Shrek and other things

Well went camera shopping with Dad (looking for a digital camera for this fall). Got kind of an idea what I want, especially because tonight I went online to Nikkon and Canon and some other sites and found Mac capable ones. So now just have to do some last minute comparing and/buying kinda stuff.

Saw Shrek 2 after that. Didn't have anyone to watch it with, not many people I can hang with here so not a big surprise I guess. Caught Ryan there tho cause he was working but yea can't talk very long because he actually does work some nights (just some rare nights!). The movie was surprisingly good for a sequal although I have to agree with Ryan's assesment that it wasn't as good as the first although it had its moments. Still worth your money to go see it even at the price theaters charge these days. Debating whether to spend money to see HP #3 and Day After Tomorrow. Or I could buy some more books. Hmm...

Just for Allison who thinks Exalted occupies my barely functional mind all the time here is some random facts. An Eclipse class Solar Exalted (the penultimate Exalt because they can learn charms of other Exalts, Spirits, and presumably Fae) who has all the Solar Charms and all MA charms (even Sidereal plus the normal Terrestial ones which are of course universal), all spells and has Essence 10 and Att/Ab all equal to 10 costs just under 8600 XP. Now one with all spirit charms costs just under 10000 XP however that's a rougher estimate cause I was too lazy to count all the spirit charms. Similarily assuming each type of Exalt has about 200 charms that means this Exalt with every possible charm would be just over 25000 XP. Things like necromancy balance for less Sidereal charms, etc. Toss in specialties and combos and definately talking around 30000 XP. However a 30000 XP Solar should be so well comboed and specialized that nothing would touch him ever. It's safe to assume that higher end charms would have been developed by such an Exalt which would all for scene long total invulnerability for nearly everything.

Some random numbers (which I mighta done before for some other commentary):
Personal Essence: 40
Peripheral Essence: 100 (assuming that virtues max out at 5, if they can go to 10 then add another Periphal)
Total Essence Pool: 140

Total time to learn all this fun stuff (assuming only all Solar and Spirit charms and spells that can be attained from such plus above maxed out stats): 32 years, 2 months, and 4 days.

For an Exalt who lives a natural minimum of roughly 2000 years (extended through charms to over 7000-that's right an Exalted could have been born in 5000 BCE and still be walking the cool green hills of earth today) this is nothing. Kind of makes me wonder if I did the math wrong. Of course more and more charms will probably be written up as the years progress so these numbers will only go up.

I should note to those who actually play Exalted this makes a character from scratch using XP so training times and XP costs are gonna be probably several years and at least 100 XP more then if I had taken that into account.

Happy Allison? :P

For the record the thing most on my mind is usually girls, a rather frustrating thing for me. It's nice to be able to throw myself into simple things like this which I can immerse and absorb and distract myself. I feel both blessed and cursed to know so many beautiful young women who think of me as a friend. Hopefully I manage to actually be a good friend, there are days I wonder if I've ever been or if I am just being self serving and that I have lost many of the good qualities I once valued. Perhaps I am just a little bitter (or more then a little and unwilling to admit that much) but I don't think I will drift any further down this path. At night I get a little more self analytical even at work which surprisingly some nights gives me an incredible amount of time to think although I don't really pick the subject my mind just kind of picks something and sticks to it.

That all said and done, I've finished watching part of Return of the King again. The best part by and far for me is the lighting of the beacons of Gondon/Rohan. That's just cool.

Some additional notes on the whole thong thing. Most in reply to the comment I got: it would seem to me that if two people are down to their underwear that they probably aren't going to waste their time playing with that now. And as for decoration well if you are down to that little clothing one would hope that you find the other person in the situation beautiful enough to need no decoration at all. Call me a simpleton (or a pyscho for thinking about such things, but I blame the old ladies for bringing up this whole mess in the first place then!) but I have to say the most beautiful thing on this planet are humans and no make-up, kinky clothing -underwear or otherwise- will enhance that, please note I am not for public nudity however (!!!), so what's the point? You're just ruining a naturally perfect beauty.

Ok, that was rambling, maybe somewhat thoughtful, but rambling nonetheless. Time to get a little exercise before I hit the sack. I keep tossing some story ideas I might try entertaining thru this venue but no promises.

As Wolfwood would say: "May God go with you my friends!"