The Journey Home
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shannon_aSo we've been home for over a week now.
The actual journey was largely uneventful. I read two or three TPBs, part of THe Lies of Locke Lamora, and worked on various RPGing histories. There were no entirely uncontrolled children and no dead bodies. There was a woman two rows ahead of us who seemed drunk when she boarded and had all the guys around her waiting on her hand and foot. Not particularly great looking, just very demanding.
Our cat (Lucy) was ecstatic to see us when we got home. When we came through the door she let out a MROWWWWWWWRRR that lasted 20 or 30 seconds. It was amazing, and got rid of any doubts that she was excited to see us. A week later, she's still waking me up early. But like 30 minutes early rather than 4 hours (as was the case last Thursday); daylight savings time helped. Also, she's not as frantically crazy-desperate for attention as she was.
I'm back to gaming, which is a relief. Endgame yesterday and my review group tonight. Roleplaying is still in a holding pattern.
Back to biking, though I'm now even more out of shape than before I left for Hawaii (a result of adding up 1+ month of sick, 1 week and a half away from that exercise, and a bit of extra weight from Hawaii). Getting back into my hill riding though. I was up to Tilden once and Temescal twice before last weekend was over. The Tilden ride was super hard, the Temescal rides somewhat hard. And they're both rides I couldn't have done a year ago, so when I saw even-more-out-of-shape, that's relative.
Tuesday I went to see the new Oz movie with Chris. It was OK. Way, way too much emphasis on 3D to the detriment of everything else, and the 3D wasn't even very good. (It was the first movie I'd actually seen in 3D since the '80s and I found it put awkward pressure on my eyes and the 3D was unimpressive besides, so I was surely right in avoiding them.) Look, guys, throwing stuff straight at the middle of the scream isn't innovative, exciting, or even good, and you kept f****ing doing it! Anyway, some fun Oz stuff, and some good actors, but there's no way this will be a Wizard-like classic, and probably not even a Land-like classic (as it were).
Wednesday I had my stress echo test, to see if my heart looks normal when I'm exercising. I was pretty stressed about it. I did almost 15 minutes on a treadmill, which got my heart rate up to 160, which was the point. I won't know the results until next week, so there's still some stress, but a lot less. The nurse twice told me she wanted my blood pressure, which was the first time I'd ever heard that (but thanks in part to my new med).
Oh and today we discovered that Lucy has sort of figured out her Kong. This is a little self-delivery treat mechanism. Basically it's a very large Weeble with cat treats inside and a black tail attached to the top. The idea is that the cat pulls on the tail to tip over the Weeble and sometimes treats fall out. We've had it since Christmas 2011, so over a year, and no cat had ever figured it out. But we heard Lucy playing with it yesterday, then today while we were gaming in my dining room, I saw she was pulling on the tail, and actually managed to dump treats out. When I refilled it, I decided that she must have successfully used it before I saw her, as there weren't a lot of greats left.
Good cat! We're so proud.
So that's life back home. Oh, and lots of work on Designers & Dragons</I), as I'd like to get book #3 done on the 31st. (That's when it's due, but finishing it isn't a 100% certainty.
The actual journey was largely uneventful. I read two or three TPBs, part of THe Lies of Locke Lamora, and worked on various RPGing histories. There were no entirely uncontrolled children and no dead bodies. There was a woman two rows ahead of us who seemed drunk when she boarded and had all the guys around her waiting on her hand and foot. Not particularly great looking, just very demanding.
Our cat (Lucy) was ecstatic to see us when we got home. When we came through the door she let out a MROWWWWWWWRRR that lasted 20 or 30 seconds. It was amazing, and got rid of any doubts that she was excited to see us. A week later, she's still waking me up early. But like 30 minutes early rather than 4 hours (as was the case last Thursday); daylight savings time helped. Also, she's not as frantically crazy-desperate for attention as she was.
I'm back to gaming, which is a relief. Endgame yesterday and my review group tonight. Roleplaying is still in a holding pattern.
Back to biking, though I'm now even more out of shape than before I left for Hawaii (a result of adding up 1+ month of sick, 1 week and a half away from that exercise, and a bit of extra weight from Hawaii). Getting back into my hill riding though. I was up to Tilden once and Temescal twice before last weekend was over. The Tilden ride was super hard, the Temescal rides somewhat hard. And they're both rides I couldn't have done a year ago, so when I saw even-more-out-of-shape, that's relative.
Tuesday I went to see the new Oz movie with Chris. It was OK. Way, way too much emphasis on 3D to the detriment of everything else, and the 3D wasn't even very good. (It was the first movie I'd actually seen in 3D since the '80s and I found it put awkward pressure on my eyes and the 3D was unimpressive besides, so I was surely right in avoiding them.) Look, guys, throwing stuff straight at the middle of the scream isn't innovative, exciting, or even good, and you kept f****ing doing it! Anyway, some fun Oz stuff, and some good actors, but there's no way this will be a Wizard-like classic, and probably not even a Land-like classic (as it were).
Wednesday I had my stress echo test, to see if my heart looks normal when I'm exercising. I was pretty stressed about it. I did almost 15 minutes on a treadmill, which got my heart rate up to 160, which was the point. I won't know the results until next week, so there's still some stress, but a lot less. The nurse twice told me she wanted my blood pressure, which was the first time I'd ever heard that (but thanks in part to my new med).
Oh and today we discovered that Lucy has sort of figured out her Kong. This is a little self-delivery treat mechanism. Basically it's a very large Weeble with cat treats inside and a black tail attached to the top. The idea is that the cat pulls on the tail to tip over the Weeble and sometimes treats fall out. We've had it since Christmas 2011, so over a year, and no cat had ever figured it out. But we heard Lucy playing with it yesterday, then today while we were gaming in my dining room, I saw she was pulling on the tail, and actually managed to dump treats out. When I refilled it, I decided that she must have successfully used it before I saw her, as there weren't a lot of greats left.
Good cat! We're so proud.
So that's life back home. Oh, and lots of work on Designers & Dragons</I), as I'd like to get book #3 done on the 31st. (That's when it's due, but finishing it isn't a 100% certainty.