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Mar. 10th, 2003 12:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walbournGoing to be a busy, busy week... Have a steady stream of bugs to work on, and have to spend the rest of my time testing this week as we get ready for our milestone submission Friday. I'm playing games online Mon & Tue night, a Gamestorm prep game Wed, and then heading to Portland Friday on top of work commitments.
Had a good time in Tacoma last night. After the Witches' Brew I hung out with some of the TERRA folks. Turns out they were doing a 'candle party', which is basically AMWAY for candles. Spooky, but thankfully brief... I find these 'home-based' sales businesses kinda disturbing, and frankly felt like a cross-dresser at an Avon party. I like candles OK, but the whole 'something for house-wives to do with their free time' aspect of it is just too damn 50's for me...
I'm not a 'new-ager' and don't really think astrology is that useful a predictive tool--or really put much stock into any kind of divining. Still, it can be an interesting analysis of personality types and interesting to see how much of it does fit and how much doesn't. Turns out I'm a Pisces (Sun sign), with an Aquarius moon and a Gemini ascendant. The short reading I did on the topic is a reasonably good match for my personality, although I think astrology has too many variables and ways to account for every exception to have much statistically validity... Still, it means something to the pagan folks and if you know anything about astrology, I seem to fit what you'd expect from such a messy collection of signs (predominately 'air' signs, then 'water' signs, with only a smattering of 'fire' & 'earth' signs). Apparently I can blame the crossing of my second and third toes on my otherwise attractive feet on being a Pisces... :P
Had a good time in Tacoma last night. After the Witches' Brew I hung out with some of the TERRA folks. Turns out they were doing a 'candle party', which is basically AMWAY for candles. Spooky, but thankfully brief... I find these 'home-based' sales businesses kinda disturbing, and frankly felt like a cross-dresser at an Avon party. I like candles OK, but the whole 'something for house-wives to do with their free time' aspect of it is just too damn 50's for me...
I'm not a 'new-ager' and don't really think astrology is that useful a predictive tool--or really put much stock into any kind of divining. Still, it can be an interesting analysis of personality types and interesting to see how much of it does fit and how much doesn't. Turns out I'm a Pisces (Sun sign), with an Aquarius moon and a Gemini ascendant. The short reading I did on the topic is a reasonably good match for my personality, although I think astrology has too many variables and ways to account for every exception to have much statistically validity... Still, it means something to the pagan folks and if you know anything about astrology, I seem to fit what you'd expect from such a messy collection of signs (predominately 'air' signs, then 'water' signs, with only a smattering of 'fire' & 'earth' signs). Apparently I can blame the crossing of my second and third toes on my otherwise attractive feet on being a Pisces... :P
