Got the new car on Tuesday. It rides sweet. And it's got the XM built-in. I'll check that out over the next month, as I'm sure it's just promotional. So far it seems like a whole lot of radio for only a handful of stations I would actually listen to. That plus the aux jack for my mp3 player will probably put me off subscribing ( Read more... )

Monday night, whilst I was away Burrito Questing and playing Lacuna, Carrie discovered a rattlesnake that had taken refuge from our dog under the grill. Animal control took the situation in hand and with speedy response. Carrie has spent Tuesday making our outdoor space less snake friendly, a.k.a. less cluttered. I would have helped but ( Read more... )

The trip to St. Louis made the past week and a half or so out of the office long and wonderful. St. Louis was a bit muggy but lacking in rain. Also, I ran on a treadmill and ate some sushi, along with drinking some beer.

The long weekend was filled with couch surfing, cameo-ing in phargle's Reign of Steel epic game, finally playing a game of Red ( Read more... )

The patio is finally done with. Or more important, I'm finally done with the contractor who was putting in the patio. There is still the small question about sealing that we're going to have to do ourselves, but still...

Leaving for GenCon tomorrow morning, bright and early. Very excited ( Read more... )

Happy Anniversary to phargle and tsiar! Of course that means phargle is out for Burrito Quest and gamings tonight. But then, so is $teve. Looks like Alex will join us for BQ (Week 29: The Gobbler), then we'll do some kind of pickup gaming, depending on what snivelfish and akender are up to. Possible games ifetus and have discussed: Vs. Outlaws and Ghost/Echo ( Read more... )

Last night was Burrito Quest week 28 - the Eye Opener, aka Grease Bomb. My stomach has felt off all day.

Also, we were meant to play Burning Boyars last night. ifetus and/or phargle sabotaged these plans. Probably. Instead of gaming we sat around $teve's house while he made a character and ifetus engaged in his favorite pastime: drawing penises ( Read more... )

Got home from gaming after midnight last night and our house was still hot, the cooler having run pretty much all day. I thought maybe it was the high humidity lately but it wouldn't have had this much of an effect. So I did the sensible thing and got up on the roof in the middle of the night to see what was wrong. The pump was burned out. So I ( Read more... )

The kids that invaded my house last week all scattered to the winds and things are a lot more quiet now. Carrie took off to take Ross and Jalie home last Thursday and didn't come back till Saturday, making my three day weekend very quiet indeed. Alex came over Thursday night for and we hung out playing the xbox, till not too late. Friday Mom ( Read more... )

Been a long/busy couple of days ( Read more... )