Saturday, July 19th, 2008
A new gallery is up! The follow statements may be truths, half-truth and/or lies:
- JD is leaving us at work.
But we got good and drunk in my office and sang a few old sea shanties one evening last week. Towards the end of the evening Mallen threw up in my filing cabinet.
- Our RPG group is having a good time. Photo’s in the gallery include an evening of play-testing a not-to-named-I-signed-an-NDA system. It was fun, but I ate something odd and left early. I suspect it was the tabasco jerky.
- Random photo’s at the office. My boss is in the middle. Isn’t she laid-back? Literally!
- We went to Mt. Washington (the annual company outing) and quite by coincidence ran into my grand-dad who was there with his Classic Car Club. So we had lunch and he gave us a tour of some cars. Ford was super-excited at being able to sit in a few beauties.
- Side note: I think my grand-dad looks kind of like a hobbit. He’s short, slightly round and has wavy white hair. Very Ian Holme.
- As always, the white mountains were bee-yoo-tee-full!
- We saw a moose but it died on the side of the road later that day.
- Would you buy a house from these people?
- My in-laws came up and did some duck-boating.
No music this month. I’m just not motivated…well maybe tomorrow…we’ll see. I have some time carved out for space.
Tags: Family, hobbits, in-laws, moose, Mt Washington, pictures, rpg
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Things in the Stark Household have been fairly normal with numerous outings and fun times had by all. Let’s hit some of the high points and a couple lows:
- Museum of Science is one of Ford’s favorite places and we had a blast there.
- I saw Iron Man three times and The Incredible Hulk Twice. Ford is enjoying his Iron Man action figures, and so am I! Marvel seems to have figured out how to get it right (finally.)
- Life at The MathWorks is great! We had a great 1.5 day contest/event/love-in where everyone had a day to pick some “annoying itch” at work and spend the day fixing it (or coming up with a plan to fix it.) It was great fun! People were hacking away on code, but also process changes, new ideas for organization, communication…it was fantastic.
- Ford has enjoyed his his first season in T-Ball. (Photo’s in the gallery.)
- I’ve started playing in Role Playing group every two weeks. (Yeah, geek. I know.) It’s been so long since I did anything like that I’d forgotten how much fun it can be with a good group. Stress the part about GOOD group. If the chemistry isn’t there, it sucks. Our group has potential, so I’m sticking with it to see where it goes. I *am* having a good time. (Thanks Jeb!) We’ve played two systems so far (both new to me.) Serenity (A space opera/western setting based on the cancelled (*sob*) show FireFly and TORG which I enjoyed, but obviously we only scratched it’s surface.
- Mallen has me hooked on Shadowrun…bought the rulebook and am now researching my future character. (Again, (*points to self*) Geek.)
- I have NOT worked on any music in the last 6 weeks, but am getting an additional sound library for my birthday (thanks honey) which will probably drive some output for July.
- Ford is alleric to penecillin. We know this now because he just about died last week. All is well now, but phew…scary stuff.
Hmmm. That’s all for now. See you in a couple weeks!
Tags: comics, Ford, marvel, mathworks, music, photos, rpg, Sara, shadowrun, torg
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