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Thursday – 05 April 2012
Another Thursday in the valley. Hopefully, this one will maintain the NBN tradition; it’s doing pretty well, so far.

This week’s been pretty decent. Busy, but decent. SaraRules! and Team DiVa are doing well.

Diana, Sara and Vanessa

Vanessa

Diana

Last night was Pasta and Movie Date Night. It was SaraRules!’ turn to pick a flick; she chose to start catching up on Mad Men. I was good with that, considering that we’re a season-and-a-half behind. We watched three episodes and are only two away from only being one season behind. (Hey, we’ll take the small victories where and when we can.)

I didn’t play MW3 last night, opting to read some of yesterday’s new comics. As part of the haul, I also downloaded Marvel Comics’ Avengers vs. X-Men: Infinite #1 – available only as a digital comic – which serves as a prelude to the Avengers vs. X-Men miniseries, which also started yesterday (technically, it came out on Tuesday, but let’s not quibble). If this is a possible look at “the future of comics,” as it claims, I have to give it thumbs-up for presentation. Well played, Mark Waid and Stuart Immonen.

Stray Toasters

• Many Colors of Prejudice Are Revealed in ‘Dark Girls’
• By way of SaraRules!: Robot with Human Skeleton Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence
• Nike’s new NFL uniforms built for speed, comfort
• The Nike Elite 51 Uniform
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• College Student Pieces His Way to LEGO Mastery
• Untangling a Border Could Leave a Mess for Some
• By way of one of my brothers-in-law: Quietest place on Earth mutes all sounds, messes with your head
• Yet another babysitting concern:
  
• Chrysler’s new SRT Viper bares its fangs
• Jeffrey Brown Imagines a More Fatherly Sith Lord in ‘Darth Vader and Son’
• Apple, Priceline and Google race to hit $1000-a-share mark

That’s good for now.

Namaste.

Monday – 02 April 2012
I find it amusing that yesterday, Mother Nature played a rather cruel joke on us: It snowed. That’s right, after 80-degree Fahrenheit temperatures on Saturday, there was snow. Nothing stuck in the valley, but there are some traces on the mountains. And we’re supposed to be back in the 70s by the end of the week. “April Fools,” indeed.

Aside from that, the past weekend was good. Friday, I spent the day with the girls of Team DiVa.

Diana (l) and Vanessa

We spent the morning at home, but made a trip to Red Butte Garden in the afternoon. (We were going to go to the zoo, but SaraRules! suggested that we wait until Sunday and go as a family. As you might guess from the first paragraph, that didn’t happen.)

Saturday, I had judged another “Infinity Gauntlet” HeroClix event for Dr. Volt’s Comic Connection. We had a good turn-out: fourteen (14) players. Since the games were set at 300 points per player, the matches went quickly. In more than a few cases, matches were over in less than ten minutes. After the tournament, it was back home to hang out with SaraRules! and the girls.

Yesterday, we braved Mother Nature’s sense of humor and went to Millcreek Cafe for breakfast. Later came errand-running and around-the-house chores. Then, dinner with the in-laws. Then, back home to put a very tired Team DiVa to bed. We capped off the night watching a little TV and having snacks — I had a Butterfinger-encrusted caramel apple from C.K. Cummings.

Today… well, it’s been a busy Monday. Things didn’t slow down until lunchtime. (Oddly enough, no monkeys were involved.) Sidenote: SaraRules! made beef barley soup yesterday, which was part of today’s lunch. It was pretty damned fantastic, I have to say.

Hopefully, the rest of the day – and evening – will be fairly low-key.

Stray Toasters
None today; maybe next time.

Namaste.