Weekend Intelligence: One Flew Out of the Cuckoo’s Nest

One of Colin’s friends is moving away, so in an attempt to have a last little party, he spent the weekend over at his friends new house. Down one kiddo, and with a new job, DeAnn and I did some celebrating of our own. So, in typical weekend intelligence fashion, here are the highlights!

House and Home:

I’ve been dealing with some severe stomach aches lately. Breathing fire comes to mind. When I got home, I felt bad for making DeAnn tank the kids, but I needed to lay down for a few. When I got up, I wasn’t feeling much better, but it was getting late and I needed to get the evening started. Neither of us felt like cooking, so I told D to order a pizza. I had said that if I got this job, I was buying some rum. As I was on my way out, I saw Colin and his friend Sammy walk toward me with his dad. I was afraid Colin had done something wrong, but it turned out that their dad wanted to discuss him spending the night at their new house. I conferred with D and we got their information and gave them ours as Colin and Sammy dove to getting things ready. I left to go get the provisions for the night, and didn’t realize until I got back that I had left D to prepare two ADHD 8yr old boys for a sleepover, feed Clara, juggle the dog and deal with the pizza man. -.-; I guess chaos reigned for the solid half hour I was gone getting stuff. The end result was well worth it, though: Colin was out for the night and the baby was on the way down. We stayed up late playing and goofing off.

We were late to rise the next morning. D had a bit too much to drink the night before, but there was still work to do. After breakfast, she started a load of clothes and tanked Clara while lying on the couch. Eventually, she needed to lay down for a nap. I cleaned the kitchen. And I mean cleaned. Scrubbed, wiped, washed, disinfected and polished everything I could get to. When I was done, the house was filled with the stink of clean. ^_^/ I also tore through a few loads of laundry while D was asleep. She woke up feeling quite a bit better, but her stomach had picked up whatever was bothering mine for the past few days. That’s about when Colin called. He had been having an absolute blast, and was wondering if he could stay another night. After making sure this was something parentally sanctioned, we consented to him staying the night again. I’ll take another night off, no need to twist my arm! We got dinner and settled in for Kirin and campaign for the rest of the evening.

We got up kinda late on Sunday, so we missed the 11am service. We ate some pancakes, got baby dressed and made it to the 1pm service. They started out worship with The Foo Fighter’s “The Pretender.” Something that our church has a real gift for is to take edgy things from pop culture - things that will be familiar and appeal to lost and hurting youth, but not necessarily ye olde worship music - and position it in a way that really gives Him glory. They did the same thing with a youth outreach program commercial that had Marilyn Manson’s “Personal Jesus” as the background track. And it worked. Masterfully. It was really cool listen to something meant for deception completely turned on its head for good. Anyway, after the service, we hit Walmart on our way home, just before Colin came home. After a quick nap we went to work on taxes. That took us through the rest of the night, but the good news is we don’t owe anything. ^_^

In-game:

We really didn’t do much in the way of in game stuff this past weekend. We were just too busy, but we did do a few things. Friday night, I tried to lead a group of people after swift belts, but I cancelled that after only 6 people total showed up. No biggie, we’ll do it some other time I’m sure. We also showed up for the midnight Einherjar. I haven’t been the biggest fan of this event, I’ll admit, but it’s sad to see any event get cancelled. I didn’t run out to the Halzam Testing Grounds because I was afraid that was going to happen. Instead I hung out in Nashmau and fished up all sorts of stuff with my shiny new fishing rod. I even got some skill up from it.

Saturday hardly saw any activity at all until Kirin. We popped 2 Kirin. The first one was… interesting. We almost wiped. It was a combination of not killing fast enough and Kirin summoning abnormally fast. I don’t think we had the numbers we really needed, but we were determined to start on time. The second one had more people trickled in, and went considerably smoother. After Kirin, Keri and I went to do some Campaign shenanigans. I’m near another rank up, but they’re starting to get really hard to do one a week with as much time as I have to give them.

Sunday was almost completely devoid of game time. We did taxes and I fished briefly in Qufim to try to get the sliced cod bait out of my inventory. The bite rate on Black Sole is enough to make a grown man cry.

Monday will be interesting. I have to talk to my supervisor on my decision to get another job, follow up with my new boss on the when and where of my first day, and call the guy back who was my initial contact there and thank him for getting my resume in the door and talking with me a little about the company. A little bit of thanks goes a long way, especially when you have a lot to be thankful for.