It is Tuesday the 5th of Aug.
1. Gamed Saturday at Rave-boy's. Needless to say, I LOVE playing L5R. The dice rolling has been going my way for the last two sessions. Also, our group is as well rounded as an adventure party can be...combat-wise. I'm actually looking forward to my character's ongoing and growing challenges with dealing with the Dark Side. I believe I can successfully negotiate and eventually master the Shadowland Power...hehe...that sounds like a challenge to the GM...and walk that thin line without compromising my character's unflinching integrity.
2. The Wife returned from Oaxaca. Had a wonderful time and learned a helluva lot of Spanish. She took a few fantastic pics that I'll be posting...some of a huge and ancient Aztec city. Beautiful now, kinda creeps me out knowing what they did at these temples. If you don't know, just imagine an endless parade of mutilation and sacrifice that goes on from sun up to sun down, one poor soul after another, one day after another, one week after another, one months after another. And all of it to appeal to and praise the dieties. She took pictures of several skulls from the site's science center...all of them have signs of death inducing cranial trauma.
3. My car has been driving decently for several months now. Still has a nagging boost flutter issue that doesn't rear its head often enough to qualify as a "problem". However, when I parked in my garage space at work and shut of the motor, all the contents of the radiator decided to explode out from under the car...DAMN. After some serious web research and after tapping into the Audi Fanatic on-line Collective that is "Audiworld", I got a hook-up to a reputable mechanic within 4 blocks of my garage. I kinda knew what was wrong and absolutely knew that despite the catastrophic symptoms, it was simply a matter of a blown hose under the motor. Got a call today from Darrell at Atlas Motors LTD (good guy) and sure enough, just a blown hose to the coolant temp sensor. Easy fix and cheap to boot. Having to Bart it for a couple of days though.
4. Movie recommendations: Nothing earth shattering here...just some some entertaining flicks.
- The Dark Knight...you already know about this one.
- Wanted...watched this one with NTT's Brain, theProf, theAcupunturist, and Rave-Boy. Quite entertaining...not alot of substance but it never took itself that seriously.
- The Brave One...the most thoughtful vigilante genre piece in quite some time. Totally convincing. Examines revenge and the vigilante psyche better than almost any other vigilante genre film I've seen.
- Frailty...great hook, doesn't let go, and ends with a bang.
5. Eating a late lunch at work: Papusas and chorizo gorditas from "Bocadillo Il Primo". I would have rank Chorizo just slightly behind SPAM as my favorite food. You can do almost anything with this stuff...and the yummy, spicy, fatty juices that seem to run and soak into everything near it tastes soo good. SPAM has it beat only because Chirozo requires a pan to cook properly. You could conceivable eat and enjoy SPAM right out of the can, if you weren't opposed to the rubbery texture and slimmy goop on it's exterior. My parents used to make me raw SPAM sanwiches in grade school. My classmates would wretch at the sight and smell. I would simply close my "Land of the Lost" lunch pail in silent shame and save the sandwich for discard at a latter time. My parents would have been quite angry if they knew, "My Goodness, you're throwing away some good SPAM right there!". Raw is the only way I can't eat SPAM.
More about my grade-school lunches in a future post.
2. The Wife returned from Oaxaca. Had a wonderful time and learned a helluva lot of Spanish. She took a few fantastic pics that I'll be posting...some of a huge and ancient Aztec city. Beautiful now, kinda creeps me out knowing what they did at these temples. If you don't know, just imagine an endless parade of mutilation and sacrifice that goes on from sun up to sun down, one poor soul after another, one day after another, one week after another, one months after another. And all of it to appeal to and praise the dieties. She took pictures of several skulls from the site's science center...all of them have signs of death inducing cranial trauma.
3. My car has been driving decently for several months now. Still has a nagging boost flutter issue that doesn't rear its head often enough to qualify as a "problem". However, when I parked in my garage space at work and shut of the motor, all the contents of the radiator decided to explode out from under the car...DAMN. After some serious web research and after tapping into the Audi Fanatic on-line Collective that is "Audiworld", I got a hook-up to a reputable mechanic within 4 blocks of my garage. I kinda knew what was wrong and absolutely knew that despite the catastrophic symptoms, it was simply a matter of a blown hose under the motor. Got a call today from Darrell at Atlas Motors LTD (good guy) and sure enough, just a blown hose to the coolant temp sensor. Easy fix and cheap to boot. Having to Bart it for a couple of days though.
4. Movie recommendations: Nothing earth shattering here...just some some entertaining flicks.
- The Dark Knight...you already know about this one.
- Wanted...watched this one with NTT's Brain, theProf, theAcupunturist, and Rave-Boy. Quite entertaining...not alot of substance but it never took itself that seriously.
- The Brave One...the most thoughtful vigilante genre piece in quite some time. Totally convincing. Examines revenge and the vigilante psyche better than almost any other vigilante genre film I've seen.
- Frailty...great hook, doesn't let go, and ends with a bang.
5. Eating a late lunch at work: Papusas and chorizo gorditas from "Bocadillo Il Primo". I would have rank Chorizo just slightly behind SPAM as my favorite food. You can do almost anything with this stuff...and the yummy, spicy, fatty juices that seem to run and soak into everything near it tastes soo good. SPAM has it beat only because Chirozo requires a pan to cook properly. You could conceivable eat and enjoy SPAM right out of the can, if you weren't opposed to the rubbery texture and slimmy goop on it's exterior. My parents used to make me raw SPAM sanwiches in grade school. My classmates would wretch at the sight and smell. I would simply close my "Land of the Lost" lunch pail in silent shame and save the sandwich for discard at a latter time. My parents would have been quite angry if they knew, "My Goodness, you're throwing away some good SPAM right there!". Raw is the only way I can't eat SPAM.
More about my grade-school lunches in a future post.
posted by supergoober at
1:16 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home