Christmas Roundup
So Christmas has come and gone here at stately Sanders Manor, and we head into the last few days of the holiday break. Time to assess a bit, and time to cover the goodies that should be discussed in the near future.
The gifting was good to your snarling host, enough so that I'll need multiple posts to cover all that should be said. I'm not going to list everything here, but key bits are: an iPod, the Lego Snowspeeder (the Collector's Edition big set), an armoire to store all of our board & card games in, and a new saucepan. The iPod and the Snowspeeder will probably get covered more in the future.
Karin received some good toys from some lovely individual as well, and I've been playing with some of them :-) A few games that were recommended from Defective
Yeti have seen some family playtime, and we just finished watching the first episode from her new Firefly DVD set. That show was truly too good for Fox, a point they relished in proving throughly.
On the gaming front, I've been playing through the first Deus Ex (never finished it and wanted to do so before starting DX2), and a lot of Beyond Good and Evil (super short review - it's really good). A smattering of Billy Hatcher rounds out the console side. I've also been playing a lot of Yohoho Puzzle Pirates which is a pretty cool game. I'll try to write more about all of these before getting back to the grindstone next week. In the meantime, I'm trying to figure out what songs go on a Pirate themed playlist for when I be puzzlin' afiercely Yarrr! Suggestions taken in the lovely new holiday comments section :-)
So Christmas has come and gone here at stately Sanders Manor, and we head into the last few days of the holiday break. Time to assess a bit, and time to cover the goodies that should be discussed in the near future.
The gifting was good to your snarling host, enough so that I'll need multiple posts to cover all that should be said. I'm not going to list everything here, but key bits are: an iPod, the Lego Snowspeeder (the Collector's Edition big set), an armoire to store all of our board & card games in, and a new saucepan. The iPod and the Snowspeeder will probably get covered more in the future.
Karin received some good toys from some lovely individual as well, and I've been playing with some of them :-) A few games that were recommended from Defective
Yeti have seen some family playtime, and we just finished watching the first episode from her new Firefly DVD set. That show was truly too good for Fox, a point they relished in proving throughly.
On the gaming front, I've been playing through the first Deus Ex (never finished it and wanted to do so before starting DX2), and a lot of Beyond Good and Evil (super short review - it's really good). A smattering of Billy Hatcher rounds out the console side. I've also been playing a lot of Yohoho Puzzle Pirates which is a pretty cool game. I'll try to write more about all of these before getting back to the grindstone next week. In the meantime, I'm trying to figure out what songs go on a Pirate themed playlist for when I be puzzlin' afiercely Yarrr! Suggestions taken in the lovely new holiday comments section :-)
The gifting was good to your snarling host, enough so that I'll need multiple posts to cover all that should be said. I'm not going to list everything here, but key bits are: an iPod, the Lego Snowspeeder (the Collector's Edition big set), an armoire to store all of our board & card games in, and a new saucepan. The iPod and the Snowspeeder will probably get covered more in the future.
Karin received some good toys from some lovely individual as well, and I've been playing with some of them :-) A few games that were recommended from Defective
Yeti have seen some family playtime, and we just finished watching the first episode from her new Firefly DVD set. That show was truly too good for Fox, a point they relished in proving throughly.
On the gaming front, I've been playing through the first Deus Ex (never finished it and wanted to do so before starting DX2), and a lot of Beyond Good and Evil (super short review - it's really good). A smattering of Billy Hatcher rounds out the console side. I've also been playing a lot of Yohoho Puzzle Pirates which is a pretty cool game. I'll try to write more about all of these before getting back to the grindstone next week. In the meantime, I'm trying to figure out what songs go on a Pirate themed playlist for when I be puzzlin' afiercely Yarrr! Suggestions taken in the lovely new holiday comments section :-)
Posting from my Treo
So I'm waiting in line at Comcast with a friend ditching cable and wondered if I can post from my Treo. I can! Next question - can I upload a picture. Stay tuned
No picture upload :-(
So I'm waiting in line at Comcast with a friend ditching cable and wondered if I can post from my Treo. I can! Next question - can I upload a picture. Stay tuned
No picture upload :-(
No picture upload :-(
I pronounce it SOUP!
OK assuming this second post doesn't cause meltdown Movable Type seems to be fully online. It's got a lot of power and I need to learn how to use it all, but the site is functional. And it has a RSS feed (both 1.0 and 2.0 variants, although the 2.0 version isn't linked yet), comments, auto-archiving, AND a search function. I think I'm going to like MovableType a lot
Additionally, TrackBack should be working, but that's a bit academic until somebody uses it. I don't see that Blogger is being listed as TrackBack tool, perhaps that's gotten stuck in the whole Blogger/Blogger Pro dichotomy.
OK assuming this second post doesn't cause meltdown Movable Type seems to be fully online. It's got a lot of power and I need to learn how to use it all, but the site is functional. And it has a RSS feed (both 1.0 and 2.0 variants, although the 2.0 version isn't linked yet), comments, auto-archiving, AND a search function. I think I'm going to like MovableType a lot
Additionally, TrackBack should be working, but that's a bit academic until somebody uses it. I don't see that Blogger is being listed as TrackBack tool, perhaps that's gotten stuck in the whole Blogger/Blogger Pro dichotomy.
Additionally, TrackBack should be working, but that's a bit academic until somebody uses it. I don't see that Blogger is being listed as TrackBack tool, perhaps that's gotten stuck in the whole Blogger/Blogger Pro dichotomy.
Hello? Is thing on?
Testing the Movable Type installation. Huzzah!
(It's SORT OF on. While Movable Type is working, I'm having some access problems that is preventing most of the links on the left from working. I'm on it. Oh, and once I get that all sorted, I'll restore access to the older CityDesk blog as well.)
Testing the Movable Type installation. Huzzah!
(It's SORT OF on. While Movable Type is working, I'm having some access problems that is preventing most of the links on the left from working. I'm on it. Oh, and once I get that all sorted, I'll restore access to the older CityDesk blog as well.)
(It's SORT OF on. While Movable Type is working, I'm having some access problems that is preventing most of the links on the left from working. I'm on it. Oh, and once I get that all sorted, I'll restore access to the older CityDesk blog as well.)