We finally got back from our Spring Break trip on Saturday. We had a great time. Zion Canyon is amazing, and I will wholeheartedly endorse it as a vacation spot to anyone who asks. At the very least, I encourage looking at pictures of it.
Bryce Canyon is also amazing!
We spent our final night of the trip in Las Vegas, since that's where we were flying out of, and that was a blast, also.
On Sunday, I tackled a veritable mountain of laundry.
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We finally got back from our Spring Break trip on Saturday. We had a great time. Zion Canyon is amazing, and I will wholeheartedly endorse it as a vacation spot to anyone who asks. At the very least, I encourage looking at pictures of it.
Bryce Canyon is also amazing!
We spent our final night of the trip in Las Vegas, since that's where we were flying out of, and that was a blast, also.
On Sunday, I tackled a veritable mountain of laundry.
WOW, those places are stunning! I'm familiar with their names through my armchair paleontology but those are incredible vistas!
What shakin', bacon? Sweet Home Calabama remains in suspended animation this weekend, but my brother, who had triple bypass surgery last month, has finally been released by his doctor to drive and our old friend and former roomie from college is coming home for the weekend. The three of us haven't been together in well over five years so it's Bad Movie Saturday Night for us. Now I need to come up with a couple of the absolutely worst horror or sci-fi films known to humanity. In the immortal words of Don Cornelius, "It's gonna be a stone gas."
So what are you all doing?
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We're getting our classic late March blizzard so I guess I'll be displacing snow from driveways and sidewalks this weekend.
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We went to the 2nd hand market today, which was lots of fun, and I shall have a PF2 game tomorrow. My Tuesday gaming group (we're playing Savage Worlds at the moment) also intend to go and see the D&D movie very soon.
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Two movies I want to see very soon: the D&D one and John Wick 4. But I think I'll wait for 'em to stream.
Two movies I want to see very soon: the D&D one and John Wick 4. But I think I'll wait for 'em to stream.
Most of my group wants to go as a herd like we used to before kids and responsibilities. I'd love to go, too. But even just the thought of it is increasing my anxiety level. Kids, D.A.R.E. to stay away from complete emotional breakdowns. You never recover.
The weekend here at Sweet Home Calabama has started with tornado sirens. 'Tis the season!
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I'm going to see the D&D movie with my son tonight. Then he has a debate club tournament tomorrow. Then camping Saturday night and Sunday!
The weekend here at Sweet Home Calabama has started with tornado sirens. 'Tis the season!Tornados just took out parts of Little Rock.
Let us know you're safe.
I live 25-30 miles from the areas where the tornado hit. The most that I got was blackout rain events followed by periods of sunshine. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Thanks for lookin' in on me!
So, what's going on with everyone this weekend? I've lapsed into another of my all too often periods of sleeplessness. Livin' la Vida insomnia!
Things are a bit somber here at Sweet Home Calabama. My friend who has the rapidly advancing, incurable disease got some bad news yesterday. She was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and the various doctors she's seen this week have all remarked they've never seen it advance as fast as hers had. Granted, it's not the best understood disease, but evidently it keeps surprising physicians.
On the gaming front, I'm starting to come out of my creative funk, I think. I've been jotting down one- and two-line adventure ideas, which to some might not seem like much, is a huge improvement over the last few months. I've also come to realize that the revamped campaign my players wanted and I sank so much time into putting together is possibly the main cause of the funk. The first time we tried it I had no real interest in it and it ran off the rails. It's the same this time around; the whole thing was boring me to death. It's a good premise, but I'm just not into it. There is a whole gaming world out there that we've never explored in all of the 33 years of its existence, and all of my new ideas are related to that notion.
Anyway, here's "Wonderwall."
Thanks, DW!
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Taxes are due in two weeks. I guess I should start working on them, huh?
Sorry to hear about your friend, Cal. I hope she's at least reasonably comfortable.
I'm glad to hear about your shallowing funk. I was also happy to read that your house situation seems to be working out.
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Thank you, Andostre. She's about as comfortable as she can be, I suppose. But in the course of just over a year she went from being a healthy middle-aged healthy person to gradually losing her speaking ability and her motor functions. She can still talk but where she used to be just rapid fire with her speech it now sounds like someone has recorded her then slowed down the tape. She had to quit her job (real estate sales) and sell her vehicle, losing the ability to even push the "unlock" button on the key fob.
