Those are awesome
Thanks!
You should stat a spiderdog.
It's best friend and nightmare fuel all in one!
LOL I love the spiderdog video.
Skull spider is pretty awesome, dunno when I'll ever get to use it though. Also I was expecting something Zelda-ish from the name and was pleasantly surprised not.
Happy Halloween, FAWTLfolk =) Going to be a quiet one here.
Thanks! I wanted to do a creepier set of monsters this time around.
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Seeker of SecretsShall We Dance?Folding the ForkQuote pyramid was getting too tall to handle. =)
We've had about 10 trick or treaters here. It's usually pretty quiet in our cul de sac.
Young hipster street here we come!!!!
None here yet.
I'm thinking next year I'll leave a note on the corkboard by the mailboxes saying "Hey if anyone has kids, there'll be some candy here, come on by". Or something. I dunno.
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Tiny T-Rex has discovered if he says "My mom would love one of those" super adorably he gets more candy.
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Rain started here. That pretty much puts the nail in the coffin for the chances of kids stopping by.
Ah well. Candy for me.
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It's getting dark out...
~sneaks up behind you and whispers "boo" in your ear~
I see dead people!!!
The candy's been inspected, a record haul for all, the kids are haggling and trading where I have retreated to the bedroom to watch a randomly determined Peter Jackson Tolkien movie (The Two Towers, good choice 6 sided dice!)
Freehold, Freehold, wherefore art thou, Freehold?
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So, you FAWTLies who do you have any words of wisdom to accompany a chapter of essays regarding kids and gaming? It's for the Medusa's Guide for Gamer Girls, and we have enough articles about involving children in games that there will be an entire chapter devoted to the topic. We're looking for a few blurbs from people who game with their kids to be featured in little offset boxes. If you feel like donating a few words of wisdom, PM me. Be immortalized in print!
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My Halloween consisted of doing laundry, taking a four-hour nap, spending two hours on the phone with a robot from National Grid, listening to my jackass college kid neighbors setting off fireworks in the road, and playing Dragon Age until 1 AM.
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So, you know, every weekend.
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I was over at Lady Longears'. I bought lots of sweeties in case trick or treaters came round; one lot did, but Lady L. refused to answer the door to them, so I gave her all the sweets instead. I suspect that this was her plan all along.
Then
SHE MADE ME WATCH X FACTOR!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHLAGHAGHAGH!
Strictly Come Dancing I can just about cope with; cardboard w*nker's kareoke, ohhh no no no.
EDIT: Now sitting in a railway station platform, covered in cat hairs and eating cold pizza
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Curse you Daylight saving time! You got me again!
I hate daylight saving time!!
A great Halloween all around, my feet got wet due to the dog insisting we stroll through a field in the drizzle beforehand, but no pain no gain I guess.
Today the weather takes a turn for the better, lower 60s, Sun, and no breeze whatsoever, with the rest of the week promising upper 60s with 70 a distinct possibility by Wednesday.
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But it's an extra hour!Curse you Daylight saving time! You got me again!
I hate daylight saving time!!
An extra hour of sleep!
I don't need a lot of sleep, I'm one of those weird people that thrive on 6 hours of sleep or less a night, so I never really understood that argument, I'd rather have the extra daylight, plus I don't see how going back and forth helps any.
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The amount of daylight stays the same. Shhh, don't tell. :P
And we're actually going back to standard time. Savings time is during the summer momths, to give us more daylight in the evening. So the time would be exactly like it is now if they abolished DST.
hi everyone
I caught Hand-Foot-and -Mouth-Disease, the boy brought it from daycare, urgh
The amount of daylight stays the same. Shhh, don't tell. :P
And we're actually going back to standard time. Savings time is during the summer momths, to give us more daylight in the evening. So the time would be exactly like it is now if they abolished DST.
and there are enough daylight hours in summer anyway, daylight hour optimization for WINTER would make some sense, but the way it is done does not
What I did on SundayAnd another photo, from back in the part of the marching train I was in.
Edit: Now with the correct link.
a swedish tradition ?
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Daylight is overrated anyway.
and there are enough daylight hours in summer anyway, daylight hour optimization for WINTER would make some sense, but the way it is done does notThe amount of daylight stays the same. Shhh, don't tell. :P
And we're actually going back to standard time. Savings time is during the summer momths, to give us more daylight in the evening. So the time would be exactly like it is now if they abolished DST.
But that is pretty much how it's done. Standard time in winter gives us the best chance of having it light (or getting light) when we wake, which helps us get up and get moving in the morning.
If we don't switch during summer, dawn is way before we rise, making it difficult to sleep until our normal waking time and wasting daylight on the hours we're trying to sleep. By moving the clock, we get another hour of daylight at the end of the day, when we're awake and can use it for fun, work, etc.
