Nerd T.V.

Nerd T.V. is an activity that takes place upon the nerd pod, a family gathering. Nerd T.V. is the connection of Dad's laptop to a 23" computer monitor, as well as a connection to the speaker system we have in the living room. We then go online to watch free shows at whatever network site it is that has the show that we want to watch. Fox.com for the next episode of Bones, for example. We then watch and enjoy.

D&D

I am blogging about D&D. I honestly see no reason to do so because all of my readers already both know how to play and know what kind of character I do. So instead, I shall talk about Death & Destruction, because I feel like it.

Death is when you die. You are dead. You are nothing besides worm food. Or maggots. Or anyone of a number of things' food.

Destruction totally erases something from existence. Boom. You are gone. The end.

Playing Cello

So, it appears that I have been told to talk about playing the cello today. Playing cello is about coordination between your left hand and your right. It is about learning how to move your wrist without moving your arm.

Probably the first thing I had to do when learning the cello was gaining enough strength in my left arm to actually be able to hold down the string when playing the notes. After that, it was important to develop enough control over my right arm to not sound really wispy or crunchy when playing my notes.

After a little while, I got to the point of consistently being able to hold the strings down in first position, and being able to kinda-sorta read the notes when there was a finger above it.

And that was when I was put into GGP. I could not read any of the notes on the music. I was stuck. It took me a good couple weeks to get used to it. After three more months, I finally managed to get a good grip on intonation so it did not sound really bad whenever I played. I do, however, have a long way before I can play this.

LARP

So I went to the LARP for my first time ever on Saturday. I found it to be a lot of fun. We voted on missions, and I remember going after one guy with my trusty spear. He was wielding a bow that had blades on it, so he could use it a bit like a sword, and I was running towards him with my spear. He had one arrow left, and he threw it at me, and missed. It went harmlessly by my foot, missing by a couple inches. He looked at me, sighed, and said "I hate Spears." It was one of the coolest parts of my day. It's funny. After a little while, a lot of the players just started to run away when they see a spear going after them.

Game night

Game night today was essentially a long game of Dominion. Everyone rushed to buy treasure maps, so they were the first to go. After that, we all enjoyed buying large amounts of cutpurses. It annoyed Jon to no end, which is a very good thing. He kept on threatening to do mean things like bite us if we did not stop playing them. We ignored him and did it anyway. Most of the rest of us had lighthouses, so we were totally unharmed.

The nerd pod

The nerd pod. After all of us had laptops, it became a family tradition. It is a simple thing, really. Every evening, each of us sits on our respective spots on the couch, causing a large concentration of nerds in one location. We each as well get a cat, curled up on one of our arms. This causes an optimal concentration of cute restfulness among cats and nerdiness among humans. That is the nerd pod.

Language lab

So, in the end, language lab was nothing more than going there and look at what we got assigned at the lab last week and doing that, as well as learning a bit of pronunciation for Japanese. I have a decent ability to pronounce Japanese already, so it was not all that difficult.

This morning, after I had taken my shower, I found a spider crawling around in my armpit. It was quite startling, and so I flicked it off and ran away. It was a average sized spider, one that we call a "Spike".