When she first began to show signs that something was wrong, a stroke was the first guess, but there was no evidence of one. Then a tentative diagnosis was offered of a disease with very similar symptoms to ALS (I can't remember the name, though), that was also incurable. So, she's known this is a one-way trip for a while and has, for the most part, made peace with it. Our group of dice-pitchin' misfits are trying to coordinate schedules to go visit her en masse as soon as we can, but I am the only one who can literally go at any time as I no longer work. But everyone else has far busier lives than I do and most of the things they have on their dockets are locked in and can't be rescheduled (going to check out colleges for this coming fall, a first grandchild due any time now, an out of state funeral to attend, and so on). But we'll manage to get at least some of us together and visit her (she lives 2.5 hours away).
What's happening, everyone?
Not much here. We've picked a day to go see Tamela (the 30th) and I'm just jotting down ideas here and there for when we come out of gaming stasis. Other than that just a quiet weekend at Sweet Home Calabama.
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What's happening, everyone?
Not much here. We've picked a day to go see Tamela (the 30th)
**Googles**
You're going to see a gospel singer?
Not much going on this weekend, which is a nice change. My kids want to see the Super Mario movie, and we said yes, and it was very satisfying to see their faces when we told them that we would drop them off before the movie and pick them up afterwards when they call. My wife and I will have a nice, two-hour date.
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Since the last Keith that came over just took the washing machine apart and sat there staring at it, mournfully confessing to my partner that he didn't know what he was doing before leaving it in bits and not coming back with someone who did know what they were about to fix it, our white goods insurer (but not for much longer!) is sending two more Keiths over tomorrow with a new one. It will be nice to not have to go to the laundrette to wash clothes, and also to not play host to the decaying carcase of a household appliance in the front cellar.
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What's happening, everyone?
Not much here. We've picked a day to go see Tamela (the 30th)
**Googles**
You're going to see a gospel singer?
Not much going on this weekend, which is a nice change. My kids want to see the Super Mario movie, and we said yes, and it was very satisfying to see their faces when we told them that we would drop them off before the movie and pick them up afterwards when they call. My wife and I will have a nice, two-hour date.
It is a good movie, they'll have a great time.
What's happening, everyone?
Not much here. We've picked a day to go see Tamela (the 30th)
**Googles**
You're going to see a gospel singer?
Not much going on this weekend, which is a nice change. My kids want to see the Super Mario movie, and we said yes, and it was very satisfying to see their faces when we told them that we would drop them off before the movie and pick them up afterwards when they call. My wife and I will have a nice, two-hour date.
Heh..I had no idea there was a Gospel singer named Tamela. It's a coincidence our Tamela will find ironically hilarious...lol
It's Friday again, dudes and dudettes! What's going on?
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Work today and tomorrow. Nothing I know of on Sunday. Possibly get some mini painting in.
Oh, and try out my new crown on the surviving of the two teeth that have bedeviled me the last six months. I'm tired of chewing on only one side of the mouth. And the crown doesn't have the knife-sharp edge that the tooth had before so hopefully I won't cut my tongue any more.
I've had to do the exact thing. It's astonishingly hard to think about something like chewing. I've had four crowns over the years and pretty good luck with them. Go out and feast!
My in-laws are here.
Sorry, I meant to say:
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My in-laws are here.
Sorry, I meant to say:
M̵͔̎ỹ̶̯̮̇ ̴̢͙͊͘ì̷̮̐ņ̸̗̏-̸̡̞̓̈́l̸̠͚͠a̴̺̗͂͝w̶̗̉s̴̲̑͛ ̵̢̥̐a̵̱̠̅͂r̷̖̃̍ḛ̶̬̊ ̵̖̏̍h̵̛̼͗e̸̘͗r̸̞͛͝e̵̱̒̽ͅ.̴̖͒
I hope the visit goes smoothly. My in-laws were wonderful, loving, generous people. We just didn't have anything in common aside from their daughter and their grandson...lol. We had no shared interests or hobbies, politics were polar opposites, I didn't give one single damn about the Arkansas Razorbacks or any other sportsball team, anything. But I knew they loved me and I loved them in return. They've both passed on now, and I miss 'em.
My in laws are terrible people and we have absolutely nothing to do with them.
It is what it is, not a big deal.
