Friday and forgotten Pictures

Hail lurkers,

I brought in my digital camera to use for work....and noticed that I had some pictures from the MD Renn faire that I forgot to put on the site. This issue has been rectified.

Some of you lurkers should send in pictures that I can put into some type of random collage if you are feeling brave enough. And no, I will not pull a Francis and cut off your head and reattach it to a dancing animated woman.

Post Tgiving and back to work

Hello World,

Well Thanksgiving was quite the enjoyable day. Started the day with a bike ride but not the planned one. Ended up meeting Francis Wong at his house in Ashburn and we rode along the Washington & Old Dominion trail to downtown Leesburg. Around 15-16 miles round trip...a pleasant little ride to start the day (after the 1.25 hour drive to his house). From there a quick jaunt up to the folks house in Littlestown PA. Saw many relatives that I had not seen in quite a while. The folks cooked up the usual monster bird (27 lbs) and assorted other good things to eat. The most amusing part of the visit was scaring my 5.5 year old niece by threatening to hang her upside down by her feet. Good to know that I can still scare small children.
The day ended with the 2.5 or so hour drive home that day.

For the weekend, I had grand plans of getting ahead at work. Instead email civ game turns with the Skarbecks occurred.....with just a couple of good hours put in at work.
Also an amusing zombie film was watched....Planet Terror.....well worth watching once....with probably the most well known names in a zombie movie ever.

So far this week....just grinding out paper at the office for the latest work project and surfing for future vacations.

Happy Bird Day World

Hello and Early Happy Thanksgiving,

Like most of my recent weeks...not too much to report. Went up to Woodbridge last Saturday on a whim, and ended up playing a few card games during an open game session at the hobby store there.

Going to the folks for Bird tomorrow and to see relatives I rarely see these days which should be enjoyable. My offer to provide Spam on the Half-Shell for an appetizer while embraced by my father.....was clearly rejected by my mother. Her instructions were to by some assorted nuts. Maybe I should mix spam and nuts.........thoughts lurkers?

The pre-Thanksgiving gathering activity will be an bikeride in MD/DC for fun. We shall see how the out of shape Ron does on the 10-20ish mile ride tomorrow morning. With luck I will make it from Carderock to Georgetown and back...in time to show up at the appointed food hour.

http://bikewashington.org/canal/canal_a.php

the biggest challenge (I hope) is riding a non-paved path with my skinny tire bike.....will I get a flat. Second biggest challenge is waking up early enough to pull all of this off .... as we have the early dinner (1PM I think) at the folks retirement villa in PA.

Hope you all have an enjoyable holiday.

Hail

Not much new to report out. Just at work slowly working through the next set of paperwork that needs to be completed so as to fill the paycheck. A new online game has also come out which is starting to fill up my evenings and perhaps some of my lunch breaks. Tabula Rasa (http://www.rgtr.com/index.html)

Otherwise just recovering from watching that painful Redskins football game.

Escaping to RI and testing the train

Hola Lurkers,

I am currently typing from RI. I wandered up here last Thursday after an 8.5 hour train ride. The train was the way to go. Roomy, comfortable and almost effortless on my part. I had to lug my luggage about 4 blocks and then wait for the train. Boarded and then had a seat or two for my use. Did some reading and about 4 hours of work while riding the Amtrak. The most difficult thing of working while riding, was that the train had just enough vibration action in some spots that words while typing occassionally came out liiikkkeee this. This was with the laptop on the fold out table as compared to securing a firm table in the dining car. We shall see what I can get on the ride back..................

An enjoyable weekend of mainly gaming spent here visiting my old college roomate (Pete) and his family. We managed 2 full days of playing Battlelore (http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/25417)
as well as playing spades most nights for 3+ hours. Combine the gaming with lego building (small children and Ron like Legos) and their hot tub twas an excellent weekend. Tomorrow I wander back to the 'burg.
and to the Kellermens....thanks for the Redskins voice message update.