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l33tminion) wrote2018-06-10 09:51 pm
l33tminion) wrote2018-06-10 09:51 pm
All Over the Place
After a few weeks, it's hard for me even to recall what's been on my mind.
Rolling back the clock a bit...
Last weekend, Julie's parents treated us to a quick trip to Providence to attend a family friend's birthday party. Julie's sister's family came up from NYC. Good times with extended family! Erica had a wonderful time!
Google once again had a contingent marching in Boston Pride this weekend. Was great to be in the parade and see the happy crowd.
Yesterday evening, we met up with Xave and a few other people for dinner and a play. Saw Jennifer Hayley's The Nether, a disturbing sci-fi detective story that's effectively written and staged. (It's clearly a spiritual successor to the last play I saw that cuts away to a (fiction-within-the-)fictional world from a story that's set in an interrogation room. Not really. Except maybe?)
The last few weeks my indie-tabletop group has been Andrew running Paranoia, since I got the latest edition of that as a particularly well-chosen Christmas gift from my brother-in-law Sean.
Having finished season two of Man in the High Castle, we've been watching Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams with Tim and Co.
The headphone port on my phone has gone all flaky, and I'm not ready for a new phone quite yet. I've been working around a bit with a USB-C audio adapter for my favorite headphones. So maybe it's time for me to take another dive into the world of Bluetooth audio. I found a pair of bone-conduction headphones on sale, and that might be the next-best thing to the half-moon/half-in-ear design that is for some reason no longer available.
We added central air conditioning to the condo, just in time for summer. If it helps me sleep better in the hot months, will be worth every penny. Seems pretty good so far.
I keep not posting about news/politics. There sure is a lot worthy of comment. The SCOTUS decision in Masterpiece was an incredibly strange punt, steeped in realpolitik. And Trump's efforts at international diplomacy are a complete embarrassment.
Eristic improvements: Balancing without support while climbing and descending stairs, hanging by arms from bar, announcing achievements with "I did it!" or, even more amusingly, "Ta-dah!"
Rolling back the clock a bit...
Last weekend, Julie's parents treated us to a quick trip to Providence to attend a family friend's birthday party. Julie's sister's family came up from NYC. Good times with extended family! Erica had a wonderful time!
Google once again had a contingent marching in Boston Pride this weekend. Was great to be in the parade and see the happy crowd.
Yesterday evening, we met up with Xave and a few other people for dinner and a play. Saw Jennifer Hayley's The Nether, a disturbing sci-fi detective story that's effectively written and staged. (It's clearly a spiritual successor to the last play I saw that cuts away to a (fiction-within-the-)fictional world from a story that's set in an interrogation room. Not really. Except maybe?)
The last few weeks my indie-tabletop group has been Andrew running Paranoia, since I got the latest edition of that as a particularly well-chosen Christmas gift from my brother-in-law Sean.
Having finished season two of Man in the High Castle, we've been watching Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams with Tim and Co.
The headphone port on my phone has gone all flaky, and I'm not ready for a new phone quite yet. I've been working around a bit with a USB-C audio adapter for my favorite headphones. So maybe it's time for me to take another dive into the world of Bluetooth audio. I found a pair of bone-conduction headphones on sale, and that might be the next-best thing to the half-moon/half-in-ear design that is for some reason no longer available.
We added central air conditioning to the condo, just in time for summer. If it helps me sleep better in the hot months, will be worth every penny. Seems pretty good so far.
I keep not posting about news/politics. There sure is a lot worthy of comment. The SCOTUS decision in Masterpiece was an incredibly strange punt, steeped in realpolitik. And Trump's efforts at international diplomacy are a complete embarrassment.
Eristic improvements: Balancing without support while climbing and descending stairs, hanging by arms from bar, announcing achievements with "I did it!" or, even more amusingly, "Ta-dah!"