Parentheticals

Having a weekend with no Sunday meetings is an amazing thing. We should have fifth Sundays more often. They allow for more naps. Andrea told me on Sunday that she wants to grow up to 'be a Rusty'... I am not quite sure what I think of that. Sara has been sleeping well for the last few days. She is a pretty happy baby. Perhaps even easier than Andrea was at her age. UnNethack has slowed down its release schedule recently (Which means that I am getting bored waiting for updates on when another release will be forthcoming.) I have (briefly) considered making my own version of Nethack. The thing that causes me to have presentiments about that is that the code is horrible to behold, and I am not really keen on delving into it. I have sleeved all of the Polynesia cards - everything is ready for our first time playing Polynesia with a real deck this weekend. I just finished 'A Brief History of Time' (which I have not (surprisingly) read before). It was interesting, b...

I haven't posted in a while because of supreme busyness (or, as Milne would write it Supreme Busyness). This last week we bought three kinds of grapes at sunflower market: black, red, and green. Black grapes are pretty good - tart with a harder skin. Though they aren't directly analogous to the wild grapes of Michigan (being large and seedless and sweeter by far), they do remind me of them (the days spent picking them by the bunch and eating them (for years afterward just the thought of those grapes would make my mouth water (because the sourness of the grapes required a lot of saliva to raise the PH to a manageable level.))) The thing about sunflower market is that they have excellent quality produce, but it is fairly expensive. In order to get you in to the store they sell one thing at a highly competitive price each week, Wednesday to Wednesday. The current sale is cherries - 99 cents a pound. I would highly recommend that anyone in the salt lake area go and get some. ...

Good morning. How are you? I'm Doctor Worm. I'm interested in things. (At the very least this week has been an interesting one) My Polynesia cards have not yet arrived (They were due to be finished printing on Wednesday of last week, but I got an email on Friday last from SuperiorPOD saying that my order was complete, and on Monday I got an email saying that my cards had been shipped.) When they arrive I will do a post about how they are (quality and packaging mostly) I have been toying with the idea of replacing the Strategy board with individual cards for different strategies, and cards to indicate how many points you have. I think that it could make the game much cheaper to print in the long run. I have multiple different options for printing point cards, and I want to make sure that I choose a cheap one that is also easy to use. Here the options are (from cheapest to most expensive) 0) Tell the player to get paper and pencil and keep track of their points (like Munc...

Whatever that means. This weekend I waxed the gouda that we made a few weeks ago. We went to a farmers market at Gardner Village on Saturday. We bought some beets and some cherries. The cherries are pretty good. We also lit off a few more fireworks this weekend - Andrea is starting to like them more. Yesterday we made pizza - pineapple mushroom pepperoni pizza and pineapple mushroom sausage pizza. We added 1/7 white flour this time, and the crust came out way more fluffy than it usually does (not necessarily a good thing - I like the pizza for the toppings usually (but not a bad thing either, it is not like thicker crusted pizza is horrible, it is just different)). I have wanted to reread the Chronicles of Amber since yesterday. I will probably give in and read them some time soon. Perhaps when we are stuck in the hospital after Alison has the baby. I want to reread them because someone commented on the internet that they thought that Corwin was the villain of the s...

It's a trap!* I just opened (on Sunday) a Parmesan that has been ageing for ~8 months. It was really great. For those of you not in Utah right now, Utah is on fire this week. As of yet it hasn't come near to our house. Most of the fires seem to have been caused by random things (not fireworks like you would expect). Speaking of fireworks, we lit off some fireworks last night. Andrea is scared to look at sparklers, but eventually became brave enough to watch ground blooms. We had one roman candle and she watched it warily, but we didn't try to light off the crackling balls. Perhaps later. We wondered last night if Alison was going into labor (but the contractions did not continue to progress). Perhaps it will happen this week. Yesterday we had a 4th of July celebration with hamburgers (with the works (including Mitake mushrooms)), home made ice cream, and kool aid. The Poulsons came over, and brought Grandma-ma (and the little dog Maggie) over. *not actually a...