Monday 5 July 2004

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  Currently Playing Saga Begins By Weird Al Yankovic "The Saga Begins" video on Launch see related

  
  

  Daleks Defeated!  BBC forced to be creative, oh no!   

  
  

  Wow, Weird Al has managed to do a recap of The Phantom Menace that covers every scene of the movie!   That's too cool for words.  I guess I don't keep up enough with pop culture, because I still think of him having Gallagher-like long hair. 

  
  

  The smoke from the Willow Fire is high in the atmosphere even as far as down here.  At least the partial cover made it a cool holiday, as we only reached fourty-one centigrade today.  That should make public and private gettogethers some of the best in years. 

  
  

  Speaking of holiday gettogethers, BJ, Da, Jay, Kim, Mara, Sam, and I got together Friday despite our stated plan to get together at least once a month.  Da said we could count it as our June gettogether anyway and still plan one for this month, and I think I'll go along with that.  We had a pot luck.  Kim made a potato salad which could have been better if she'd have cooked the potatoes.  It was her first attempt, and the rest of the ingredients were well combined so I suspect that her next attempt will be awesome.  Mara feared trying my carrot-raisin salad, but then discovered that she liked it best of what was available (so long as she picked the raisins out of it, go figure). 

  
  

  We ended up playing Apples to Apples.  The first round was baked apples, and went well.  Unfortunately, we then tried one version where the judge gets green apples to match to his/her red apple.  No one enjoyed that version, so we switched to another version where the judge finds the worst fitting red apple for her/his green apple.  Everyone else liked that version, but as usual I really disliked it.  I've left the table when forced to play that version before, but with BJ on my team I didn't want to leave him in the cold.  Afterwards, we watched Return of the Jedi (or at least tried to do so, I think everyone might have fallen to sleep before it was over). 

  
  

  Saturday Steve ran his FR campaign with Jason, Kendal, Monte, Smitty, and I in attendance.  Our characters healed up from our encounter with the drow, covered up the looted bodies, and continued on until dark.  The next day we reached a cliffside where we were forced to tie up our horses, bury unneed equipment and loot, and head down the sheer cliffside.  Cap turned into a leopard and avoided most of the trouble.  However, Kor avoided getting help from anyone and fell down from one ledge to the next.  We had to go up and heal him after the third fall, but he continued to fall from ledge to ledge until he finally reached the bottom.  How he expects to return to the top of the cliff when we head home I have no idea. 

  
  

  When we reached the bottom we were introduced to Smitty's human scout (a class from Mercenaries, probably the best non-Hasbro d20 supplement) who was there hunting displacer beasts.  While we ate lunch, we were attacked by a pair of displacer beasts.  Nasty buggers, and we ended the session immediately after the fight just like last week. 

  
  

  Today, mass was nearly empty as I expected.  They didn't even bother with all of the EM stations.  Father Milt discussed how America is seen by many to be the New Jerusalem promised us, while others see us as the new Rome or new Babylon.  The choir sang The Battle Hymn of the Republic for the closing processional, and I seemed to be the only one who didn't know the lyrics to the verses.

  
  

  Tonight I'm watching SG1 for the first time in quite a while.  It seems just as good a series as when I used to watch it regularly.  In fact, I ought to just watch it rather than be doing two things at once. 

  
  

  

  
  

  You are Dory, the happy fish with mad skills.  It's amazing how you can have such a possitive outlook on the world.  (Maybe you've just forgotten how to be pessimistic.)  Absolutely nothing can make you feel sad...except maybe rejection.  Extreme situations can cause you to lose your composure as well, but just remember:  time heals all wounds.

  
  

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  "If a man overcomes fear, he acquires clarity of mind.  But this very achievement of clarity becomes the next opponent to be faced.  Once fear is dispelled, clarity becomes the next enemy by tempting a man to give up ever doubting himself.  And so it goes.  Each accomplishment, itself, becomes the next obstacle to be overcome."  ~Sheldon B Kopp, If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him!

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