My first experience on Dwarf Fortress didn’t end amazingly, especially considering I drowned two of my miners when trying to dig out a new stream. I decided to abandon the game before someone went back and completed their designated mining path, considering it was about to flood my actual underground lair.
Monthly Archive for September, 2010
Our little girl is now almost the perfect dog around the house. She’s calm, she’s cuddly, the lapdog seems to be coming out in her, but she still has the hyper-energy and loves to play. We chase her, but you get the distinct feeling she’s slowing down to keep it again, especially when she can do a lap of the furniture faster than you can even start running.
Spent an interesting part of this afternoon trying to get an overshot Aerobie out of a pine tree, given that it has a gaping hole in the middle, it makes it very easy to get stuck.
We tried several downed sticks and even full branches to try and get it down, but when it’s 20ft off the ground it’s certainly a challenge. However, one very sturdy half-full jar of salsa and an Englishman (me), eventually knocked it down several branch layers so that we could just poke a stick through it and pull it out.
What can I say, we British make sports out of asinine tasks. Just look at Cricket, Football, Rugby, and the Scotts have managed their own list of asinine task/sports like Curling and Caber Toss (thought to have been used in the process of bridging small chasms, streams or other impassable territory in a hurry – AKA during a battle).
We picked up a wireless keyboard today, already being the owners of a wireless mouse. With 1.5 computers per person in our house I thought my old laptop would do great being hooked up to the TV’s DVI input.
We needed a 3.5mm male-male cable (misplaced the one we had in the move) to get sound through the DVI link, so we decided to pick up a good Wireless keyboard and did only to find we’ve also misplaced the wireless mouse too.
Apparently going wireless makes it harder to find things. Without the 4ft cord to get tangled up in things it actually lets them escape. Now we’re mouse hunting, and our little puppy isn’t going to be helpful.
This is the morning Twilight. Sunrise is getting a little too late to grab in the morning, but I’m still trying for them.
On a Kelly-side-note, she was just spazzing out playing with one of her balls, throwing it for herself and chasing it like a lunatic the entire time the SD card was in the netbook and not the camera. As soon as I got it back into the camera, of course she immediately stopped. Yet another bizarre video foiled by her cunning smarts.
Just saw Going The Distance with Justin Long and Drew Barrymore, and absolutely loved it. It was hands down hilarious, you just don’t get those kinds of jokes in a Rom-Com. It was also refreshing that it wasn’t the same old monotonous ”he/she cheated on him/her but they forgive each other and aww they’re back together”.
Considering I went through this with my wife, it was actually damn close to what real life is. If reality is why this movie got a not so great rating, then I like bad movies. Reality, for me, trumps farce every time.
It’s a definite must see movie.
I find it amazing how much time we waste in our normal routines. I awoke 20 minutes late this morning, but managed to be ready for work 5 minutes earlier with more things to do.
Oh well, sunrise photos soon.
Finally it appears as though this weeks weather is going to be staying in the realm of reasonable. Hopefully no 30 degree days this week.
I recently picked up two new Pratchett books; Reaper Man and Unseen Academicals. Granted only the latter is actually new, but nonetheless they’re both new to my library (which is currently contained in boxes in my bedroom wardrobe). I intended to be reading Reaper Man as, after all, Death is my favorite character in the series’. However, Academicals has captured me. Perhaps it’s because I didn’t catch a single World Cup football game this year, but it’s got me.
It’s Pratchett, so it’s always worth a read, and being #37 in a list of books I’ve been attacking randomly, I figure I will be, at least temporarily, book-ending the series so to speak. I’ve read about as many books at the end of the series as I have at the beginning.
Anyway… Go, go Pratchett go! You know, cause Inspector Gadget died whilst trying to construct a sex aid, and Pratchett fills the rhyme.
Cleaning… the dirtiest word in my vocabulary. We spent today and yesterday cleaning and tidying the apartment, it was truly due as we still weren’t fully unpacked from the move.