It's strange how comforting it can be just to be totally mundane once in a while ( Read more... )

So today was game day at Chez Echoweaver-Studentbane.

One of our current favorite board games is Arkham Horror, a complex collaborative game in which all the players go in together to defeat the Forces of Evil from Beyond Space and Time. (It's nifty ( Read more... )

Too much going on to really post. :-P Too much packing, shuffling stuff, administrative crap, last-second work stuff, and so on. Bleh.

Just a quick note: thinking of you all. Farewells to those we're leaving behind and looking forward to those of you we're heading for...

Hey London locals:

The time is drawing neigh. echoweaver and I will be, with great regret, leaving the UK on 15 July. We're sorry to be leaving all the wonderful people we've met here. :-( Thankfully, the 'net makes the world relatively small these days ( Read more... )

Game day was a blast. Thanks to little_cinnamon, djbp, telynor, and filceolaire for dropping by and making it a wonderful day! We missed a couple of other great folks by small or wide margins, but hopefully in the near future.

It sounds like there may need to be a Casablanca movie night before Echo and I leave Europe...

Calling London locals:

echoweaver and I would like to do a game day (i.e., afternoon/evening) this weekend. If you're seeing this message, you're invited. (I guess non-locals are invited too, though it might be more of a trek for you ( Read more... )

echoweaver and I are just back from a week in Germany and the Netherlands. It was a wonderful vacation and a great experience.

There will be a full exploration report on the travel blog eventually, with pix and stuff. But for the moment, some highlights:

• Mineral baths in Wiesbaden.
  
• Visiting echo's (third) cousin, also in Wiesbaden.
  
• The DFDF Filk ( Read more... )