It's open day at the new community centre tomorrow. There may be cake, and also, possibly, boxing.
"Come for the cake, stay for the pounding!"
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Boxing Day is a British holiday, I believe. I’m now picturing it in a whole different way.
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Boxing Day is, iirc, December 26th.
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"Welcome to the community centre! Come get your POUND CAKE!"
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Easter/Mom's birthday brunch at my mom's house tomorrow. Other than that, just routine things.
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Boxing Day is, iirc, December 26th.
Correct.
We arrived in time for cake, but the boxing demo got shunted down the schedule until last thing. We'd left by then, but - thank all the Gods and minor spirits - we managed to catch the line dancing. I'd have been furious for weeks had we missed it, really.
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I'm going to a show at the Majestic Theater downtown, it's a bunch of local bands covering bands that were influential to them in high school or something. So it's a wide range of bands.
I also baked a cake.
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Another combination Pathfinder/UFC night. Started off OK, but one of the players had a family emergency, and people's kids were bouncing off the ceiling, so we called it a couple hours early.
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The meet and greet with the new dog went well, but she would demand a level of activity I am no longer able to provide. Chronic pain and accompanying mobility issues would prevent me from giving her lots of walks to burn off happy Labrador energy. But she was just the sweetest pup imaginable. It was hard to not take her home with me immediately.
And as if to accentuate my mobility problems, I fell stepping down into the restaurant we went to after meeting her and her person. I could barely walk the rest of the day and last night and it's not easy today.
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Hope you feel better shortly, Cal.
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Ugh, sorry to here that Cal. I hope the pup finds a good home and you heal up quickly.
Thanks, guys. I shared and shared her adoption ad on different social media outlets.
With five lovely days off over Easter I had planned to do a lot of hobby-related things and do some long overdue cleaning of a couple rooms. As it was I spent most of the time on my back feeling exhausted and cold. I think I got whammied with the flu, because that's what my body felt like, but there were no cold-like symptoms so I'm not entirely sure.
I did manage to see Godzilla vs Kong 2, but I was quite tired after just a five minute walk to the theater.
I seldom have the cold-like symptoms with the flu. I run a fever, get the aches and pains, the splitting headaches, and fatigue.
Gaming goodness this weekend? We're not scheduled to play again until April 19th, which will very likely get postponed. It's the only free night out of April's weekends the GM has open and with it being a Friday, I think that's going to be a huge factor in attendance. My ex, whom I ride with, has indicated she will likely have to skip it. She gets off work at 4:30 pm, has to drive 45 minutes to get home, then let her dogs out to do dog stuff for about 20 minutes, drive the 25 minutes to come to get me, and then drive another 40-45 back to Little Rock to play. The start time is 6:30 and the GM won't budge an inch toward making it a little later, say 7 pm.
He's also probably lost the three players who drive over from Memphis. The last game, which I ranted about, sort of put them off. I think being attacked at night by a random encounter (that being a herd of aurochs) was viewed as unnecessary and killed far too much time. We've started calling that session The Attack of the Night Cows.
S'anyway, 'nuther free weekend here at Sweet Home Calabama. Not sure what I'll end up doing, but it will probably involve mopping the kitchen floor at some point.
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No gaming or gaming-adjacent activities planned, but we are going camping in central Texas this weekend to be in the 100% totality zone of Monday's eclipse.
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I live in central Arkansas where we'll have totality. I remember a total eclipse in February of 1979 when I was in high school and still living on our farm. I sat out in the backyard in a lawn chair, surrounded by snow, and wearing my dad's welding helmet to watch it. As totality approached, I took off the helmet to take in the changes in the light of what was a clear winter's day. The silvery veil that colored the land was pure magic. That's when I noticed our chickens hauling a$$ to the hen house like they were on fire. And then our cattle stampeded through a fence into the neighbor's pasture. Magical.
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Rural America is like a dream.
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I mean, if I'm going for that I'll just do the hard Mountain Dew they sell.
