Radio silence
Apr. 15th, 2013 11:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walbournI've been meaning to post for some time now, but lots of other things have been getting the way...
Firstly, a toddler is a lot of work. Professor X is doing well, but he's at that 'highly mobile' and 'still clingy' phase. Just getting dinner cooked, eaten, and cleaned up is about all DrB and I have the energy for during the evenings of the work-week. Thanks to daycare the Professor has a more reasonable schedule, but he's still a bit of a night-owl compared to other yungins. We've had company mostly over at our place that likes to hang with the Babyman, and the help is appreciated.
I have been able to get away for a (mostly) weekly Pathfinder game during the week which has been good fun.
Then there's work. I put a lot of my 'social media' effort in a week into my work blog and CodePlex projects. And honestly, I can't actually talk about 80% of what I do in a day anyhow. It hasn't quite reached the same level of security as a CIA Black-Ops workspace, but they are working on it. The safest thing is to just keep off work topics, most everything I can talk about is already on my professional blog, and that's nuff said.
Oh, my house is now chock full of counter examples for all bitching about Windows 8. On a new system built for it, or even a home built system with relatively recent parts, it's pretty awesome (or at the least, is pretty much the same as Windows 7). If you never try it with a touch monitor, then it makes a lot less sense.
The house remodel is in the final stretches of the planning phase. This is going to "get real" in a few months, and that's going to be a time of serious insanity. Hang on for that one.
Otherwise, been playing a fair bit of Skyrim taking a break from Lord of the Rings Online for a bit. Lots of folks came back with the PONIES OMG! expansion (sorry, I mean Riders of Rohan) which I have enjoyed playing a fair amount, but with the interruptions of a toddler who likes to wake up in the evenings with various needs, a single-player experience that can be paused with a single button is a better fit for my lifestyle at the moment. For similar reasons, I broke out Mass Effect 3 again to play the last two releases of single-player DLC for it... good times even it's a kind of silly ending.
Norwescon this year was good, although DrB spent most of it working the Green Room and I spent too much of it sick (Mystery Hives! What fun!), but the Professor did pretty well and enjoyed it for the most part. The staff parking rocked.
Firstly, a toddler is a lot of work. Professor X is doing well, but he's at that 'highly mobile' and 'still clingy' phase. Just getting dinner cooked, eaten, and cleaned up is about all DrB and I have the energy for during the evenings of the work-week. Thanks to daycare the Professor has a more reasonable schedule, but he's still a bit of a night-owl compared to other yungins. We've had company mostly over at our place that likes to hang with the Babyman, and the help is appreciated.
I have been able to get away for a (mostly) weekly Pathfinder game during the week which has been good fun.
Then there's work. I put a lot of my 'social media' effort in a week into my work blog and CodePlex projects. And honestly, I can't actually talk about 80% of what I do in a day anyhow. It hasn't quite reached the same level of security as a CIA Black-Ops workspace, but they are working on it. The safest thing is to just keep off work topics, most everything I can talk about is already on my professional blog, and that's nuff said.
Oh, my house is now chock full of counter examples for all bitching about Windows 8. On a new system built for it, or even a home built system with relatively recent parts, it's pretty awesome (or at the least, is pretty much the same as Windows 7). If you never try it with a touch monitor, then it makes a lot less sense.
The house remodel is in the final stretches of the planning phase. This is going to "get real" in a few months, and that's going to be a time of serious insanity. Hang on for that one.
Otherwise, been playing a fair bit of Skyrim taking a break from Lord of the Rings Online for a bit. Lots of folks came back with the PONIES OMG! expansion (sorry, I mean Riders of Rohan) which I have enjoyed playing a fair amount, but with the interruptions of a toddler who likes to wake up in the evenings with various needs, a single-player experience that can be paused with a single button is a better fit for my lifestyle at the moment. For similar reasons, I broke out Mass Effect 3 again to play the last two releases of single-player DLC for it... good times even it's a kind of silly ending.
Norwescon this year was good, although DrB spent most of it working the Green Room and I spent too much of it sick (Mystery Hives! What fun!), but the Professor did pretty well and enjoyed it for the most part. The staff parking rocked.
