| Friday, November 20th, 2009 |
| 9:29 am |
After all the bitching the parents of the girls in our league do about how the boys get preferential treatment and the girls get bupkus - a charge that is not, I must admit, entirely unfair - if I don't have enough of a turnout for the pitching and hitting clinic in two weeks I am going to be pretty annoyed. Not to mention embarrassed, as the guy running is also the guy giving Autumn her pitching lessons and someone I would have to see every week for the foreseeable future knowing that I wasted his time. |
| Thursday, November 19th, 2009 |
| 2:45 pm |
Is it wrong that despite my age and maturity level I still giggle like an oversugared 12-year-old when I listen to the sophmoric humor of Bloodhound Gang lyrics? |
| Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 |
| 1:30 pm |
How the heck do I go 6-3 at a PTQ and net a whopping 9 rating points? The mind boggles. |
| Monday, November 16th, 2009 |
| 8:19 am |
Two entries? WHAAAA??
I love Zendikar limited, and am really good at it. I am having a great time at the Magic Pro Tour Qualifiers, but the NJ-area ones are nearly impossible to win; we had almost 300 people at Saturday's PTQ. Basically, this is one of those places where you *have* to be both lucky *and* good to have a chance. So while it's great, it also kind of sucks. But there's three more I can attend, so we'll see if I can pull off both at least once! |
| Thursday, November 12th, 2009 |
| 4:08 pm |
Just realized that PAX East...
...which I had hoped to attend, may very well be the same weekend as the kids' baseball/softball opening weekend. IOW, sad Templar in snow. :-( |
| 9:21 am |
It's amazing how something as simple as an actually interesting assignment can turn around your opinion on your job. I'm still not back to being in love with my career or anything, but it took the edge off the crushing malaise of "Jesus, I have another 20 years of doing this crap I am already sick of?" I'd been under the past few weeks. I know it's curmudgeonly to complain about my job when the unemployment rate is ~10% right now, but going and slogging through a task you can barely stand to be at every day is not that big of an improvement, setting aside the fact that being unable to pay for food and the mortgage is much worse. |
| Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 |
| 5:51 pm |
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| Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 |
| 10:21 am |
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| 9:02 am |
Sometimes my wife just falls right into them
Last night we're vegging out on the sofa to House and the CBS comedies, and there's an ad for some new Victoria's Secret bra that is supposed to increase your cup size by two. I told her with a lascivious grin that she should get one, and she looked at me with the scornful look wives and girlfriends have when their man is being an idiot and protested "Yeah right. That'd give me, like, DD or E boobs or something like that!" I just looked at her and said, "So...what's your point again?" and laughed and laughed and laughed as I got the eyeroll. We take our chuckles where we can get them. :-p |
| Monday, November 9th, 2009 |
| 2:46 pm |
Re: Gender differences
All I'm saying is in my day if my sister pitched harder than I did my dad would have kicked my ass and laughed at me. Now I find that phenomenon costing me a lot of money. But at least I get more time with my daughter. :-p |
| Friday, November 6th, 2009 |
| 5:08 pm |
There's a reason I don't argue on the Internet. That reason is because no one who engages in debates on the Internet is able to look at what you write and not think "How can I attribute something to you you never said, exaggerate your position to make my own position look better, and/or create a strawman intended to twist what you actually mean?" It's just a question of how long it takes to get to that point. It's as inexorable as the tides. |
| Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 |
| 12:17 pm |
Welp...
My daughter is getting braces today. So let's see... Tall and slightly spazzy? Check Braces? Check Goofy behavior? Check Unibrow, courtesy of Dad? Check Tomboyish tendencies? Check Loves manga/anime to the point of arguing with her friends who the cutest character is? Check Wears Totoro sweatshirt seen on the left here: http://www.jbox.com/IMAGE/1qk5x? Check Yep. She's doomed. Poor kid; between nature and nurture she never really had a shot at being cool. |
| Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 |
| 10:10 am |
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| Monday, November 2nd, 2009 |
| 12:05 pm |
Could the Giants have looked any more awful yesterday? Yikes. |
| Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 |
| 4:16 pm |
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| 8:09 am |
I finished Brutal Legend last night, and I'd say it was great, but with caveats. It ended kind of abruptly and it could have been longer. Another land or two all based around Satanic metal/death metal/whatever as you invade Doviculous' territory would not have been amiss. I actually thought the multifaceted approach to the play style worked most of the time, and outside of the first escort mission I breezed through the game on Normal, though to be fair between Dune II/WC/WC2/WC3/SC/C&C I have played a good 2,000 hours of RTS games in my life so the stage battles were not that big of a challenge. Even still, I'd have preferred more adventuring and boss battles to the stage battles. The game was metal as hell and really fun; I loved the NPCs/allies, and most of the voice acting was great outside of maybe Lita Ford. I really enjoyed riding nearly every animal in the game, up to and including the giant steel-tusked mastadons. Some more exploration in that regard would have been good. I wish I got a little more, especially since I have no interest in the multiplayer. It was so great in so many ways that I feel like I could have lived in that world for another 10-15 hours of gameplay and not gotten bored. Although there's got to be more to explore from a completists POV, since I only unleashed slightly more than half the dragons and am still two legends short (those are the two I really want). |
| Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 |
| 8:27 am |
I'm not sure it gets much more metal than riding on the back of a firebreathing jungle beast with a half-naked Amazon chick in KISS makeup as my co-pilot. |
| Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 |
| 12:17 pm |
Terry Pratchett can still give you a good kicking with half his brain tied behind his back
"Your father loved you, did he not? He loved you, took you to the football, shared a pie with you, taught you to cheer for the Dimmers? Did he hold you on his shoulders, so that you might see more of the game?" "But you hate him, because he became a mortal man, dying on the cobbles. He let you down, Mister Trev. He wasn't a small boy's god. It turned out that he was only a man." Seriously tearing up here a little. |
| 9:07 am |
Had dinner last night with Lady K and her boyfriend. It was very nice time, a lot of laughs and some great stories. I'm glad I got a chance to hang with her again. |
| Friday, October 16th, 2009 |
| 2:30 pm |
I'm not going to lie: The FO secrets thread has been tremendous for my ego. |
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