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In the four weeks since we first set traps, there have been 7 armadillos and (as of today) 3 possums caught.
That's a lot of critters for a thin strip of woods behind the house. I'm beginning to suspect that other companies might be releasing critters they catch at that location. The company I have takes them farther out.
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I might finally be done with Facebook. It was bad enough when the phone app started putting all kinds of crap on my display that I never wanted or asked for (like Marketplace and Watch), without giving me the option of hiding them. Now they've done the same thing for the desktop version. I find it all very annoying.
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Had a FB friend request from the wife of one of my old Philly gaming group dudes (he doesn't do FB). She wanted to let me know he and the others were starting a new D&D game, and had been talking about how to include me.
I called him yesterday evening, but he wasn't somewhere he could talk at the time. Maybe I'll try him again today.
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Sooooo.....
Last night I jumped on a website called Roll20 and did a virtual gaming session with my old Philly Group. Actually, we went back and forth between this Roll20 and Discord. It was fun.
We built characters for a 5E game, something I never thought I'd do. The guy acting as DM wants to run us through Rime of the Frostmaiden, which I've heard is pretty cool.
Anyway, we'll see how it goes. No matter what, it was at least nice to think I actually had friends again.
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Well, my favorite holiday of the year is over. I had gone into it this year with great hesitation. I just wasn't sure I wanted all the annoyance. Yet I went ahead as usual anyway.
Turns out my initial instinct was correct. Not only did my subdivision (I can no longer bring myself to call it a neighborhood) not have many trick or treaters, we had far fewer people willing to give out treats. And that number was never great to begin with.
The really sad part was, we had perfect weather for it. The best weather in years.
All in all, it was f+#$ing pathetic.
Next year, I think I'll forgo doing anything in my own area, and just find a better, actual neighborhood for my kids to trick or treat in. Some place where the so-called adults don't let fear (or general a@!%&+*ness) drive them to disappoint children.
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Sooooo...
My father-in-law, who got laid off months ago due to a certain THING WHICH SHALL NOT BE NAMED, is typically very bored. He also tends to annoy the shit out of my mother-in-law. He's still a pretty good dude though, and the kids love him.
Anyway, yesterday morning he calls my wife and says he's coming for a visit. That's cool. The only problem was, he was leaving that morning to drive the six-ish hours to our house. Which gave the wife an I just that much time to get the house straightened up and do some grocery shopping to accommodate a visitor.
Needless to say, by the afternoon, my back and shoulder were in lots of pain, and we were both very tired.
But the look on my daughter's face (Grumpy is her favorite), and her being speechless for nearly 30 seconds, made it all worthwhile.
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Finally started job hunting again. It'd been about 3.5 months since I bothered, so I figured it was about time. Not that I have high hopes...
What brought it on was the wife interviewing with...I forget who....and them saying the job might be in either the DFW area, or over in Orlando, FL. I'd prefer not to have to move, because it's a pain in the ass.
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I used to think Houston was a good city for Engineers. Not any longer.
It's one thing for me to not be able to find a job. I've made some stupid decisions that ended up hurting my resume. My wife, however, has had a stellar career, is highly capable, and really enjoys what she does. Yet she's also been having trouble finding work.
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Just for shits and giggles, last night I watched Enter the Ninja. Watching Franco Nero pretend to be a ninja is always fun. Plus, you get Sho Kosugi, in what I think was his first major role.
The night before last, also just for shits and giggles, I watched Ninja Assassin, which I think was Sho Kosugi's most recent film role.
In both movies, Sho plays one of the villains.
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We may not have to move to Dallas after all. The wife has received another job offer, for a company here in Houston. This one would be less pay than her old job (by a significant amount), but would be working from home.
Although I'm totally aghast at the thought of moving to Dallas, I'm still encouraging her to at least see what they offer. From what she told me, though, there's a good chance the money for the Dallas job would be about the same as the job offer here in Houston, which would make staying the logical choice.
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I was surprised the other day to learn that the Pathfinder Kingmaker game had made its way to the PS4. I hadn't bought it for the computer because (a) I had other things I preferred to occupy my time with, and (b) I didn't want to overburden my poor old computer.
But those other things have gotten kind of boring, and with it on the PS4, I don't have to burden my computer at all. So I ordered it off Amazon. I've heard good things about it. We'll see if it lives up to the hype. I have my doubts.