weekend 25th 2014

Let's see, the weekend of the 25th of April, 2014?

Well me and my girl finished Orphan Black season 1.  It was definitely worth watching.  Around the time we got a "big bad guy" reveal, I was put off a little by its euro-trash, cheesey obession with clubs.  I don't get why Europe keeps doing that in their media, its the equal of the "big oil" company being behind all the evil in the world here in the States.  By the time the end of the season came, it finished pretty well.  I will watch Season 2 eventually.  Oh and also, if you recognize a certain actor's voice and say "where did I see him before?"  Look up the Star Trek Next Gen episode "A Matter of Time".

I'm looking for a non-Overloard, non-GM, non-DM Dungeon Crawl board game.  I know that right now, ironically, the Dungeons and Dragons board games are the hotness and the new standard for this, but they are out of my budget atm.  I've looked at Dungeon! and also I'm looking at alternate ways to turn Savage Worlds(or possibly 13th Age) into a randomized dungeon crawl.  I play a lot of games on Sundays during the hot months, and all i have is last year's games, which I've also been playing inside all winter... so yea.  Just need something fresh in the rotation.

I'm also kind of writing up some ideas for my own game set up for a Dungeon Crawl.  Its sort of a campaign simulator.  The idea is to have 4 dungeons(out of 16 choices) and a boss fight by the end of it.  It involves evil armies marching to a city to summon a God, and your choice of dungeons delays one army while the others march.  By the end, your choice of dungeons determines not only the abilities of your characters, but what the final boss battle ends up being.  It is designed to be played multiple times and with different combinations affecting things each time without getting out of hand.  I'm thinking of shrinking it from 4 to 3 armies and seeing how the diversity holds up.  More on it later if anything comes of the ideas.

Sunday, there are SO many bees out this year.  They are saying we might have a mild Summer since the Great Lakes are still 30% frozen, but the weather this year has been so atypical compared to the last 4(the only 4 I've really taken notice of in recent memory).  The flowers are all blooming at odd times and instead of lots of red wasps, I'm seeing almost all yellow jackets and bumble bees.  We have fruit trees, so I'm used to there being yellow jackets all over our property, but they almost never come to the porch like they are now.  Also I'm worried that the blue Hydrangea bush at my girl's place has died, it was my favorite new flower.  Its possible I'm early on it, but its not looking good...

Trying not to give up too much information, but my girl and much of my family participated in a 5k run recently and I'm super proud of them for finishing it.  I hear it was actually some pretty hilly terrain for a 5k, and I know it was in the hot Sun.  It was nice of the organizers and some good Samaritans to give out fresh fruit and water.  There was a health sponsorship side to the event, and since there are blood pressure medicines that dislike potassium intake, they had an alternative to the oranges and bananas that didn't have as high potassium, and I thought that was nice of them.

I don't like mayo, but since it is the base for so many foods that I have made or like as of late, I was happy to find the Olive oil mayo that Kraft makes.  I put very little mayo into whatever I"m using it with, and the fact this stuff works is pretty good.  I've been making meat salads, which I've disliked as a child, but lately have been making in a way that I enjoy them.  When I say meat, I mean like Ham Salad.  I don't touch chicken salad because my girl makes the best and I won't even try.  This week I'm going to make some asian tuna salad with sesame oil, onions and some chili peppers for a kick.  I eat them in romaine lettuce wraps, typically for lunch since a few spoonfuls = 200ish calories.

I think that's enough for the weekend.  I have no idea really what sort of posts I'm doing this week.  I'm in activity slumps since Easter came and went.  I need to get up and get to doing stuff, and I need to get a goal set up for the next few months.