{"id":7393,"date":"2016-07-25T16:59:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T20:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ageofanimus.com\/?p=7393"},"modified":"2016-07-25T16:59:18","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T20:59:18","slug":"stumbling-through-those-old-fashioned-superstitions-i-find-too-hard-to-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ageofanimus.com\/?p=7393","title":{"rendered":"Stumbling Through Those Old-Fashioned Superstitions I Find Too Hard to Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings and salutations blog readers. It&#8217;s that time again. Let&#8217;s do it.<\/p>\n<p>I forgot to check if this is my last free Monday. I think it is. I slept in today (like really slept in) which was nice. It&#8217;s a nice rainy day. I suppose I&#8217;m a little weird in that I LIKE when it rains on my days off. I wouldn&#8217;t have been able to bike to work so I&#8217;d have been stuck taking the bus. I might still need to do that tomorrow, but this saves a day of bus travel. The rain also cuts down on sticky conditions which I&#8217;m all for. I&#8217;m not especially enamored with outdoor leisure activities so it doesn&#8217;t hurt me any either. It&#8217;s all good!<\/p>\n<p>I did a lot less reading than I expected over the weekend. I only got a couple of chapters into Aftermath. It&#8217;s a little thing, but I don&#8217;t like that it&#8217;s mostly written in the simple present tense and that&#8217;s enough to take away from my enjoyment. Wedge is one of the main characters so I will definitely finish it, but it&#8217;s tempered my enthusiasm for the rest of the series. Weird huh?<\/p>\n<p>If all goes as planned, I&#8217;ll be getting some gaming in on Friday which will be great after two weeks of going without. Fab suggested it, so I&#8217;m figuring it&#8217;ll be me, him and Lyne. But who knows what wacky surprises life will hold for us between now and then?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m strongly considering going back for another round of flashback mash-ups. I&#8217;ve been having trouble coming up with a new theme that I want to tackle and looking back some of those middle series I did are looking pretty bad to me now. They could definitely use an update. I&#8217;ll finish up my small run of Return of the Jedi mash-ups and probably revisit an older theme after that unless I come up with a killer idea before then. Any suggestions?<\/p>\n<p>I picked up Dungeons &amp; Dragons Dice Masters last week. Board Game Bliss was having a sale so I indulged. For those not familiar with Dice Masters, it&#8217;s a refining of Quarriors, which itself was a riff off of deck-building games only with dice. Dice Masters is a duel game, which is the second biggest knock *I* have against it, since I liked the multi-player nature of Quarriors. They started with a Marvel comics line, then added DC comics which made sense. Then they took a sharp turn and added Yu-Gi-Oh and D&amp;D. I&#8217;ve get to give it a try, but I&#8217;m all set for when I do. The biggest knock against the game by the way? It&#8217;s a collectible game, meaning it&#8217;s typically a lot more expensive than it needs to be for what it is. Specials like the one found on Board Game Bliss will help that of course.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s all the blog that&#8217;s worth blogging this week. Have a good seven and we&#8217;ll do this all again next Monday. Carja V.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings and salutations blog readers. It&#8217;s that time again. Let&#8217;s do it. I forgot to check if this is my last free Monday. I think it is. I slept in today (like really slept in) which was nice. It&#8217;s a nice rainy day. 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