the driving quest

in world of war craft (the game we play) there are characters that give you quests. at first they say for example "hey! take this letter and bring it to this other guy in this nearby city. you will receive 80 silver". you think ah i'm going to that city anyway, will do.

then you give the letter and the guy says "oh thanks now please find the box of supplies i lost and i will make you this dress to wear". you think it's great. you go do what he asks then return to him expecting to get your prize... but instead he sends you to 5 more locations with 5 other things to get. it's annoying. and is called a chain quest.

driving test quest:

1. i'll need an ID (american one) and social security number

to get social security i needed that same ID. so we applied for social security once i got the work permit. they said it would be ready in about 2 weeks and gave us a paper stating that we applied for the card. and they told us it will be enough for getting driver's permit.

2. we go to take the driver's learner's permit. they tell us that the paper doesn't have the future number and that without it they can't give me the permit. i can take the test but the permit will be given only when i get the social security number. then they test my vision and tell me to get glasses (i'm pretty nearsighted as everybody knows)

3. so we go to get glasses. instead we get an appointment on monday to get my vision tested and get the prescription of glasses.

4. we get the social security card and go to the appointment. now... there wasn't just a piece of white paper with black letters on it that they were testing my vision on. i was asked to sit down in a chair which looked like "one-sided squid". the doctor tested every bit of my vision and eyes, and finally prescribed glasses. he was a very funny older man, and nice to talk to :D i was giggling all the time during the procedure. and at the end we DIDN'T get the glasses. they will be ready within 2-3 weeks. :( so the driver's test is postponed.. again! NENAVIJU (like Mary says)

i wanted to make a very different post but i accidentally shut the workstation down which closed photoshop... so now i'm without it yet again. i need to upgrade vista to service pack 1 to install photoshop and finally make the post i wanted to. it's gonna be colorful!

meanwhile Michael started actively training me on c#. het got me a new and very fun book. and i swear it is what they should've taught us at the universities. made in a really fun way - instead of long boring texts for summies they make fun comments, pictures and even crosswords. my home assignment for today was the first chapter (yes a whole chapter) - design a small program working with a database. which means the first lesson in the book wasn't on how to write IF ELSE conditions or FOR(;;) loops - it was a very practical lesson on how to create a windows application, create a database and how to make those two interact with each other. made me one more time mad at our university...

the other fun book is "Photocraft: cool things to do with your images" ... the name pretty much tells what it is about ;) :D i can't wait to get started on some things from there! but for that i either need a photo-printer.. or i need to be able to drive to some photo store with printing services... but yeah that will be fun. and most probably me and Nicole will get together and started making stuff from this book and from the other crafting book we got her on christmas. i can't wait for it to happen :D and Mike and Steve probably go crazy about that idea too... in a different way :D and in general - me and Nicole hanging out together usually means trouble and ULTA (which are equivalents anyway) hehe.

okay i'm off to sleep...