Pregnancy Update + Classic Novels

For My friend, I'll give a brief update. Unfortunatly there's not much to update. She's now wrapping up week 14, 2 weeks now into the 2nd Trimester. She's still tired and still nauseous, we haven't hit that Mystical day where suddenly you feel terrific.
However, she is more up and around than before, at least by my countenence.

She's not showing, or at least very very slightly. She's gained one pound since the pregnancy, so the kid's still a lightweight.


Now onto something that disturbed and upset me. I tend to listen to Audio CD's to and fro work, because i got bored with NPR and music radio. Well, I went to the library and saw Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. SCORE! I thought. A classic horror novel. And it's unabridged. JOY!

Well, I hate to say I was dissapointed, but dear Lord, it's so wordy and slow.... Pages and pages of descriptions that moves the plot NOWHERE! Then BOOM we have the monster.. great... then pages about his depression on what he did... then we get to the point where the creature finds Frankenstein to talk about his life thus far.... He got much pleasure and countenence... and he was BORING! I'm sorry, i really am... but classic novels have way to much exposition. Some of it is necessary, but I felt it was way to much. I stopped at Disc 5, I just couldn't do it. I feel like I failed or something, as I should appreciate these novels. Now I'm afraid to try Dracula, the Invisible Man, etc.

It should have a warning label on it: "Warning: if you cannot stand the Scarlet Letter or the Great Gatsby, then this novel may not be for you."

Double XP weekend on CoH/CoV rocked!

Okay, so I didn't do much in the way of house chores, as my online game kept me glued to it for the majority of the weekend. Let's recap:

1) My Villains group made it to Level 20 and received their new costume & Cape.
2) My Villains supergroup base has been updated with all the prestige earned from Douple XP weekend.
3) My Hero group made a new level, a particular milestone as when you reach the 30s in levels, climbing them becomes a chore.
3) My solo characters each gained at least one, others two levels.


The only downside is I may have burned myself a bit. Tonight is Mowing the lawn, and the week will be filled with mundane house chores.

I remembered a dream!

This is a unique situation for me, because since I turned about 13, I haven't remembered any of my dreams. I know I have them, but as soon as the alarm kicks off, it fades away into the nethers of my poriatal lobes.

Anyway, The gist of the dream was my wife was avoiding me whilst we were at a grocery store. I don't think it was rudeness, just she was very busy finding what she needed.

The grocery store was elaborate among elaborate. It was a mansion of grocery stores, with aisles for as long as the eye could see.

And apparently a fully stocked restaraunt, because my brother was there constantly feeding me. The meal I was eating before I woke up was a very large Pork Chop on top of Mashed Potatoes, no gravy.

then the alarm went off.


I distinctly remember C-3P0 being somewhere in there, but the specifics of that went away at 5:00am CDT.

I forgot how much I enjoyed the 4th

Living in Kansas for the past 21 years, I have slowly moved away from fountains, snaps, sparklers, firecrackers, smoke bombs, tanks, etc. Because most of them have become illegal. I never really minded, I lived in areas that had good views of large firework displays.

I recently moved back to Missouri, and once again felt like a little kid running in my granmother's backyard with a sparkler smoking it up pretending it's the Genesis Planet from Star Trek III.

I bought a box of fountains for 30 bucks. Good buy. All Black Cat, a trusted name in small level explosives, and spent from 8:30 to 10 shooting eveyrthing in my armory.

Started off small with simple cones that emit showers of sparks, then up to the crackling ones, some with screaming whistles, then to the saturn missles (this one near the end tipped on its side and started shooting at us, so we had to take cover)

Then the finale, a Mortar Shell Cannon that shot 6 balls of pretty light high into the air.

I'm glad I'm having a kid, My Grandfather loved the 4th, who passed it to mom, who passed it to me, and I must pass it along. It's just too damn much fun.