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First though, Thanksgiving. Was quite nice. Went to Cookeville and had dinner with the family at my uncle's sandwich shop/bar. Had fun talking with them and playing pool some. About the only time each year I play pool :P
Afterwards, took my Aunt Willie a plate since she didn't feel like coming out to the shop. Sat and talked with her a while then headed to the parent's house. Played Munchkin Booty (the pirate Munchkin game) and then had BBQ. Afterwards played Ninja Burger :P
Friday, we didn't get up especially early. Perhaps a little earlier than we would have if we just decided to sleep in. Witchcat had to go work some anyways so just as well. Actually went and braved the Black Friday shopping at two of the prime spots: Best Buy and Toys R' Us... At Best Buy took advantage of some $80 off MS Office 2007. Sure, I could have used Open Office or Star Office (Linux versions)... but some things still don't translate well and are just flat out dropped when I bring files from work home. So at least we got that now. Witchcat also got me a new flat panel monitor for an early Christmas as my 8+ year old CRT was beginning to die. Was flickering through colors at times, trying to turn everything a shade of purple :P So yay for that! :) Makes for a lot more room on the desktop :P
Saturday we figured out our Christmas lists and began to do a lot of online shopping (got a jump on Cyber Monday :P). Yay for Amazon lists :P Still have about 5 people we don't have ideas for... so will need to do some fishing for those.
Sunday was pretty much just a lazy day :P Did clean up the house some and made some cookies, but nothing terribly productive. Went through a disc of Season 1 of the new Doctor Who. We're both getting into I think. Sure, it's not as campy as the original series, but it retains a lot of the charm and fun of the original. I also checked and found that Chris Eccleston is the 9th Doctor. Couldn't remember how many there had been. I usually seem to overlook Peter Davidson completely and can rarely remember Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy's names. Tom Baker and Jon Pertwee were the two I remember the best... course they are also the ones that have done the most episodes (over 120 each).
Anyways, work has been the usual lately. Calls have actually been coming in for me which is almost unusual :P But Thursday, Witchcat and I are off and away to Phoenix for my sister's wedding. Yes... I do have a sister... even if I am an only child with three brothers and a sister :P Course... I barely know her really and have only met her... 7 times total in 26 years... Should be fun and I'm also thinking we can jump up to the Canyon while we are there. It is a fairly cool place and it's been 22 years since I was there last.
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Had our office Thanksgiving get-together yesterday and as usual ate way more than I really should. But it was a nice break from stuffing envelopes for this mailout. To recap the weekend: Friday: Witchcat07 off to Oropher's for the weekend without me underfoot. Downstairs HVAC system appears to go on the fritz... finally shut it down by the outside breakers. Saturday: Head out to Blue Raider Open fencing tournament at MTSU. Got shut out twice in the 5 touch pool bouts and was ranked 15 out of 19. Didn't move up any despite managing to get past my first direct elimination round. Second round was against the #2 seeded fencer... I did get 10 touches on him (first to 15), but I think that was more because he wasn't being cautious at all against me and just charged in more or less. Pick up some minis and more boxes to put them in as I wanted to split some of my categories further as some boxes were getting over stuffed. Began watching the first season of the new Doctor Who... after having had the DVDs for about a year :P Was actually pretty good and seems to rely on people understanding some of the basic premises of Doctor Who right off. Which is actually fairly cool. Various gaming annoyances trying to get through an extremly hard dungeon. Sunday: Raked the leaves, scraped the excess concrete off the mailbox where I had tried to fix it, pulled up the tomato stakes, did the dishes, cooked pumpkin pies, cooked 4 dozen herbed pinwheels. Watched some more Doctor Who. Futher gaming frustrations :P Cooked supper as Witchcat was almost back home Monday: Got someone to fix HVAC Work on stuffing envelopes Office party Run off to fencing to drop off scoring boxes Have a great evening with David discussing various things about life, work, and our private universes (gaming) :) Was planning to go to dinner with sailingwest tonight, but she is feeling ill. Hope she gets better soon! So instead it will be a quiet, calm evening with the sweet wife :) Thursday we are likely to be heading to Cookeville for family gathering. And then... Friday... might brave the Black Friday shopping. Got a few items I am thinking of getting and the best deals might be going on then. We'll see if we are brave enough to risk it :P
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Well, mostly recovered from a great weekend of gaming :P Fenced Monday and Wednesday... really needing to pick that up more as there is a tournament next Saturday. Just got 15 people pre-registered so it's a B1 due to all the higher ranked people (1 A, 5 B's!)... and I'm just an E. Still... I know somewhat how the A fences and have a few new ideas to try on the lefties I know are there. So, hopefully won't do utterly horrible :P
Tuesday had its major down with Witchcat losing her position at work. Now, she hasn't completely lost her job as she is still a part-time RN with them. But that means she works when they have need of her, going out to see patients, rather than reviewing charts and preparing audits and such which was a salary position rather than a by the hour type. But it really seems the head corporate is doing their best to lose the Nashville area... lots of bad decisions by them over the past year or so.
Tomorrow it's to the dentist for the both of us. And then Saturday I am running out to Boxwell to help teach orienteering and GPS to Venture crews. They are sort of the high adventure affiliate of Boy Scouts in that they are co-ed and consist of mid-teenager (15 or 16+) and often do higher adventure type things (caving, white water canoeing, rock-climbing). Explorers was similar, but they often focused on a career group from what I remember. Or else Explorers became the Venture corp. Picked up maps of the area, printed off some blown up sections of the map, and got a bunch of map symbol booklets so I am prepped there. Need to get some station markers and stamps... thinking Japanese lanterns from Olde Time Pottery.
And now... I really should work on putting up a recap of the adventure sessions.
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