Friday, 1-29-2010

1.  Susan and the kids went over to grandma Linda's while I was working.

2.  Played a bit of Allods Online to check out the warrior class.

3.  Susan took the kids out right before I stopped working for the day, so I played some Dragon Age.

4.  Grandma Linda came over to house sit after the kids were in bed...  Susan and I went to United Art and Education to get some clay or something for her ceramics.  Went to Barnes & Noble in Clearwater.  Since I said Susan was going to mooch some of my cinnamon dolce latte from me, the baristos (?) gave her a 2.5 oz cinnamon dolce latte and told us it was the "mooch size."  I read about how to program microprocessors.  After the bookstore closed down, we checked out this music place next door (it claimed to be a restaurant with concerts).  We went inside and were greeted by what seemed to be a sign that prevented weapons or other nefarious things being imported, decided it wasn't our type of place, and drove to Taco Bell for some fourthmeal tacos.

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Monday, 1-25-2010 - Thursday, 1-28-2010

Monday

1.  Played some Dragon Age:  Origins.

2.  Watched some Desperate Housewives with Susan.

Tuesday 

1.  Played D&D with the Studio 301 gang (and Susan). I was Lucan Varis, Susan was Tasita Wellspring.

2.  Had coffee around 11:00 pm and couldn't fall asleep until 2:00 am.

Wednesday

1.  Erin and the kids came over for the morning / afternoon

2.  Played D&D with the Studio 301 gang.  I was The Inquisitor, we stole an air ship, and I got to shoot a wizard in the gut with a ballista.

Thursday

1.  Watched some Desperate Housewives with Susan

2.  Played Dragon Age:  Origins

Kid moments:

1.  Sophia ate too many cookies one day, got a wicked sugar buzz, layed down on the rug in the kitchen for a while, didn't move, and just giggled

2.  Sophia correctly identified a Purple Worm mini

3.  Rainer correctly identified a Fire Elemental mini

4.  Rainer has been perfecting his opossum dance

5.  Sophia informed me that a spoon was, in fact, a choking hazard and would not believe me when I told her it was the opposite of a choking hazard

6.  Rainer has decided that playing D&D means adults get a bunch of minis and politely telling the monsters "shoo, go away"

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Saturday, 1-23-2010 and Sunday, 1-24-2010

Saturday, 1-23-2010

1.  Shopped at Trader Joe's and Penzy's Spices.

2.  Grandma Linda came over and house sat for us after the kids went to bed...  Bookstore (partially to make Susan a D&D character) followed by Logans (to finish said character and have some alcohol).  

Sunday, 1-24-2010

1.  Susan went to Zumba and the grocery.  Since it was almost 60 degrees, the kids and I played outside most of the day.  There was a great deal of digging in mud and throwing mud.  Rainer and Sophia were opossums most of the time we were outside and Rainer even invented a possum dance.

2.  Found out how to build a machine that creates things in 3D with molten plastic...  Now I just have to come up with a way to justify the $500 of parts required to build it.

3.  Played Dragon Age.

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Friday, 1-22-2010

1.  Another not-so-hot day at work.  Too many bugs and requests to deal with.

1a. Went to Barnes & Noble to work for the morning while Susan took the kids to get Rainer's hair cut.

1b. Ate lunch at El Camino.

2.  Played some Allods Online...  When it is properly released, I'm probably going to go with Psionicist or Mage.

3.  Got a pack of 20 Fudge Dice in the mail, addressed to Brother Spoon.  Thanks, Nathan!

4.  Said "good riddance" to a week that was kind-of-crap with blueberry daiquiris.

5.  Watched some Desperate Housewives with Susan.

6.  Went to bed at 9:30, trying to reclaim some lost sleep.  

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Thursday, 1-21-2010

1.  Mixed more clay in the morning.  Susan took the drill back.

2.  All the schools in the area were closed due to rain of ice that had coated the roads.  So, Jessica came over for the afternoon to hang out.

3.  Mom came over for dinner and stayed at the house with Jessica and Susan until 9:30-ish.

4.  I went to play D&D with the Studio 301 gang.  Played The Inquisitor.

5.  Went to bed around 12:45.  Susan apparently couldn't fall asleep until 3:00 or 4:00.

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Wednesday, 1-20-2010

1.  Pretty exhausted from staying up until 1:00-ish.

2.  More things broke at work.  More headaches ensued.

3.  Susan tried to mix her clay into usable slip.  This entailed the following:  attach a paint mixing attachment to our drill, watch our drill fail to spin, rent a bigger drill from a tool rental place, break paint mixing attachment, buy mortar mixing attachment, watch new drill start spinning slowly, watch new drill start smoking, rent a giant 40-lb drill, and finally mix clay successfully.

4.  Watched Legend of the Seeker and Heroes.

5.  Went to bed early.

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Tuesday, 1-19-2010

1.  Back to work, unfortunately everything at work decided to break.  Headaches ensued.

2.  Got beta access to Allods Online.  Called Nathan to ensure he could get a key. 

3.  Went out to play D&D with the Studio 301 gang.  Watched a bit of Dragon Age, ate some Chinese, and played Lucan Varis.

