Weekend Intelligence: At Least the Lawn Looks Good...

I admit it: I was a bum this weekend. I gamed A LOT and took naps and generally got a lot of R&R in. At least we did get some good time put into the yardwork. So, in typical weekend intelligence fashion, here are the highlights!

House and Home:

Friday was a decent day. The contract that I'm working is likely to end next week, giving me one more week at the remote location before I'm back at the office. As it stands, I've spent nearly ten times more time on assignment than I've spent in the home office. After picking up D and the kids, we baked up some chicken parmesian and set out the agenda for the weekend. There was a heap of laundry that needed to get washed, dried, folded and put away, a heap of dishes that needed scrubbing, and most daunting, a heap of a backyard that needed deforesting. >.>; Even the front yard was starting to look like the jungles: there was this creeping bush-like plant that was threatening to choke off a chunk of the grass. So there we had it, and decided it was best left for tomorrow. We didn't stay up late playing like we normally do, knowing we had a big morning.

I woke up early Saturday to get my travel check in the bank and donuts for the family. After waking everyone up and getting them fed, I set Colin to the dishes and keeping an eye on Clara, D went to start on the back yard and I pulled weeds, edged and mowed the front. We had planned on it taking two hours, but it didn't really take that long before we had most of the big things pulled. The front yard is clean and all the back needs is weeds along the back fence pulled and some serious TLC to get the lawn to come back. ;_; I miss the grass... Colin was able to fill the dishwasher, but not all the dishes fit. After I got some laundry started and folded up, I took a little bit of a nap.

D had a little too much fun the night before, so we weren't able to make it up in time for church. We spent most the day relaxing and not doing much of much. I tanked the kids until about 1pm, when Clara went down for a nap, Colin went to play with friends, and I folded up another load of laundry to make room for an emergency load. Colin came back with one of his friends who had moved away some time back. Last time, he had stayed over the entire weekend with this friend at his new house. Well, he came back and asked if it was OK if he spent the night again. I didn't mind, as long as it was OK with his friend's mom and that he'd be back after we got home for the day.

In Game:

Even though SE broke campaign, making the beastmen hordes nearly unstoppable, it is still up to me to keep my medal until they fix it. The beastmen own the world at the moment, and are continuously attacking Windurst. At least I don't have to teleport all over the place looking for a battle. :P Got a whole merit point on WHM and bumped my BLM to 68 on Friday so that I could use up a scroll that's been taking up space in my inventory.

Saturday evening, we were back at campaign, and I got a second merit in the process of getting enough notes to keep my medal. We also got a small group of people together to pop the Lil Apkallu item that I've been holding on to for some time. That monster is absolutely senseless. After you hit him enough, he uses a move that puts everyone to sleep in a certain range. At this point, most monsters would start picking off your party members one by one since everyone is asleep and can't do anything. Does this one? No~o! The crazy penguin instead runs around randomly while squawking. You just get to sit there watching while he does his thing until you wake up. An easy fight to be sure, but he's located in a bad neighborhood and he's kinda stupid. LOL We also leveled BST for a little bit much later that night.

Sunday was more of the same. We logged on to level BST and squeezed out the rest of the level we missed out on the night before. Crawlers' Nest is starting to be a little too weak, so I'll have to find a new hunting ground for next time.

The Vue is due out of the shop next week, just in time for DeAnn's interview. I'm hoping that we'll be able to exercise tomorrow evening together. Colin should be back and bouncing off the walls, and Clara will probably do something too. :P Should be a busy week!