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Jan. 2nd, 2013 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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alaricmacconnal's and Elsbeth's yesterday for
a New Year's Day party, which meant more gaming. I had fun playing
more Dixit
(blackpaladin, which expansions were in there?), and
Dani played Constantinopolis,
a resource-management game that sounded similar to Puerto Rico but
is twice as long (or thereabouts). I haven't played it yet.
2013 was getting off to a great start but then I had to go back to work. Powerball, you have failed me. :-) (Ok, I've never actually bought my own lottery ticket, but when a group is forming at work I always buy in because I'd sure feel stupid if I didn't and half the company won buckets of money and left.)
Resolution? 1280x1024, but maybe I'll get a new monitor this year.
(I think it was merle_ who inspired that idea.) Though I'd
rather keep the aspect ratio I have now (i.e. I'm not so thrilled with
the widescreen monitors that are all the rage these days).
Orlando is currently chasing his tail. I thought that was a dog thing. (He's got one white pixel on the end of it, but I don't think it's that in particular that he's chasing.) More generally, he and Giovanni seem to be settling in, though I still can't pick either up for more than a few seconds and I had only 50% success on last week's vet visit. Giovanni has gained a pound in the last month, so I guess Orlando isn't being as pushy about the food dishes as I thought.
Netflix only gives you about a week's notice when something is going to disappear from their streaming service. Last week I noticed that Farscape, which had been languishing there for a while, was slated to disappear, so I watched the first eight episodes to decide if I want to queue up DVDs. It looked to me like interesting characters and underwhelming plots, but I'm mindful that some good shows (like B5) took a while to settle in. To those who've seen it: does it get better?
Apparently I can't post comments on LJ tonight, so some of you will probably get some belated comments when that changes. Let's see if I can post an entry.
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Date: 2013-01-04 01:56 am (UTC)Coincidentally, I just started watching SG-U. (I just finished Atlantis.) Whenever Dr. Rush comes on I want to shout "Mr Gold!". :-)