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Sock-bearer, and other titles

Curt is sick. I bundled him up in a couple blankets and put a glass of water on his nightstand so he doesn’t burn up in the middle of the night. I was headed out towards the kitchen to finish cooking dinner when I heard him mumbling fitfully under his breath that I must not care very much about his wellbeing if I was leaving him to suffer in the room all alone, and when I turned to ask him to repeat himself, he sniffled, raised his head, and said, in a very pathetic, sickly little voice indeed, “Will you put some socks on my feet, please?”

O RLY!

So, now he is be-socked and slumbering. It would be the perfect time to hunt down those tiger ears and take some incriminating photos of him while he is weak and prostrate, only some meager scrap of pity lives on in me (despite all!)…and so The Boy will sleep, unmolested.

Game manuals SUCK ASS these days. I suspect this is because companies have realized that explaining how to play a game means that there is less money to be made in writing books explaining how to play a game. It’s astounding how much of a whore the world is. I mean, me too, probably. I am probably sometimes whore-ish, stuff-wise. But if you took away my ability to point out the flaws of the world without incriminating myself, I wouldn’t have a blog. So there.

Anyway, what?

Oh, yes: CONSUMERISM IS THE DEVIL. DO NOT CONSUME. EXCEPT WHEN IT’S REALLY NECESSARY, OR FOR NICE GIRLS WHO PUT SOCKS ON YOUR FEET WHEN YOU’RE SICK.

The world is also going Chain-crazy. I think I finally understand what it is to want to bring down The Man. The Man who builds all the freakin’ Chains, sapping the character and creativity of the world away, one McSoul at a time. The world is made of mass-produced crap. Soon, there’s gonna be so much crap on this planet that we’ll have to construct a whole other planet, just to hold all our crap.

Look at all the stuff around me that owns me.

/boggle

Unlazy, AHA!

I’ve finished editing the pictures I like from the birthday trip!

So, I changed my mind and decided we should go to Sequoia National Park instead of Death Valley for our trip. On arriving at Sequoia, we discovered that Weather.com is a big fat liar, and it was not only NOT 80 degrees outside, it was snowing. Fearful that the snow might leave us stranded (Yaris being unequipped for prolonged snow/ice), we decided to make a break for Yosemite. It was snowing there, but only in the higher elevations. Of course, since we had not planned for Yosemite, we didn’t have camping reservations and ended up spending the first night in a snowy campsite anyway. It was an experience!

It ended up being a pretty kickass weekend. We saw a momma bear and baby bears, and a momma deer and baby deers, and a coyote, and several squirls. Went on a couple hikes, took pictures, celebrated my newfound more-oldness. ;) So, here are the pictures (and bear with my silly Photoshop mania). Many happy returns.

iceroad.jpg

yvalleymist2.jpg

arches.jpg

autumn.jpg

bears.jpg

curt.jpg

curtbreath.jpg

elcap.jpg

jay.jpg

moss.jpg

stairs.jpg

stolenapple.jpg

sunriver.jpg

thecaptain.jpg

usrabbitears.jpg

cotton.jpg

theend.jpg

Show And Tell

We finished Rome this weekend. So amazing, so beautiful, so gritty, so full of boobs. It really was a great series – highly recommended. I can’t think of the last time I enjoyed a female character as much as Polly Walker’s Atia. And Pullo! Oh, Pullo…! ;)

Behold, I am geek: here is my new darling, flying the proud colors of the Horde.

And, as threatened: behold the jousting adventure at Blizzcon!

Bon Voyage to Sheena!

Various trips to San Diego with Curt and Curt kins.

I’ve also managed to finish uploading my photos to Flickr!

That’s all for now. See choo later.

“You know – things, life, whatnot.”

Here we are at the end of a three-day weekend. Except for a slightly gross sick spell on Sunday (Happy Birthday, Chief!) which left me napping for five hours in the middle of the day, this weekend was a good one. On Saturday, the usual suspects congregated at Brother Wonkses’ for meats…

…and Balderdash. (Alcohol added for extra gameplay vim.) Basically, you make up bogus definitions of words with the intention of making the other teams believe you. Behold the best (and worst) Balderdashery of the night:

flews: a term describing the process by which prostitutes’ spelling degrades

mamamouchi: what Father Mouchi wants a piece of

morpunkee: punkier than it used to be

oikofugic: the ancient pig-passing-on ritual where the pig is led to Mt. Fuji to pass on OR centrifugal method for separation of swine from pearls

Leo Hirshfield: adopted brother of Joseph Stalin…Hirshfield

I’ve also gone Flickr mad. Once upon a time, I refused to use Flickr because I could not seemlessly embed it into my blog. Now, I just don’t care, and all the photos that have been sitting on my computer for the last five years will be uploaded for perusal.

On a cleverly introspective and poignant note –

Oh, wait, we don’t do that around here any more.

Bugger me timbers – I’m off to bed. Happy Tuesday to all you sorry Dilberts that leave vacation tomorrow. I salute you and commiserate: mine, too, is the hard trek to work tomorrow.

/wave