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1. This article about tax policies pretty handily summarized my concerns with the proposed policies of the Republican candidates still considered to be part of the race.

TL;DR: The reason the US is currently in an economic downturn, with a high unemployment rate, is heavily related to the fact that taxes are at a 60-year low. Further lowering them increases the risk of poor job security AND will benefit the rich, not the poor.

2. Play A Tale in the Desert! Holy crap! It is so awesome! Patrick picked it up (apparently after a ten-year break from it) after I spazzed to him that Danny and I were playing it last night, and he has a very accurate summary:

Patrick: It has all my favourite bits of an MMO (crafting) without all the pointless background (everything except crafting)!

3. It is Danny's birthday later this week! Birthday shenanigans are a must.

And most importantly, 4: Really looking forward to D&D tomorrow! We shall learn dream mastery from the mysterious old woman, if we can find her!

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In other news, it sounds like Wizards is releasing the 1st edition D&D books (plus a new cover) in April and I am very excited!

Also my back is incredibly sore because I pulled a muscle!

I think that's everything.

EDIT: Fixed! now only interesting things are not cut. Woo!

So now let me ramble about TOR! I know few of you care but I'm doing it anyway.

GUSS TUNO IS SO COOL. So cool you guys. SO cool. Oh yes. Oh VERY yes. Double-double crossed, and then we ran the best con ever about Hothian Ice Fever, which made me grin like an idiot and clap with glee! Then I hit on a Pirate Queen!

I am very much enjoying the smuggler storyline, and Soldat continues to look exactly as badass as I want him to. Just wish I had cool-looking boots and gloves! I like his wacky shirt.

Edit: Today's Manly Guys Doing Manly Things has taught me to never assume I know what I want. I thought I wanted Commander Badass to never change. Apparently, I wanted to LAUGH LIKE MAD at Suddenly Stylin' Commander Badass, and then for him to change back at once!

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Honey oat bread!

This is what Danny made when I said before workouts "but I did not buy bread from the store, because you promised we would make bread!"

Not just any bread but delicious honey oat bread! It is ridiculously awesome.

Lately we've been cooking a lot more because we both see the cost effectiveness of it, and honestly it turns out we both like cooking. I find it more enjoyable when I'm not doing it alone, and hope Danny enjoys that too, as it would mean we will both continue with the cooking. As a result, we have needed to acquire things we'd previously gone without-- like smaller mixing bowls and ingredients that combine to make delicious things. And a big old cutting board. The one I got is made of bamboo, which smells weird and milky like bamboo shoots do when they are fresh-cut. I'm hoping that smell will fade with time, because it's a swanky cutting board, otherwise, and well worth the purchase. Being big enough to make bread on, it may significantly cut down on Danny having to sterilize the counter every time he makes things, which I'd like to do since I like it very much when he makes things and see every reason to make the process easier for us both.

The only downside is, Danny doesn't like the bread too much since it tastes a trifle more like wheat bread than it might've without the oats, so we'll just have to make more bread in the future. No hardship there!

( Annoyed about TOR. )

Anyway. Time for sleeps.

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I think I might actually have felt kind of bad for Corso when I did that class quest last night.

I might. I might actually have stopped hating Corso quite as much.

What is wrong with me. He is mechanically a nightmare. For those not in the know:

Smuggler, as a class, is very fragile. In writing terms, you haven't got the greatest constitution and while you're no wimp, it doesn't take much in the way of explosions, cuts and burns to knock you out for the count. I'm specifically a gunslinger, which means I hide behind cover and shoot things with two guns during battle, trying to evade taking any hits from my enemies because of that low constitution.

But this guy, this 'companion', his shtick is to pull the bad guys right up close to him.

And he stands right next to me.

Suddenly I am taking poison gas and gunfire to my face, instead of my shoulder. And well, that's just uncool. Suffering through this guy until I found Bowdaar the wookiee was horrible. HORRIBLE. Bowdaar is wonderful by comparison, because he keeps my enemies focused on his enormous hairy self, and I shoot them while he cuts them down with a sword. Perfect teamwork.

Despite all this, I actually am starting to feel kind of bad for Corso. He's really pathetically lonely and isolated; I'm all he's got. (Even if, apparently, staying on my ship drives him to drink. What does THAT even mean.)

Tangentially related to this, I am finally at Alderaan, which is kind of neat in a weird way. Last night I spent on Tattooine, which means I got to see the Sarlaac pit, and at one point Danny and I waited around with a bunch of other guys chatting in Say (Sith and Jedi alike! COEXISTING. It was fucking rad. One of the Sith was named Woe and absolutely hilarious) for a Jawa Balloon. Then we rode the balloon for EVER, and jumped off of it onto a mysterious wreck with mysterious secret treasure on it. Tattooine was fun to go to even though I never hit up Mos Eisley (if it's even there?) because it's actually from the movies, you know? So while there was some "oh god what if I fall in the Sarlaac pit? Will I be digested for a thousand years?!", there was also "Gosh, this is neat!"

Alderaan, by contrast, is exciting because I have absolutely no idea what to expect, given, well, the events of the movies.

Thus far: quite impressed! Also, sleepy.

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Oh man, I'm having a blast in SW:TOR. I just finished the first string of plot-related stuff for Taris and swung back over to Nar Shadda, because I am desperate to get a wookiee and never again have Corso Riggs in my party. EVER. Playing a smuggler is super cool though, and I can't get over some of the side quests, too. On Taris there's one about the ~~darkspawn plague~~ rakghoul virus and you either volunteering to let them test out a probably-won't-work serum on you, or saying "No! You are TOTALLY CRAZY". My idea of fun is apparently saying 'yes, okay' and running off to get mauled by terrifying monsters, so that was excellent.

I have only just met the wookiee, but between desperately wanting it this whole time and how awesome the actual scene where you meet (him?) is, I am completely fucking in love with it. Bowdaar! Join my party right nowwwwwww!

It's not that I have anything personal against Corso Riggs exactly. He's inane in a lot of situations and his nicknames for his weapons are painfully stupid, but some of his development since then has made me slightly less annoyed by him. Particularly the 'Corso is drunk because of the horrors I put him through' conversation, which made me chuckle because I am a bad lady.

Anyway, Soldat finally scored with someone after lots of rejected advances, and that was excellent because she was super cute. Still want to be able to hit on dudes though. I want to romance Bowdaar! He'd be so big and cuddly!

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