Rrrr.

A couple of weeks ago, I filled out a questionnaire at work, sent to me by a company I mostly don't use anymore, in the hopes that I would be among the first to respond and thereby earn a thank-you gift in the form of a Barnes and Noble certificate.  It worked - yay! - and I chose to spend my oh-so-whopping ten bucks of free book money on a copy of the D&D 4th Ed. Player's Handbook 2.  (It was being sold for something ridiculously cheap, like $16, from one of their markeplace vendors.  Whether I'm likely to actually use the information contained therein is of minor concern.)

Package arrived today - yay!

Package contains (despite assurances to the contrary) a new copy of the *original* Player's Handbook, of which I already have a perfectly good copy. 

Email has been sent to seller asking for quick resolution.  We'll see what happens.

Metroid Prime stuff

Hmm.  Got the last two goodies (Boost Ball and Space Boots - that's double-jump for the layperson) without having to fight anyone big and mean.  Admittedly, acquiring the Space Boots required a fairly iggy skill check with the Boost Ball, which was its own special sort of annoying, but at least nobody was trying to eat me.  Hmm.  Wanna bet there's a big nasty waiting for me for the next goodie?

Also, lava pools suck.  Jumping from one point to another across them without falling *in* (and taking continuous damage, thank you!) will likely be easier now that I've got the space boots.
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Spent a good couple of hours in bed during the day being semiconscious and mildy fevery.  Probably a good decision not to go to work.  (Check that - given that I took two serious lie-downs, and obviously needed both, definitely a good decision not to go to work!)

I've also spent a decent amount of time the last couple of days reading Guy Gavriel Kay's novel Ysabel.  I'm only about halfway through it, but am generally enjoying it.  I have to admit though - Early on, there's a scene in a church with a scary bald guy that made me think that perhaps a certain author had read The DaVinci Code and figured he could do better.  Generally fortunately, it's gone off and done its own thing since then, though the plot does feel kind of like books I've read or movies I've seen before.  (I'm only halfway through; we'll see if he has any surprises up his sleeve plotwise come the end.)  Kay does, however, absolutely nail the feel of the light and history in Provence, which is pretty cool.  Keeps reminding me of the exchange program I did senior year of high school, where I spent the second of the two weeks in Provence.