A MONTH!
Sorry for being so sporadic, but it happens, eh.
Things and stuff!
Raptor's birthday is coming up! Parents coming over! Sister is supposed to give me itinerary so they aren't stuck at the airport! AHEM.
K. Atkinson is getting married, gotta print out the directions, find something to get them.
Shikamaru is still awesome.
We visited dragoni82 and met her coworker, and played with her cats. I made sure to bring my Benadryl. Raptor pulled out the dreaded Signals and Systems book from her bookshelf, and we moaned accordingly. Watched Dr. Strangelove, and played FFXII, finding, after a few hours worth of play/FMVness, that there was a character worth the hour+ of beginning story.
And it was Balthier.
Fran's a close second.
patches365 came over and brought pie. We ate it, and rejoiced in its goodness. She got to see the raptor, and defend her computer from curious fingers. I tried out The Bread Bible's English muffin recipe - mmmmmm. This is Patches' contribution to the Keeping-SD-and-Dash-Amused ... collection-thing. No, she didn't make it, it was just what we watched when she came over.
Playing FFXII prompted us to stop playing Tales of Symphonia for the time being and get the game for ourselves (mind you, not the super-special edition that I almost got for the same price at the mall, but the regular one that we actually got for cheaper because it was used at Gamestop - and still came with the booklet! - who needs a tin DVD case?).
After playing it for a while (10+ hours if I read the save file correctly, though the raptor wouldn't let that be continuous - I don't think *I* would let it be continuous), I figured the music's not as uninteresting as I thought it was the first time I heard it.
But that could just be because I played it for 10+ hours.
The doctor moved his practice to another building, so I gotta look that up, too before I head out for the raptor's well-baby checkup and realize that I'm lost.
We have locks on our kitchen cabinets because the raptor loves to open the doors. And close them. And pull things out whilst making her usual "rrrrr"ing noise that means she's studying something intently. I think. These locks can be frustrating.
For a couple of months, I think, she's been able to move her feet in a walking kind of motion while holding onto someone's hands, and she's been able to pull herself up to standing for a while now. She loves her little stroller (a gift from her grandparents), and a couple weeks of watching her move it forward into an obstacle, and whine about not being able to get unstuck from it, was great entertainment. She now knows how to turn it left.
"All set for NASCAR," says dragoni.
And she can stand on her own for a couple of seconds. Sometimes? We trick her into taking a couple of steps forward by holding something up above her and pulling it back a little. So she can walk, a little. And clap.
And grab the controller, because Mommy and Daddy hold it alot, so it MUST be interesting. Of course it is! It makes the pictures on the box move!
No, hitting pause and turning off the remote controller (it's wireless because we hid the consoles behind glass doors so she wouldn't play with the buttons there) - she knows that trick already. The pictures gotta MOVE.
The Hungry Little Caterpillar is still a favorite.
NaNoWriMo's coming up. =( Maybe I'll be better off just making a short manga story.
Anything else? I'm working on my feral gear, for no other reason but because I can. =\ Cesara asked me if I'm tank spec for good.
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Things and stuff!
Raptor's birthday is coming up! Parents coming over! Sister is supposed to give me itinerary so they aren't stuck at the airport! AHEM.
K. Atkinson is getting married, gotta print out the directions, find something to get them.
Shikamaru is still awesome.
We visited dragoni82 and met her coworker, and played with her cats. I made sure to bring my Benadryl. Raptor pulled out the dreaded Signals and Systems book from her bookshelf, and we moaned accordingly. Watched Dr. Strangelove, and played FFXII, finding, after a few hours worth of play/FMVness, that there was a character worth the hour+ of beginning story.
And it was Balthier.
Fran's a close second.
patches365 came over and brought pie. We ate it, and rejoiced in its goodness. She got to see the raptor, and defend her computer from curious fingers. I tried out The Bread Bible's English muffin recipe - mmmmmm. This is Patches' contribution to the Keeping-SD-and-Dash-Amused ... collection-thing. No, she didn't make it, it was just what we watched when she came over.
Playing FFXII prompted us to stop playing Tales of Symphonia for the time being and get the game for ourselves (mind you, not the super-special edition that I almost got for the same price at the mall, but the regular one that we actually got for cheaper because it was used at Gamestop - and still came with the booklet! - who needs a tin DVD case?).
After playing it for a while (10+ hours if I read the save file correctly, though the raptor wouldn't let that be continuous - I don't think *I* would let it be continuous), I figured the music's not as uninteresting as I thought it was the first time I heard it.
But that could just be because I played it for 10+ hours.
The doctor moved his practice to another building, so I gotta look that up, too before I head out for the raptor's well-baby checkup and realize that I'm lost.
We have locks on our kitchen cabinets because the raptor loves to open the doors. And close them. And pull things out whilst making her usual "rrrrr"ing noise that means she's studying something intently. I think. These locks can be frustrating.
For a couple of months, I think, she's been able to move her feet in a walking kind of motion while holding onto someone's hands, and she's been able to pull herself up to standing for a while now. She loves her little stroller (a gift from her grandparents), and a couple weeks of watching her move it forward into an obstacle, and whine about not being able to get unstuck from it, was great entertainment. She now knows how to turn it left.
"All set for NASCAR," says dragoni.
And she can stand on her own for a couple of seconds. Sometimes? We trick her into taking a couple of steps forward by holding something up above her and pulling it back a little. So she can walk, a little. And clap.
And grab the controller, because Mommy and Daddy hold it alot, so it MUST be interesting. Of course it is! It makes the pictures on the box move!
No, hitting pause and turning off the remote controller (it's wireless because we hid the consoles behind glass doors so she wouldn't play with the buttons there) - she knows that trick already. The pictures gotta MOVE.
The Hungry Little Caterpillar is still a favorite.
NaNoWriMo's coming up. =( Maybe I'll be better off just making a short manga story.
Anything else? I'm working on my feral gear, for no other reason but because I can. =\ Cesara asked me if I'm tank spec for good.
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