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#1 Jul 06 2015 at 8:25 AM Rating: Good
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Mine was mostly good. Drove to Denver. Spent time with family. Took a party bus to a soccer game/fireworks display. Did some shopping. Then I spent the night in the hospital with a skin infection.
#2 Jul 06 2015 at 8:41 AM Rating: Excellent
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Mine was skin infection free.

Visited friends for a cookout on Friday. They live in a town that did its fireworks display on the 3rd (don't ask me why) so we went out and watched that since you got an excellent view from their house. Worked out better than fighting traffic and crowds to park the little one on a blanket for five hours waiting for it to get dark enough to start.

Saturday stayed at the house and cooked some pork chops. Jophiel v3.0 was sleeping by the time the fireworks really got started but I roused him out of bed and he delighted to sneak out of the house past bedtime on my shoulders and watch the fireworks over the treeline.

Sunday was a Sunday. Went out for breakfast, spent too much money at the hardware store and kicked around the house. Played some vidya games in there (Sniper Elite 3, mostly).
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#3 Jul 06 2015 at 8:42 AM Rating: Good
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Went to Pennsylvania to hang out with parental units. Standard barbeque and such. Spent at least a hundred bucks buying fireworks only for my little one to suddenly develop a fear of loud explosions and bright lights. Didn't use the left overs to make a hat, at least. Wife and her went to see Inside Out, and said she enjoyed that at least.
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#4 Jul 06 2015 at 9:00 AM Rating: Good
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Spur of the moment trip to Barcelona, then raised a cup of tea to celebrate shedding the troublesome 'angsty teen' colonials a while back.
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#5 Jul 06 2015 at 10:15 AM Rating: Good
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(Sniper Elite 3, mostly).
That's the one with the kill xrays, right?
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Well, Sniper V2 had them as well. No idea if the original Sniper Elite had them. But, yeah.

Elite 3 is mechanically almost identical to V2 but with much better maps. V2 kept sticking you in narrow corridors where you spent half the game playing Run 'n Gun with your SMG rather than sniping. In 3, the maps are much more open and I think I used my SMG maybe three times the whole game.
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#7 Jul 06 2015 at 11:36 AM Rating: Good
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The idea of running 'n gunning in a sniper game sounds so weird, but I guess making it more realistic wouldn't be much of a game.
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#8 Jul 06 2015 at 12:04 PM Rating: Excellent
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Biked From Jasper to Banff on the icefields parkway, and hiked up to abbot pass hut. Was a blast!
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The idea of running 'n gunning in a sniper game sounds so weird, but I guess making it more realistic wouldn't be much of a game.

Well, Sniper Elite 3 is a lot less run 'n gunning your SMG and a lot more waiting for clear shots and masking sounds. Still not super-realistic but at least you're sniping. It's set in WWII as well so you don't get the whole super-sniper rifle with 100% silencing action or anything. More like waiting for a plane to bomb a nearby target so the explosions mask the sound of your Lee Enfield. But, you know, it's a video game so yeah... one dude takes out a camp of thirty guys plus a tank and all that.
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#10 Jul 06 2015 at 1:22 PM Rating: Good
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Friday - Worked for 4 hours and had the rest of the day off.

Saturday - Baseball practice for Mini-Me then off to the inlaws for Pool/Margaritas/BBQ

Sunday - a couple of errands and then lounged around the house.
#11 Jul 06 2015 at 2:42 PM Rating: Excellent
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Friday - lazed around, took a new pair of walking shoes out for a walk. Hard to get their tiny leashes attached.
Met some friends for dinner and then repaired to one couple's house for some board games and gossip.

Saturday - longer walk, set up new computer, played few games, followed by cowering under the bed for fireworks hour.

Sunday - brunch, gaming with my regular group, lazing away a warm summer afternoon with reading and such.

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#12 Jul 06 2015 at 2:53 PM Rating: Good
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Samira wrote:
Met some friends for dinner and then repaired to one couple's house for some board games and gossip.


