End November

Another month rolls to a close. I've been a homeowner 6 months now. The Christmas tree is up and weather willing the lights outside will go up tomorrow. I picked up a cold from work it looks like. In an attempt to limit the sickness rolling through I am getting the flu shot so here's hoping for a healthy 2008. It doesn't help that I have been re-reading A Civil Campaign and that has kept me up an hour or more later every night this week. I've probably read that things twice over this week!

Artistically challenged?

Well I got some more prints for the house finally. We'll see what people think I guess. In the meantime yea for new decoration!

So while I support the writer's guild strike I am sad because Heroes will be cut short. Rather a shame. Better not end the show forever though. That would make me rather sad. Can never tell with industry execs tho. Speaking of though...

Driscoll on Corinthians

If you have iTunes go search the Podcasts for Mark Driscoll. Snag some of his sermons on 1st Corinthians they're quite good!

Quote that?

Overheard from Joe's game the past couple sessions:

"I'm the light at the end of the tunnel, I'm the cleric of death, the beacon life." -Zach

"I pull out my lawn chair and wait for the crazy to be done..." -Zach

"I'm a gnome. I tunnel." -me

"Gnome hooked hammer and crowbar baby- I'm the most lethal thing on this island!" -me

"So we have yes bushes and no bushes...I like it." -Isaac

Sort of gaming related.

More nWoD campaign ideas.

Talk about a long running thread. This thread has finally passed on. Quite a run though. Luckily it lives on!

Ok link overload there but it's an impressive thread lifespan!

Work Work

Wow a long day. Not a bad day though so I should be thankful. So anyhow some more attempts to try and get the place decorated:

Bathroom
Stairwell
Living room?
Office? Bedroom? Living room? I like this picture but it's kinda gray/dark
Bedroom? It's a little small but I love it. Yes, I'm a military nerd...

I also like this one but don't know where to put it.


Hmm that's all I got

Home

Back in La Crosse for the weekend. It's the longest I think I've ever been away from this "home" although since I have a home in Point I guess the issue is more confused. It's strange to be back. The basement flooded in August so there's no carpet down here.

Randomly for those who asked: Emy Js has pumpkin ice cream. I don't know for how long tho!

Dog days

So did a little blog updating that was probably long overdue. Spurred on by Tyler's newest attempt to blog. He's gearing up for NaNoWriMo so have to see if he can pull of 50k in November.

Work was long today. Filteau and I got sushi afterwords so that helped some. It's almost November which means I'll have been working for 10 months. Wow. Time flies.

One thing I noticed when I updated links. Hardly anyone I know is actively blogging anymore. Heck even I am barely putting in decent effort. October which pretty much a dry spell til right at the end. I dunno why it is but I find it harder to write in here. Maybe I just need to prioritize.

That's it for now...

Trick or Treating Recap

So I bought about twice as much candy as I needed so now I have a ton left over. Anyone want some candy? Looks like I got about 75 trick or treaters.

Also pumpkin ice cream is great. Really. Awesome.

Additionally: random gamingness.

October Rolls Down

Well Halloween is tomorrow. Yes I'm aware that's tomorrow is not Oct 31st however the city of Stevens Point does not seem to be aware of this item. Well actually I'm pretty sure they are aware of this as well. It's that whole safety thing although just doesn't feel like Halloween to be doing it during daylight hours 3 days early! Did you know that they pushed daylight savings time a week back so it'd be light out longer for trick or treating. But anyhow I picked up a ton of candy (3 large bags) and hopefully that'll be enough. Either I'll have way too much or way to little candy I guess.

The yardwork is slowly wrapping up. The trees have lost all their leaves (only took 2.5 full passes on the yards and 9 or so 55 gallon bags of leaves). Now I just gotta clean the gutters and wash the windows and I'm already for the winter I guess.

Not sure what else is new. Probably report how trick or treating went tomorrow.

SimCitizen

So massively addicted to SimCity 4. I'll use that as my excuse why I haven't blogged recently. Oh and lots of leaves to be raked. Plus a side trip to the Cities. Yea, busy...

A little Serenity

Is it funny that I had a good night when I looped the best track from Transformers: The Score (Arrival on Earth is the track name btw) lit some candles up and curled up with Nobilis and read for an hour that it was a very peaceful night? Alas that is now coming to an end and I must go to bed to work tomorrow.

Protest

Its interesting to watch governments rise and fall and noticably in the past couple years relatively peaceful revolutions. Now a similiar event seem to be unfolding again in Myanmar (Burma) although it remains to be seen if it will survive government crackdowns. My prayers go out to these monks and those marching with (and supporting) them.

September Rolls Down

Wow, time is flying it feels like. Another month has rolled past. I've been in the house for over 4 months. It seems so long ago that I came in here on a cold rainy May evening and entered this place, empty and deserted. Now it's home in almost every sense of the word (home in La Crosse still retains its homeness as well). Still need to work on decorating the walls a little bit methinks. And sort/file papers. Fall is coming and soon winter will be rolling around. I'm excited. Even if it means snow removal at 6 AM before work.

Dogs, Gutters, and Heroes

So I have concluded that I really dislike dogs primarily on the grounds that their owners seem to think that they don't need to climb up the waste their pets leave on my yard. Bah, I am a bigger supporter of civic virtues of late.
On a side note, my gutters seems to collect a lot of leaves. A lot. At least I know where all the leaves of my front tree are going for the winter!

And finally: Heroes is beginning again, yayayay!

Yea, Soundtracks

Yay, Transformers: The Score is coming out Oct. 9th. I really enjoyed the score so I can't wait.

Realmslore

Well got a bunch of the Forgotten Realms books today. Champion of Ruin, Champions of Valor, Power of Faerun, Mysteries of the Moonsea, Cormyr: The Tearing of the Weave, and Shadowdale: The Scouring of the Land. Carl would say I need to run a Forgotten Realms game now and he's probably right considering I own most of the books. Really need to read them and take into the account the time shift. The books advance the timeline very slowly but I've gotten them out of order so some events that are "current" in one book aren't anymore. It looks like that the last book for Forgotten Realms Anauroch: The Sundering of the World will set up the transition to 4th Ed.

Anyhow I am book geeking out (is that a real term?) so that's it for now.

Fall Comes

So I got the first season of Heroes on Thursday and have been plugging away at it. Maybe not quite as good the second time around cause I know most of the secrets but I do enjoy watching to catch things alluded too.

Also snagging up the rest of the Forgotten Realms corebooks. More on that as they roll in.

Hmm, that's all I got right now. Sorry, it's kinda short, I don't feel extremely chatty :/

Enter September

Well the place finally has rain gutters around it, the efforts of the Labor Day weekend. Of course now I need it to rain which hasn't quite happened yet.
Filteau is here for a week so it's a little strange as I have a roommate for the first time here at the place. Different actually having someone around but not bad. It's to have someone to chat with.

Anyhow, that's it for now.

Rappan Athuk Outside & Lvl 1

Is up here for your reading pleasure?

Off to clean the place now for the folks.