Golden Anvil

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Well, the fact that I missed posting last week doesn't actually mean that you missed out on a campaign update. No, it's been two weeks without playing our WWII supers campaign. Oops, wait... make that three weeks now. Tonight Brooky's player was out, and since his character was kind of central to the action, we decided to do something else instead.

So... we played Capes! This is a wonderful game that is kind of like a super-hero themed cross between a roleplaying game and a board game. This was totally a blast, and I highly recommend it. Go to the web site and pick up a free copy of their Lite rules and try it out next time you're wondering what to do with a couple friends.

Welcome to another long post. I guess that's what happens when I haven't updated regularly for a while...

Wow, 9 days since my last post! Some of that is excused because I was off on vacation (although I technically had internet access there, even if it was slow). Then I had the excuse of having to catch up with things after getting back from vacation. My only excuse after that can only be that we had a deadline at work on Friday, and we've got another this coming Wednesday. So, I've come home after some long days kind of tired out.

Well, as usually happens about once a year, I threw out my back on Sunday during the superbowl. No, I wasn't jumping up and down or anything crazy. Actually, I'd been feeling it coming on the last couple days, and it just decided to hit me then. So, I spent pretty much all Monday on my back on the couch. Tuesday I spent some time on the couch and some time working on my laptop, but had to go into work for a big meeting (then promptly came home again). Today I was able to put in almost a full day of work before coming home to give my back a rest. Hopefully tomorrow I should be mostly back to normal.

No particularly big news today, but I don't want to get out of the habit of posting.

I slept in a bit this morning, and have actually spent most of the day feeling relatively good (it seems I'm only deathly ill during work hours). I entered most of the last of my books into my LibraryThing account, played some games with gauntman, finally watched a little more Babylon 5 (it'd been a while, but we've been rewatching the series, and we finished season 3 tonight), and at last I got around to updating the spreadsheet that we use to track how well we do on our budget. It's actually a clever little thing, and I'm rather pleased with how it's turned out.

At any rate, I got a lot done today, and I'm starting to feel better, so it was a pretty good day. I'm off to do a little reading in bed now. Good night all.

Well, on the plus side my throat and body are no longer sore. Mrs. Kheldar says that according to my symptoms compared to hers, I should be over the worst.

On the minus side, I had to come home early today, because I was feeling very feverish, and exhausted. Mostly now I'm just dealing with a badly stuffed up nose.

grumble...

I did go ahead and run through the 39 Greek flashcards I'd entered into my new program. I only missed 15. That's not bad for not having looked at them for a good couple months, especially considering that on about half of them I knew the general gist (or part of the definition), but not the full/exact definition.

Yeah, still sick. Worked from home today (even got some stuff done).

I'm off to read, watch some Batman, and generally mope around.

...I hate being sick.

Of course, on my last day of vacation before going back to work I'm starting to feel more and more sick. I've been holding out against a nasty sore throat and sniffly nose that Mrs. Kheldar has been nursing the last week or so. Looks like it's finally catching up to me though.

I got a little more work done today on memTrainer. I added a couple convenience functions and added the storage of session stats (though they aren't displayed anywhere yet). With that function in I think I'm ready to start using it for real. Tomorrow though. I'm off to read in bed (yes, at 7:30).