Sunday --- almost back to work

Well our vacation has been good- too much rain to get as far with painting as we would like. But we had some fun. Toodles decided it would be fun to play in a drawer.

Nick came over and for some reason we started a puzzle... Some 6 hours later (2:30 am) Nick and I finished- and here it is... Yes- the lemons took 45 minutes and the neverending, mind numbing green took the rest of the time.

And I made a thai red curry stir fry thing. It was delicious ^_^

Huge friggin cat

Pongo is a large cat. He is 90% belly. He likes to lay with his tummy in the air; one of his favorite spots is crushing this cardboard box. This photo has not been altered in any way. For those concerned, there were no cats inside the box at the time this photo was taken.

Happy Caturday!!

Since it is Caturday here is a pic of all 3 cats at the window.

In other news, I was able to beat an elf using ghouls/aboms/dests. Dark ranger / Pands / archer / bear /dryad. He didn't have a chance. Ok not really but i was all proud of my scouting and ghoul work early, got a few archers and really really slowed his creeping. A DR that is allowed to free creep is a scary thing.

Played a lev ~25 Ud, one of those 100-100 people. Not great but if I suck I lose. Gnoll wood, so I decided to tech bear/dryad. I'm glad I scouted- he was next door and scouted me. My AP completred just as the DK and 4 ghouls hit my main. Had wisps ready to heal, AP stayed up, dk and ghouls had to run.


I harassed his creeping and crept a bit myself till I got bear/dryad- hit his main and found towers and master necs, as well as wagons waiting for me. Had to port quickly.
He hit soon after- but I had quickly made ~4 extra wisps and placed them away from my base, to the side of where his army would come from. This is what I was facing - with more in the wagons waiting to be risen:


I quickly detonated a couple wisps in the midst of this army- then another wisp decimated the next wave. With dryads/bears and Panda AOE nuke, it was pretty easy finish. If my wisps had all been behind my lines it may have been different. But at least I have a strat vs necro wagon - dryads/wisps seem great.

So J and I went camping this June. Here is us on top of a "mountain" overlooking the mississippi. And here is the G-man being attacked by a crazed animal whenever he visited last...

Claire met our cats, who were overall frightened by her. Mainly due to the screams. But she got some good pets in just the same.

WC Update

Decided to try my hand at elf yesterday. My orc is no longer pitiful, just "decent." Fun so far, I have a basic archer build down, it allows AOW creeping some maps. Need to learn a hunt build for 2v2, should not be bad. Anyway I split creeped a lot of AOW/archer while the DH kept them busy, here the DH came back to help with a tough group.

After that I creepjacked the human, bought from the merc shop as he crept it, and cleaned up.


I'm probably going to learn elf enough that I don't totally suck, then try basic hu. Then maybe play random. Good times.

News -- Ping and Pong are older and larger. They get along with Toodles alright:At least most of the time. Here is Ping later the same day, happily crushing the life from Toodles:

I'm still alive!

It is true. Somehow it has been almost two years without a blog update, yet I live.

New Arrivals!

Meet Toodle's newest buddies. Ping & Pong. These 6-month old Showshoe Siamese are very sweet kittes. They even purred from inside the carrier during the long drive home when I picked them up. Toodles is still a bit unsure of them, and there is some hissing... but eventually he will come around. They enjoy sleeping in the bed, running as fast as they can, and purring.

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In Soviet Russia, the kitties pet you.

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I just drank a mug of hot cocoa. I made a mug for shiner too. She drank it all very quickly, yum yum.

Yep... here it is

I made this account... so I could post comments on other accounts. So don't expect this updated.
-Stalin