…it was all in the planning, really
Doc Update
1: Less than two weeks until Dundracon! Need to finish characters and some other stuff for the game! Aaiiieeee!!!
2: They say we have rain coming this week. I’ll believe it when I see it.
3: I am going to have to do one of my periodic slimming of my Friends List. Please do not be offended if I remove you. There are just too many of you to read every day.
4: So, my little chums, should I plant some of the Gigantic Hawaiian Gourds this year? They go apeshit in this climate, with some vines reaching over 60 feet long. On the other hand, seeing those basketball sized gourds stops sidewalk traffic cold.
5: We have been getting a whole lot of skunk activity in the neighborhood lately. Haven’t actually seen any yet, but man oh man, you can smell ’em.
6: Speaking skunks, a recent episode of “Nature” on PBS was all about them. It also featured my home town, Marysville, California, quite prominently. Apparently, Marysville has both large skunk and feral cat populations and the skunks are chowing down on food left out for the cats.
7: Another Cryptic Message To My Friend In Exile: Discussion forum is now set up and secure. As for the other thing, I’d say 75% or better. Not good, I know, but if you have no other options…
8: Everything here at The Cross Family Resort For One Eyed Basset Hounds goes ok. Health is good, finances suck, work is work, weather is excellent (but very dry) and the above mentioned hound is both sweet and spoiled.
9: Going sorta back up to point 1 on this list…Who among you will be at Dundracon?
Time to walk Winker, eat lunch, then head out to work. More bloggage later.
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We are seeing a serious increase in skunks here in Elk Grove as well.
Yeah, skunks are one of several species that has increased both population and range since the white man hit north america. Others are coyotes, foxes, raccoons and opossums.
I’ll understand if you have to remove me. Sorry I wasn’t more interesting.
Stop being whiney and insecure. I didn’t drop you.
Alas, our finances suck as well. The Lady of the Manor and I are doing a “last hurrah for a while” whirlwind weekend in The City, with base camp at an Undisclosed East Bay Location, in mid-April.
I say again, alas.
Yeah, this economy is the pits.
Fortunately around here the skunks are snoozing it’s not until it gets warmer before we start smelling them again. Had to look up what Hawaiian Gourds were. Turns out my mother in law likes to paint them. I wish I could go to Dundracon but my days of going to conventions at a drop of a hat are long gone. Maybe one day I’ll be able to afford to go to Gencon again.
I have dried gourds from 2 years ago that I need to paint up and make into birdhouses or something.
I’m going to 2 cons this year, Dundracon and Conquest Sac, only because they are within driving distance and require no days off from work.
We are planning on being at GenCon 2010, but I may have to rob Fort Knox in order to afford the trip.