I decanted some of my first Mr. Beer batch when Dad was in town, but it was way too soon and I'd hoped the flavor and clarity would improve with more bottle time, both on the shelf and in the fridge.  I took some to Carl-Bad and it was similar to that first opening, somewhat cloudy and with a yeast flavor I'm not totally fond of.  Even more fridge ( Read more... )

Gaming: More Burning Post-Apocalyptic Rome. Catastrophic flood, we killed a witch, and evacuated the neighborhood saving them from the long beard horde.

Home stuff: Traci came through town on Sunday. Good times. Also got a storm door put on. Very nice.

Movies: Troll Hunter. Loved it. Check it out via Netflix instant.

Sick: Some kind of sinus garbage ( Read more... )

I got an iPad2 just before going to GenCon. It has proved immediately useful and super distracting. Let's face it, it's an overblown smartphone, minus the phone. PDF reading is ridiculously great, as are comic books. Installed a chat app on it tonight and that seems to work pretty good. Been playing game after game of Ascension with olde_fortran and Adam. Need ( Read more... )

Friday was Carrie and I's 5th anniversary.  We celebrated in the style of new parents everywhere: we got take out (noodles from Japanese Kitchen), ate it whilst tending to variously squalling infants, and then watched a movie (Due Date) after said infants were to bed.  All in all, a very pleasant evening.  It's been a hefty five years, all told, ( Read more... )

My Friday off and I discover (thanks a lot, Jon!) Friday.  I'm sure this presages some pending cataclysmic societal destruction.  I figure Skynet googled popular words, found 'weekend' and 'teenager' and fed them into it's songwriting program of doom.  This is how the machines will destroy us...with autotune.  Messrs Colbert and Fallon have ( Read more... )

Carrie and the kids have been out of town for three days. I have accomplished almost nothing of note except relaxing in a quiet house, having a few drinks, and clearing the dvr. Also, I had dinner with Mom and maybe almost broke my toe whilst refilling the vaporizer in the kids room tonight.

Last week nakachuki came through town for a welcome visit. The ( Read more... )

For the latter part of the week I successfully did not drop anything on my children's heads.

We Burrito Quested again, hitting up Fidencio's for a second time.  Just phargle and I but we figured a test run, at least, was in order before ifetus comes in to town next weekend.  There will be burritos, likely from Taco Bell, consumed and commented upon.  Burrito ( Read more... )

We ate in what may be the nicest restaurant in Carl-Bad.  I say this because the atmosphere elicited the comment from Carrie that it didn't "feel like" we were Carl-Bad at all.  Good food, relaxed atmosphere, I'd go back ( Read more... )

The week has rolled right along and here we are.  Took the babies in to daycare to drop off paperwork and meet the baby room staff.  Nice folks.  Carrie's pretty sad about going back to work.  But only three months or so of daycare and they'll be home every day for the summer.

Got my new bluetooth handset.  That's right, handset.  Sweet!  Also, some ( Read more... )

The crud faded a lot slower from me than it did from Carrie.  But I was back up to full speed by Thursday.

Which meant more DeadElf D&D on Friday.  We dungeon crawled around, bumblefucked through some traps, and killed a nest of kruthiks.  Then we learned that our ruined elf city had been put that way by devils.  So we captured and cowed a duergar ( Read more... )