Day 31: 4D6

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The gang met up today for our Saturday Dungeons and Dragons game.

In brief, they've been asked by a humble village couple to find their daughter, who was kidnapped by undead servants of a necromancer, and on the very evening of her 16th birthday.

They charged off to the old battlefield cemetery where the necromancer makes his home. They passed through the challenge of the spiked gate, and soon learned the danger of straying from the path through the cemetery. This week, they were set upon first by giant shambling mounds of dead corpses. They destroyed the abominations, and reached the tower of the necromancer. Inside, on the first floor, they got ambushed by a group of undead mastiffs. Rawr!

Oh, and Robert rolled four six-sided dice (4D6) for damage, and got all boxcars (pictured above). We were all impressed with his dice fu.

Day 30: Liquor

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Taken while shopping for some inexpensive wine. Yum.

Day 29: Paintbrushes

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Painting in the nursery continues. I admit that my old hangup problem of "excited about the big parts of the task, bored or uninterested with the smaller parts" continues to plague me. We've gotten probably 75% of the total work on the walls done. But 25% is still a significant portion. Now it starts to come down to mixing colors and touching up and all of the other details.

Hey, its still fun, its just more work now, and less play.

Climate Change

I may end up sounding completely crazy, or at least mostly crazy here.

I'll be honest, I've long regarded end of the world, and apocalypse scenarios as highly entertaining fiction. Escatology has, to me, been the domain of religious Revelations fans, and conspiracy theorists. So its alarming now to see it popping up in the headlines. Obviously people have been talking about global warming and climate change for some time, but this shit is getting scary.

Some estimates say that by 2013, there will be no ice left in the Arctic. According to these theories, not only will we get an increase in sea levels around the world, it will also result in the release of methane and carbon dioxide of sufficient levels to create a runaway greenhouse effect.

Granted, there are a lot of things about the climate that we not fully understand, or that we cannot accurately predict, but I'm not a big fan of gambling when the odds are Win Ten Bucks or Slowly Cook To Death.

I feel all wide-eyed and kooky, but frankly, this shit is terrifying. I don't know whether to start digging my Deep Underground Self Sustaining Biohome, or to just imagine that everything is peachy-keen, and that I'll be able to retire to the Bahamas when I'm 60.

Day 28: Snow Day!

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Well, sorta. I ended up at work all day, despite the ice/snow.

Krissi and I have been going through our finances, trying to make some solid calculations for the coming months. Its tight, but we've got ourselves set up fairly well.

That's about all I've got.

Day 27: Cold and Wet

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Day 26: Foccacia Bread

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Krissi was kind enough to make birthday supper for me. Chicken Fettucini Alfredo and Foccacia bread. OH YUM!

Another year. My reminder that I'm not 20 anymore is that my metabolism has slowed. I've always eaten for two or three, and now that I'm in my 30's, if I don't keep up with a good exercise regimen, I end up picking up pounds. Looking back on photos of our little gang from the last 4 years or so.. it feels like we all look so much older now.