Welcome to your New Week

I've been playing around with new names for the days of the week for a few months now. I don't understand why we have to honor the Norse pantheon in this way, or the arbitrary homage to the Sun and the Moon. When I was taking Japanese, I was struck by how similar our day … Read more

Maybe it’s just as well t…

Maybe it's just as well that Pete Smith has never been infected by Blink 182's infectious blend of pop and punk… Until now! blink-182 – All The Small Things Music video by blink-182 performing All The Small Things. (C) 2000 Geffen Records This was posted on Google+

Driving Kasul…

With our free month of FFXIV about to end, Kasul and I had to make a difficult decision. Not about whether or not to continue playing the game — we're both having a lot of fun with — but just who was going to recruit who for the recruit-a-friend program. See, in FFXIV, if you … Read more

The trip from Hell.

Totally the trip from Hell. It was supposed to be a 900km or so trip from Salzburg to Luxembourg. Things were going pretty well to begin. Swiftly passed into Germany, flew past München and Strasbourg, and had crossed over into Switzerland on the way to Zurich when my cat decided the computer mouse was now … Read more

Killing Tidus…

On our last story day, Kasul and I had thought we were just minutes away from meeting Titan, the Lord of the Crags, based on the urgency of the NPCs. We finished the night thinking that next time, we would be meeting the primal of the kobolds in our second Trial. No! That turned out … Read more