Fun? With D-travel.

Last night we had a session of the GURPS Neverwhere game at Lazar's place. It was the end of a milestone at work, so to celebrate, we'd gone out to Desert Fire for Mohitos -- not that I actually had any alcohol. Instead, I spent two hours chatting with people and munching on chips and salsa... so by the time I realized I was half an hour late setting off, I was also completely full.

I got to Lazar's place around 7ish, which isn't *that* late, and found that they all wanted me to take them to Torrerros, since it was my turn to buy dinner... and I was like "No way! I can't eat anything, and I'm not going to sit there at a restaurant watching you all eat." The wafer thin mint joke was pulled out for the second time that night, and I ended up getting them take out from Torrerros, which meant that at least I could look over game stuff on my laptop while they ate.

( game summary )

After the game I got home, to find that my DVR had failed to record Battlestar Galactica -- it'd gotten the first twenty minutes, then stopped. When I came home and turned it on, the screen was black, until I changed the channel... maybe I have to leave it turned on for it to record things reliably? ARGH.

33;water'll be replayed at least four more times, so I haven't actually missed anything important yet, but if it does this for something like Lost I'll be really annoyed. If it keeps doing this, and I can't figure out how to make it stop, I think I'll have to get rid of it, and just go back to using a timer on a VCR. Although my succeess rate with that method isn't very good either.

House of Flying Sap

It was not a good movie. Maybe the good was hidden in the part I slept through, like in Episode II where I slept through boba fett. Sorry, Jango.

The fights were pretty boring... there was some interesting stuff with the bamboo, I guess, but on the whole... I mean, for one thing, they were mostly fake. I mean, in the movie, one or more sides in the battle was only pretending to fight.

What it was, was a love story, with the most awkward love scenes ever in the history of mankind.

After the movie, I was depressed, and drove around a bit, until it started hailing and getting really slippery.

The DVR 'crashed' again when I did a test to see if the problem I saw Friday night was typical, so I tried leaving it powered on and that seems to work okay, so I guess I can just not turn it off ever. I never turned the old cable box off. I'll have to give it a few days to see if that actually works.

'Solitaire' D+D today was marred by Speckles refusing to shut up about how he wants to play a dragon. Only without paying for the hit dice and ECL, because he wasnts to be a full caster with all the power points and spell levels and all. Seriously, he went on about it for HOURS.

Skyler...

Hardly anyone showed up at Crossroads today, which wasn't a big surprise, because, like, FC. It was sort of a surprise that I showed up, although probably not to anyone but myself. We were *supposed* to have the Sunday game today, but everyone cancelled except for Eric and Josh -- including Tom, whose house we'd be playing at. Although, Tom didn't actually cancel, someone else said 'I think Tom said he couldn't do it this weekend', and he never contradicted that. So, maybe I should have been there... we would have just been playing board games or something anyway, though.

But instead, I went to Crossroads, and played some magic. Skyler was there -- not a furry, but one of the people who hangs around at Crossroads and plays magic, normally on Saturdays, but he was there that Sunday for some reason and saw us playing. It was nice to face down some unusual decks, or at least some different ones than what I normally play -- Slivers isn't exactly 'unusual'. Kitsunetaur also bought some alternate decks.

Afterwards, we went to Legend's, and watched the Tanuki Wars, which was cute, although it dragged near the end. Oh, and the last half or so of some weird show about a train to heaven.

I got back to find that the DVR had crashed again, even though I'd left it on, and I'd missed my third chance to record 33;Water. I called Comcast, and they reset the machine, erasing everything, and told me that that might fix it. Although of course I'll have to wait until it's reloaded its series info, and then set up all the series I want to record again. Might be able to do that tonight, depending on how fast it gets the data.

Tomorrow is the last chance to record 33;Water together, but I think they're getting shown individually later on this week. I don't really know what to expect... I guess I expect it to crash again. If it does, they'll replace the machine, they said.

Hating is in effect. All I really want from electronics is that they work like they're supposed to for the basic use scenarios, but that never seems to work out for me.