There is a good fail-safe step to keep me sane at work, and that’s to play music. We are in an office environment, so I can’t play it at the level that it deserves (read: very, very loud). I’m in a position that requires me to answer the phone when it rings, so I can’t use my headphones. So, the music is a good stopgap measure. I pause it when the phone rings, and if I’m lucky, I’ll remember to start it up again when the call is over.

I don’t always turn it back on, and my mood can suffer pretty dramatically when stress levels increase and music is not playing. I’ve gotten better at remembering, though.

Today, the music doesn’t seem to be enough. I’m bored, even though there is work to do, and I’m doing it. I need something to do between all of the other stuff. The work IRC server #offtopic and #burgerking channels are pretty good places for inane filler like this. Not today, though. Today, I’m writing here.

My allergies don’t get too bad unless I rub my eyes. The problem is that my tear ducts are constantly itching. Or burning. Or the whole of my eyes itch. Which really, really, really makes me want to rub my eyes. Once I’ve done that, then the nose starts running, the sneezing kicks in, and the coughing starts. It’s really a cornucopia of good times. Both medically prescribed and natural remedies are being ramped up at this juncture. Let’s hope they work.

This was the first image taken from my KI imager inside URU Live. As Wil Wheaton would say, click on it to embiggen. I’d just received my KI. It lets you take pics like this one, journal, move data around, communicate in the same age, as well as between them, and once the Great Zero Calibration is complete, it should allow more precise Age navigation.

I made my avatar a lot like me, in keeping with the U-R-U. They don’t handle portliness well, so I went for a bit less chub than I carry around in real life. :) I kept with the pale skin and the baldness, and the style in clothing. :) You receive your KI on an Age called Gahreesen, which you will return to later. The history behind the KI, like all of the history that I’m discovering, is far more layered than I anticipated.