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Saturday 1-16-2010 to Monday 1-18-2010

Saturday:  

1.  Cleaning and stuff.

2.  Susan cut a hole in the wall and added a vent cover in the hope that our toilet pipes wouldn't freeze.

3.  Susan took Rainer to the grocery (Sophia and I took a nap).  They came back with a goldfish.

4.  Erin & Nick came over for dinner and to hang out for the evening.  We ate, drank, and played games.

Sunday:

1.  Susan's mom took the kids for the afternoon.  Susan and I went to Borders for a while, the Fascist (Fashion?) mall, and then to Barnes & Noble.  Not quite sure what happened at grandma Linda's, but when we came back the kitchen was covered in bird seed...  

2.  Ate dinner with grandma Linda.

3.  I finished reading The Shadow of Yesterday.

4.  Watched The Tudors with Susan.

Monday (MLK Day):

1.  I was off for the day.  We didn't have any food in the house, so we took the kids to Perkins for breakfast.  They had pancakes with sprinkles and were pretty ecstatic about it.

2.  Went to the grocery.

3.  After the kids were in bed:  I checked out a few demos to some games (none were terribly impressive), updated my Obsidian Portal campaign to comply with The Shadow of Yesterday.  Susan went to the hardware store to get supplies for her renewed foray into ceramics.

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Friday, 1-15-2010

1.  Found out that Allods Online is supposed to be kind of like Spelljammer the MMO...  Got Nathan interested.

2.  Susan's mom came over to house sit for us.  Susan and I went to the book store for a while and then went to the Claddagh so Susan could get all liquored up and forget about the day.  

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Thursday, 1-14-2010

1.  The cat hadn't been feeling well for a few days, hadn't eaten a whole lot, and had developed pretty raunchy breath.  So we took her to the vet first thing in the morning, expecting it to be something like a mouth infection...  Apparently, her collar had tightened around her throat and had been digging into her skin.  Susan went to see her and was pretty traumatized.  So the cat will be going collar-free from now on, hopefully she won't get lost on her many outdoor adventures.  

2.  Worked at Barnes & Noble for the afternoon.

3.  Went to play D&D in the evening, finally got to play Sludgeworth (I think he'd been ready for two months).

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Wednesday, 1-13-2010

1.  Failing to find Sorcerer again, Nathan pointed me to a narrativist / gamist RPG called The Shadow of Yesterday.  It's free, so I decided to check it out.  I'm now pretty set on running my next game using the system.

2.  Susan and the kids went down to Greenwood to hang out with Erin and her kids.  

3.  Since it was 75% off on Steam and since Tycho Brahe from Penny Arcade recommended it, I downloaded the demo of Armored Princess.  It reminds me a lot of how the old Heroes of Might & Magic games could have gone had they decided to advance into more of a hero-based game than an kingdom-based game.  It was really slow to play, though, so I didn't buy it.

4.  Watched The Tudors with Susan.

5.  Read the rest of The Shadow of Yesterday (it's only 30-40 pages long).

 

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Tuesday, 1-12-2010

1.  Started thinking about playing Sorcerer by Ron Edwards, but couldn't find my book.  Looked everywhere I could think of, but I couldn't find it.  The search wasn't completely worthless, though, because I found about 4 cubic feet of old books and papers I didn't want.  Also, I finally found my Rhapsody of Fire:  Triumph or Agony CD!  

2.  Listened to Triumph or Agony.

3.  Demons & Wizards:  Demons & Wizards arrived at my door!  

4.  Listened to Demons & Wizards:  Demons & Wizards.  Metal was with me this day, even if indie RPGs were not.

5.  Susan's mom house sat for us after the kids went to bed, so Susan and I went to the theater to see Avatar.  I loved the movie and recommend it to anyone who is interested in one or more of the following:  video games (specifically MMOs), saving the environment / communing with nature, incredible computer animation, or having a tail.

  

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Monday, 1-11-2010

1.  Back to work...  Unlike last term, I didn't have to work over the weekend for the first week of courses.  Woo hoo!  Automated tech support FTW.

2.  Played League of Legends with Nathan.  Gave the game a thorough analysis.  Determined that improving one's skills in the game is really hard because the game does not give you a lot of feedback and mistakes snowball from the time they happen until the end of the game.  I think I'm done with the game.

3.  Watched an episode of Legend of the Seeker.

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Sunday, 1-10-2010

1.  Susan went to the grocery, I stayed home with the kids and cleaned.

2.  Exhausted by the morning, I passed out on the couch for an hour while Rainer sat on me and watched "Here Come the ABCs" by They Might be Giants...  I'm not sure I'm going to be able to get "The Alphabet of Nations" song out of my head for a few days.

3.  Christopher, Jessica, Tyler, and Cooper came over to our house while all the adult females were at an adult female's party.  I'm sure inappropriateness was had, but since mom was there, I don't want to dwell on the matter.

