Friday Night's All Right for... um... Wolves?

Tonight was the Werewolf game! First session in weeks. We had a full house!
catsarah, commanderteddog, momentrabbit, ruiskafleck, sassy_fae and wggthegnoll were over. And velvetpage too, of course, but she was here already. And glad I am of that. :)


catsarah got a shirt. With dice on it. She's very proud of it. :)


wggthegnoll and his circa 1900s Borg costume. And ruiskafleck's tattoo.


momentrabbit is not half the man he was. No, seriously. Remarkable weight loss, sir. Kudos! (Also, commanderteddog was very amused by something. :) )


ruiskafleck smiles extra hard so wggthegnoll doesn't have to.

Good game. :) After, commanderteddog stayed to watch Dark City.

Bed now!

I'm looking over...

My lawn has been replaced with clover. Perhaps I'm a bad homeowner, but I prefer it to grass.


Father's Day breakfast this morning, at Cora's Restaurant in Ancaster.

We went to the bigboxbookstore after, and took turns shopping and watching the girls. While searching for a replacement copy of Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying (mine was eaten by a dog), a mother and her teenage daughter and a store employee wandered into the O's. The daughter, who was about 14 and looked very spunky, was looking for George Orwell books. The employee handed her Animal Farm.

"I've read that one already," she said. He found Nineteen Eighty-Four. "That's the only other one we have," he said. I noted that there was a copy of Burmese Days on the next shelf, and moved on. The store employee then spotted a collection of all Orwell's novels, and the girl said she wanted that, or Ninteen Eighty-Four.

"Nooooo, I don't think you'd like it," said the mother.
"I liked Animal Farm," said the girl.
"No, I mean you'd find the ideas too complicated," her mother replied.
"I've tackled some pretty complicated books," said the girl.
"No, I don't mean hard words. I mean the political ideas are too complicated. It's from another era, really," said the mother.

I did really want to say something like, "Hey, I read Nineteen Eighty-Four when I was eleven, and understood enough of it to make it worthwhile. And who are you to disapprove of someone trying to read something complicated, or outdated?"

But I didn't, and instead went to look for some G.K. Chesterton books they didn't have in stock.

About time someone realized this

"By reaching out to Iran, publicly and repeatedly, President Obama has made it extremely difficult for the Iranian regime to claim that they are battling an aggressive America bent on attacking Iran. In his inaugural address, his New Year greetings, and his Cairo speech, there is a consistent effort to convey respect and friendship for Iranians. That is why Khamenei reacted so angrily to the New Year greeting. It undermined the image of the Great Satan that he routinely paints in his sermons." - Fareed Zakaria in a CNN interview