Evil Wayne

We got wood last weekend. I told you 5 years was wood and I wasn't kidding. Two cords are sitting dumped on my lawn in the rear of the house (so I've got wood in the rear -- you can make of that what you will). Unfortunately, we were away last weekend and it started raining this past Friday and it hasn't stopped. I managed to cover the wood with some of those cheap plastic tarp for painting, but by now they're not fairing too well. 

It's also supposed to keep raining at least until this weekend. One one hand, it's nice for the 80-degree weather to finally give way to more seasonable temperatures. But it's done nothing but rain since the change and that means the ground is mud. And that meant the weekend was a bust as well for stacking the wood. I hate stacking wood. Two cords is at least 4 hours of work and that's with help. I hate the job hanging over me like that. It's supposed to rain all week, so next weekend is out as well. I hope it isn't December before I get to it, because that could be trouble.

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Toy R Us had a Buy-1-Get-1-Free on board games by certain companies starting on Saturday. I bought TheBoy Hungry, Hungry Hippos and got Risk: GodStorm for myself (okay, so the higher price prevails). TheBoy wanted Axis and Allies, I kid you not. He spotted it and demanded I give it to him and he wouldn't put it back. He kept looking at the back and telling me how he would be the plane and I would be the guy. It brought a tear to my eye. But I put it back, because, some where in the barn is my original copy of A&A and I really should try playing that first before investing in any of the other titles.

The kids and Tine actually were a bit wowed by GodStorm. So I totally lucked out. Well, Kelly bailed halfway thru the game, but I spent a lot of time with the rules. I still don't understand the whole Underworld combat. Nice ancient-world board, sturdy pieces; either a single Romanesque soldier or a war elephant. With the right amount of faith tokens, you could put forth your gods and help you win combat or keep enemy units from the Underworld. The game has a restricted 5-turn limit, which was excellent (no more endless games) and you could bit for turn order at the top of each round. Which was really swanky, because it was how Mike won. He saved all his faith tokens and bought the last turn of the final round and laid waste to everyone (mostly me) to seize victory. I wish I had taken pictures, but I didn't.

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We signed up for Netflix last week after dumping HBO. The pay channel was rapidly loosing favor with me since the demise of Carnivale. Frankly, I never go out of my way to see anything that's on and Tine keep renting movies she wants anyway. So Netflix can have my money instead.  The first set of movies we got were SuperSize Me and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I was sort of disappointed in Hitchhiker's. It seemed a bit rushed. It would have worked so much better as a mini-series - they could have explored all the little side-trips the book makes. I think I'll rent the original British mini-series, I remember it much more fondly. Although, Zooey Deschanel looks absolutely amazing in this movie (and I hate to admit it, but the opening song, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, really got stuck in my head).

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Work is most likely going to be another bitch-goddess of pain this week. At least the later part of the week, anyway. With the Monday holiday, we lose another day in the ever tightening, noose-like schedule for Project CashCow. It's 800 pages of type, math and soul-searing pain has me turning a mech pass around in 1 fucking day. Jesus-fucking-Christ, I'm sweating just thinking about it right now. This hasn't been my month and I'm pretty sure I'm developing an anxiety disorder. I think they're crazy to think this is doable. I'm trying to block it out - you know, let it blindside me so the rage jumps from zero to heart-attack in 60 seconds... mutherfucker.

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Got everyone to play another game tonight, just to take the edge off everything that's coming at me. This time the Vampire Hunter game we've had for at least a year or two without cracking the box. It's was a neat little game with a goofy gimmik. The tower has a light in it that's either red or blue to simulate day or night. This makes parts on the board show one thing or another - good or bad - depending on if it's day or night. So a villager during the day is a werewolf at night. Took about 30 minutes to play and in the end, Tine killed the vampire. Nice and short, but fun. I'm already crusing through BoardGameGeek for more horror gaming.

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NPR reviewed a CD on the way home. Laura Veirs' Year of Meteors. Folksy, slow, mellow. I bought it from iTunes and I've been listening to it over and over again. I love finding new music.

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I've noticed that I've been without a mood indicator for sometime now. The site, Unkymoods, appears to be down for the count, so I've gone and removed it from the sidebar. Sigh. I really was digging having moods show up. Of course, I don't think that had one for Insanely Fuckin' Angry. At least not yet. Maybe I should draw my own. I can still do a mean stick figure.

And by that I mean, angry.