Saturday
The day started late. “Sleeping-in” late. And it was good. Selah.

Not a whole lot happened during the early part of the day. Other than a lot of sitting around. And that was fine; after all, that’s what weekends should be about. My occasionally-seen “need to be productive” side apparently sent the “I’m having a good time being lazy” side out for ice cream or something, because I cleaned the bathroom… more-or-less on a whim. Granted, I’ve been wanting to be more regular in establishing Saturdays as “Clean around the house” days, but this was rather spontaneous.

We met Perry, Max and Kate’s brother, Joe at Nickelcade. 5¢ gaming goodness. There were a couple of kids there playing DDR who were not only good at it, but they were good at it without needing to use the support bar. , you should go with us some time and test these kids’ DDR ability. From there, it was on to Jordan Commons for dinner at the new Spaghetti Mama’s restaurant. It was good. We even got to harass Kate. Unfortunately, I neglected to pick up a business card. I’ll have to remember to ask Kate to pick one up for me.

Bowling was all right. I bowled seven games, with a high of 162. I also noticed that I am tending to pull the ball to the left. That’s not good, given that I have a left hook. But, I had a lot of frames where I cleared out the 4, 7 and 8 pins. *sigh* Breakfast was good – we had a better-than-average turnout. There were lots of random conversations… which is pretty typical for our group.

Stray Toasters

  • In the words of No Doubt: “What I’ve succumbed to is making me numb…” In other words, I’ve given in to my Heroclix crossover addiction again. This time, however, I’ve taken a swipe at William Shakespeare. Is nothing sacred?!?

    And so, I give you a scene from Hamlet:

  • I’ve never played Neverwinter Nights, but a friend pointed me to “Neverwinter Vault – Top 10 Lists.” Some of them are rather amusing, including: Top 10 Things You Should Never Say as You Are Greeted by the King and Top 10 Stupidest Ways You’ve Died.

    I think that the most st00pid way that I died, when I was playing EverCrack, was: A couple of friends – and another former coworker – and I were going to the Qeynos sewers to hunt frogloks. We knew of a back entrance – basically a manhole that led to an open area of the sewers – and decided to go that way. We got to the entrance and the two of us jumped in; the third guy stood at the top… and waited. Something happened on the way to the open area and our characters started running out of air. ‘s character had a better swimming rating than mine, so he was able to make it to the bottom. When I started noticing that my air was getting to a critical point, I turned around and headed back for the manhole. And was stopped mid-swim. I couldn’t get past the zone border and back onto the street. And so, my character drowned.

    When I respawned, three zones away, I was not a happy camper. I ran back to the sewers to find the guys waiting for me. My corpse, with all of my equipment, was still at the bottom of the sewer entrance. I asked if anyone knew what had happened. The third member of our party said “Yeah. They closed off this entrance to the sewers. You can go in this way, but you can’t get out.”

    *braincramp*

    This guy knew where we were going and the route that we planned to take. He also knew why we were going that way. And, when we got to the entrance, he didn’t say anything about: “Hey, that’s not a good idea.” It never occurred to him. Idiotstick.

  • : Joss Whedon and John Cassaday are staying on Astonishing X-Men for an additional 24 issues.
  • If you’re a Gen-X’er who watched Friday night TV in the late 70s and early 80s, you’re more than likely familiar with The Dukes of Hazzard and one of the characters from the show: Sheriff Roscoe P. Coltrane. Behind the badge (and the costume) was James Best. And, something that you may not know was that he is an artist, as well.
  • From Salon.com: Love in the age of irony
  • I finally got around to reorganizing some of my bookmarks. That was long overdue.
  • …said the Bishop to the Actress.
  • : Dawnstar (May require free registration.)

That’s it.

Namaste.