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While our friends in Seattle are complaining about the 2 inches of snow they got*, what I'm most thankful for at our Thanksgiving potluck at work is that it means I don't have to leave the building to get something to eat. What with the inconvenient freezing rain outside. It's not actually that bad, I just don't like it. But I always get a kick when the Puget Sound exhibits any symptoms of winter aside from frost on the windows in the morning, because it always sounds like they're going through the apocalypse up there.
We had the weekly Mage session yesterday, which was basically a filler or bridge episode when bits of several PC back story suddenly arise. It was short, and is basically leading up to a Halloween game, which is kind of amusing since we're skipping a week at a time or more between games. Running a game once a week often catches up with me at the worst times, and the web page doesn't get updated at all, because I'm torn between making new material and trying to log old material, and when that happens, actually being able to run a game wins.
Plus, updating a web page I don't actually have to update is tedious as hell.
I also made cookies which were soooooo disappointing. I guess they were ok. I just, I dunno. I can't stand behind those cookies.
Because the game ended early, Frank decided we all needed to watch Happy Feet, which I remembered thinking was cute and fun but, in actuality, seems to be a tedious morality tale involving a penguin with a distinct evolutionary disadvantage convincing YouTube to save arctic fish, or something. The pacing is pretty akin to something like A.I., in which a small robot and Jude Law try not to become irrelevant and then the movie literally becomes stuck in an ice block, in what feels like real time.
Seriously, Happy Feet is a hot mess. And it's not because I'm a jerk. Or at least, not just because I'm a jerk, because I want to like a movie about dancing penguins. I mean, I guess I don't really care about tap dancing, and I don't ever really think about penguins, but whatever. It's 2:15 when it could have been a 30 minute film short that didn't devolve into some idiotic message about overfishing the Antarctic continent, which is not something I even know if happens.
* Which is adorable.
We had the weekly Mage session yesterday, which was basically a filler or bridge episode when bits of several PC back story suddenly arise. It was short, and is basically leading up to a Halloween game, which is kind of amusing since we're skipping a week at a time or more between games. Running a game once a week often catches up with me at the worst times, and the web page doesn't get updated at all, because I'm torn between making new material and trying to log old material, and when that happens, actually being able to run a game wins.
Plus, updating a web page I don't actually have to update is tedious as hell.
I also made cookies which were soooooo disappointing. I guess they were ok. I just, I dunno. I can't stand behind those cookies.
Because the game ended early, Frank decided we all needed to watch Happy Feet, which I remembered thinking was cute and fun but, in actuality, seems to be a tedious morality tale involving a penguin with a distinct evolutionary disadvantage convincing YouTube to save arctic fish, or something. The pacing is pretty akin to something like A.I., in which a small robot and Jude Law try not to become irrelevant and then the movie literally becomes stuck in an ice block, in what feels like real time.
Seriously, Happy Feet is a hot mess. And it's not because I'm a jerk. Or at least, not just because I'm a jerk, because I want to like a movie about dancing penguins. I mean, I guess I don't really care about tap dancing, and I don't ever really think about penguins, but whatever. It's 2:15 when it could have been a 30 minute film short that didn't devolve into some idiotic message about overfishing the Antarctic continent, which is not something I even know if happens.
It's full of false end after false end, and blatantly tries to pull your heartstrings out in an obvious attempt to retain your attention. Pass.
* Which is adorable.
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