I feel like I should update. So here goes. I've spent more time on my economics class then I really expected to have to. Not that it's hard; just time consuming, especially with all of the online components. But I'm almost done. At this point there is one test and a power point presentation to do. I'm going to start working on the presentation tonight while Lucy and tigergladys are at Rally. I really hope the test gets posted sooner rather then later, as this weekend is Pet Expo, and I know exactly how much free time I'm going to have (none). Either way it should all be wrapped up by the end of the week. And then next week I start up with my accounting classes.

Saturday Tigs and I again went house hunting. We had picked out 5 houses to look at this time around, but on Friday I drove by all of them. One was located just down the road from where we live now, but was practically right under the beltway, and perched on a busy road across from a gas station. Another one (the biggest of the bunch) was in a neighbourhood that was too run down and unsafe feeling. So even before we looked inside we crossed them off the list. Remember what the top three words in real estate are: Location! Location! Location!

The remaining houses were as follows (as described by Tigs):

• House #1 needed every wire in it replaced, as the electricity has not been updated since it was built in the 50's. (And all the windows, and the whole kitchen, and the furnace, and the basement had a giant crack in it, and it didn't come with a hot water heater...) Every time I walked into a room I thought "Thousands of dollars of repairs in here! Akkkk!"

• House #2 was very clearly used by its former occupants as a base of operations for their Christian-themed cult. (you could tell because of the descriptive murals they had painted all over the walls). It was in AWFUL shape. (I guess the cult didn't end well?) It also had tons of asbestos in the basement. (Where you put the cult members who have invoked your wrath?) And every single room had been converted into a bedroom. Including the kitchen.

• House #3 was GREAT - good shape, all new appliances, nice layout, fenced in yard, great neighborhood, etc etc etc. Want to move into it tomorrow. But of course it's $20K over our budget.


Nice hua? I'd link to it, but I don't want you buying it out from under us! :-P

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I currently have a very tired puppy on my lap. Since she grumbles every time I move I will now share some links.

Star Trek XI teaser trailer. Not bad. Kinda neat to see the construction of the good old 1701

This is a friend of Lucy's doing zoomies in the obedience ring. I can see Lucy doing this...

If your D&D group was a bunch of goblins this is what it would be like. You can start here. The art gets better!

Do you have a whole lot of books you've read, and don't want to keep? I bet someone else wants them! And you'll get new books out of it! Works for CDs & DVDs too.

I should be more tired then I am. I've been busy, both physically and mentally. On Thursday I helped load up the equipment needed for the agility trial this weekend. This included all the jumps, the teeter, the dog walk, all the tunnels, plus several hundred pounds of sand bags. Friday I mostly did homework. Saturday was spent at the agility trial, and at the park, both with Lucy. Today we were back at the agility trial after hitting the farmers market this morning. Then when the agility trial ended we helped pack everything back on the truck, came home, and then I went to help unload the truck. Granted they were mostly done by the time I showed up, but still. I should be more tired.

I'm reading a Star Trek book of short stories right now. It's the first of the Strange New Worlds series. A yearly publication of the best fan submitted (non-professional) stories. For the most part, it's awful. You can really tell it was the first year they did this. Most of the stories, the authors just don't have the characters voices. So far the best ones are the ones that focus on secondary characters, the Data story, and the story about the Enterprise D without any crew on her. Luckily, the stories are short and so pass quickly. I have to say though that this is one that is going to be relisted onto paperback swap very quickly.

Games Workshop is releasing a new Chaos Space Marines Codex in September. From what I've read online so far, I'm rather disappointed by it. Compared to the current (for the next couple of weeks anyway) codex it's very bland. Chaos armies have always been some of the most characterful and diverse to be fielded on the gaming board, and yet this new codex drastically changes some things, removes numerous options, and reduces the 11 types of lesser demon to a single uninspired unit that is more bland then raw tofu. In some ways I'm glad I don't play much 40K any more, and when I do play I can use the old codex.

In other gaming news, Wizards of the Coast has annouinced that 2008 will see the release of Dungeons and Dragons 4th Edition. While I am neither surprised nor disappointed, I'm also not interested. I have more then enough books to run D&D in a number of different editions, (though I did recently get rid of most of my 2nd Edition collection) so when I play again, it'll be using one of them.

With all this recent gaming news and my reactions to it, I've been wondering about my state of mind. Why am I so resistant to these changes? Is it because of my limited gaming time, that I don't want to take the time to learn something new right now? Or am I just getting old, and am now ready to sit in my rocker and reminisce back to when playing an elf meant you had a level cap of 12, used magic and swords, and that's the way it was, and we liked it that way. And how kids these days with their new-fangled elves with classes are spoiled rotten. And get off my damn lawn you brats!

Poll #1041969 Old or Busy?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Am I getting old, or just too busy?

I'll leave it up to you!