Babies, pickled onions, dwarves and ghosts

Edie and Frankie are doing well. Today Frankie rolled over from her stomach to her back and from her back to her stomach. Edie drew on Frankie and ate a blue crayon. Edie IS 100% my daughter. I do wonder about that Frankie sometimes, what with the feats of physical exertion and all.

Frankie is coming to gum your shirt sleeves.

She enjoys her mobile hammock a little too much.

Who uses Google Wave? I've got an account (carlcburgers at googlewave dot com), I've spent my invites (most of them) and I've got a few friends. So far I haven't found anything to do or anyone to do it with. Oh well. At least I've got other projects to occupy me, like converting my HTPC from Vista to Ubuntu 9.10. Only 3 things in our house run on Windows now: Kristina's laptop, my phone and Kristina's PDA. I intend to upgrade to some kind of Android phone as soon as I can. One day our house will be Windows free (well, except for the VMs I need to use .Net programs and Netflix. Curse you, Silverlight!)


Haven't logged on to Warcraft or Lord of the Rings Online in a long while. Derdriu is 80 and Jeli is 30 (so I guess he's the dwarf to start playing). Cataclysm only comes out next year and while I'm excited to see the rest of Azeroth from the air I'm not that keen to grind rep and gold forever and ever until it comes out. As for Lotro, I'm not super keen to delve into new content. I've not even finished the vanilla content. Part of me wishes I was playing Warhammer again, but there the fun seemed to dry up at 40. Poor old Gudwig Gildenstein!

I was overjoyed to find some pickled onions at the Hickam Commissary this weekend. They're not the super strong kind I remember from my childhood, but they sure hit the spot. If you're never had a pickled onion before, imagine a cucumber and how the wonder of pickling turns it into the tart and wondrous pickle (or gerkin, depending on your dialect). Now imagine that same flavour enhancement applied to onions. If you like onions, you like pickled onions. I'll fight anyone who disagrees (by fight, I mean challenge them to a game of Magic: The Gathering or possibly Heroscape).




Started playing a survival horror RPG called Don't Rest Your Head. Josh is running it. It's pretty free form. You have 3 stats (Discipline, Madness and Exhaustion) and 2 talents (one that channels exhaustion and one that channels madness). My character is the homeless, identical twin brother of a famous magician who is impersonating his brother after accidentally strangling him. His exhaustion talent is lying and his madness talent is REAL stage magic. We're having a great time with it so far. I'm also considering whipping up my character back story into a full short story. Will keep you posted here about that.

Christmas is coming up and I think I want Heroscape. Sure, it's a kid-friendly collectable miniature game, but it's really fun. It's WAY more fun than Heroclix (for reasons that I will gladly go into, if you're interested). So far a have a small box of minis. I told Kristina when the box is full, I'll not need anymore. It's half full (or possibly half empty), so it won't break the bank to top up a little. Also, Edith has been doing some D&D research for me. We're excited about Dark Sun being relaunched next year. She also wants to try the Forth Edition Tomb of Horrors module. It's for characters level 10-20. Who's with me?