I've never understood time switch hate, but that's just me. Even with the programming problems it engenders, I don't hate it. YMMV.
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So... since we moved back to our house in 2013:
Halloween, 2013: Around 30 kids. Tons of extra candy.
Halloween, 2014: Word got out that we gave out full-sized bars. Around 250 kids. Virtually no extra candy
Halloween, 2015: Prepared for kidpocalypse. Got... 30 kids.
Anyone interested in 20+ pounds of chocolate?
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a swedish tradition ?What I did on SundayAnd another photo, from back in the part of the marching train I was in.
Edit: Now with the correct link.
Sort of. It was to honour the victims of the nazi school attack we had here in town the previous Thursday. I'm thinking about making a thread where I've translated the local paper's coverage of it into English.
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260 words. Only 1740 more to go before I can stop for the day. Which sounds easy except when I'm looking at the page and wondering what the hell is supposed to come next....
So day one of NaNo is going about as expected. :)
Yesterday I had a Halloween movie double feature. I went to see Crimson Peak (which was fantastic) and then the boys joined me at the theater and we saw The Last Witch Hunter (which was awful and not even in a so bad it's good kind of way). The kidlet wore his halloween costume to the theater which the employees complimented him on several times, so that made him happy. Also he got to eat himself sick on candy which is why he likes halloween in the first place. :)
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Today of course I am participating in the age old tradition of procrastinating when I'm supposed to be working....
260 words. Only 1740 more to go before I can stop for the day. Which sounds easy except when I'm looking at the page and wondering what the hell is supposed to come next....
So day one of NaNo is going about as expected. :)
I'm at about 800 and my characters are already doing unexpected things, darn them!
I'm at about 800 and my characters are already doing unexpected things, darn them!260 words. Only 1740 more to go before I can stop for the day. Which sounds easy except when I'm looking at the page and wondering what the hell is supposed to come next....
So day one of NaNo is going about as expected. :)
That sounds so much better than stilted awkward first paragraph right now. At least they're doing something! :)
That sounds so much better than stilted awkward first paragraph right now. At least they're doing something! :)I'm at about 800 and my characters are already doing unexpected things, darn them!260 words. Only 1740 more to go before I can stop for the day. Which sounds easy except when I'm looking at the page and wondering what the hell is supposed to come next....
So day one of NaNo is going about as expected. :)
Oh, it's not good. I am abiding by the "just write down any old s~@@" spirit of NaNo. Write now, edit later.
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Also it is hard to type with all these band-aids on my fingers. Carving the pumpkin yesterday was a bit more difficult than anticipated and I cut myself a few times. Thankfully nothing serious. But I had to tell the kidlet next year's design needs less teeth. It did look a bit cool though because my blood ended up dripping all over the teeth so it looked like the pumpkin bit me. :P
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Also it is hard to type with all these band-aids on my fingers. Carving the pumpkin yesterday was a bit more difficult than anticipated and I cut myself a few times. Thankfully nothing serious. But I had to tell the kidlet next year's design needs less teeth. It did look a bit cool though because my blood ended up dripping all over the teeth so it looked like the pumpkin bit me. :P
Talk about suffering for your art! I admire your commitment to the process, chica.
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I've never understood time switch hate, but that's just me. Even with the programming problems it engenders, I don't hate it. YMMV.
After living for eight years in Arizona where it isn't observed at all, having to deal with it elsewhere seems like annoying and pointless wasted effort. Especially when you have to negotiate timezones and such for cross-country gaming.
A lot of people agree with you. And I think this is the solution most people would like rather than returning to Standard Time in the winter.
I was traumatized one year when they pushed DST back farther into November or December. Schoolchildren were walking to the bus stop and to school in the dark. I remember how every night the Chicago news reported another child vanishing in the morning dark, raped, killed, missing... It was horrible. I dread that happening ever again. Think Pitch Black with grade-schoolers.
Maybe it would work better now, with fewer children walking to school and more helicopter parenting. I certainly hope so! Plus, if they got their s+$@ together and planned this, they could start school an hour later. They're already doing that for teens (because they finally figured out teens have a tough time getting up in the morning, yay!), why not for other kids? And if there's enough early warning, working parents could make accommodations for getting their kids to school safely and getting to work on time! Just think... planning, organization, order.
Wait, this isn't Germany.
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I tried sharing this post on Halloween, but something apparently happened to it. The Badger celebrated his third anniversary statting monsters for Mythopoeic Rambling by offering these:
Frightful monsters for your PF game.
Thanks, Mike! I hope everyone enjoys them, and if you do, we'd both appreciate it if you spread the link around and help boost the signal.
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Hoo dat?
Is it Legends of the Fall Brad Pitt?
Oh, I wish.
I know those leaves from somewhere...