Barbeque, game night, and kitties

Today at work they threw a huge barbeque party. It was awesome. I entered the "bratwurst eating competition" on some insane whim. To prepare, I ate lots of food. I thought I was gonna die during the competition. I was a runner-up, though, and got a cool traveling game set for the kids. :)

Last night's game was awesome. I forgot how fun it is to play. It's hard for me to focus on work; I want to go start implementing cool ideas for the game, build stuff, etc. It ain't easy being a Geek.

I've been taking the kittens out onto the balcony with me, but they keep trying to crawl through the railing, and they're stupid & clumsy enough to fall (I'm on the 3rd story). So, they're mostly inside-kitties, still. Maybe I'll take them swimming this weekend. That'd be nicer than bathing them in the house, I think. And I'd like to rinse 'em down. They're 8 weeks old, so they've not been bathed for 8 weeks.

I need another reader. I'm my only audience. While that's nothing new or surprising, it is the teeniest bit pathetic. Hm, what attracts readers? Maybe I can lure people in via text searches.

Hot sex. MILF. (I have no idea what that stands for. But that's okay. I doubt I want to know.) Lolita. Teen. Viagra. Free money. Statistics for Yeti. How to get a marble out of your son's nostril.

That pretty much sums up the breadth of my online searching. Hopefully I'll attrack like-minded folks to my blog this way. :)

Kitties at the park

I took the kittens to the park yesterday, with the 3 little boys. The kittens have only been outside one time in their life... on the drive to my house. They were in a box that whole time.

So, they were understandably nervous about the Big Ol' World. They finally brazened up, though, and explored. They had a blast, but they were constantly on edge and nervous. When we got home they drank ravenously and then collapsed immediately. Poor critters. :)

I took some pictures. But they're not trimmed, shrunk, and edited yet. :(

Homework

Last night I kicked out two of the late assignments. Go me! I still have 2 or 3 remaining, and tonight I have the little boys so I won't have much chance for homework. *sigh* However, once they're in bed I should be able to get (hopefully) all caught up, and start on next week's homework. I haven't been proactive in school for months... it'll be nice to get back to that.

This weekend I was supposed to go camping with work buddies, but the campsite is closed. So, we had to postpone to August. :(

As a result, I have a weekend blocked out with no Scottlings, and nothing to do. I haven't had a full day to myself for a long, long time. Makes me wish I had friends!

Maybe I'll see if Haus & Co. are in the mood to do something. They're out in B.F.E., though, and they don't drive. My wee car can't haul people around very easily. There's a lotta Haus at the Haus house.

Some woman from MySpace might wanna do something with me, too, but that's kinda freaky. I don't have much faith in meeting people online. Chatting and emailing is fine. But meeting face-to-face?... bad mojo there, IMO.

Atwheelz invited me to come do his yardwork for him, which (oddly enough) sounds like a complete blast. Working outside in the sun, talking with real people... I hated working in the yard or garden as a kid. Now I wish I had a house of my own so that I could mow its lawn. Twisted and sad, yup.

Oh, and someone read my Blog on MySpace! Lemon, whom I first taught HTML to many moons ago. Actually I just showed her the basics of cannibalizing other peoples' web pages, and she went ballistic with it and now she builds websites that are incredible. Anyway, Lemon read my blog entry. But that's not all... oh, no! She next proceeded to leave a comment! Woot! And then, in case the demands of karma hadn't been exceeded 10 times over, she gave me a Kudo!

Wanna know the best part of all? I have no idea what a Kudo even is!

Yeah. It's a little much to absorb in one sitting. I'll come back later and try to process a little more of it. Shaikgn fnigres, cnat teyp.

Soctt

I'm way busy lately

Jed & Alex (my oldest two sons) came last weekend and ended up staying for a week. I've had the younger three boys for 5 out of the last 7 days, as well, and I've got them plus Jed (Alex went home on Wednesday) this weekend. I'm 2 weeks behind on homework, I'm trying to convert a bjillion pages of documentation to HTML for my new world and my room is still full of boxes... I need more time!

Obviously, the best solution is to sit down and blog things out, hoping that they'll resolve themselves while I'm thusly occupied. :)

Ugh, the boys are fighting the kittens with a cardboard-tube lightsabre. I'd better go intervene before they choose the dark side. I've got a fistfull of Anakins, you see. The force is strong, but within them, much angst I sense.

Yoda

Oooh! My very firstest post!

I'm giddy with excitement!

Okay, not so much. :)

This is just a placeholder blog entry, but I might as well express my spammy self, anyway.

I'm Scott, 34. I live in (can you guess?...) Portland! Oregon, that is. West coast. I love it here.

I work for a major entertainment business (Rental & Sales) in the Games department. I don't play games all day long, but it's not a bad job nonetheless.

I have 5 boys ranging from 4 to 13. I also have two 7-week-old kittens. Griffon is grey and white, and she's calmer than her brother Suess, who is black & white.

My wife and I are divorcing. I know, sad. :(

I love camping, and I used to hike a lot before I spawned a bjillion little Scottlings to take care of. I also used to be a cheerleader in college, and I still do gymnastics now & then. I play guitar & sing (primarily with the boys) and I play games. Primarily paper-pencil RPGs (AD&D 3.5e for those with a sufficient Geekery skill to decipher this) but I'm taking my game online after 4 years of preparation. Woohoo! Check it out ifya want: http://portland.puremagic.com/~scott/new_world I built everything there ('cept some of the graphics). Yeah... I'm a major Geek. Guilty.

That's the basics of me. :) There's lots more, but the internet's a scary place, and I don't like to spread my secrets in too many public places. :)

Now I'll watch this blog fail to attract posts, and eventually tire of it. But at least I made a start.

Later,
Scott