Once again, apologies for infrequent blogging. I have been busy with all the usual hullabaloo of this time period -- friends, family, all that rot. I have been very busy with review writing, which would be earning me a pretty penny if the payroll department was as punctual as I am expected to be. I've also been dealing with the whole "House turned upside down" thing, which tends to grate on my nerves. And, I had a nice week of Aching Back, including a few times where I was doing my very best Igor impression. (And I mean, Frankenstein's assistant, not the guy from Dork Tower)
Anyway...
Yesterday, we decided to partake in the grand orgy of American consumerist greed (the backbone of our culture) and try to buy one item at one "Black Friday" sale. Meijers had a digital picture frame on sale. We thought it would make a nice Mother's Day gift for my mother -- we'd take pictures, upload them, and send it to her, so she could stare at it in abject confusion, forget to plug it in, and otherwise be terrified by this strange artifact from the far future. (We're talking about a woman who not only doesn't have a DVD player, she doesn't know what a "DVD" is.) Anyhoo, the sale was supposed to begin at 5:00 AM, so we awoke at 4 and reached the parking lot by 4:30...only to find the entire store already filled with vultures in human form who had reduced the displays of "hot" items to bare skeletons of merchandise. The ever-helpful staff told us that the store was 24/7, and thus, was open the whole time -- you just couldn't
buy the items until 5. So, IOW, to take any advantage of the sale, you basically needed to camp inside the store all night. Bleep that. Frankly, it borders on bait-n-switch advertising, and I will be avoiding Meijers for the rest of the holiday season, at the very least.
In other pointless news, I did manage to win a free license for
Hero Lab, a character generator for D20, and have been trying to learn its intricacies. I already added half-ogres to it and statted up Ulf to the point where he matches the hand-generated version. It has a scripting language, which is better than PCGen's insanely complex tags, but there's still a lot of overhead.
Huh, what else...
Lessee. Saw some movies over the Tgiving holiday. "
Fracture", with Anthony Hopkins, was a pretty interesting crime thriller which could have almost worked as a stage play, as it was mostly a battle of wits between the two main characters. "
Hoax" was also fascinating, as it was about a writer (and we are the most madly egotistical of people), and all the more so because it was true. Clifford Irving now stands, to my mind, as the canonical definition of chutzpah. (Chutzpah: Yiddish. "Unmitigated gall". Forex, killing your parents, then throwing yourself on the mercy of the court on the grounds that you're an orphan.)
Planning on having deviled chicken (I guess if you just have random ingredients, it becomes demoned chicken, and if you follow the recipe part of the way and then improvise, daemoned chicken, and if you get that joke, you play waaaaay too much D&D) and watch some BSG reruns (Beth hasn't seen them yet).
Tomorrow, Ulf will smite evil in the name of...uh...(checks tattoo on arm) Tyr!
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