A small odd thing: Over at brother’s house, I was taking an afternoon nap on the couch, and because there was no blanket to put on top of myself, I used a large couch cushion. “Must be a family thing,” brother's wife said. Apparently, brother does that too. (I didn’t know he did that. He didn’t know...
“Can he walk yet??” said roommate. not even close boi Developmental notes:When on his tummy, he can lift/hold up his head with ease, but he can’t move except by rolling over. His playpen is a bit small for him: he’ll roll over halfway, then get stuck on his arm and/or the side of the pen and r...
BB slept through the night! It probably helped that his afternoon nap was truncated (too much excitement in the house). He slept from 8:30 pm to 6:30 am, woke up for a drink, and then dozed off again until nearly 8. Everyone including me was showering him with praise and little man has no idea what ...
It’s a holiday bonanza. First Thanksgiving in Boston, now Christmas in Wisconsin with brother. As usual I took the train down to my parents’ on Friday afternoon, got a haircut (yesss no more veilspun cosplay), and then we drove up on Saturday morning. We were going to leave at 9 am, but Dad had to w...
Every vacation I think I can/might/will do so much with my spare time and this one is no different. Things I could do:Draw. My dragon art has improved over the past few months, especially with dragon-a-day inktober (I didn’t manage to draw every day, but I did a bunch of them).Write lore for dragons...
Athena is perilously close to surviving 2023, since Dante and I will both be away over Christmas weekend, and I don’t know if people will be available over New Year’s weekend. We saw enrage, though! (It was a 15% enrage obtained by chain reviving through our first attempt at Gaiaochos II, A Real Mec...
Today’s the day of the office Christmas party—usually a time of great festivity. But here’s the thing. It’s been three years since covid. I don’t know any of these dudes. The food isn’t worth awkward conversations with strangers (or awkwardly sitting by myself, or awkwardly slinking out with a full ...
Over Thanksgiving I broke my Wolvden login streak of 1064 days. I just didn’t want to deal with managing my pack. More specifically, I didn’t want to deal with it on Tuesday, when we had multiple flights and a layover; I figured it would be dicey trying to get in all 60 hunts (we had overlap with Th...
quof is off to Japan, or an oil rig, I’m not clear which. Chill Guy from GGG is subbing for him. It always impresses me when someone subs in raid and picks up all our homebrew strats on the fly from quick verbal explanations. Some things are basically the same (e.g., classical concepts—just gotta re...
injured myself in the dumbest possible way: I was reaching down with my left hand to lift up the toilet lid, and I somehow strained a muscle. had pain at my side, radiating up to my armpit and down the back of my arm. it calmed down after around 10-15 minutes, and is mostly fine two hours later exce...
newbie set up his game to replace Athena 2’s music with Return to Oblivion, which he says has improved his quality of life considerably. “Same except for White Stone Black,” said quof. “You’re a sick, disgusting person,” said numbers. (I’m just glad people are finally appreciating White Stone Black....
I think of myself as someone who does a lot of battling. Reinhardt started roughly 150 stats below the Rav pups, but he rose above them all (save for Rhallwyn, who used metric tons of guarana). Many of the Rav pups stuck around for this generation, and Armitage rose above them again (save for Zoey, ...