Plants and other living things

[mellificent]

a kalanchoe and, uh, other stuff
Originally uploaded by Mellicious.

I finally got out and worked on my plants last weekend - they had been living in more-or-less-benign neglect all spring. I threw away a lot of the smaller pots; nothing seemed to like living in them very much anyway. I'm pretty happy with the results really. Everything looks much less cluttered. I did buy another kalanchoe this week, because the one I have has always done pretty well. I'm not planning on buying a lot more plants, though, unless something I have dies. I don't seem to have a lot of interest in spending time on gardening lately, so it makes sense to keep things pared down.

I spent most of the day yesterday playing GuildWars, of course - first with Columbine in the afternoon, and then on my own and finally with a pick-up group last night.

I got appointed the unofficial leader of the pick-up group since I knew where the bonus was and nobody else did, apparently - I wasn't too happy about that because I worry about getting everybody lost, but I did ok. I took one wrong turn, was all, and this was Bloodstone Fen which is full of fairly odd twists and turns. And we got the mission and the bonus, so everybody was happy. (I finished the mission dead, actually - the big melee at the end was crazy - but being dead does not prevent you from getting points, luckily.)

Earlier, Col & I had had several shots at the D'Alessio Seaboard mission, which for some reason his character Allium just cannot finish. (Well, she could presumably finish the main. It's the bonus that's the problem.) I never understand why certain characters have so much trouble with certain things. Rima had a much worse time with Villainy of Galraith than anybody else; Alessa had the same kind of problem getting to Temple of Ages. I guess it has to do with character settings and so forth, but that doesn't really explain why every time we try to do D'Alessio Seaboard with Allium, things go wrong. There's a character that needs to be alive before you can do the bonus, and he dies every time, no matter how many different ways we've tried to do it. And yet every one of my characters has managed to find Benjy alive (and keep him alive) after a couple of tries. It's sort of baffling.

(After a while we gave up on that and did a quest, and then eventually we did The Wilds mission and succeeded in doing that one just fine. So the afternoon felt more like a success, in the end.)

Things at work are crazy, but I will write about that at some other time. Let's see, what else? We didn't go to a movie this weekend, because there was nothing we wanted to see. (And what's up with that? Isn't summer supposed to be prime blockbuster time?) Anyway, we went out to eat, instead. I ate the world's most gigantic baked potato. I'm not completely joking about that, the thing was a foot long, I kid you not. I barely made a dent in it.