The Week That Was
Last week marked the first night back to kung fu since my more recent bout of illness. It was a fun class, if a little hard on the body.
Saturday we got a call from the Greek saying he'd be in town, so we met up with him and Ladybug at Chapters, where I put their xmas gift of a Chapters gift card to good use. Picked up Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman; Guy Gavriel Kay's new book; The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond, and the Blind Watchmaker by my man Dawkins. I'm starting with Kay, since I already have two non-fiction books on the go (D-Day, which my lovely wife gave me for xmas, and The God Delusion, which got sidelined when I got into another of Dawkins' books, the Ancestor's Tale).
After Chapters we hit Booster Juice to enjoy chopped-up-bee goodness. And also panninis. I have no idea how to spell that, and I'm fairly apathetic about it.
Sunday started out with some loafing around the house. There was a little bit of weights, and some Season 3 Buffy, and then off to Izzy and Wing's place to watch the Superbowl. I'm not a huge football fan but I'm conversant with the game, so it was fun to watch. The halftime show was just bizarre. Apparently it's 1985 and nobody told me.
Game Night
Game night tonight. The elusive Null may even put in an appearance. We've also confirmed for our Planar Chaos booster draft on Sunday, which I'm quite psyched about.
Merchandizing, Merchandizing, Merchandizing!
As I may have mentioned, I'm making a card game. I'm at the point of having to make sample playtest cards, which I'm just doing on index cards for now. You wouldn't believe how time-consuming and tedious this is.
Of course, I've designed a game in which the cards have to be in a few different colours, so it's not like it's not self-inflicted. Still.
In other toy-related news, my lovely wife has a new mp3 player, and she also picked us up a set of walkie-talkies, so we can communicate remotely. No longer shall I have to walk downstairs to ask her a question, or even open a gtalk window.
Technology is cool.
Frikkin' Cold
It's frikkin' cold out there. Fortunately my lovely wife got me fleece long johns for xmas, so I'm toasty warm.
Still, I'm tired of winter, which is funny given how much winter we haven't had this winter. Global warming, come and get me.
2 comments:
This can only be summarized by point form:
1) Bee-goodness indeed!
2) Half time show: I know, what was that??
3) Card game... eh?
4) Everyone should start there car 1 hour before going to work. That way there is more burning of fossil fuels, and more global warming. Yeah, baby!
I think point 4 has it. This is a self-regulating problem. When it's really really cold, we run our cars more, and it warms up. When it's mild, we run our cars less, and it cools down. This is ignoring the summer, when we run our cars really hard to keep the AC pumping.
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