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So true...
Some of us here are playing in a regular Champions game. My daughter (age 11) hasn't joined the game yet, but she wants to and so she's been reading up. Recently the kids checked out The Essential X-Men 4 from the library, and she read the whole thing. She was especially interested in Kitty Pryde, and in Jean Gray, who is my character in the game. ( Read more... ) -
Love life of math geeks
Okay, so I haven't posted anything for a month even though I kept meaning to.... However, today I have five minutes and a comic that made me laugh so hard I had to cover my mouth so I wouldn't wake up my husband in the next room. If ya'll don't read XKCD, you need to. And I need to much more often.
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Open Seas
Back in March I started a new D&D game with my immediate family. We played a couple times then, once or so over the summer, and then nothing. L One of my hopes for Christmas vacation was to play our D&D game at least once! We got to the final weekend without even bringing it up, but by dint of much effort on the part of my high-school son (the one ( Read more... ) -
Weather Bug?
I use a little program called Weather Bug to give me the temperature all the time in the corner of my desktop. However, tonight the program seems to have a bug of its own!
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Lovely weather for a sleigh ride...
...but not much else! This morning the temperature is up to 4 degrees (above zero!) and the snow is coming down. I took my son and a friend from his high school to the Zoo School; a round trip that usually takes 25-30 minutes was 65 today. (I think I would have made better progress with the sleigh.) I scraped the windows, drove to pick up my son, ( Read more... ) -
Sunday evening update
Cold was not really the major feature of my day today, but it was a constant undercurrent behind everything else. My weather source (WeatherBug) kept adjusting the predicted low downward as temperatures fell. It is already below the supposed low for the night, and it's only just after midnight. Here it is currently -3 degrees with a wind chill ( Read more... ) -
Unseasonably warm - Not!
Yesterday was unusually warm for December - up into the 50s. My kids and I wore our jackets to a game day held at a local store - all except my youngest, who had on a short-sleeved shirt over a long-sleeved shirt and refused his jacket, telling me, "I'm warm because I have two shirts, Mom!" We also wore our jackets in the evening when we went ( Read more... ) -
Exciting reading
I started reading The Kobold Guide to Game Design yesterday while I was eating lunch. (I love to read while I eat. However, I won't get into that right now!) I picked the book up again during breakfast. Between the two sittings I have read the first four essays. By the time I had finished the first three, I had been chastised, convinced, convicted ( Read more... ) -
A Midsummer Night's Comic
My oldest son is a sophomore in high school and this semester he is taking Theatre I, to satisfy a requirement for a Fine Arts class. He just finished a big project on A Midsummer Night's Dream. They read the play out loud in class and then had to do something "creative" regarding it. He likes to do "pixel art," so he made a comic about it. If I ( Read more... )
