Last Tuesday was back to Iaido. I am progressing towards the top of the beginners. I don't get corrected very much, and initially I wondered whether it was random "luck" but I think it is a squeaky wheel syndrome ( Read more... )

I'm still in Cincinnati. I miss the snow from last year, which is where this new user pic is from. Taos, NM is also a little short on snow which is worrisome for upcoming plans ( Read more... )

Winter (Christmas) Vacations are coming up, so people are either looking with longing out their windows to icy fields and snowy mountains, or they diligently stare into their computers frantically trying to finish 12 assignments before they use their excess vacation days. In this spirit, gaming was canceled again. The plot finally started moving ( Read more... )

Last night was another session. ( Summary )

The good news about the weekend was that there wasn't PuzzleHunt. The bad news was that I finally got the latest Honor Harrington book from Amazon. Thus I didn't have the entire weekend to catch up on things, but still a fair amount after reading ~1000pages over the past few days ( Read more... )

Last Tuesday, it was raining which was too much for part of the Bellevue power grid to handle, so it lost power to the block of the city where I practice Iaido. And since it is generally agreed that waving sharp pointy things around in the dark is a *bad* idea, we had to cancel practice.

( Gaming )

Now I am making up this meme, as I haven't seen one to propagate, but they have to start somewhere you know. Erf. It is hard to categorize some games. The big thing that arises from my listing here, is that I prefer computer games to consoles.

( Games and More Games )

Besides mental agony when playing spider solitaire, frantic clicking with minesweeper, total immersion of Counterstrike, and the growing lament that Master of Orion stopped working on my computer, what do I play? Oh, and let us not forget the weekly posts of d&d ( Read more... )

Every morning it is the same routine. Cloud wakes up and starts knocking things over in a vain attempt to get fed. Then she realizes that it is 6 am and I'm not about to be conscious, so she curls up again and sleeps some more. The alarm goes off and I check my email. Cloud begins her process of watching what I'm doing so she knows when the ( Read more... )

I played soccer on Tuesday. I just had to play. I hadn't been out in a couple of weeks and it was mid 60s, sunny, and a slight breeze. I made all sorts of mistakes, but I had fun. It would be nice to find some people to play with that are my skill level instead of much much better ( Read more... )