Ok, a lot of you have been trying to get me to tell you when K.’s birthday is. Not going to happen. Believe it or not, she’s VERY serious about not wanting any celebration or attention on her birthday, and I’m honoring that wish.
However…she has conceeded to letting us have a BBQ in HONOR of her birthday. Not ON her birthday.
That being the case, I’d like to have a cookout next Saturday (the 28th). Probably around 6.
Anyone interested?
Hooray for that lovely moment when you’re trying to memorize your lines and you realize that as you look down at the script all of the words are one big blur.
Good times!
Tonight should be interesting. Off book? I hope!
But after that – It’s Star Wars time, baby! Thanks to the generosity of ross_winn and hel_ana K. and I are seeing the midnight showing tonight. Whooo hoo!!!
It totally looks like someone’s dad.
I’m old.
Edit So in talking to netgoth I’ve decided that the following dialogue goes best with the picture –
“Hey Neighbor! Good to see you! Want a beer? We’ve got hamburgers cooking on the grill out back. Come on over!”
Our boys have expressed a serious interest in playing Dungeons and Dragons. So much so that J. wants to buy a Player’s Handbook and his own dice.
I am of the opinion that gaming is a very positive thing for a child to do. That it encourages critical thinking, reading, and imagination. I also happen to think it’s damned fun. So I am, obviously, behind this idea 100%.
Once Machinal closes we are going to start a weekly game. The first meeting of this will most likely occur around the 4th of July weekend (our 2 year anniversary, interestingly enough).
Any locals interested in joining? Obviously I don’t want it to be too big, but I think we could fit a few more folks in.
The truly interesting thing about this, from a personal perspective, is that this is the first time I’m going to try creating a world from the ground up as opposed to using a campaign setting. Could be interesting, could be a disaster.
We’ll see.
Any of you GM’s out there have experience with cartography software you’d care to share?
…like a note written on a paper towel and left in your lunch box, that remind you just how wonderful the person you share your life with is.
Here’s the deal. I hate playing the “this person” game on LJ, but in this case I’m going to – simply because anyone who doesn’t know what I’m talking about really doesn’t need to be involved.
I have two local friends who have become very dear to me. These friends have had some problems in their relationship due to continued unwanted attention from one of their ex’s. I want my friends to feel comfortable discussing their lives on my journal, and I want to feel comfortable discussing my interactions with them as well. In my humble opinion their lives should not be discussed with the ex, no matter how inconsequential the details that are being discussed may seem.
I do not believe that anyone had ill intentions in this situation. In fact, I think quite the opposite is true. I also know the pain that is caused when saying something that should not be said while trying to do the right thing. I’ve done it many times in the past. I have often suffered from a bad case of “foot in mouth” syndrome when I said something that, in retrospect, I really shouldn’t have said. I am, however, obligated to place my loyalty in the people that are important to me. Despite the intentions that spawned them, if the actions of an individual risk hurting the people I love it is probabaly best that I sever ties with that individual.
No hard feelings. This is a logical decision more than anything. I mean no slight, but I fear one will be taken regardless. Be that as it may, I feel this is something I need to do.
So there it is.
The good news is that I think I’ve figured out why my video has been so crappy while playing World of Warcraft recently.
The bad news is that it’s because one of my two SLI cards has already crapped out. It’s been a slow failure, with a complete breakdown occuring yesterday. I thought it was a software issue, but that really didn’t seem to be making sense to me (as it was a slow degradation). This morning I made sure all the most current software was installed and tried going into the game with SLI enabled. Total garbage. Almost unrecognizeable. Turned off SLI. Pretty. Took out secondary card. Pretty. But secondary card in primary slot and removed old primary. Garbage.
So yeah, I’ll be calling Leadtek on Tuesday to arrange a replacement.
It’s covered under warranty and I know why I’m having problems now, so I’m not really upset. It’s just annoying.
Oh well. Bleeding edge woes continue. 🙂
Edit And even with only one 128 Meg PCI-Express video card the game still runs like buttah. In fact, I’m pretty sure that up until the latest patch from Blizzard it was only using one video card anyway.
The following poll is a result of a conversation that netgoth and I were having earlier today. Basically, we’re of the opinion that Dr. Ruth would probably be one hell of a lay. But she’s also really old, and never really was that attractive. Still, she could probably teach you a thing or two…So….
