Another weekend of gaming and hanging out in the sunshine... I'm gonna get spoiled if this keeps up!
Friday's SbN game was interesting enough that I think it needs a seperate post. I'm still putting together my thoughts on how things went, so I think instead I'll ramble on about my non-gaming activities this weekend.
The production crew from work all got together for a BBQ on Sunday, and proved that even though we're all artsy little buggers, we suck at baseball. Still, there's something sort of satisfying about hanging around and grilling up raw hunks of meat, even if it's only on a little George Foreman grill. Film crews seem more close knit than your usual office worker crowd, and it also helps that most of us also went to school together at the ill-fated SCETCH. It's also nice to be working with a young crew, as my last group of coworkers were all in their fourties, and we had very little in common, whereas here, we spent most of BBQ discussing Nintendo's decision to name their new system the "Wii", and how it stacks up against the other systems.
Afterwards it was off to yet another BBQ at my uncle's house. It was my cousin's birthday, and a small crowd of my relatives had gathered to wish him well. Things went remarkably well. There wasn't any bickering, despite the presence of my less-than-civilly separated grandparents, and I got to visit with my cousins for a while. (ie - be mauled by them for a half hour or so. They're a lot younger than me, and seem to see me as a large, ambulatory swingset.) I don't see them often, since they're all sports freaks, and it seems that every night they're off at someone's practice/lessons/games/playoffs.
Layne, who was pulling together the last few bits of his thesis, had to miss both of these excellent opportunities to eat charred meat, though my aunts and grandma certainly kept asking after him. Next weekend we plan to head down to Regina for Mother's Day, so I suppose they'll just have to visit with him there.
Friday's SbN game was interesting enough that I think it needs a seperate post. I'm still putting together my thoughts on how things went, so I think instead I'll ramble on about my non-gaming activities this weekend.
The production crew from work all got together for a BBQ on Sunday, and proved that even though we're all artsy little buggers, we suck at baseball. Still, there's something sort of satisfying about hanging around and grilling up raw hunks of meat, even if it's only on a little George Foreman grill. Film crews seem more close knit than your usual office worker crowd, and it also helps that most of us also went to school together at the ill-fated SCETCH. It's also nice to be working with a young crew, as my last group of coworkers were all in their fourties, and we had very little in common, whereas here, we spent most of BBQ discussing Nintendo's decision to name their new system the "Wii", and how it stacks up against the other systems.
Afterwards it was off to yet another BBQ at my uncle's house. It was my cousin's birthday, and a small crowd of my relatives had gathered to wish him well. Things went remarkably well. There wasn't any bickering, despite the presence of my less-than-civilly separated grandparents, and I got to visit with my cousins for a while. (ie - be mauled by them for a half hour or so. They're a lot younger than me, and seem to see me as a large, ambulatory swingset.) I don't see them often, since they're all sports freaks, and it seems that every night they're off at someone's practice/lessons/games/playoffs.
Layne, who was pulling together the last few bits of his thesis, had to miss both of these excellent opportunities to eat charred meat, though my aunts and grandma certainly kept asking after him. Next weekend we plan to head down to Regina for Mother's Day, so I suppose they'll just have to visit with him there.
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