OMG, Firaxis Games (yes, Sid Meier, one of the greatest game developers evar) is doing XCOM, one of the best games evar. And to be released in 2012! Plus that other first-person shooter XCOM game! So excited!

In our front yard we have a sidewalk. Between the sidewalk and the road was a few feet that was planted with assorted plants as a "rain garden", as it was called by the city, to channel water away from the road. It looked pretty nice and gave the area a bit of a "wild", untamed feeling ( Read more... )

Loving Assassin's Creed: Revelations. The historical setting of Ottoman Istanbul (sometimes Constantinople) is amazing. The concept is developing assassin's dens and recruiting assassins, plus sending assassins out to other Mediterranean cities on missions is a lot of fun. Such a large world to play in and so many things to do. You can use the ( Read more... )

Celebrated my birthday yesterday, dinner with the ladies.

Next weekend is going to be busy. Persy and I are going to a party on Saturday and on Sunday we are going to a potluck event featuring the peace pipe of Sitting Bull, which is doing a tour of North America.

Went to a murder mystery night at a winery in New West with some friends and the friends friends. The night was a lot of fun, dinner was well catered, the people were fun, the wine was great, but sadly the murder mystery was a bit of a flop. The actors needed to be much louder, since many of the people were drunkish and the mystery wasn't so ( Read more... )

Went to the Barbeque on the Bypas, a BBQ event in Langley. It wasn't so much on the Bypass as beside the Bypass. Free entry, free samples, plus some larger portions for sale. Had an awesome chili and look forward to my lunch of smoked beef and smoked pork sandwich. They need a larger venue than the parking lot at BunsMaster ( Read more... )

Persephone_qd and I celebrated our 11th anniversary on Saturday, although the 'day of' is on Wednesday. We went for dinner at Lava in Maple Ridge, which had a surprisingly awesome menu. We also discovered a fruit winery along the way at a cranberry farm. We had to visit on the Sunday to test and buy. Nummm.

Saturday: went to visit Greenwitch, lounge in her back yard and commune with the chickens ( Read more... )

I dunno about Facebook. It feels like a very "exposed" location. Because you appear as yourself rather than under a pseudo I have had friend requests from co-workers. I don't particularly care about what my co-workers are doing every second of the day so I have not accepted, but I am dreading the "why haven't you approved me" conversation. My ( Read more... )

I reinstalled Windows 7 on my laptop last night. Twice actually, since I wasn't patient enough the first time ( Read more... )