3:17 AM
The Humanhead holiday shindig was held earlier this evening at The Essen Haus, a local German eatery. Though I did not take advantage of the free beer, I did enjoy a fine German dinner courtesy of those suck--er, wise consumers who purchased copies of Rune and our other fine vid-jeo games. A gift raffle of sorts landed me a McFarlane Toys figure of an anime character I'm unfamiliar with. Still, it's a good figure and better than some of the others I saw (though all were toys, so how could any of them be completely wrong...) One of the guys ended up with an E.T. figure from a line apparently released in conjunction with the whole 20th anniversary shindig, and it was damn cool. I've managed to avoid buying toys for quite a while (aside from DC Direct figures), but I think I have to swing by Toys R Us tomorrow and pick up one of them. They're that neat.

Came home, progressed a few more notches in SSX Tricky, and made some food for next week (a vegetarian stew from a recipe passed along by my Mom; I sampled it when it was done, and it's pretty good--though I seem to have lost my taste for sun-dried (that hyphen is just for you, Jon) tomatoes.) I then turned to cleaning my apartment while watching an old rerun of Saturday Night Live on NBC Late Night. Host: Steve Gutenberg; Musical Guest: The Pretenders. It wasn't that good a show--except that I finally saw the SNL short that was the basis for Bob Roberts, one of my favorite underrated movies. I wish I could have taped it--or better yet, already owned a Tivo, as I've been wanting for a while. But Tivo won't come until after cable, and cable doesn't come until after the holidays--at least. Oh well. Once I get it, all I'll have to do is record Comedy Central and it shouldn't be more than a couple days before they rerun it, I suppose.



Hey! I just turned back to cleaning for a few minutes (now with the Bob Roberts DVD playing in the background), and I found my dice bag! I had thought it lost for at least a month and had just begun to start getting new dice. But the bag has been discovered in what I now remember I had decided was it's 'place', a semi-hidden spot on top of a bookshelf. While it was lost, I was surprised to discover the emotional attachment I had to a bag full of plastic--a lot of nostalgic ties to the dice that I got at various conventions, or that came with some of the first RPGs I bought, the Torg Possibility Shard d20s I got from Brian... I'm glad to have found them just in time for tomorrow's game.

Gotta go get some sleep. I hope to spend the afternoon seeing Vanilla Sky rather than sleeping. Night.