Since she turned 4 Becky has made a big deal about being super brave and not afraid of things she used to fear because 'that was when I was only three.'  One of the things she claimed power over was thunder, but last night's storm disproved that.  Poor little thing.  She got through it eventually with her light on and radio softly playing.  Zack, ( Read more... )

Yeah, I'm ready for the weekend.  Long week.  Really looking forward to spending time with The Wife tonight, our weeknights have been pretty much hectic all week and we can catch up and have some fun.  The Cat continues to be fun so far, no doubt lulling me into a false sense of security.  Playful little booger.  Becky is in heaven and Laura might ( Read more... )

I'm at 'practice' - in the summer we pretty much just play 7s, since that's what most of the tournaments are - running around, minding my own business, when I almost step on a big gray rock.  The field we use is a travesty and possibly also a stone farm, so this is hardly unusual.  However, when it started to move I had to take another look ( Read more... )

I rolled up an incredible character during our session last night.  Awesome stats using 4d6 drop lowest - three sixteens, two of which became eighteens with racial mods, and no minuses at all.  An incredible amount of skills, all with nice, nice bonuses for a 1st level adventurer, so a wonderful, really well-rounded character that will be both fun ( Read more... )

Bleh.  Never do I hate my heavy work pants more than right now.  You feel me clean and safe, pants, but must the cost be to swelter?  Some idiotic team will give LeBron James about 4 zillion dollars tonight and nobody can develop pants that breate?  (Yes I know that didn't make sense.  It's hot and I work mostly outdoors.  Shut up a little ( Read more... )

This winter was a  contentious one for our chimney.  I started noticing streaks of dried water in the flue, and the vent pipe to the furnace was beginning to rust.  Then there was the incident with the critter in the furnace a few weeks ago, and the curiousness of its escape - it shouldn't have been able to make a 30 foot vertical climb in the ( Read more... )

Yeah, no big plans this weekend.  We have chimney guys coming tomorrow and with laura going away for almost a week starting Tuesday we decided to just take it easy.  So, lots of pool, playground, and, uhm, something else that starts with P.  Procedural debate!  Yes!

Our home game is clearly going to happen.  Laura's background is done and I'm ( Read more... )

Ye gods the damn humidity finally broke around here.  I'd rather stand naked in a snowdrift than be in sweltering-breathing-through-a-wet-towel heat.  Since I work in a trailer with a metal roof I'm not a huge fan of summer workdays.  Bleh.

In a plan to outwit the impending heat this weekend we're going to head down the shore.  the kids absolutely ( Read more... )

Good but exhausting weekend.  Great Friday night with The Wife, and then she was gone most of the day Saturday for a circus class.  I took the kids to the pool for a while, then we played around the house until naptime and then headed over to the carnival int own where they ran me ragged for 3 hours.  Great fun and they had a blast, but they kept ( Read more... )

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