View From the Bushes

On the continuing subject of True Dungeon, I was in the middle of fixing dinner for the kids when I got a call from my friend Wil, who told me that he had just received an e-mail from the TD guys and that all the slots were just about gone. So as soon as I could break away I rushed to my computer, and sure enough, it was grim. The first few pages were all either full or one slot remaining. It quickly occurred to me that everyone was starting with Thursday and going through the first page that came up, so I switched to Saturday and went to the last page. It still looked pretty grim, but eventually I found a slot with all seven spaces open, so I put it in my cart. I was unsure how long it would remain in the cart so I went ahead and checked out. I then attempted to go back and see if there was anything else I wanted, but no matter how hard I tried, it wouldn't let me get back to the nice searchable interface I had been using. The whole thing was very annoying.

Admittedly, that was pretty boring, but (fortunately) my life isn't contantly exciting. And what excitement I do get is generally due to sick kids, and the over-whelming response to blog entries along those lines has been negative. Actually, I guess I did have excitement involving the kids, which didn't involve them being sick. When I got home from work yesterday, the kids were out playing in the yard. The two youngest were digging a hole and they were covered in mud. My wife was walking out the door at about the same time I was walking in, so it fell to me to hose them off. The water was pretty cold, and the novelty of the situation wore off pretty quickly. Soon my son was screaming "It's not fun!" and my daughter was just screaming.

Of course, once they're screaming as loud as they can, then there's no reason not to just push on through and get it over with. It was somewhat annoying to have to let out the hose and chase my son around the yard, but in the end it got the job done. I guess I would be remiss if I didn't mention that at midnight tonight Episode III starts playing. There was a time when I would have been disappointed to not be watching it then, but not anymore. Still, all indications are that this time Lucas got it right. Also, the biggest computer game show in the World E3 also starts today. The big story is the battle between the New Xbox and the Playstation 3, but not being much of a console guy, I can't say I'm that interested, though that may change as my children get older, and are too big to be chased around the backyard with a hose.

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Ross