more honest with what is occurring with me.  To actually blog about what happens regardless if it feels interesting to me.  I totally spent the entire day furniture shopping with my wife, and while some gaming happened it was the biggest event to occur that day.  So as I started to blog this morning, it seemed the most logical thing to write about.  I know I have dropped some subscribers of late, and maybe this will cause more to drop as well…  but at the end of the day I feel like I have to be more truthful and show more of the person behind the keys to keep this up over the long haul.

If you’ve made it this far in the post, I hope you have a pretty great day.  It is still a pretty dreary day out today, but we have indoor plans for the most part.  I will be boxing up the 15 years of console systems in the loft, so that we can tear it down and hopefully rebuild it as a much more usable space.  Right now the intent is to still have PS3, Xbox 360 and a custom gaming PC hooked up to a new TV with a new entertainment center. 

While I love owning a Sega CD, Famicom, NeoGeo etc… they just take up a ton of room and are a pain in the ass to keep hooked up and “on tap”.  I plan on running emulators for most of the console systems on the PC and then just knowing I have the others neatly boxed in my closet.  Above is a picture of the “Game loft” during its heyday, and hopefully the new version will be a little neater, but every bit as cool.