Gonzai Gallery

At least, off from the internet, for the most part. I had today off of work (Happy Rosh Hashanah, as applicable) so I took Mom to a Senior Day Center to see what she thought. We were greeted by a dog named Buttercup. I consider that a good sign. Mom thinks it's too expensive, but my brother doesn't, so I'll let him convince her she can afford it. Then lunch at a new sandwich shop, Potbelly's. I think it's a chain. Decent sandwich though, and Mom was happy with hers.

Rest of the day was TV and computer games, as I caught up with nearly everything on the DVR and finally watched last year's 'Whitechapel'. I put that off because series 2 did nothing for me; turns out series 3 was much, much better. I'm taking '2001: A Space Odyssey' a chunk at a time, because I've tried and failed to watch it a few times already. I liked the 'trio' episode of Leverage much more than the rest of this season, and Mom actually liked it, first time in years she's liked the show. Maybe we have our new direction - just let Elliott, Hardison and Parker be the show. Fine with me. I enjoyed Doctor Who, esp. the conversations with the horse. Big surprise, right? We also watched Bill Maher, who I think properly summed up recent events thusly: "Some crazy Christians pretending to be crazy Jews riled up a bunch of crazy Muslims, so Mitt Romney could prove Mormons are even crazier."

Sunday, I was a party host. Can't remember the last time I tried that. But 4 of my gaming friends came over for the 'game', that being Ravens/Eagles, of course. We had an Eagles fan. I seated him near the door and we took turns reminding him we could easily toss him out of it. But he had the last laugh, dammit. But we had a grand time other than the final score, and a couple people stayed after and we played board games until late. I had to let CJ out eventually, but she was nice to the strangers! Total relief, that. The whole thing must have gone well, because the last folks out said we should do this again. My back isn't so sure about that, I'm a hurting pup today (presumably from moving around the furniture) but otherwise, yeah, gamers at the game, why not?

Someone went there. In a really, really big way.

Either the Dr Who Series 5 DVDs or Ticket to Ride: Asia :)

The only game I won today...didn't count due to a weird rule about the Wild Card Tournament not starting until after the convention had already been open for several hours. Otherwise, I got waxed today. Meep.

And while I don't have the money (and don't play chess) one of the vendors turned up with an Eleventh Doctor Animated Chess Set. Yes, really. You can play for Team Doctor or Team Baddies and the pieces all have lenticular animation on them. Nifty, I say, nifty!

Hurricane-proofed the office yesterday, and finished prepping the house today. Also managed to get Mom over to the MVA for registration renewal (she lost the stickers), went to the gym, and went to Borders, probably for the last time. It was packed, and the line to checkout stretched to the back of the store. No games left, not much by way of books or CDs, but most of the DVDs I wanted were still there. Now we're holed up and watching television/using the internet while we still can.

Why didn't anyone tell me Dr Who was back today? I thought it was coming back in the fall, not August.

After a bizarrely game filled weekend - if you're going to do a whole weekend guys, it should at least be a convention - I got to Dr Who.

Oh, my. My my my. Wowzers. That really upends the brain! (And yes, I'm talking about the reveal at the end of 'A Good Man Goes To War', rather than the 'Almost People' reveal).

Yes, it's true. I saw a movie in a theatre today. We saw 'Tangled'. Bizarrely loud, but cute and amusing. Loved the horse, of course, esp when he did the dog imitation. Then we went to lunch at a Chinese restaurant, naturally, seems the place next to the gym just added sushi. Yum yum time. Then when we go home, we watched 'Horton Hears A Who', finished season 1 of Glee, saw some bits of the original Star Wars trilogy (must have been a while since I've seen it, as I didn't remember a lot of it) and now it's the Dr Who Christmas special. Whole lotta relaxing going on, just in time for snow. Yay.

Just wondering...did anyone else hear about that story and immediately think of the Dr Who ep 'Gridlock'?