October 14, 2008

  • Sudden Rectal Bleeding

    No, not really. ^_^ I blame it all on Andred.Anyhow, I am sick, just not with that. *grumble* Sinus infections, we hates them... My ears are all pressured up, my nose is alternately congested and leaking clear fluids, and I feel like someone stuffed bloody cotton up my nasal cavities. Which, actually, is a sensation I am familiar with. *wry grin* Fourth in ranking on Google for nose cauterization. Actual story of the removal of bloody stuffing is available too as well as the beginning of the nosebleed drama (yes, I'm intentionally having fun and seeing if I get surges of odd search results). Anyhow, long story short, work was miserable as a result.

    On a complete side note, remembering the incident with the stuck tissue plug made me suddenly realize where an errant false memory of body horror came up. I'm pretty sure I blogged about it here, but I had this one odd dream a few years back which included a scene where I was staring in my bathroom mirror when I realized something was irritating my left eye. So I reached up into the corner and pulled at what felt like a bit of rheum. Instead, I had this weird sensation of something pulling at the back of my eye, and I pulled out this long strand of clotted blood. I remember that in my dream, the vision from my left eye went blurry as the clot got pulled out. Well, when I was describing the situation with the tissue plug, I suddenly remembered that there had been a similar feeling as I was discharging the clot/tissue, probably because the sinuses do partially interface with where the eyes are.  So, yeah... now I know where I got the sensation of pulling out a clot and feeling like something was pulling on the back of my eye. Probably more than you wanted to know. ^_^

    Apropos of nothing, I've been playing Tiny Adventures on Facebook since last night (no, not continuously). I remember Eric Burns namechecking it and thinking it sounded cool, but being dissuaded by the fact that he said it was down and probably would stay down for a while due to scaling issues. And then I forgot about it, until recently when I noticed someone on my Friends List had it up (speaking of... some day, I need to trim my friends list. Or at least alias it to be called the "acquaintence's list"). It's fun and low impact. And... really has absolutely nothing to do with the D&D ruleset beyond an extremely simplistic implementation of the d20 resolution. Your choice of class modifies your initial stats and what equipment you can use, and that's about it. Your paladin will gladly kill and loot sleeping creatures. Your rogue will leap into combat against the orcs. Your wizard will decide that running a marathon sounds like a good idea. Yeah. But, it's low impact. And it is fun. That is enough.