It's finally Friday, y'all. What's going on?
A bunch of us in our group are planning Sunday to drive up to see our friend who is very ill with what is likely ALS (*most* of her doctors think this is what she has. The others don't know). She's been with our band of misfits since 1991 or 1992, basically since the beginning of our campaign setting. Even before her illness she usually had to play via Skype or the like as she lives two and a half hours away and would come down when she could. It's our turn to go visit her.
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We have a birthday (not my own) this weekend so that should be fun.
It also might snow a bit this weekend. That will not be fun.
It's a rainy Friday morning here at Sweet Home Calabama. I'll probably do some more work on what I hope will be the new campaign. I'm still a few weeks away from having it ready, so I hope I use my time wisely...lol
How about everyone else?
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I'm getting an engraving pen in the mail so I plan on trying that out.
Fortunately I have my own supply of rocks so I can spare every boulder in town from having "Captain Yesterday wuz here" carved into somewhere.
I'm getting an engraving pen in the mail so I plan on trying that out.
Fortunately I have my own supply of rocks so I can spare every boulder in town from having "Captain Yesterday wuz here" carved into somewhere.
*little red guy with horns on your shoulder whispering* Do it anyway. C'mon, man. You wanna be cool, right?"
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*little red guy with horns on your shoulder whispering* Do it anyway. C'mon, man. You wanna be cool, right?"I'm getting an engraving pen in the mail so I plan on trying that out.
Fortunately I have my own supply of rocks so I can spare every boulder in town from having "Captain Yesterday wuz here" carved into somewhere.
Oh, I'm already cool, that's been established.
I just don't want to rub it in.
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We went to see a friend who lives in the north-west, and took a caravan by a very cold lagoon. It is the c*r*n*t*on, so the place is pretty much shut, pubs aside, and there are flags EVERYWHERE. We did not take the Public Oath of Loyalty to his Majesty, as the government suggested we should.
Now that we have recovered from a second round with Covid, tomorrow will be a day to catch up on shows before Monday night board games. Gotta run to Costco for more beverages too.
Ugh, I'm glad you've gotten through it again. I've had it twice, though not to the degree of severity many people did. I don't recommend even the COVID Lite version.
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It's finally Friday, y'all. What's going on?
A bunch of us in our group are planning Sunday to drive up to see our friend who is very ill with what is likely ALS (*most* of her doctors think this is what she has. The others don't know). She's been with our band of misfits since 1991 or 1992, basically since the beginning of our campaign setting. Even before her illness she usually had to play via Skype or the like as she lives two and a half hours away and would come down when she could. It's our turn to go visit her.
Last weekend, I ran a 5k with my kids as the seasonal culmination of my daughter's running group. My knees ached for 36 hours afterward.
Then I took my son to an escape room for one of his friend's birthday party. Aside from the birthday boy's older sister, I was the only other adult that stayed. All the other parents dropped their kid off and then came back at the end to pick them up. I'm not too proud to share that those 11 and 12 year old boys would never have escaped the runaway time traveling train if it weren't for my help. I didn't even tell them the answers; I just told them to stop arguing and try one idea, and if that didn't work, try the next, and so on. Instead of just standing around arguing about which idea to try first. I provided that guidance multiple times.
Then Sunday we went to the park with some friends for a picnic. A park employee came by to tell us that we could no longer use our camp stove at the park, so we ate everything we could that was cold and still had a nice time, despite a couple of the mom's grumbling that they couldn't find anything about no gas stoves on park's website.
It's a rainy Friday morning here at Sweet Home Calabama. I'll probably do some more work on what I hope will be the new campaign. I'm still a few weeks away from having it ready, so I hope I use my time wisely...lol
How about everyone else?
This weekend, I fixed a broken gate on my fence, went to my son's debate team tournament, went to a friend's 50th birthday party, and today is my daughter's birthday party at a roller rink.
Both weekends involved the usual laundry and grocery shopping.
Looking at the calendar for next weekend, it seems like a good idea to remind everyone that Sunday the 14th is Mother's Day.
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Now that we have recovered from a second round with Covid, tomorrow will be a day to catch up on shows before Monday night board games. Gotta run to Costco for more beverages too.
Glad you got through that, TOZ. Again.
We’re just hoping it doesn’t make Cyz’s autoimmune disease worse.
Oh my goodness! Same here!