4.  Drank a bottle of home-brewed hard cider.  

5.  After the kids were in bed, Susan and I folded laundry for 90 minutes while we watched The Guild:  Season 3.

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Saturday, 1-9-2010

1.  Susan's mom took Rainer in the morning.  

2.  Susan and I took Sophia to get her first haircut...  She was traumatized, but got a balloon.  

3.  We took her to Barnes & Noble to get a Cinnamon Dolce' Steamer and some Chinese food at the Taiwan Tea House.  

4.  After lunch, we dropped Sophia off with Susan's mom for a nap and some time in the afternoon.  Susan and I had a nice afternoon at the house.

5.  Played some League of Legends...  Still not very good, but no one called me a suck roast, so it's an improvement (in a way).

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Friday, 1-8-2010

1.  The snow having been plowed, Susan went with the kids to pick up her high-grade dirt.

2.  Since everyone was gone, I played League of Legends during lunch...  Gaming during lunch is one of the only things I miss about working on-site.

3.  Susan acquired a migraine and was pretty miserable for the rest of the day.

4.  Watched an episode of Desperate Housewives.

5.  Played some League of Legends...  After a round in which I did particularly poorly, one of my teammates told me that my name (Darkroast) was appropriate.  Although I imagined it would be an insult, I asked him "in what way is it appropriate"?  His response:   because you suck roast.  I still don't know what to make of the insult.  On the one hand, I feel embarrassed for him for having said that in front of 9 other people.  On the other hand, if a "suck roast" did exist, it would have described my playing that round fairly accurately. 

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Thursday, 1-7-2010

1.  Received approximately 4.5" of snow.  We played in it for a while, although Sophia made me carry her the whole time.  Attempted to use a leaf blower to remove snow from the driveway...  It was less-than-efficient.  

2.  Susan's trip to acquire her high-grade dirt was postponed.

3.  Played some League of Legends.

4.  Watched an episode of Desperate Housewives.

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Wednesday, 1-6-2010

1.  Noticed that I put the wrong date on yesterday's blog post.  This is the real 1/6/2010.

2.  Played some League of Legends...  Read a lot about League of Legends.

3.  Susan and the kids went to the clay store to buy 200 lbs of high-grade dirt.  The store didn't have enough on-hand, so the plan is to go back tomorrow and pick it up after they have time to mix it.

4.  After dinner, we all went to Lowes to buy trash cans in which to mix 200 lbs of high-grade dirt.

5.  Susan's mom came over to house sit for us so Susan and I could go on a date.  Our choice?  Bookstore.  I had a bit of an existential crisis while there and started thinking (for the first time since quarantine) that I need a new hobby or project...  Wasn't able to come up with any ideas, however.  

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Tuesday, 1-6-2010

1.  Worked at the bookstore for a while.

2.  Susan's mom came over for most of the day to play with the kids and stayed for dinner.  

3.  Played and obsessed over League of Legends.

4.  Watched an episode of Desperate Housewives.

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Saturday - Monday 1/2/2010 - 1/4/2010

Saturday:

1.  Susan fell down the stairs and hurt her ankle.

2.  Susan's mom took Rainer for the afternoon.  Susan, Sophia, and I went to the Fashion Mall.  I bought The Great Dalmuti.

Sunday:

1.  Took the kids grocery shopping for the first time in months.  

2.  Remembered why we don't take the kids grocery shopping.

3.  Sophia and I went over to see Christopher, Halie, and Cooper in the afternoon.  Susan and Rainer stayed home.

4.  Downloaded League of Legends

Monday: 

1.  Got overwhelmed by tech support at work (start of the new term = people who don't know how to log in and want to talk to me about it)

2.  Rory showed me that Christopher Lee is creating a symphonic metal album about Charlemagne

3.  Beat Trine.  Loved the game, but the last level sucked hard.  The game completely switched from a thoughtful puzzley game to a race against the clock platformer.  I still recommend the game, but beware the last level.

4.  Played some Team Fortress 2

Sometime in there:

1.  Watched:  Desperate Houewives and Wuthering Heights

2.  Played:  Trine, Team Fortress 2, League of Legends

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Friday, 1-1-2010

1.  Due to some late-night coffee, I actually woke up without a headache for the first time in days.

2.  Our kids woke Erin and her kids up around 7:30.  The kids played together most of the morning. Stella busted her lip while jumping on the bed with Rainer.

3.  Erin, Nick, and kids went home before lunch.  

4.  Played some Team Fortress 2 during Sophie's nap.

5.  After Sophie's nap, we went to Meijer to pickup some ingredients for coddle (it's an Irish stew with andouli sausage, bacon, and some veggies)...  Delicious stuff.

6.  Susan cooked and we ate said coddle.

7.  Played some Team Fortess 2 and Trine in the evening.  Went to bed early-ish.

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Thursday, 12-31-2009

1.  Quit working a couple hours early in order to prepare for the night's festivities.

2.  Erin, Nick, and kids came over to spend the night around dinner time, the kids went to bed shortly thereafter.

3.  The adults stayed up and had:  stir fry, fondue (cheese and chocolate), blueberry martinis, and burboun.  

4.  We talked a lot and played drunken Boggle.

5.  Passed out around 12:30.

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