Tag: roseville

I had to be back to work oncall this afternoon (either that or stay until at least this evening if not tomorrow, which would be terrible traffic and no one wanted to do that), so Dave and I departed at 8 to allow plenty of time for other vacationers to interfere with our travels. They declined to get up early enough to do so, and we made it back by 10:30, so that was nice.

Nothing happened for my entire on-call shift, but of course I didn’t know things were going to be that easy ahead of time.

Played: Nothing, Jus was too busy traveling and/or recovering from her sleepover for Zoomwarts.

NaNoWriMo Words: 24051 + 1691 = 25742. I made it to the halfway mark before the end of the month, as foretold in prophecy.

Today was much less cooking-oriented, so more time for board games! We played two games of 7 Wonders, one of the MHA card game, and one of Lords of Waterdeep. Many leftovers were eaten. Josh and Oli escaped out the back door without actually encountering any visitors, but we waved and yelled. There was another park visit, this time without Dave but with some parents. It was very pleasant, aside from social anxiety.

NaNoWriMo Words: VACATION.

Today was mostly food-orientated, but I was not involved in food preparation, so I helped Dave take the kids to a park, played Dominion with Empires, watched My Hero Academia 4-7 because Jus is now old enough to watch it, listened to Jus and Kate geek out about MHA fanfic, listened to Ayse and Kate geek out about Elfquest fanfic, and ate some more.

NaNoWriMo Words: VACATION.

Started the day with brunch at The Table with Ayse and Ken and Jus (who skipped school and is now an anime girl). It was good, I should go there more often! Then I traveled with Ken to Roseville (which hasn’t been in Roseville for several years now) and because we left before noon, the traffic was not terrible and we arrived in good time. Everyone else, who had to pack children and wait for Nonny to finish school and such, had to fight through holiday traffic and didn’t arrive until dinner time. (Marith was defeated by capitalism and could not go at all.)

We searched for the lost art of conversation and played Dominion with Nocturne (vampires and raiders and bats, oh my!) and also the My Hero Academia card game (a combination of Guillotine and Lords of Waterdeep but at least Mineta still sucks) and ate Chinese food until everyone was unconscious.

Josh and Oli didn’t arrive from Land of Plague until super-late, but their tests were negative so Ayse and Ken did not have to pack up the children and flee. Josh and Oli remained isolated in their room for the whole time they were in residence, though, which seems like a terrible way to spend Thanksgiving.

NaNoWriMo Words: VACATION.

Back from Roseville vacation (no Roseville actually vacationed in). There were friends and food and Jus got to see Elyssa again and swimming and Josh is TWENTY how is that even possible?! and board games and swimming and pirate fireworks over the back fence and Kate’s hair is so short and I only blew up the toilet once and too much heat.

Played on vacation: Roll for the Galaxy (I still suck at it), Terraforming Mars (I… surprisingly came in second?), Codenames (Jus had the insights!).

Read on vacation: Lockdown Tales (Neal Asher): Short stories, Polity or post-Polity, mostly full of violence and depravity and robots and sometimes aliens.

Read on vacation: Drifter’s Folly (Glynn Stewart): Fourth in the series about humans trying to put galactic civilization back together after destroying the alien empire, following up on the great betrayal of book three.

Read today: Artifact Space (Miles Cameron): Space opera with a plucky teenager escaping rape-culture horror to fake her way onto a giant spaceship and save the day repeatedly despite alien economic intrigue and imposter syndrome.

Words on vacation: NONE.

Words today: FAIL. I did read through what I wrote on one project, and it’s pretty terrible, so maybe not writing is for the best.