HOW WAS YOUR DAY

[mharr]

Thanks all, I have survived 500 miles in a stupid tiny town car with cat and dog losing their damn minds plus an unintended week of tearing down our crap at the old place. Am now fully installed as a political refugee in the kind of village where everyone's first concern is making sure you've eaten. Didn't realise how much I'd missed sea air, I will Have to Build a Boat (tm).

Also nature!


Will work on improving my accent, but I'm starting from a London/Westcountry/Cymru mix so it could be a disaster.

[Friday]

everyone's first concern is making sure you've eaten.

The closer human beings become like grandmas the more correct their society and culture is

Also, nice view. Enjoy your sea air! I love that smell.

[Yoji]

...how did it take me six hours to notice the DOOMSKULL in the corner?

I mean, it's probably just yelling about how you're skinny as a rail and your parents aren't feeding you enough and what are we going to do with you kids, but DOOMSKULL

[Mongrel]

Granny DOOMSKULL just wants to make sure you're plump.

[mharr]

Tansy is a week ahead of me on integration into local culture and refers to this as being inducted into the Henarchy.

[Thad]

500 miles

If you're setting me up for a Scottish pop culture reference, it's a good thing you picked the only one I know.

[Mongrel]

This afternoon, I bought a couple bottles of fancy root beer.

First one I opened had "Prepare for zombies" printed on the inside of the cap.

[Mongrel]

I was visiting one of the wargaming minis sites I go to from time to time, and the "recent posts" column had clipped a slightly misspelled thread title perfectly enough that I ended up laughing at "11th Century Welsh Wario..."

[Mongrel]

YouTube's #1 recommendation for me right now is "Water Tower Collapse Compillation".



(AFAIK, I have not been watching anything that could even remotely trend to this, but YouTube knows best, right?)

[Mongrel]

That moment when your friend semi-embarrassedly reveals that he was the national champion of the game he's been trying to get you to play for weeks.

[hngkong]

What game?

[Mongrel]

An old Steve Jackson classic, Car Wars.

I did manage to win the first game though a huge amount of luck and a very, very silly match. We were using very small, cheap cars since it was a starter game, and our weapons both failed to do any real damage to each other. I ended up immobilizing his car with spikes and then rammed his car at slow speed to pin his driver (who'd gotten out to shoot a cheap light rocket launcher he'd brought in as a secret weapon), between his wreck and the wall of the arena.

[Mazian]

Washington has a huge problem with fraudulent unemployment claims at the moment, which I discovered this morning includes an account opened under my name and SSN. At least I'm actually employed right now, or cleaning that up would be much more of a problem.

[Mongrel]

I love that it's a Nigerian fraud ring and not anyone local.

[Yoji]

We caught some tadpoles and toads the other day. And I guess my wife can only pay so much attention to a patient's diarrhea patterns...

[nosimpleway]

There's a children's book series about an imperturbable blue cat. My daughter can't quite enunciate his name, so when she says "Pete the Cat" it comes out "pisa catt".

I figured you guys would want to know.

[Mongrel]

Pete the Cat!!!

Those books rock, by the most important barometer there is: Can you read this book to a kid hundreds of times and not want to tear your hair out?

Mo Willems' stuff is great too.

[Büge]

Can you read this book to a kid hundreds of times and not want to tear your hair out?

[nosimpleway]

Understanding that wanting to hear the same stories over and over and over and over is a part of development makes it a little easier.

...a little.

[Mongrel]

I was looking through my Steam screenshots trying to find something from last week, and tripped over this.