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Still alive and within view of healthy. Cat is still good. Job is still job. -
Home
Back home after over a week in the hospital, thanks to a cut that developed into a diabetic ulcer and got infected and led to having it amputated. Now several weeks of recuperation. -
Pathfinder: Brendan Session 19
Pushed the game up a week, since Brendan is going to the They Might Be Giants concert next Tuesday. So Frog-Barian Fight Take Two. Now with clearer understanding of the modifiers for underwater combat. And the froggos were dispatched, if not quickly, then ably by slumber hexes, lightning and much stabbing and slashing. But not before they ( Read more... ) -
Black Panther
I'm still not certain if its as amazing as all the online praise/hype its gotten. But it definitely is a great movie and not just a Marvel movie. In fact, outside a few minor call-outs (and the 2nd post credit scene) it could exsist without being tied into the greater MCU while still fitting perfectly within it. Also I can't say Killmonger is ( Read more... ) -
Pathfinder: Brendan Session 18
And lo the random of encounter of Big Old Red Dragon and Even Bigger Older Red Dragon was survived. Big Red was slain and Even Bigger Red fled the battle. And thus we arrived at the final dungeon, a paritally submerged ziggurat. And then much time was spent searching for an entrance. And then once it was found then did an underwater adventure ( Read more... ) -
The Post
This was a very good movie with a lot of relevance for current events and politics. And of all the excellent supporting work, I enjoyed seeing Mr. Show working in the same newsroom. And yes Streep is great. On the other hand though, the only way the movie could have been less subtle in pushing Streep/Kay Graham as the Saint of Journalism & ( Read more... ) -
'18 Birthday Boardgames
Started with Ra, but kept restarting as someone new would arrive. So after one round (where I lost 7 points and someone else had a giant stack of roll-over tiles AND 26 points) we called it. Then had an 8-person game of Smarty Party with the 2nd expansion pack where at least I didn't come in last. Then after most everyone headed home for the ( Read more... ) -
Streaming Watch 1/15 - 1/29
Have been slacking off on doing these, so here is the rest of January.
Tom Segara: Disgraceful. Good comic, though really only the bit about being from a multigenerational Spanish family and blowing other white dudes minds with his fluent espanol has stuck in my memory.
Grace & Frankie s.4: The Grace/Frankie bits concentrate more on the ( Read more... ) -
Pathfinder: Brendan Session 17
After some level up book-keeping and prisoner looting and interrogation we pile into our airship and head for the Final Boss dungeon. But along the way we get attacked by a gargantuan ancient & a huge adult red dragon.
And for once our group is really feeling the pain. We had to call it around the end of round 4 and I am still wondering if I ( Read more... ) -
Book List October/November/December '17
October:
Short Fiction:
New Reads: Vivian Cathe's (ed) Humans Wanted- Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus
- C.B. Lee's Not Your Sidekick
- Charles E. Gannon's Fire With Fire
- Ken Liu's Wall of Storms
- A.J. Hartley's Firebrand