Last night, after getting home, I watched the season finale of The Wheel of Time streaming series on Prime. I will state again, this is not the books. If you are hoping for a faithful adaptation of the books, this is not that. Run away. Do not watch this. It is not that at all. It is its own thing. In this episode they killed off another character – one who had a long story line that intersected with a lot of other characters during the book series. And those are all gone now. She is really dead. I think they decapitated her. I have no idea where the show will go from here. The whole point of the books, I thought, was to see the Light (the good guys) go through lots of crap to become strong enough to fight the Dark in the Last Battle. From what the series is doing, there won’t be enough time to see that development. I am not amused. Will I still watch it? Sure, why not? I mean, so what if it is horrible. It is still a fantasy series that is being done fairly well. Just not really anything to do with the books except for a few names and a part of the lore. Sigh.
So, yes, last night, we trivialized again. It was a big group! Four people who aren’t regularly with us came. I think they each came up with an answer that no one else had. Fun night. I might have had a tad too much to drink, but it all ended ok. We didn’t place, which is sad. I think we did ok – except that we didn’t get the baffler quickly enough. One of the best teams got it the first round. I think we got it on the fourth round. Maybe got four points. That ten points really makes a huge difference, I think. We also had pretzels. Yay pretzels! If I already talked about trivia last night, well, now I did it twice…
Looks like I am sort of jumping around my life’s time line. And now we are going to talk about dashing.
It was a two dash day. The first dash followed in the footsteps of most of the rest of the dashes this week. Not enough money for too much driving. At least I didn’t have to decline any offers, which is always a good thing in my book. I was tempted to cancel on a couple of rides since I was getting such crap dashes. But I didn’t. I just took what the algorithm gave me. And suffered on.
My second dash was actually decent. I made more money than miles driven! Woo hoo! Still not a great dash, but certainly ok. Almost made up for all the bad dashes I have had this past week. (Not in terms of money, but in terms of driving vs. $$)
And that was more about yesterday.
I played a lot today. Which is a good thing. One of the things I like about old style RPGs like this one, is that you can save and go back to a point where things weren’t terrible. Yes, you may have to play through the tough bit again, but at least you have a sense of what will be needed from you in order to accomplish the goals. And not have your squad dying. I’m tempted to make a character that has high lockpicking skills and not much else going on. That skill seems inordinately important in these games.
I also neatened up the kitchen. Wiped a lot of counters and my wonderful middle table island thingie (thank you PvK). I did dishes, and caught up on glassware. I had accumulated a lot of dirty pint glasses. And lastly, I took the time to debone the duck! Woo hoo!!
Which means, I will be having duck for dinner tonight. I think I will fry one leg, and some of the skin. And warm up a few pieces of meat. And have more pasta with alfredo sauce. And a salad. And my last piece of store bought garlic cheese toast. Sounds like a good meal to me!
Still Life 