Mandaris

waiting at the airport

I’m waiting for my parents at the airport. I’ve been waiting for almost an hour even though the flight came in early. Apparently there is something going wrong with the luggage and now we’re all waiting for something to happen.

After driving around the terminal for 10 minutes, I parked over in the free parking lot. It’s actually pretty nice except for the people driving around it like it was a freeway.

I also got a really good shot of the moon. I don’t think my camera phone skills are going to get better if I only take pictures of my dog.

What are you doing in my bed!?

Sleeping. 🐶

Jr High Dungeons and Dragons

My youngest daughter joined a Dungeons and Dragons at her high school and was really excited about the possibilities.

She’s been having a couple problems connecting with people so my wife and I are just as excited for her. We even went out and helped her pick out her first set of dice.

Then the big day comes around…

And she comes home frustrated!

The entire play session was wasted because they had not one but two dungeon masters. And to top it off they didn’t get along and had some kind of nerd competition on who knew the most about half-elves.

I’m hoping that we can turn the experience around because she’s signed up through the rest of the school year.

When I’m stressed, I get mean to myself. Little unnecessary comments. Where did I learn this and how do I turn it off.

I’ve been invited to be part of my friend’s new DnD campaign. It’s using DnD rules but part of a world that he’s spent years coming up with. I’ve played a couple times in the past but this is my first time where I’m actually concerned about learning more of the lore. It’s also a little nerve wracking as I don’t know if the other players have to same knowledge of the game that I do.

Still, I’m looking forward to it, but I don’t know if I’m going to be able to fit it into my schedule because the games are going to be 5 hours long on the weekend and the family needs me around… I think.

#DnD

Making dinner!

Close up of the dishes

Hey, there are about 100 days left in the year. Does anyone have any challenges that they would like to tackle?

I’m wearing my watch on my right arm because I found that wearing it on my left discouraged me to measure my blood pressure.

I’m getting older and heavier.

Lillie in her kennel. 🐶

A small selection of meats at my local deli

My wife has been telling for weeks that there were going to be shortages on certain kinds of food. Not in the post-apocalyptic kind of shortage where we’d have to think about eating someone sort of shortage.

But more of a we’d need to not be wasteful because there isn’t a much of this as we’re used to kind of shortage. It just made me think about how much food that we waste, not just me and my family, but society in general.

After all, you don’t have to look far to hear a story about someone getting fired for letting people know that a store would rather dump it all in the garbage than to give it to local food banks.

Still, I’m optimistic about what’s coming for us in the coming month and telling my children that they should probably get that list for Santa in early.