weekend

[cellio]

Last night tangerinpenguin, Steve, and Pam came over for dinner and gaming. We ended up playing Iron Dragon (after rolling a die due to indecision). Pam had not played before, but she picked it up quickly and did well. It was a fun game, and while I wasn't close to winning when Steve hit 250 points, I didn't feel like I had played a bad game.

Embla surprised me: she actually came into the dining room and accepted attention from Pam. Pam had never been to our house before and hadn't met Embla previously (I'm not sure if she's met the other two); Embla is generally very "shy" (read: reclusive) when dealing with anyone new (or a crowd of any significant size). She's been getting better, and this was another milestone. (I've had Embla for five years, and she was a two-year-old stray of uncertain background then. So she's lived most of her life with me and knows I'll take care of her, but she's still very skittish.)

Today we had lunch with ralphmelton and lorimelton. We geeked about D&D. :-)

Tonight Dani and I are going to see the Reduced Shakespeare Company in a show called "The Reducers". They're covering a large number of classic works of literature in a small amount of time. (I think the run time is a bit under 2 hours, including an intermission.) The reviews I've seen have been positive, so this should be fun. We ended up with free tickets, and they even look to be good seats! (I was trying to score free tickets for "Man of La Mancha" but missed and ended up with these instead. Which is fine.)

We saw their "Complete Works of Shakespeare in 43 Minutes", or whatever it's called, a few years ago, and that was a lot of fun except for one part that was in highly-questionable taste. But it's probably pretty hard to do a tasteful parody of Titus Andronicus, so I suppose that can be forgiven.

It looks like we're going to see LOTR on Erev Xmas.

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Re: RE Erev Xmas

[lefkowitzga.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Thank you. These were inspired.