Springin

Spring's coming early to the desert. Nothing like a nice windy February day for massacring rose bushes and listening to Turnpike Troubadours.

Super Stars Warses

SuperbOwl weekend has, in the past 5 years or so, become a different sort of tradition for us. We generally travel to Carlsbad on Saturday to celebrate Julie and Ross's birthdays, then travel back home for Super Star Wars Sunday, wherein we eat junk food and watch a Star War. This weekend was no exception. Celebrated and played games (Dungeon Mayhem, Chess, and Swords & Strongholds) with Ross and Jalie on Saturday; ate nachos and watched The Last Jedi on Sunday. Pretty great weekend, sinus trubs notwithstanding. Oh, and Ross is turning 18, which is kind of crazy. He was born right when Carrie and I got together. He's heading to NMSU in the fall. Will be good to have him close and get to do some gaming with him on more regular basis.

Gritty Fatigue

I've been working through the First Law trilogy for a while now and I'm finally on the last book, The Last Argument of Kings. I find myself tiring of gritty fantasy. I took a break and shifted to comics to read some of Tom King's Batman and Gotham Central. Not really a break from the gritty, but still good stuff. Gotham Central has me wanting to rewatch The Wire again. I also picked up Lumberjanes and I (and the twins both) loved it (see below Owen making a goofy forced smile, caught reading through it the second time). It was a taste of the break I was looking for. I've been meaning to reread The Black Company and The Scar but I think I need to find something a bit less grim as a palette cleanser. Maybe A Closed and Common Orbit. I was reminded recently how much I liked The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and one of the things I enjoyed about it was its overall optimism.

The Forests of Leng

I'm only 1 episode in on True Detective Season 3 but it's got my attention. Mostly because I want to know more about this book.

Friday Night!

Sussing out Mothership whilst piled with movie-watching kids.

Dad'ing in Silence

Last night my son and I laid around in bed for an hour or so quietly reading comics (him: Calvin & Hobbes; me: Batman) and it was one of my best moments of being a parent.

Rare southern NM snow.

Took the girls for a walk to my mom's house.