Thanksgiving finished - coma no longer allowed!
Rachel and I went to Hawaii for Thanksgiving and it was fabulous. We were lying on the beaching and swimming in the Pacific on Thanksgiving day. We went over there because my grandparents are too old to travel anymore and we wanted to show them as much of our wedding as possible. Grandpa fell asleep during much of the viewing of our wedding video, but we gave them a copy of it. I'm not sure they'll be able to figure out how to work the DVD player on their own, but they might!
It was quite good to spend time with them. I got to program their universal remote and upgrade their aging Mac's memory (with Dad's help for getting into its innards).
I really should pull the photos off the camera - we took quite a few. Visited the Arizona Memorial, several beaches (including Hanauma Bay), Iolani Palace, and got a tour of all my Dad's old houses. One of them is now an apartment complex, it looks like.
Hawaii has more people living there than it can support with local agriculture. Sort of interesting, this Just In Time supply philosophy. I read Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven on the flight out there, and am reading C. J. Cherryh's Faded Sun trilogy on the way back. Digging back into some good science fiction. Imagine what would happen if there were no shipments of food anywhere? Lucifer's Hammer explores that, along with the fun Earth changing physical happenings were a large comet to actually hit us.
I got to come home to the a rented copy of Mass Effect, by our good friends at BioWare. It is the best RPG experience I've had in a long, long time. Plus, it's a space opera with 3rd person shooter elements. The dialog flows like a natural conversation most of the time - it's really fantastic. Yet more science fiction.
I've only just gotten into Rock Band - started with the drums on Medium and played through a couple songs on the guitar as well. It's everything that I'd hoped for from Harmonix as a true growth and expansion to Guitar Hero. I don't think the plastic drums will get me interested in actually drumming (not many melody lines there) but I am having a great time with it!
It was quite good to spend time with them. I got to program their universal remote and upgrade their aging Mac's memory (with Dad's help for getting into its innards).
I really should pull the photos off the camera - we took quite a few. Visited the Arizona Memorial, several beaches (including Hanauma Bay), Iolani Palace, and got a tour of all my Dad's old houses. One of them is now an apartment complex, it looks like.
Hawaii has more people living there than it can support with local agriculture. Sort of interesting, this Just In Time supply philosophy. I read Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven on the flight out there, and am reading C. J. Cherryh's Faded Sun trilogy on the way back. Digging back into some good science fiction. Imagine what would happen if there were no shipments of food anywhere? Lucifer's Hammer explores that, along with the fun Earth changing physical happenings were a large comet to actually hit us.
I got to come home to the a rented copy of Mass Effect, by our good friends at BioWare. It is the best RPG experience I've had in a long, long time. Plus, it's a space opera with 3rd person shooter elements. The dialog flows like a natural conversation most of the time - it's really fantastic. Yet more science fiction.
I've only just gotten into Rock Band - started with the drums on Medium and played through a couple songs on the guitar as well. It's everything that I'd hoped for from Harmonix as a true growth and expansion to Guitar Hero. I don't think the plastic drums will get me interested in actually drumming (not many melody lines there) but I am having a great time with it!