How about Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain? I read the fourth book in the five book series this year, Taran Wanderer, and it was good, if beneath my present reading level. Wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Prydain
River Horse beer yeah! The deli near my friends house, where I game, has a whole fridge full of unusual brews. I try something new each week usually just by picking an interesting label. This one was from a brewery in New Jersey and it was pretty good. http://riverhorse.com/
What an awesome thing to do. If I could go back to high school again I would go right for the nature science stuff. I wish I were doing that today.
A friend of mine was also deprived of TV by his parents. Now he's watching all sorts of stuff. Sometimes I'll watch with him and learn of some shows I now love like Party Down and Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Game & Watch was another thing I knew nothing about in the eighties. Funny, they were really popular.
The game is competent. There are no real problems with it and I think they did a good job with the history lessons. Thing is, some of these History Channel games are becoming rarer and they cost a little more than they should. This one was $15 at Gamestop, but it really should be $10 or under. Still, I think it was worth it.
Love the lighthouse photo. When I was doing more photography, I was shooting dragonflies too and looking them up in my Audubon field guide. I had so much fun doing that.
I remember when I left home for school, I was so disgusted with the vegging out in front of the TV that my whole family did, I would avoid it when I saw fellow students in the lounges doing the same thing. I still don't watch TV very much. Gaming is more participatory, and with a friend, it's a lot of fun. It doesn't feel like vegging out to me.
It's turn-based but with no real pauses. You have to decide quickly what to do. Every turn has a timer and you have to pay attention to when the timer ends so you can choose another action or the monster will smash you good. You can also just run around the battlefield in real time and pick up gems that pop out of enemies to give you health, magic, or boosts. I'm not that far into the game yet so I still haven't gotten completely comfortable with it.
I tried to see RIPD the week after it came out but it was already out of the theaters. I guess word got around after week 1 that it wasn't too good, and it got pulled.
