It's the TOWN FESTIVAL tomorrow, so there are lots of gigs by bands called things like Baztown Stonkzoo (melodic indie rockers, with a hint of ska), a tombola, and the opportunity to cover a bus stop in yarn.
UPDATE: No yarn. Instead, the bus stop was covered in plastic sheeting, and you could draw on it.
Also no tombola, but there was a 'Name The Duck' competition. One of the options you could choose from was 'Strapper' - I don't know why, and I don't care to, either.
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Apparently I will be spending at least 15 minutes hearing the bus driver argue about chocolate with his girlfriend.
It's my fault for getting to the bus stop early.
Friday is bustin' out all over! Anyone have any plans?
No definite plans here, though I might either work on the messy kitchen or finish building my guillotine and offing the roommate who created the messy kitchen.
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Dang Cal, you got an early start on the thread this week. Insomnia much? :)
I'm wrapping up a week in the house by myself! My son is at a sleepaway camp, my daughter and wife are visiting my wife's parents. Saturday I'll spend packing and getting the house situated, and then my family, my wife's parents, and my wife's sister's family will be flying to Montana from our various points-of-origin for a nearly two-week vacation in and around Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks.
I've spent the week (aside from working, which was kind of a sh!tty week for that) watching dumb, violent movies that are too violent for my kids and not that interesting to my wife. I watched Mad Max: Fury Road, Matrix: Resurrection, and The Expendables.
I'm considering the The Rock for tonight. (The movie with Nic Cage and Sean Connery, not the actor Dwayne Johnson.)
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I worked today, July crunch is ramping up.
Not because of my schedule, but one of the other Lead Foremen quit a week and a half ago and really messed up the project he'd been working on, so now I'm basically redoing about 80% of everything he'd already "completed".
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We got Strange Aeons this Sunday night, then hopefully we can finish up our Ticket to Ride Legacy game. One more round and then we see how well we all did across the run. Highly recommend it to anyone that likes Ticket to Ride, but it does get a bit more complicated than usual.
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Dang Cal, you got an early start on the thread this week. Insomnia much? :)
I'm wrapping up a week in the house by myself! My son is at a sleepaway camp, my daughter and wife are visiting my wife's parents. Saturday I'll spend packing and getting the house situated, and then my family, my wife's parents, and my wife's sister's family will be flying to Montana from our various points-of-origin for a nearly two-week vacation in and around Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks.
I've spent the week (aside from working, which was kind of a sh!tty week for that) watching dumb, violent movies that are too violent for my kids and not that interesting to my wife. I watched Mad Max: Fury Road, Matrix: Resurrection, and The Expendables.
I'm considering the The Rock for tonight. (The movie with Nic Cage and Sean Connery, not the actor Dwayne Johnson.)
There is a series of violent, slasher-horror movies called "Sleepaway Camp". Five in all, I think. My sister in law has the whole collection on Blu-Ray LOL.
I saw "The Rock" when it was in theaters all those years ago. My friends and I all decided that Sean Connery's character is a former 007 who was disappeared because he went rogue.
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I saw "The Rock" when it was in theaters all those years ago. My friends and I all decided that Sean Connery's character is a former 007 who was disappeared because he went rogue.
Well, other stuff came up last night, and I didn't get to watch it. I'll try again if I'm finished packing, but I need to wake up pretty early for my flight. If I watch it, I'll see how the movie works if I keep in mind that Sean Connery is playing an older, rogue James Bond!
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I saw "The Rock" when it was in theaters all those years ago. My friends and I all decided that Sean Connery's character is a former 007 who was disappeared because he went rogue.
That's a great fan theory! Love it.
I saw "The Rock" when it was in theaters all those years ago. My friends and I all decided that Sean Connery's character is a former 007 who was disappeared because he went rogue.
That's a great fan theory! Love it.
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The Rock is definitely a 1990s Michael Bay movie.
There's a lot to you and your friend's theory, Cal! Any characterization change could be attributed to half a lifetime spent in jail.
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Listen up, youse guys. It's Friday! What's going on?
Not much here, though I might do some rearranging in the little corner of my living room I call my "control center". My desk currently sits in a position that makes it difficult to open the cabinet where my turntable sits and dang it, sometimes I wanna listen to my old vinyl records. Sure, they're nearly all available on one streaming platform or another. Still, there is a visceral, comforting feeling in holding them, reading the liner notes on the covers, and enjoying the warmer sound vinyl offers. Even the occasional tiny pops and clicks inherit in the medium take me back to a time when my cares were much simpler. I don't dwell inside my past anymore but dwell alongside it, something that took a long journey to achieve. But sometimes it's like running into an old friend when the needle touches the surface. We talk, we reminiscence, and then we go about our business until the next time.
Ahem..sorry. Sorted wandered off there for a minute. I hope everyone has a great weekend!
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I finally finished setting up the new kallax shelves in my office, so I have some reorganization of books and gaming gear to do between calls.
Saturday should be our final round of Ticket to Ride Legacy. My brother and I are favored to win it all, but we will have to see how the scores actually lay out with all the extra scoring bits.
Monday night is anime night, looking forward to the cliffhanger we got left on in Kaiju No. 8, as well as getting further in Dungeon Meshi.
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Le Fete de Marquette is going on!
Welp, here it is, another Friday. I'll be renting the carpet cleaner again this weekend, so you can already guess the appropriate adjective for the way things are starting out LOL.
What's everyone else up to?
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We've been to the little lad's primary school leaving party. I got told off for stealing chicken nuggets.
