Kevin's musings

Recap of the last week and a half:

Last Thursday through Saturday
tkil and
deliriumdreams were visiting.
Not a bad visit, but too short. Lots of good food (Tosh’s, Macaroni grill, etc) and good drinking.
I got to spend a fair bit of time with K, the youngster. It was pretty fun, but I don’t think I could
handle that level of young child manic for more than a few days without collapsing.

Tuesday I got to go and have some of the walnut brewerys delightfull barleywine.
It was a really good batch this year. Nice and smooth and flavorfull. Turns out it was good
that I went and had it then, because they ran out the very next day. No more until December.

The GURPS game was back on on wednsday. We hadn’t played for about 6 weeks due to the
holidays and people traveling and so forth. It was a pretty good session. The players made a bit of progress.
It’s fun thinking up what evil will befall them next week.

Thursday was a
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meeting. I stupidly piped up on the mailing list that I could talk about
Morphix so that was the talk. I managed to make up
my slides eariler in the day and I think the talk went reasonably well. It was on the short side,
but there were some good questions afterward and nice discussion about various morphix related
items.

Friday I went back to the walnut with a group of friends (to find that the barleywine was out).
They did have a ‘sub-zero’ ale that wasn’t too bad. It was pretty amusing to see someone I know
who works at southern sun there for dinner. Checking out the other brewpubs?

Which brings us up to today. I have a bit of work to do, and then I am going to takle my garage.
It’s really a mess in there (and has been for a while) and recently some mice or rats or the like
have taken up residence. It’s starting to smell bad and annoy me. The mice/rats are also eating anything
out there thats at all food like. I put out some traps a few weeks ago, but they have totally ignored those.
Not sure if the bait (peanut butter) isn’t tasty enough or the traps otherwise don’t work on these critters.
I guess I will see about evicting them when I clean up the boxes and other junk in there.

The fight against entropy continues. Did a bunch of cleaning in prep for
tkil and
deliriumdreams visiting.
I started out deciding I should clean out the window off the kitchen that the cat always hangs out in,
and then from there decided I should clean off the top of the fridge, then on to the cabinet that has all the
dog meds and treats and toys and food in it. Whew. Then off to vacuum the house, and start a bunch
of laundry. Entropy is an inplacable foe.

Today was non warm in most every way. I did take the dogs for a walk anyhow because they were
starting to get stir-crazy. Merlin was so happy to go for even a short walk in his coat. He kept stopping and
spinning every few feet. It was probibly about 5 out when we went for the walk.

Tomorrow’s
hackingsociety up in boulder, then back home to
greet out of towners. They are going to the VNV show friday night. I might wander along on a lark.

Hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable new years evening. I went up to boulder to
a party and had a nice time. Lots of good food, good company. Wandered home around 1am
or so and got to sleep by 1:30. Not too bad. Now it’s off to petsmart to run the
greyhound adoption table for a few hours. The pups will sure enjoy that.

I don’t have any resolutions (I figure anything worth doing is worth doing for it’s own
sake, not because another arbitrary day rolled by), but I am going to have to go back
hardcore on the diet. Been pigging out way too much this holiday season.

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