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You'll notice that the upper right-hand portion of the blog has a new green square with my profile. I put that up because I wanted easy access to the stats that blogger tracks (number of words, number of posts, etc.) not because I think you want to know more about me. It's interesting to note that I've written about 130,000 words here so far and with an average of only two posts a week. I think I need to increase that number, but I can tell my posts have definitely become more infrequent. Maybe because I'm spending more time out and about and less in front of the computer -- or maybe because I'm spending more time in front of the computer playing City of Heroes. Who can say for certain?

The weekend you ask? It went well. I was particularly bad about getting good sleep last week so I'd hoped to sleep in a bit and recover. That sort of worked out.

Friday during the day we had our regular, monthly game day. Matt, Jason, Leslie, and I played a very entertaining game of HeroClix (Battle Royal format -- meaning, basically, four random figures). We also found out Friday that we're going to go see Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow this week. I signed up for Wednesday. It's great to work someplace that insists you keep up with pop culture. And it'll be interesting to see how closely this movie is to Crimson Skies.

Friday evening I hung around work for a while and played City of Heroes with some of the guys, then got a call from Katie, Kate, and Beth. They wanted me to meet them for drinks, so I met them at Cha Cha. After a while we went to the Honey Hole because Katie and Kate wanted the artichoke dip they make. Finally we went to Linda's to round out the evening. It's amazing that we talked to almost no one but each other for hours and hours, but we still had a great time. After the bars I drove the girls back to their place (the neighbors have finally had their house torn down -- nine months after it was destroyed by the fire -- that was weird to see) and made some pizza for them. They're apparently very hungry girls. While the pizza was cooking Kate talked on the phone and Katie played her guitar and sang. She's amazingly talented.

The fact that I slept until a bit after eleven Saturday should be mitigated somewhat by the knowledge that I didn't get to bed until 3:30 Friday night. Saturday continued to be a pretty lazy day. I had breakfast, picked up comics with Seth, did laundry, had dinner with Kevin and Kim for her birthday (a note on that in a moment), and then went back over to Katie, Kate, and Beth's to watch some DVDs with them and Shana. We watched Along Came Polly and Foxfire. The first was better than I would have thought. Phillip Seymour Hoffman is very funny in it. The latter was, um, nostalgia for the girls. They half-remembered it from when they were younger and now I think they wished they hadn't seen it again. Oh, and for those playing at homw, this movie starred a young Angelina Jolie and she takes off her shirt! Quick! Run out and rent it! (Um, does the mocking tone come through clearly enough there? I'm not sure.)

As we watched the movies I read through some Unknown Armies books and jotted down ideas for a game I may run of it. I'm having a difficult time with it because I have a number of ideas, but I'm not sure how the players will accept them. I'll keep working on it. No rush.

Sunday I managed to get some work done. I did more laundry (it'd been a while) cleaned some stuff out of a closet, cleaned out a ton of stuff from work and loaded it all into the car with the intention of taking it to storage. That didn't work, though, because I had to meet Shana, Jen, Hays, Liz, Madalyn, Matt S., and Kate at the Guild on 45th to see Garden State. Excellent movie, although it seems like a lot of movies lately are trying to tell you that life is the journey, not the destination; it's all about the ride, not the end, etc. The cool thing about this movie -- and I'd like to see it again to try to notice more of these things -- is that it's a classic quest and it's loaded with symbolism that's effective and somewhat unobtrusive. I especially liked the addition of the knight, the abyss, and Natalie Portman's character (I forget her name, but she was basically Una/Faith). Very good stuff.

By the way, if anyone knows Nick Harmer (the bassist in the band Death Cab for Cutie) tell him I know Volvo Girl and he should contact me if he'd like to meet her.

Oh, Jason started a blog of our run through the World's Largest Dungeon, you can check it out here. Fun.

More soon.