La di da!

My husband and my oldest (and most beloved) cat were briefly famous on the internets. That is, a picture I took of them madethe front page of I Can Has Cheezburger?:

more cat pictures

We were way more excited about it than we probably should have been.

Whereas all I have to console myself with is a profile in the August issue of Romantic Times. I’m on page 16. I have obtained copies for everyone in my family. SHUT UP.

The last couple of evenings I’ve been working to get all my CDs digitized. Six years ago when I left Nebraska, I had really limited space for non-essentials so what I did was put all my favorite songs on MP3 CDs–which means that I have bits and pieces of lots of albums. Then, after I got my first iBook, I had a pretty small hard drive. And my second iBook wasn’t a whole lot better in terms of disk space. Now that I have a machine with a 500 GB hard drive and room for at least two more (I think, the video card is really honking huge so I may only have space to plug in one more SATA cable) as well as a 500 GB external drive (used for backups), I’ve decided to digitize the rest of them.

Apparently when I was in college I had a thing for buying EPs/CD singles. I have two different versions of R.E.M.’s “Everybody Hurts” CD single. I have at least 3 Nine Inch Nails EPs with multiple mixes of different songs from Pretty Hate Machine and The Downward Spiral (the latter of which I have yet to find). Do I need a song called “March of the Fuckheads”? Probably not, but I have it. Go me, I suppose.

I’ve been playing with the Spore Creature Creator quite a bit (my handle on the Spore community site is the usual) and I’ve managed to achieve one of my goals in World of Warcraft–obtain a silly title for my character:

As a casual player (and some would call me a scrub since I don’t devote my every waking free hour to playing), this one was the most easily obtained. The other two PVE titles (Champion of the Naaru and Hand of A’dal) require participation in 25-man raids and I don’t have the time to commit to that sort of thing. I like not having to log on every night. I like that no one’s depending on me to show up except for those events that I specifically commit myself to–and right now, that’s one 10-man a week. For a long time, I wanted to be in a raiding guild that was focused on endgame progression and I’ve found that I’m generally happier if I don’t put that sort of pressure or expectation on myself. My next goal in-game is to get exalted with the Darkspear Troll faction so I can get a dinosaur mount.

And just for fun, here’s my current interface (I use a compilation called ArkiveUI):

I feel so intensely nerdy now. Woot.