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We've been to the little lad's primary school leaving party. I got told off for stealing chicken nuggets.
And what did we learn from this? Don't get caught.
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my family, my wife's parents, and my wife's sister's family will be flying to Montana from our various points-of-origin for a nearly two-week vacation in and around Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks.
And we're back! At least my family is. The Crowdstrike software debacle has delayed my wife's parent's and my wife's sister's family's flights until tomorrow.
But it was a great, if exhausting, vacation! Now to unpack and relax before having to get back to work.
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Welcome back! Now pick up your oar and get back to work!
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Currently at a car dealership looking at new cars.
Currently at a car dealership looking at new cars.
Did you drive away in a brand new ride?
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I did! It was time! After 2 years of driving my work truck with 333,000 miles I no longer take for granted amenities modern cars have, like shocks and air conditioning.
I did! It was time! After 2 years of driving my work truck with 333,000 miles I no longer take for granted amenities modern cars have, like shocks and air conditioning.
I had a Honda CR-V that was a real warhorse. I drove that thing until it died of exhaustion. The last two years of its life was without a/c but when the shocks went that was worse! LOL
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I did! It was time! After 2 years of driving my work truck with 333,000 miles I no longer take for granted amenities modern cars have, like shocks and air conditioning.
You now have a vehicle where you don't have to stick your feet through a hole in the floor and jog furiously to make the thing go?
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We've been to the little lad's primary school leaving party. I got told off for stealing chicken nuggets.And what did we learn from this? Don't get caught.
What's most galling is that *I* got hemmed up for stealing five (5) nuggets, and my wife informs me that later on, when the kids had left and most of the teachers were irrigated nearly to overflowing, SOMEONE managed to get away with two entire catering sized pans of sweet and sour chicken and chili (separately) without anyone noticing at all.
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Well, you know, somebody’s gotta eat the leftovers…
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I did! It was time! After 2 years of driving my work truck with 333,000 miles I no longer take for granted amenities modern cars have, like shocks and air conditioning.You now have a vehicle where you don't have to stick your feet through a hole in the floor and jog furiously to make the thing go?
Flintstone Truck was 2 trucks ago.
I did! It was time! After 2 years of driving my work truck with 333,000 miles I no longer take for granted amenities modern cars have, like shocks and air conditioning.
What'd you get?!
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2024 Mazda 3 Hatchback. ALL black.
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Nice! We almost bought a Mazda 3 a few years ago. It was our second choice after a Hyundai Elantra GT, which we ended up getting.
Well, howdy. What's going on this weekend? Unless something changes (and of course with my luck it could) I get to play tomorrow. This is the third game in our monthly campaign that began in January. Yeah...there's been a few non game months...lol. But I'm happy for a chance to get out of the house and play a game. Plus, there'll be a taco bar at the host's house, with venison and chicken being the meat choices.
What's everyone else up to?
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Vegging at home. :-)
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Our PF2 campaign is on hiatus, but I have an online course about the life & works of a 15th century magician (Cornelius Agrippa) to attend instead. I might check out the Olympics, too.
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Laying pavers for 10 hours straight then Deadpool and Wolverine as my reward for laying pavers for 10 hours in the sun and mid 80s (absolutely no shade on the job site).
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I have an online course about the life & works of a 15th century magician (Cornelius Agrippa) to attend instead.Is that the one by Esoterica?
It surely is. Grand stuff.
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Laying pavers for 10 hours straight then Deadpool and Wolverine as my reward for laying pavers for 10 hours in the sun and mid 80s (absolutely no shade on the job site).
Correction: I laid down pavers for 11 hours.
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Nothing planned... finally.
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Unexpected new plan for tomorrow. Replace my water heater. I’m so giddy.
My character was essentially disemboweled twice by the same Smilodon in the same combat encounter last night. The first time he ended up at -25 HP and the GM basically said something about divine intervention and I was healed back up to 4 HP. Before my character could get away, he ended up at -15. Divine intervention again. While I was grateful the GM did that, I was not gonna fuss had it not happened.
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D20 Star Wars is back on track for the time being. Our plan is to get a second game going with a different GM as a backup so if the GM for Star Wars bails out again, we have something to do.
It surely is. Grand stuff.I have an online course about the life & works of a 15th century magician (Cornelius Agrippa) to attend instead.Is that the one by Esoterica?The good stuff will be frozen for pies and jam, the not so good stuff will be juiced for syrup and booze.
I wanna come to your house for homemade pies, jam, syrup, and booze.
YUM
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So our game last Saturday was fun, and the taco bar was amazing (five different protein choices, six kinds of salsa, every taco fixin' you could think of). We made it to the city that was the next destination on our way to find some mysterious oracle but only barely ahead of an invading army. The city, Zava, is one of the last ones standing before the invaders push on toward the capital city and the heartland of the country so rather than continue our own journey, we volunteered to make a mad ride to the capital to warn them and to gather some troops to take back to Zava.
The only drawback was the host's wife began feeling sick after midnight and tested positive for Covid the next day. And who got a hug from her? Me. I did. Who's running a fever of 101+ and has a sore throat today? Me. I do. I plan to go get tested tomorrow. If I fail this one it'll be my fourth time to get the damned bug. ...sigh...
So, after all of that, what's going on with everyone else this weekend?
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Bridge (face to face, not online) tomorrow, followed by feeding some friends' cats while they're camping over the weekend. Maybe a Clan Lord session tonight if I can stay awake. Other than that, reading.