Saturday, Things Done So Far

Sorted my spreadsheet and the housing benefit stuff, and tried to confirm the interview (no answering machine). I reckon I can get one application filled in today (see which has the closest deadline) and either do another tonight or do the last two tomorrow.

So now, I vomit internet at you:

You Are Incredibly Logical

(You got 100% of the questions right) Move over Spock - you're the new master of logic You think rationally, clearly, and quickly. A seasoned problem solver, your mind is like a computer!

How Logical Are You?

Your Ultimate Roleplaying Purity Score
Category	Your Score	Average
Hacklust	77.36% Enjoys the occasional head-lopping	53.5%
Sensitive Roleplaying	60.76% Will talk after everyone important's been killed	54.4%
GM Experience	69.57% Ran a module once or twice	69.4%
Systems Knowledge	92.23% Played in a couple of campaigns	90.3%
Livin' La Vida Dorka	60.92% Goes nuts on the weekends	62.9%
You are 74.19% pure Average Score: 68.7%
Take The Ultimate Roleplaying Purity Test and see how you match up!

You scored as Sloth. Sloth 75% Gluttony 50% Lust 50% Pride 38% Wrath 38% Envy 25% Greed 25% Seven deadly sins created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Lawful Good. A lawful good person acts as a good person is expected or required to act. They are dedicated to upholding both what is right and what is set down in law. Lawful Good 90% Neutral Good 75% Lawful Neutral 60% Chaotic Good 45% True Neutral 45% Neutral Evil 30% Lawful Evil 25% Chaotic Neutral 15% Chaotic Evil 10% What is your Alignment? created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Verbal/Linguistic. You have highly developed auditory skills, enjoy reading and writing and telling stories, and are good at getting your point across. You learn best by saying and hearing words. People like you include poets, authors, speakers, attorneys, politicians, lecturers and teachers. Verbal/Linguistic 86% Visual/Spatial 79% Intrapersonal 79% Interpersonal 64% Musical/Rhythmic 61% Bodily/Kinesthetic 50% Logical/Mathematical 39% The Rogers Indicator of Multiple Intelligences created with QuizFarm.com

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Saturday, Things To Do

I've worked three and a half days this week, and I'm knackered. (Yes, I know Tom and Kate have both been working full-time, but I've never had a truly full-time job, so I'm not acclimatised.)

It's now Saturday, and I've got all sorts of stuff to do that I didn't have time for during the second half of the week, when most of the work fell:

- Update accounts spreadsheet. Just finished doing this actually. Not bad going, since I only woke up an hour ago. Total recorded outgoings so far this month £186, total income £106.33. Not as bad as it sounds, since £150 of that spending was rent, most of which (if not all) should be reimbursed when my Housing Benefit clears. Speaking of which...

- Complete housing benefit bollocks. Basically, I've filled in the main form. I'm going to do as much as I can of the landlord's declaration and take it around to Mr Jez this afternoon for him to sign. It'll save him the hassle of evil form-filling, I suppose.

- Confirm attendance of job interview. I have a job interview! Word processor operator at Social Services in White Cross. If I get it, it means I'll be working in the same building as Evil Bilbo and Stacy, one of my flatmates from the second year. The job seems pretty much what I was doing on the administrative side at the police station. It's not a graduate job, but I'm not too bothered about that at the moment.

- Fill in a job application for a clerical job in Estates at the University. Yes, I get to join the most evil branch of the University.

- Book an optician's appointment and price-check new glasses. My mum grabbed me on MSN and I reminded her that I needed new glasses, and that she'd offered to put some money towards them. She said up to £150 support. So that's cool.

- Write Godlike play summaries, and maybe Cthulhu: Dark Ages.

- Write a review for Unknown Armies, to send off to RPG.net. I was weak and bought a copy from IMT on Wednesday. The geek-gasm of owning a copy placed the mental imperative within my head: get more people playing this near-perfect RPG. So I decided to write a review of it. I'm planning on doing the same with Godwalker and WFRP 2.

Oh Great...

...now my monitor's playing up.

Nothing too serious, but it's turning everything on screen yellow every now and then, before flickering back.

Hopefully it's not going to die on me or anything, but why is it that every time I get my computer the way I like it, another piece of it decides to start playing up?

It took me years to get a scanner, thanks to various other bits breaking down.

Still, if I get a new monitor, it'll be flat-screen, so I actually have space to move stuff around on my desk. Unfortunately, for financial reasons I'll have to go back to a smaller screen size than I'm used to. On the plus side, this means that I won't notice pixellation in games quite so much, since each pixel is smaller on the screen.

Once the monitor's changed, the only parts of the computer that are still the same as when I bought it nearly four years ago will be the tower, the floppy drive and one of the hard drives. Trigger's Broom Syndrome in action - it's still the same computer, despite... not being.

*sigh*

I can hear my overdraft crying out in pain. The sooner this Housing Benefit and JSA lark is sorted out, the better.

Peter Z Malkin, RIP

The man who captured Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief architects of the Holocaust, died on Tuesday. He was also an artist and author, producing a book of art during the operation to kidnap Eichmann from his refuge in Argentina, and later writing an autobigraphical account of the incident.

Here's an extract from the book, Eichmann In My Hands, that I just found really moving:

I knelt beside her bed and took her hand. "Mama," I whispered. "Mama, it's me Peter."
The elderly lady in the next bed turned toward me.
"She doesn't talk," she spoke loudly in Yiddish.
"Mama, I want to tell you something. What I promised, I have done. I captured Eichmann."
There was no response.
"Mama, Fruma was avenged. It was her brother who captured Adolf Eichmann."
I repeated it.
"Quiet," said the other lady, "she doesn't hear."
But suddenly her hand began to squeeze mine.
"Do you understand, Mama? I captured Eichmann."
Her eyes were open now. "Yes," she managed in a whisper, "I understand."

http://www.petermalkin.com/

I've got to get this book at some point. There's some sample chapters on the site.

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Cthulhu Live this afternoon. Very fun, if exhausting. Maybe I'll write more about that tomorrow or something.