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Dad came to visit us this weekend. Unfortunately Mom had to stay home to wait for some Windows to be replaced. But anyway, he happened to be here for the start of OPC Soccer season for Olivia.

So, naturally, he took some pictures. So, a treat for you. You get to see some good pictures, not the crappy quality pictures I usually take for you.

Here’s a link to the whole Album, as the year goes on, I’ll add some of mine to it as well, she has another game tonight if it stops raining.

Unfortunately Sarah has decided not to play Soccer this year. So I’ll have to start a second album when her shooting picks back up.

written by Chris \\ tags: Olivia, Oxford MS, Pictures, Soccer

My gods. I’ve never been more frustrated with a game than I am currently with Space Hulk. Allow me to explain:

Before two weeks ago, I had never played Space Hulk before. But I had always thought, that’s not my kind of game. I don’t think I would like it. It’s a big luck driven dice fest.

Well, I judged a book by its cover. Space Hulk has some dice and luck in it true. But it’s more a puzzle movement type of thing. And there are many good decisions to be made, (at least when you are playing with the space marines). It is not at all what I thought it was, and for that, I am glad because I absolutely love it. It actually feels like Aliens (which come on GW, that’s what this game really is isn’t it…).

So, yeah, it’s fun. I had played a couple of weeks ago, a game made by a new gamer here in Oxford. The new guy (CA) introduced me to the game, and we played three games of it that night (It’s also a pretty darn fast game.) This happened to be only a week before GW decided to go on and rerelease it in a 20th anniversary form.

So, strike one. I actually liked the game a lot more than I thought I would. Strike two. It is coming out in a week. Strike three, it’s freaking beautiful…

Of course, all this comes at a price. $100 bucks for the game, though the components are nice, and a game is worth $200 to me if it gets played enough. I just look at it as 8-10 trips to the movies, or 2 trips to the golf course, none of which give me the hours of entertainment I would get out of a board game that hit the table a reasonable number of times. So when I went up to Mid-south Game Center last week, I went ahead and picked up a copy of it.

I’m happy. But now, I have to put it together. And this is no small feat. All the miniatures (45 of them) come on sprues and have to be trimmed, cleaned, and glued together. And of course, minis that look this good will probably require me to put some kind of paint job on them. I think I’m going to go with the quickie minwax paint jobs though.

written by Chris \\ tags: Boardgames, Mid-South Game Center, Oxford, Oxford MS, Space Hulk

I went to Kroger on Wednesday Evening to pick up some drinks for game night. I had to take a picture when I saw their fail

Either Kroger failed, or we’re all in trouble now…

written by Chris \\ tags: failure, Kroger, Mississippi, Oxford MS, rant, Twilight

I’m sure anyone who knows me has no doubt who I am voting for today, but that’s not what I wanted to jump on here and make a comment about.

I went to vote this morning. Woke up Early, (Which Valerie will tell you I rarely do) I was excited. I went to go vote, I had to wait in line.

Now, I’ve voted in three previous presidential elections. Numerous special elections, and mid-term elections, a primary here and there.

I have never, not once, ever, had to wait in line longer than 5 minutes. Today. It took 1 hr and 5 minutes. And you know what. I’m glad it did.

Can’t wait to waste tonight in front of the TV flipping between the news stations trying to get all the information I can as quickly as I can. My wife is going to hate me tonight, since she can’t stand watching the news.

written by Chris \\ tags: election, Oxford MS, voting

It’s been a while, but we’ve been busy here.

I’m busy with some pretty big projects at work. Which are finally coming to fruition. That’s one reason I haven’t been around much anywhere on the Internet lately.

I hope that I finish one of those very soon (within the next week with Customer approval). One awesome side note, is because of equipment concerns I needed a machine to run a program I wrote on the floor. Rather than buying one machine and getting our computers out of the normal replacement cycle, I officially requested a new computer for myself at work, and got it approved… SOOOO!

I’m getting a Mac Pro at work. I’m very excited about that.

As far as after work. Family life is busy now too. Soccer Seasons started up here in Oxford, including Olivia’s first year. I know we have some pictures and video of that, which I will post As soon as I can. But I need to figure out how to capture video from Val’s Camera anyway. I think it has a firewire 800 port but honestly I’ve never looked.

Sarah’s soccer team just started using goalies and positions this year. So her soccer games are becoming far more interesting to watch. I’m also quite excited about that.

And Lastly. I intend to get out of town this weekend for the Debate hoopla. The traffic in town is already quite heavy. Which for a small town in Mississippi isn’t that great. But still. So the Kids and I will be leaving this weekend to go visit Mom in Phenix City. Look to leave a tad early Friday. I was hoping to make it down there before the debate started. But just in case, I’ll go ahead and set the recorder to grab it so I can watch the full thing when I get home. (If it happens that is :p )

written by Chris \\ tags: apple, Kids, Olivia, Oxford MS, Sarah, Work