Updating the Future

I've neglected my poor old blog for almost two months now. Everything has been so crazy with wedding stuff and work and cars deciding not to work and all that fun stuff that we call life.

I'll be getting back into this more often now. Because honestly does it not take only a few minutes to write a quick post? Perhaps a bit longer for a more detailed post, such as a review (I'll have one of those up within the next week.) I've also started playing Dungeons and Dragons again (or will be soon). So expect to see posts of that nature too.

I've also been getting back to writing. And, well, yeah. That's self-explanatory. I'll be posting a bit of this and a bit of that perhaps. Ideas, progress reports, snipets of chapters, etc.

I also plan on just giving my thoughts on things. TV shows (old and new), Movies (old and new), games of all sorts (table top, pen and paper RPGs, board games, video games), anything tech related that I come across, anything science related, etc, etc. They most likely won't be an episode by episode reviews like I've done before (for TV) or even opening weekend movie reviews (I didn't see Man of Steel until two weeks after it opened). So basically I'll be doing reviews here and there as I come across and experience things. Mostly nerdy things as is happens to go.

One other thing that I've been doing lately is world building. Back in the day my friend and I had attempted to "catalog" a whole fantasy nation. Meaning this: we each drew a map, combined the two maps to make one land, placed landmarks (mountains, forests, etc) and then cities. We had a hard cover sketch book in which we would pick a city and draw a city map for it. Then on the following pages we would go through and draw the floor plans for each shop and building. Labeling what was in it. Who owned it. Etc, etc. I think we put stats for DnD too. But over the years the book has disappeared but I recently purchased a new one and we already have the land map drawn up. Expected updates on that too!

And I'll be posting wedding updates too as that nears (2 months away and we have a TON to do!)

Perseid Meteor Shower 2012 Update

As I said I would this post is an update on the Perseid Meteor Shower. I went out about 10pm last night to see if I could see anything yet. Nothing. Went back out about 11pm and didn't see anything. We waited until about 1230am and sat in lawn chairs. But after a few minutes of craning your neck we decided to get an old blanket and pillows and lay on the ground.

We stayed out until about 2am and saw a fair few meteors. They started out very faint but there was a bunch at the end that were bright and had a nice trail (or tail? I don't know but you get the idea). We had to battle with a street light and a light in the yard as we really didn't have any place we could go that was totally dark. But given the circumstances we still saw around 20 or so nice meteors. Given our luck during previous meteor showers as I mentioned in my last post, we were both ecstatic to see that many. I'm still all giddy now.

At 2am we went to bed but I was still up at 3am and decided to look again. With in the first minute I saw two more and then 10 within the first ten minutes. So I went to see if my brother wanted to come back outside. He didn't. He had to work in the morning. I sat outside for another 30 minutes but only saw maybe 6 or 7 more meteors. Sadly it looks like it will be cloudy tonight so I may not be able to go back out again :(

All in all I'm happy to finally see a meteor shower but I wouldn't trade all those cold winter nights/mornings with my brother when we were younger trying to see a bit of space action.