You repaired someone's house just so they would play board games with you? Have you considered getting more, better friends? Smiley: dubious
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#13 Jul 06 2015 at 3:05 PM Rating: Excellent
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Repaired... to. Their house.
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#14 Jul 06 2015 at 4:29 PM Rating: Excellent
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You repaired other houses too? This must have been an epic board game.
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#15 Jul 06 2015 at 7:47 PM Rating: Excellent
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Oh, it was. It was sort of like Chutes and Ladders, but with dry wall and nail guns.
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#16 Jul 06 2015 at 8:34 PM Rating: Good
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I played a game of hide and seek a bit like that.

Well, am playing. I suppose it's still going.
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#17 Jul 06 2015 at 8:53 PM Rating: Good
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Nothing to see here, pervs.

Edited, Jul 6th 2015 10:54pm by Kavekkk
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#18 Jul 07 2015 at 7:34 AM Rating: Good
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More reason to stare.
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#19 Jul 07 2015 at 11:02 AM Rating: Good
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Since it was Saturday I got to watch my two year old granddaughter, though my wife feels it's the other way around. I can't help it if I enjoy watching cartoons and making a mess with crayons, coloring books, and lego blocks. All baby girl wants to do is read books and talk to the dogs. So boring. And why is it bad to blow bubbles inside the house?

Later in the day, in a tribute to my manliness and to July Fourths long gone by I made a fire in the Weber grill, got some charcoal heated up, and barbequed some hotdogs.

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And why is it bad to blow bubbles inside the house?
What kind of horrible, joyless monster did you marry?! Smiley: eek
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And why is it bad to blow bubbles inside the house?


Isn't that more of a dark, back-alley sort of thing?
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#22 Jul 08 2015 at 7:27 AM Rating: Good
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I wouldn't let a clown in my house, either.
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#23 Jul 08 2015 at 9:48 AM Rating: Good
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Person 1: It's horrible! I got so drunk, I blew chunks....

Person 2: That's not so bad.

Person 1: No, you don't understand...Chunks is my dog!
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What kind of sicko calls their dog Chunks?
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My mom had some health related issues over the last couple weeks. Spent some time in the hospital getting tests and whatnot. Upshot is that she's getting old and her heart isn't as strong as it once was. She doesn't have any clogs in her arteries (they checked), but is still having some issues getting her blood flow rate up. This prompted the entire family to decide to do some work around her house to fix things up for her to make it more livable and comfortable. That's turned out to be a much larger project than we thought. She apparently just didn't bother to tell us that certain things were not working, like say the drain in her kitchen, or a leaky toilet water intake that she "fixed" by just turning it off and using a bucket of water to flush the toilet, or that she didn't want to open the windows to cool down the house because her screens all had holes in them and bugs would get in. She's stubborn like that.

So I spent the fourth digging a trench from the kitchen exterior wall away from the house a few feet and then along it to join up with the septic line. That was a painful reminder of why I would normally just hire someone to do this sort of thing. But hey, it was that or help replace a toilet. I'm thinking I got the wrong end of that deal, to be honest.

Oh. And in the course of cleaning and fixing, we discovered that she does actually have a freaking AC unit in the house. She doesn't use it because it costs too much to run. Sigh... Old people. What can you do?

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My mom had some health related issues over the last couple weeks. Spent some time in the hospital getting tests and whatnot. Upshot is that she's getting old and her heart isn't as strong as it once was. She doesn't have any clogs in her arteries (they checked), but is still having some issues getting her blood flow rate up. This prompted the entire family to decide to do some work around her house to fix things up for her to make it more livable and comfortable. That's turned out to be a much larger project than we thought. She apparently just didn't bother to tell us that certain things were not working, like say the drain in her kitchen, or a leaky toilet water intake that she "fixed" by just turning it off and using a bucket of water to flush the toilet, or that she didn't want to open the windows to cool down the house because her screens all had holes in them and bugs would get in.

Surely she just moved to the working house down the road? :) I hope she feels better.
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