Science Monkey

I don’t know what I did on Saturday to cause it, but my sleep schedule was completely screwed up yesterday. I played WoW Saturday night (naturally) with a friend until about 10:30, then logged off and watched a little TV. I saw the opening to SNL (a repeat, Dick and Lynn Cheney reading Valentine’s Day cards…quite funny) then went to bed. I woke up for about an hour at 3:30, then slept until 10:30! I never sleep that late. I had fully intended to go to yoga, but clearly it didn’t happen. Emma came home about 11:30 and I took a nap with her until about 2, had lunch, then essentially went back to sleep until almost 6. Consequently I was up until about 1 last night and woke up about 5:30 this morning. We’ll see how today goes, but I’m moderately pleased with myself that I came in to work rather than going back to bed.

Emma and I are going to celebrate our fifth wedding anniversary in four days. And by “celebrate” I mean wish each other a happy anniversary and then go about our regular Thursdays. We’ve decided that the new car is our anniversary present to each other. If I were a good husband, I’d probably buy her some flowers and a card though, eh? I should do that. So, Emma, if you’re reading this, forget that last sentence and at least act surprised on Thursday.

My parents are leaving on a week-long road trip this Friday and I’ll be slightly surprised if they both come back. Or at least come back together. I wouldn’t be too surprised if mom flew home early. Heh. They’re driving up to Stoughton for some closure for dad, I think, then coming home via the upper peninsula of Michigan. Yeah, not really on the way, but the weather should be nice and it should be a good drive. They’re also planning on stopping in Lansing, MI, so I guess it’s either north through the UP or south through Chicago and Detroit. UP sounds better to me, too. Dad went to grad school at Michigan State and mom hasn’t been back since he graduated. It sounds like a nice trip to me but doesn’t really sound like their type of vacation. They’re more the two-week-cruise-across-the-Atlantic vacationers. We’ll see.

Time to work. Well, time to do some more work. I’ve spent about an hour writing this, interspersing writing with work, but now it’s time to really get into the grind. Have a good Monday, everybody, and I’ll type to you later. Before I leave you for this morning, here are two screenshots of my main characters. As of this morning, Waradwen is at level 27 (I’ve almost leveled my age) and Warmi is at level 12. She got a pet raptor yesterday which is pretty sweet.

Waradwen:

Warmi (and pet, Slash):