Reality Out of Sync

I am just about livid. My room mate, who is not really a technological marvel has annoyed me to the nth degree today. I’ve been letting him play MAG on my PS3 account, which is fine. It’s normally not a problem, I just make sure to tell him don’t TK don’t speak to anyone, etc., etc., because I am part of a clan. I try to give him tips so he doesn’t mess up my kill to death ratio (that didn’t go so well it’s totally hosed but whatever). I decided to make him an account on my PS3 and then let him play his own guy. Which he’s been doing. Fantastic. Yah, except he uses the same theme as me because apparently it’s “cool” or whatever. It’ s just a bunch of anime characters from Death Note, Bleach, so on and so forth. Yay, I get points for being cool. Yah, now you can’t tell the two accounts apart without going to see who specifically is logged in.

I’ve discovered that all of my gaming data for Final Fantasy is on his account, because he didn’t log it out. Not a problem, okay stay calm. I copy all 34 saves (I’ve racked up over 24 hours of play, which isn’t a lot really, but it’s stuff I don’t want to do over again) over to my account on the same PS3. Fantastic. Load it up and get a nice warning telling me trophies will be disabled, can’t over write the saved data, and I can’t save my game.

WTF

Well that is just fan-fucking-tastic. I’m so pissed off. That means I have to play everything all over again in order to get the trophies I had back, and get to the point I’m at right now. It’ s such a waste of time. I just can’t even pick up the controller at this point. I don’t want to do it all over again. Needless to say, I’ll be changing my god damned theme, and telling him to log the hell out at the very least. I mean I specifically said to log in to my account and start Playstation @ Home (or whatever they call it, it’s basically folding proteins). Failure on his part of course. I can’t say I’ve ever felt like my time has been wasted to such a degree ever. Maybe talking to some tier 1 support monkey — but at least you can go to tier 2.

If anyone knows how to move save game data on a PS3 from one account to another (I don’t care how involved it is) without having to replay everything, or having my saves disabled and trophies disabled — that would be great. I really do not care how long it takes. I’m not replaying 24 hours of Final Fantasy XIII again. It’s a total waste of time, and I can’t even skip anything because the game is so linear at the point I’m at. This is the fail that occurs regularly in my life.

Yep, the skirts never did get this short at my school =-( More Fail in the life of prata

What I thought was, I’d have a new and interesting person to talk to by the name of Jin. Had an interesting conversation with this person the other day. I’d like to continue that. Might be building a wordpress site for this person. I might even host it if they ask nicely.

It’s my Friday, and I’m really excited about that. Not that I’m going to do anything, because I don’t get paid until Monday and I’m broke. Yay me. I have to stop by someone’s house and install Adobe for them because I took away their administrative capabilities because I hate having to go back and forth to their house to repair stupid things like, “Oops, I got another virus for the 5,000th time and I can’t figure out why. Fix it right now!”

I started playing Final Fantasy XIII yesterday, absolutely fantastic; although linear at this point in the game. I hear it expands outward later. I hope so, because I’m kind of bored with the way it’s going at this point. I’ve only been playing for about 6 total hours though. So I can’t really get down on the game yet.

I also have Star Ocean to finish up, but I just haven’t been on top of it due to fatigue from the job (they are mentally killing me there) and the fact that I have been super focused on Heavy Rain. I swear that game is just out of this world awesome. I downloaded the soundtrack too, because even that is awesome.

I just woke up like 45 minutes ago after sleepin’ part of the day. I guess today was my catch up day because I haven’t slept worth a damn for the longest. As a side note, yes, I know you can’t really “catch up” as it were on sleep.

Here comes the money shot:

Hour glass just doesn't do it justice.

The BBC has an article discusses a company producing a technology that allows people to track others with a cell phone. The short of it, is that the technology uses the motion of the cell phone accelerometers to track even small movements with the built-in GPS of the phone. For those of you not in the know, GPS is used for positional tracking and is pretty accurate down to a couple feet at least. Interestingly, I discovered how accurate the GPS was with my iphone (company purchased, I wouldn’t ever buy one — I prefer the Android platform). I needed to get to a restaurant and I’d forgotten to write down the address, but I remembered the street. With a neato keen application called “Around Me” I was able to track my distance to the door of the restaurant within at least 5 feet. How incredibly useful!

Now imagine that your boss can see with a pretty precise degree where you are, and with this new technology in the mobile phone from KDDI, you’ll be comforted by the fact that your employer (or snooping wife/stalker/private investigator/police/friendly neighborhood government agent) will know if you’re actively moving around or standing still while you’re out of sight and where you might be doing it. I really don’t think I’d be too terribly happy if my employer started micromanaging my time by ensuring that i was being productive based solely on whether my phone is moving about enough for his/her standards.

“Hmm, prata has gone over his 3 minute time limit on bathroom privileges. We’ll have to write him up and remove one of his bathroom breaks to make up for the lost productivity.”

Nevermind I was spending those minutes actually at my desk and working, but I dropped my phone on my way from or to the bathroom. Or what if I leave my phone at my desk, but have done 6 tickets and rectified numerous problems. I sense lots of signing discussions with the higher ups. Yeah. I don’t like this technology at all.

Why is it I know no girls that enjoy wearing skirts like this? Sad.

So, it’s my birthday today. I don’t plan on doing anything, but my mother wants me to go out to lunch with her. We’re going to an Italian place. Maybe I’ll talk her into going to dinner instead of lunch, because I’m not a huge fan of the restaurant’s lunch dishes. What else am I doing for my birthday? Working. Glee for me!

What would be absolutely wonderful is if there were a bunny waiting for me when I get home to blow and screw my brains out. Le sigh. That leaves me with just..playing MAG and Star Ocean. Not bad alternatives, but definitely huge steps down from the whole getting worn out by some really awesome bunny. It’s a sad state of affairs, I gotta tell ya.

And for what you’re really looking for:

Perfect, little further out, I'd had to muss your make up?

A lot of people say they don’t like the silly faces. I rather adore the silly faces. Not everything has to be super sexy or super sensuous. Playful is good! Just like one shouldn’t freak out if there is laughter and play time in the bedroom (or elevator/car/back of theatre/locked bathroom at a party/park bench/err other places you’re screwing).

I was supposed to post this a long time ago, but I couldn’t find a good picture and then I ended up going to bed because I have to work tonight. Yah, on my birthday. Gleeful!