My gamer ADD is pretty bad, but I'm mainlining Guacamelee at the moment.
Glad to see you're doing well.
Still busy, but finding time to game
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 On 05/17/2015 at 08:31 PM by Ranger1 See More From This User » |
Ranger stuff: Still busy at work. Spring cleanup is still ongoing due to the late spring and also lack of the usual volunteers who normally help us out. The next week is going to be long, as I want the place looking good for the holiday weekend and I plan on working whatever it takes to get it looking that way. The good news is that we are now fully staffed, and the new hire seems like he may not have an off switch. This makes me happy.
Critter sightings include having to stop for a deer in the middle of the road on my way to work last week, a hairy woodpecker making a nest in a tree limb over a busy trail, being watched with much suspicion by a little brown bird called an ovenbird while I was working near its nesting area (they're ground nesters and their well-camouflaged nests look sort of like an old-fashioned beehive oven), a little bird called a brown creeper (it "creeps" up trees looking for bugs to eat) that is incredibly hard to see and I wouldn't have known it was on the tree if I hadn't seen it fly over and land, black-throated green warblers, black-and-white warblers, bobolinks, pileated woodpeckers, a yellow-rumped warbler, turkeys, Canada geese (note: the proper name is Canada goose, not Canadian goose), and the ever-present and much beloved osprey. Also came across a headless fish in the middle of the trail last week. Some osprey had klutzy talons and I bet his mate was not impressed with the fact that he got his breakfast and she didn't get hers.
Listening to: Finn & Haddie: Fathom This!, Tom Hall: Bottle Full For the Shantyman, John Roberts and Tony Barrand: Dark Ships in the Forest, Castlebay: Imbolc, and Alison McMorland and Geordie McIntyre: Where Ravens Reel. Been mostly a mellow listening week, except for the shanties off the first two CDs. Also went to the monthly shanty sing in Portsmouth yesterday. A smallish crowd compared to last month, but a good time.
Watching: When I manage to stay awake long enough, I'm still watching the new Hawaii Five-O on Netflix. I have three episodes to go and I'll have finished season four, which is all that's available on Netflix at the moment. I also watched Leon: The Professional, a darkly humorous move about a hitman and his twelve-year-old protege, played by Natalie Portman.
Reading: Still reading Cordelia Underwood by Van Reid. It's overdue at the library, but I don't want to take it back until I've finished it. I'm half-way there.
Playing: I've been bouncing between games, played a little Bravely Default, got distracted by Zone of the Enders, got distracted by my new pick up last week: Lego Batman 2. I'll probably play that one all the way through and then I'll probably go back to playing Arkham City, which I started a couple of months ago and then got distracted by Tales of Xillia 2, which I need to finish, as well. I'm blaming that one on work and not Gamer ADD, unlike all the others.
Exercise: Started running again after two months off. Bought a fancy pair of trail running shoes last week and signed up for three trail races this summer/early fall. They're six, nine, and twelve miles and are in July, August, and September. I figure if I can run a five mile snowshoe race, a six mile race on dirt should be a cakewalk. Or at least that's what I keep telling myself...
Have a great week and holiday weekend, Pixlbit Nation!
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