Kong

Wow -- we just saw most of the new Jackson King Kong movie.  Wow.

I didn't expect it to be as good as it was.  The dino battle scene was one of the
neatest dinosaur scene I've ever watched -- I expected relatively tame action,
and it just kept getting wilder and wilder.  The scene with two T-rexes suspended by vines
snapping at the girl, while King Kong desperately tries to ward them off -- it was so
wacky that it really worked.

We're at the scene now where Kong escapes from his bonds in New York -- but it got too
late.  So we'll watch the end another night.

Nice change from watching Lost.  :-)

Lots more taxonomy tree madness at work today.  I imagine it'll be done soon (the
next couple of days for sure).  Then I can work on something new and exciting!

Not much else today.  Lots of work, then lots of monkey action!

New Furnace!

Our new Lennox high efficiency furnace was installed today.  The guys did a great job -- the work is neat and competant looking (although I wouldn't know if there was some leak or something -- but it *looks* good).

The dogs stayed upstairs with Lisa while Lisa primed the butterfly room -- the painting was irritating.  The Benjamin Moore primer we had didn't adhere to the exposed drywall compound that was there, and the Behr topcoat wouldn't adhere to the Benjamin Moore primer!  Wierd.  It's like the BM stuff isn't any good -- which may even be true, but at $50 a gallon, one would think it'd work better.

We ate at Angel's Diner again tonight.  Jessica is at the theater doing coop, so Lisa and I took advantage of the Souvlaki special.  Mmmm.....

But now House will be on in a few minutes, need to go watch it.

More and more events

Let's see...

Since last time, lots has happened.

We had a quiet weekend, Lisa got meds for her pneumonia (they seem to be taking hold), and we kept it kindof low key (neither of us felt particularly good).  Jessica started to get sick, too -- hopefully it doesn't get worse.

Jessica is still enjoying her coop term -- she got to play with the lighting.  They've got some cool computerized lighting panel.  She's also got to sort color gels.  :-)  Brings back memories, eh, Christian?

We put some mulch down in the backyard, to try to combat the ever-growing mud problem.  It works well.  Hopefully it's a reasonable long-term fix.  Irritating clay soil.

I got my new glasses tonight (two pairs), I'm wearing mine now.  Lisa's aren't in yet -- probably over the next couple of days.  They're nice: it's been a long time since new glasses, I like being able to see out of both eyes equally (actually, my prescription didn't change that much).

We got the King Kong DVD -- haven't watched it yet, but looking forward to it.

We saw the new Grey's Anatomy:  I'm beginning to really really like that show.  The bit with the little warren in the hospital -- that's what did it for me.

Lisa and I played a session with my new Fudge rules.  I learned a few things.

First, the Fudge rules are awesome.  Basically, everything I've ever wanted in a game.  Easy and fun.

Second, I'm a terrible GM.  :-)  I probably ran the worst session in Kitchener.  Only kidding -- but Fudge makes it much more important to provide interesting plots and characters, and have good GM style.  In d20, you can set up a fight, and blow 10 minutes.  In Fudge, it don't work that way.  If you want to have a fight, it's gotta be interesting, and the rest of the content has to hold its own.

I also learned that I'm incapable of reading notes during a game.  So I'm making index cards, to see if they'll work.  I'll run another session soon, using lessons from the first session -- I think it will be dramatically more fun than the first one.  :-)

Tomorrow I'm working from home, cuz they're installing our new furnace -- more occupation tree madness.  I love them occupation trees!

Lots of good meals -- always delicious food around here!