it's been a while since there's been a blog post in here...but that's mostly because 1) i haven't done much worth reporting, and 2) i've been busying doing not much worth reporting.

the last couple of weeks have been something like this:

1) work
2) run a game (see gaming section)
3) work on a game
4) work on an epic character for steve's game
5) spend time with sheri

as you can see, except for when sheri's home (and occassionally then), i've been rather immersed in gaming for the last little bit. not that i have a problem with this, but, well, there's not much that's interesting to say about that - hence, no blog.

in other news, sheri & i are planning on going up to IN and OH next weekend (thurs-sun) to see some family and for my grandparents' 60th anniversary. this should be a fun trip.

~PS

i have found it. the answer i've been wondering about for so long.

my friends, it is one thing to listen to christmas music.

it is another thing to listen to bad christmas music.

it is another thing to listen to cheesy bad christmas music.

it is another thing to listen to cheesy bad christmas music with "drama".

it is another thing to listen to cheesy bad christmas music with drama IN JUNE!!!

that's when i realized it: the answer. the sole reason sheri wanted to become i choir director is, i'm convinced, so that she could listen to christmas music all year and have at least a nominal excuse.

~PS

have you ever worked on something for hours, constantly running into dead ends and consistently and alternately failing to understand either 1) how what you're trying to do is even possible, or 2) why what you ARE doing isn't working, only to discover that the answer to both questions results in the easiest possible solution that you didn't try before only because you were missing one small yet vital piece of information that would have made your afternoon much more enjoyable?

i have.

~PS

ok, i have just lost SO much faith in the collective intelligence of mankind.

I have just recieved a phone call. It went something like this:

me (answers phone): "hello?"
woman: "hello...uhm, is this the mobile home park?"
me: "no, i think you have the wrong number"
woman: "well, is this 929-9105?"
me: "ah, no, this is 926-9105, you accidentally dialed the wrong number."
woman: "well, in the book here, it says 929-9105 is the mobile home park."
me: "yeah, this is 926-9105. you want 929-9105."
woman: "so it's wrong in the book then..."
me: "no, THIS number is 926-9105. you WANT the one in the book, 929-9105."
woman: "well, do you have a number for the mobile home park then?"
me: "you know what? why don't you try the number in the book again..."
woman: "well...ok..."

...

?

~PS

so last night, sheri was really wanting to try something different for dinner. after digging though a couple of cook books and making a grocery list, we went to Dice. wait. that probably doesn't make any sense. allow me to digress:

as of about a week ago, sheri and i have been thinking we should get Carcassone, but we, as of friday, hadn't yet gone to get it - mostly because sheri's all responsible and stuff and said we should get tires for her car first (which she got yesterday)... ...even though llama pointed out that we couldn't all play with her new tires. (this did lead to a short tangent that involved rolling tires and bowling balls down milligan highway, but that's not important now)
ANYWAY: having no real plans for friday night, and thinking it sounded like fun, we decided to finally go buy the game.

After getting our new game, we went to the grocery and discovered cool little gummy penguins called peng-yums and spent way too much time looking for minced garlic. After that, we came back and made chicken kiev with cheese....more or less.
We actually discovered we needed chicken breast halves and...well...have you ever tried to slice a chicken breast in half laterally? ...After that adventure, we decided we were only going to make 2 instead of the 4 the recipe called for...even though we had already done everything else for 4. Next, we discovered we had little flour bugs in our flour...so we had to make due with what little flour we had in a jar. We also realized that, according to a part of the recipe we obviously did not closely examine, it was supposed to chill for 1-24 hours before you bake it - but, being that it was 9:30pm and sheri was starving, we pretty much nixed that and stuck it in the freezer for about 10 minutes.
Amazingly, it turned out pretty good...we figure if we actually make it right next time, it could be pretty awesome.

~PS