A Hat-Trick of Kennys

Every dinner I ate this weekend was with Kenny and Gail. Friday we got together with Ben and Amy at De La Vega's, then back to their house for Shadows Over Camelot. Saturday Carrie and I went to see Amazing Spiderman then met Kenny and his family plus Larry at Si Senor's. (Amazing Spiderman was just meh, too much rehashed story.) Sunday, based partly on a rumor that the last Lorenzo's might be closing down, we got take out at our house with Kenny and Gail and Julie and Ross and Jalie and Alex and Nathan. I tend to be pretty bad to keeping in touch with folks who I'm not interacting with regularly, even if they live in the same town. (See: Larry and the guys.) So this weekend was a good chance to catch up with some folks I haven't seen for years. Was especially good to see Lencho, as I've felt bad about not getting in touch with him in so long.  Turns out Ed is running a 1st ed D&D game on Mondays, can't make it regularly, but I may have to try for a cameo.

Pupdate

Piper's been doing pretty good lately. After she lost three or 4 pounds around the end of winter, which is something like 10% of body weight, I think we've got her eating back under control. I'll take her back in the next week or two to get her weighed again and, hopefully, if she hasn't gained any weight, she's at least stabilized. Also, which is good for me too, I've been trying to get her out for walks again two or three times a week. This involves me getting up at 5:30 or so getting out on the levee before I go to work, which, given the heat lately, has been nice and cool. The other thing I've been doing on these walks is using bloggers speech to text function on my phone to get some blogs laid out. Thank you, pocket robot.

4th

Not as many kids as last year but we had a pretty good barbecue on fourth. Burgers and dogs, beer, broke out the kiddie pools; all-around good time.

Busy busy busy

June flew by and it doesn't look like July's going to go any slower. Julie and the kids got into town last night, so did Kenny and Gail. They will all, minus Julie plus Carrie's parents, be in town till mid next week when we take off and head up to Colorado on another road trip. There're some other tentative plans between that and GenCon and then, bam! end of summer.

Poo Quest

Burrito Quest has once again fallen into disrepair. Not that we've failed, per se, but we're a month behind on burritos, given our self-imposed schedule, and just as far behind on me getting a recording out. Also, I think our last burrito may get disqualified on the grounds that they fucked up and got some meat in it from the grill when they prepared it. Need to step this shit up.

Sage-Starter

Sage's kickstarter for dungeon world closed out just around $82,000. That's pretty badass. In related news, he and Sarah got married this weekend. Mom watched the kids while Carrie and I went up to Silver City for the wedding; got to see Isaac and Jenny, Paul and Shannon. Lovely ceremony followed by a nice dinner, good times hanging out with good friends. After everyone was pretty tired but we managed to head out to a club nonetheless. Rounded out the weekend away with a nice breakfast with Isaac and Jenny, and Ben and Amy. Jackassing around with Isaac this weekend makes me realize how much I miss that guy. Note: his unicorn mask birthday present in the attached picture.

Dungeons Anonymous

I have a problem. The Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG has all sorts of fun tables and charts and weird gameplay going on, so it's not like I had much of a choice. Also for page count the cost was pretty reasonable. And all the pictures of bell–bottomed wizards with sick belt buckles just added to the pot. My rationalization knows no bounds. I think I got a total of 10 pages into the PDF before I ordered the damn thing.