Merry Christmas!

Just a Merry Christmas to all of our friends. May you all have a Merry Christmas, a Joyous New Year and may this year upcoming be better than the last.

What D&D Character Am I?

Now this is just dumb...but in a goofy, geeky fun way. Found this on The Mullet's livejournal and just had to do it myself.

I Am A: Lawful Neutral Human Wizard (4th Level)


Ability Scores:

Strength-13

Dexterity-13

Constitution-12

Intelligence-16

Wisdom-10

Charisma-13


Alignment:
Lawful Neutral A lawful neutral character acts as law, tradition, or a personal code directs him. Order and organization are paramount to him. He may believe in personal order and live by a code or standard, or he may believe in order for all and favor a strong, organized government. Lawful neutral is the best alignment you can be because it means you are reliable and honorable without being a zealot. However, lawful neutral can be a dangerous alignment because it seeks to eliminate all freedom, choice, and diversity in society.


Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.


Class:
Wizards are arcane spellcasters who depend on intensive study to create their magic. To wizards, magic is not a talent but a difficult, rewarding art. When they are prepared for battle, wizards can use their spells to devastating effect. When caught by surprise, they are vulnerable. The wizard's strength is her spells, everything else is secondary. She learns new spells as she experiments and grows in experience, and she can also learn them from other wizards. In addition, over time a wizard learns to manipulate her spells so they go farther, work better, or are improved in some other way. A wizard can call a familiar- a small, magical, animal companion that serves her. With a high Intelligence, wizards are capable of casting very high levels of spells.


Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be?, courtesy of Easydamus (e-mail)

The Holiday Season

It's exactly one week away from Christmas. Sure, the weather is cooperating as well as can be expected for SoCal. We've all the decorations up in the apartment. I've got the magic box making the outside lights dance. We've gone to Thoroughbred Lane to walk their streets to take in their nutty, over-the-top lights. We've gone Christmas shopping. We've seen the fake snow at Victoria Gardens.

But it just doesn't feel like the holidays yet. It still seems weeks away. I know part of that is the fact I have to work until Friday, the 21st. Then it's the weekend and suddenly it's Christmas. It sucks to have to work that late in the season. (Yes, yes, I know, working in education I'm lucky to have two weeks off for the holidays, paid, when no one in private industry does. Doesn't stop me from complaining sometimes.)

I think part of it too is that this is a weird holiday season. It's one in which Amanda and I and indeed our entire families are kinda waiting for the other shoe to drop. Amanda is 9 months in and could go into labor concievably at any point now. Her due date is January 11, and first time mothers are apparently typically late. So it's entirely likely little Lorelei Leigh will arrive somewhere around January 15 or so. But it doesn't stop us from having that thought in the back of the head that no matter what we are doing or where we are going, it might all have to come to a screeching halt to go to the hospital.

It's not a bah-humbug sort of mood; it's just kinda weird is all.

The tastes of the holiday season...

One of the best parts about the holiday season is the food, especially the sweets. One of the best parts about holidays sweets is getting to lick the spoon and/or the bowl...

Just 15 Minutes Can Save You...

Because I haven't posted one of these in a while...

My Christmas Madness Hits New Peaks (or lows...)

I love Christmas lights and decorations. Utterly love them. I suppose in some ways it's a guilty, no-longer secret pleasure. I started as a young man, helping my Dad do the outside lights. Eventually I got to trying to organize the lights, to figure out their placements, suggest new purchases, the whole thing.

Once I moved out, that was one thing that I really missed. The only way to satisfy that craving was to visit those wacky neighborhoods where everyone went crazy with lights, animatronics, inflatables, the whole business. But instead of laughing at them, I was jealous. I wanted to be those people with the house that can be seen from space on Christmas Eve.

For some reason or other, perhaps it's her pregnancy, Amanda has really let me go nuts with decorations this year. We now have five good sized plastic tubs filled with Halloween decorations thanks to her indulging me (and a lot of day-after bargain hunting on her part). This Christmas, well, as you can see, it's craziness with lights. A few weeks back, I saw a box of electronics that cam preloaded with 20 songs, a speaker, six power inputs and the ability to make those lights plugged in dance to the music. Like that house with the lights that are totally synched with that TransSiberian Orchestra song. And now, for only $120 suggested retail price, you too can do it too.

But at that price, it was too much. Until the day after Thanksgiving...where it came down to only $60. So like idiots, we woke up at 5:50 to hit Michael's to make sure I got the Lights And Sounds Of Christmas box at 50% off.

I've got a total of 8 strands of lights...the power load of this bad boy will let me do anywhere between 30-40 strings depending on their wattage...can you imagine what I could do with a real house and a proper yard? Amanda shudders at the thought...

Stole this from Frank's blog

Thievery is apparently acceptable in the post-modern digital world. At least this kind of thievery, in which postings and ideas from other blogs get taken and posted on your own. I know, I know, most of them are called "memes" but let's be honest, most of the time it's just a little digital pickpocketing.

And before I sound too grumpy (which I don't really mean to be), it's all good.

I found this on Frank's blog (see the link on the side, it's the #2 Lane one) and as an English teacher, I couldn't resist.

Out, damned offwhite knight! Out, I say!

Which work of Shakespeare was the original quote from?

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