Man Date Movie Night

Alex and I; Wrath of the Titans. It was pretty much what you'd expect. Qui Gon Jin and Voldemort fought each other then worked together, Ares pulled a pile driver on Perseus, and a giant lava monster wrecked the world before being blown up (second Death Star style) from the inside out by a lightning bolt. Oh, and surprisingly Beebo made an brief appearance. Given how much I disliked the remake of Clash of the Titans I wasn't expecting much. Give me an impressively big lava monster, I thought. The Hollywood gods granted my wish.

Flament the Swamps

Wrapped up a six or seven session run of Lamentations of the Flame Princess last Friday. Ben and Amy's characters finally made their way out of the shiftiness that was Port Herrod and the surrounding swamps. In the course of things they explored an ancient temple of ocean gods, unleashed a horde of people-possessing jellyfish, rescued an ancient elven sorcerer, battled shape changing creatures from beyond space, and made a bittersweet deal with some slavers to get back home.

We've decided to switch up the system to Adventurer Conqueror King for the return to civilization. I dig the idea of switching up similar (or maybe even dissimilar) systems to evoke different bits of the setting. Wonder how far afield we could take that?

Spaces

Out of shape in more way than one, blog shape included.

Tucson was fun, but I tweaked my back again just before leaving. A weekend on the road made for a lot of not being able to get comfortable. Ended up spending half of last week at work on darvocet. Would have stayed home but Paige came down with something that kept her home, fighting low-grade fever most of the week.

Nice weather has us getting the kids out into the back yard more. Seeing them run around and play, whether on the trampoline or slide,is pretty great.

Balls

Heading out to Tucson for Nathan's White Coat ceremony. Luckily, I threw my back out 30 minutes before we're supposed to leave. Percocet to the rescue!

Almost Lost It

Lots of in-laws in town over the weekend. As always this meant lots of eating out. Couple that with my lack of exercise lately and I mad feeling less than healthy. Time change has afforded us more time in the evenings, to you know, get some exercise in and whatnot. But there still doesn't feel like enough of it to go around. Add to that my work schedule has started to include me working late every Tuesday and Thursday and the excuses start to pile up. Oh, also it's yard work and allergy season, so...

Jon's Cruces-bound this weekend to 1/2 Death March with mom. Beers on the roof seem in order.

Finished Ready Player One. I liked it, but I don't think I loved it. The nostalgia angle is always comforting but the conflict felt less than threatening once the story found its feet. The ending, while entertaining, didn't feel at all surprising. Now I'm on to Best Served Cold.

And thank Glob for Blogger's auto-save. This post almost went gallivanting about in the ether. It most likely would have been replaced by bitching about exclusively using and iPad for internets.

Plummet

You know when you think about doing a thing, knowing that it could result in unwanted circumstances, and then you do it anyway?  Like, say, you perch your kids on the kitchen counter while you're fixing their lunch...  So, yeah, Paige fell off.  She was happily kicking her legs when I turned away for a second, and dropping to the tile floor when I turned back.  Luckily she fell straight down on her butt.  I quickly scooped her up to check for damage.  She cried for a minute or so, but was overall unscathed.  Owen, who I pulled off the counter as I was consoling Paige, cried longer at having to suddely be confined to ground level.  All in all, probably my worst dad moment.  Hearing other parents share similar, and sometimes worse, stories makes me feel a bit better about it, but still full of fail.

In other, more prosaic, home news we worked on lanscaping this weekend.  Pulled a bunch of river rock up to remove sediment from drainage along the side of the house, then put the rock back in place.  Also spread out some gravel and made the whole thing look very nice and tidy.  Of course, this is about the one part of our yard that we don't traverse much and really can't ever see.  But at least we know it looking good.  Plus it was sort of practice for doing about five times as much of the same to front yard.

Technical Improficiency

Burrito Quest has been happening for around 3.5 years now.  I just stumbled upon how to make iTunes pick up the recordings.  Of course, I never took the time to look into it so...  Anyway, looks like there is some way they parse blogger posts that looks for links to audio files only in the body, apparently ignoring title enclosure links.  Oh, and it also looks for any text preceding the link to add to the description block.  So, if I want iTunes to pick up the feed for these things I may have to go back and reformat.  That or look into the settings on the iTunes side.  Either way, based on past performance that may not be happening any time soon.

Tonight is date night for Carrie and I.  I like to think that the title of this post does not apply directly to that.  Just saying.

And yes, it's improficiency.  And yes, I had to look it up.