The last few days have passed by in a semi-pleasant haze. Gaming on Saturday was plenty of fun, and I think that we’re finally getting our “sea legs” where D+D v4.0 is concerned. God knows I’ve started to kick ass and take names, although I’m the first to collapse in a given situation, too. Plus, the entire “you heal fully overnight” thing really sucks ascot. However, the game itself isn’t bad, though magic kinda sucks now. We’ll see how things work out, though. Magic may end up being cooler in the end of things, but I seriously doubt it.
After gaming, BakedAlaska invited Orpheus and I over to help celebrate the 2nd birthday of his daughter, EvilGenius. Really, though, we’re going over tonight, too, which is actually her birthday, so I think it was really all about keeping the adults sane. QuakerNoOats’ mother is in town. They are notorious for not getting along, though she is FAR more pleasant than QNO ever led me to believe, just rather, umm… Tightly wound. Really, though, if I had been the Mom in a house chock full of kids with overlapping but individual food allergies, I’d have gone nuts and murdered the whole lot in preparation for offing myself. SCM (SternCatholicMamma), however, did it all with just the slightest edge of mania, including taking on two foster kids. In any case, we helped to keep the peace and distract SCM from QNO (and vice-versa). We’re performing the same function tonight, but this time giving EvilGenius our birthday present, which is a fancy doctor’s kit for kids 2+. When he first saw it on Saturday, BakedAK commented that we aren’t ever allowed to buy a present for his daughter better than his, again.
I also bought Brsinger, the final book in the Eragon trilogy, on Saturday morning. I’ve been annoying the hell out of O. reading it every free second. It isn’t terribly well written, just like its’ predecessors in the series, but the story is more or less sound. I just want to be over with the tiresome structure and be done with the story.
Sunday was interesting, if a bit boring overall. I went to an instance of the concert series they run every school year at the Chazen museum, on campus at the University of Wisconsin. It was the staff string quartet performing two rather experimental works (at the time they were written, anyway), by Janacek and Ludwig Van… I liked the Jancek for one reason, that being that all rhythmic drive, and many first statements of theme were made by the viola. It was very odd and cool, kind of turning everything on its’ head for me throughout the piece. I like Janacek’s music when it sounds most modern and discordant, so I only loved about 10% of the quartet in toto, but it was neat. The Beethoven recycles discarded themes from then 9th Symphony, amongst others of Ludwig’s greatest hits, and is both overlong and overmeandering, with little to no point in the most “serious” third movement. Said movement, in fact, accounted for about half of this monster’s 45-minute run, flopping about like a dying peacock, stripped of its’ feathers. I kind of threw a bunch of shit into a pot with rice for dinner, and it ended up being quite good. Go figure!
Yesterday just sucked abjectly at work, and afterwards, Orpheus kept taunting me in that joking way he has that feels light and teasing to him, but just annoying and ill-will-begetting to me. We abandoned a speech were were to see at the University for a mall walk and a lovely dinner made with apples from our expedition to the Epplegarden a full week ago. I did a braised pork loin with apples and cranberries. It was delicious last night, but made even better leftovers for lunch today. Plus, O. downloaded some really kickin’ pornos, so you can tell how the rest of the night went. ;-)
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