Anyway, couldn't go home to see the eclipse because we were already locked in to watch Wrestlemania for the next two days. Then I have a PFS special to run for the home crew. Took the first half of next week off as well, so I'll hopefully get my office cleaned up.
Putting the 'shine' back into Mountain Dew
Homebrew
*hastily looks into buying the supplies for that*
Putting the 'shine' back into Mountain Dew
Homebrew
no no no no no no no no
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I might do some moping on the kitchen floor as well.
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we are going camping in central Texas this weekend to be in the 100% totality zone of Monday's eclipse.
It was pretty cool! There was a lot of cloud cover, but there were enough breaks that we could see the eclipse happening at different stages. During the totality, the temperature dropped, and it got fairly dark. It reminded me of watching an old movie where they were actually filming during the day, but they put a filter over the camera so that it (sort of) looked like night time. All of the frogs started chirping because they thought it actually was night time.
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We were fortunate here in central Arkansas. The forecast had been calling for partly cloudy skies for over a week but we didn't have a cloud in the sky for the eclipse. Most of the birds got very quiet and the crickets started to pump up their jam. Some dogs in the neighborhood howled for a moment but nothing crazy happened.
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Lots of overtime this week. At least it's during the day this time...
Weekend's here! You guys ready?
I've been a GM too long. I have no plans to run any campaigns in the foreseeable future at all, but I found myself going through my notes, computer files, and sourcebooks this week putting together the basic ideas for a campaign where an Atlantis-like island reappears things between its citizens and those of the surrounding countries get, um...tense. I've had a bit of a shakeup in my life and I'm not coping with it very well and doing things like this gives me something else to focus on.
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I have gaming plans! But not like you want me to have gaming plans.
Going to an Astros game tonight, and possibly tomorrow night as well. We're not big baseball fans, but the kids like the experience, so we bought tickets for tonight. And tomorrow night's tickets were given to me free by my company (after I'd already bought tonight's tickets).
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Have fun! A friend of mine mentioned that he might go tonight, too. Serendipity and all that!
The year we lived in St. Louis my boss called me up one day and told me that one of our clients told him we had to go to a baseball game with them (we could bill them for the time...!...). I have zero interest in sportball of any kind. I don't like being in the sun. We stayed for five innings of the Cardinals game before the client said she'd had enough because the Cards were losing.
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I did my taxes. So I basically have 80 bucks until I get paid in a couple of weeks. All good though I already did my major grocery shopping and set aside 20 for the laundromat so shouldn't be too difficult just means I won't be going out much the next couple of weeks.
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What's going on? This bright light just lit up the sky, and it's stopped raining. Did we do something wrong?
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Just spent seven hours of my Saturday building compost bins and helping my buddy get his vegetable garden set up for the season. My reward? Potatoes.
Oh my. I hope you feel better, and I certainly hope your mom is alright!
No game this weekend, as it's been moved to next Saturday, the 27th. Despite my really ungrateful griping about the last game, I'm definitely looking forward to it.
How about everyone else?
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Recovering from an attack of bad guts that the wife and I both had - not sure where from, but dodgy veg is the most likely suspect. We're finishing off 'Abomination Vaults' on Sunday, but otherwise, I'm going to concentrate on getting myself back up to full HP.
Yikes. I'm a frequent flyer with gastro problems. I hope both of you get back up to speed!
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Nothing specific that or may not have anything to do with a non existent holiday that is tomorrow.
Also, I finished one big project this week and progressed surprisingly far into the next project.
It helps I have my daughter as my new assistant this year.
I didn't realize it was Friday until just about 30 minutes ago. I was operating all day yesterday thinking it was Wednesday. Sigh...Covid brain fog sucks.
Anyway, Saturday is game night for me. How about everyone else??
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I'm running another 5K tomorrow with my daughter. Other than that, some chores and hopefully I'll get the chance to relax for a bit?
Good luck on your game, Cal!
Aaaaaand the game will have to be rescheduled. ...sigh...