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When it rains.

Posted by Steve on September 28, 2012 No comments

Yesterday was Sarah’s birthday. She hates when people point it out, especially me, which is probably why I do it so often. She still lords over me that I am older so I feel justified. The day started off well enough. I crawled out of bed as quietly as I could so she could sleep in, and I headed to work. Around lunchtime I met up with a friend and as I was getting out of the MINI, disaster struck.

You know that cool post I did earlier about how I use my iPad for so many things.… yeah well, it dropped. It slid off my lap and fell to the pavement. Honestly, I didn’t think anything of it at the time, since it had fallen before. It’s in a leather case that tends to protect it fairly well, and it only fell from about 1 foot high. Well, it landed in just the wrong way that this happened:

Ouch!

Yup, the corner shattered and spider-webbed across the whole screen. I too, was shattered. My mind rapidly went through all of the various solutions, from using it as it was (since it still worked fine), to buying a new V.3 iPad ($800!!!!!). Then it dawned on me that a friend had this same thing happen to his and he was able to get it repaired. It’s just the front glass that shattered so the repair really isn’t that bad. I found a place near home to work on it and it was done in 2 1/2 hours. Total repair: $120. (the place was http://apluscprepair.com/ and they did an great job!)

YAY!

Using that extra few hours I swung by the store and bought Sarah some flowers and Oatmeal Creme Pies. (her favorite). After the repair was done we headed out to grab dinner at a place in Front Royal, about an hour’s drive. What we didn’t expect was the Armageddon level rain storm that hit us! Driving back home was a nightmare as the storm was doing it’s impression of a DubStep Rave, with thrumming waves of the water and the strobe effects of the lightning. I could barely see the road. Crazy.

We did make it home safely. Oh, and of course, when we checked the mail, I got a lovely letter from the District of Columbia informing me that they were super nice and took a picture of my car and me the other day when I was driving home from the ren faire (and was dog sick). They felt I should have a copy of the photo and it was only going to cost me $125.

Oh, yeah, it was raining too.

You take the good, you take the bad…

Picard never Hit me!

Posted by Steve on March 10, 2010 1 comment

Some new Star Trek news real quick for today. I am, of course, still playing Star Trek Online which has been going good with one small exception that I will go into in a moment, but I want to discuss a few other Trek related things first. DragonCon is coming and quite a few new guests have been announced and many of them are Trek related. I don’t know if Shatner and Nimoy got back and passed the word about how much fun they had but there is a HUGE guest list of Trek people:

Rene Auberjonois – Odo from DS9
Avery Brooks – Sisko from DS9
Denise Crosby – Tasha Yar from Next Gen
John de Lancie – Q
Jonathan Frakes – Riker from Next Gen
Robert Duncan McNeill – Paris from Voyager
Armin Shimerman – Quark from DS9
Marina Sirtis – Troi from Next Gen
Brent Spiner – Data from Next Gen
Garrett Wang – Ensign Kim from Voyager

I am eagerly awaiting the chance to find and get signed a picture of Q and Sisko in their boxing gear from DS9. This list, no doubt, will be growing as we get closer to the time of the Con, which is Sept.

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3-6 of this year. I will in attendance and, if I can manage it (without ending up with a restraining order), I will get as many interviews as I can with some of these folks. I would love to hear what they think about some of the more modern versions of Trek either in Game or other new media.

Also on the radar is a new project that some friends and I are working on….the creation of the “Maroon Monster” costume, which I understand is the nickname for the Wrath of Khan style uniform from Star Trek. The patterns have been ordered and work will start soon. I will be more than happy to post progress pics and eventually a full production blog on the process.

Ok, lastly, my progress in STO has slowed only slightly because of a problem I am having. I made it to Deep Space 9 in the game and noticed that you can purchase a Danube class Runabout from one of the vendors. This is a small Shuttle that you can fly and outfit with weapons. It’s purely a luxury item and fun to fly. The problem lies in that when you buy it, all of your stats on your equipment get cut in half, or at least they display that way. No one has determined exactly what happens. I put in a ticket about the issue and was brushed off with a “Yeah we know about it, we’ll fix it soon”. Normally I would be ok with that except that, from what I have read about this bug from others, No one is sure if it’s a display issue or a real game effecting issue and no GM has stated one way or the other. Players also claim if you decommishion the shuttle, your stats get resolved, and that’s great but I paid 149k credits for the shuttle and I would hate to waste that.

So I mentioned all this to the GM’s in the ticket I submitted hoping to get an answer on if it was a display issue or real issue, and if they would take the item from me and refund the amount. Neither of which happened. I was told again “Yeah we know about it and the devs will get to it” with a side glancing “we don’t give refunds”. So as of now, you can still purchase the Danube class ship from DS9, it WILL break your stats, and there is NO WAY to get a refund even if you put in multiple tickets. How hard is it to get a ticket, remove the item, refund the credits? it has no effect on the economy because the goods are removed. It would remove the headaches of dealing with players afflicted with this bug, and if you remove the item from sale and implement it when it’s fixed, all the better! My ticket is still open and there is a thread open on the STO forums.