Thanksaversary The 13th

13 years of wedded bliss. Also see here.

Loosely Related

We decided to take advantage of a before Black Friday deal and get this for each other in honor of our impending 13th anniversary. Now you might think that the traditional gifts for the 13th are lace or textiles. Well if you look closely you can see it came with a little cleaning cloth. So there's your textiles right there.

Turkey 2 4 2

We had already bought a little turkey before being invited over for Thanksgiving yesterday, so we cooked it up this morning and had Thanksgiving Part 2.

Turkey

Thanksgiving dinner over at Jim and Trish's house.

Man Cannot Live By Skyrim Alone

So we don't drink a lot around here, and when we do it's wine, but I picked this up to go with Thanksgiving. It's a good beer in itself, but mostly I like it because I tasted it for the first time on a certain rooftop, so it brings back memories of one of the best trips ever.

Dragon On My Back

Another Skyrim screen shot. The graphics are really something else, and the physics too. Those hazy bits are snow blowing around in the wind in a very realistic way. So, as you can guess by the lack of other posts I've been playing a lot of Skyrim. Lots of Skyrim. Skyrim Skyrim Skyrim....Skyrim.


Skyrim.

Pickup

Awaiting Mari's return from Oregon.

The Skyrim's The Limit

With Dead Island out of the way, it can mean only one thing. I am now free to delve into Skyrim. Everything I've heard says it's awesome. So far the graphics alone are, this is a screen shot of live gameplay not a trailer or cinematic. Amazing. It's also supposed to be a 100 hour game that never gets boring. For those of you not initiated, game length is given in estimated hours it'll take you to play through it from start to finish one time. Average is about 20, shooters around 10, most RPGs around 40...so you can see where 100 falls. Goodbye world, I shall emerge emaciated and heavily bearded sometime in the spring. I'd add pale, but I'm already pale.

Dead Tired

This was loaned to me by Mari's boss, Jim. It was OK, got a little repetitive. I might actually be tired of smacking around zombies. Who knew that could happen?

Oliver Twist

Mystic has taken to carrying her food dish around with her for some reason. Not sure when this trend began or if it's her subtle way of hinting at something.

Lie Like A Dog

Snoozy Sunday morning with two dogs on my leg.

Drake Can't Chart

Finished the 3rd installment of the excellent Uncharted series. Good stuff. Not as good as 2, but 2 was one of the best games of all time so the bar was set pretty high.

The Face Of Addiction

Been drinking gallons of this stuff lately, can't get enough.

One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other

Mari's Vanderbilt dermatologist/wound care specialist told her to get this very specific kind of covering. We went to a pharmacy that shall remain nameless and the pharmacist wanders around, grabs something vaguely similar and says "Here it is." We had already looked it up on our phones, we knew it wasn't right. We left and got it quick shipped to us from Amazon. Pity the person who trusts that pharmacist with their health.

Final Gear

The final game in the trilogy, wrapped the story up nicely. It's such a popular series, will be interesting to see how they make more games now that the main plot has a definitive end. Prequals maybe.

Baseline 3

48 hour monitor. It being about 24 hours into the 48 at the time of this posting, I can tell you I hate this thing. It makes everything difficult because the wires get in the way, I can't take a shower, and I think I'm allergic to the pads that keep the wires stuck on because it itches like a mofo. Can you tell I'm annoyed?

Baseline 2

MRI. I couldn't bring my phone into the same room with it, but this sculpture thingy in the lobby kind of looks like a MRI machine. I'd never had one before, I started out fascinated, ended up bored. It took a while and all you can see is this white dome with a gray stripe about an inch above your face. They also gave me earplugs which added to the sense of isolation. I definitely see why they ask about claustrophobia before you go in.

Baseline 1

Full disclosure this was all yesterday. My baseline tests were at Centennial. First, the stress test, which was being wired up and running on a treadmill. I was most worried about this one, I'm not exactly in peak physical condition, but it went OK.

WOTM

November. Less spiders, more colors.