mikekn

Seem there is a local theater that is going to have two midnight showings of Serenity on Feb 10th and 11th. Neither are good days for me to be out until 3 AM, so I'll probably have to skip seeing it one more time, but figured I'd let folks know. But the rest of the list of shows at the theater looks good too.

Friday night was an SCA demo at the family fun night of one of the local elementary schools. We had a great turn out and put on a good show. I taught some games to a dozen or so kids. Sent a few parents home with copies of the rules and diagrams to make their own boards. We should have checked with the school to see if we could sell game boards and t-shirts, but no big deal.

Saturday was some gaming - good sized crowd. First I played Citadels with shadowpony, moirla, mare_in_flames, and notshakespeare. It's a pretty good game, easy to learn but with some depth and good player interaction to keep it interesting. After that several games were running at once, including Seafarers of Catan, Shadows Over Camelot, Empyrean, Inc., Paranoia Mandatory Bonus Fun Card Game and Hero Clix. We didn't get to play Killer Bunnies or Carcassonne - Hunters and Gatherers both of which I was hoping to try.

The group was rounded out by vonbryan, ubidubium, singewulf, rarcke, revsaintmichael, rjsilverthorn, neoparn, merricke, lemonherb, kathy_the_geek, hughcasey, deni_the_pooh, beckishadow and our friends Paul, Merrilee, Mike and Joy (all of whom need to join the collective and get LJ accounts ;) )

Gaming didn't go too late and we ended the evening hanging out with Paul and Merrilee and hearing about their trip to England.

Sunday we were pretty lazy, getting up late, having meals made from what ever was lying around on the table, etc. We watched Underworld, which was not as bad as I expected. Not a classic by any means, but an ok action flick (with vampires and werewolves).

Later we went out to catch up with revsaintmichael and friends to see Underworld Evolution. I was quite surprised to discover it was a romantic family film (with vampires, werewolves, sex and lots of bloody fights). Good fun. Got to meet kemidra, yagathai, purple_medusa, and bluharlequin after the film, but we weren't able to join them for gelato - violet_amy needed real food badly and had a hankering for Outback.

Mirrormask is opening in Philadelphia tomorrow and the theater has finally posted the show times. It's going to be at the Ritz at the Bourse (NOT the Ritz 5). We're going to go see the 7:20 show on Friday (21st). :)

If anyone would like to join us we will meet at the theater by 7, and maybe get food somewhere after the movie. I expect Amy and I will grab a very quick dinner before heading into town. Let me know if you'd like to join us.

MirrorMask opening 10/21/2005:
Ritz 16, Voorhes, NJ
Ritz 5 Movies, Philadelphia, PA

A trip will be scheduled.

Friday morning I took Mughi in for an ultrasound, to see if they could find any causes for her weight loss. The only thing abnormal were her kidneys, which were smaller then normal. I'm told this is fairly common in cat's her age (16+) and would not account for the weight loss. The vet doing the ultrasound thinks it would be worthwhile to test the thyroid further. I'll be giving our vet a call today and see if they've had a chance to look at the scans yet. Interesting side notes: We now have ultrasound pictures of Mughi's kidneys and liver. The scanner they use is one I'm working with on a cattle scanning project.

Friday evening we cleaned bits of the house and then went out to see The Brothers Grimm. I enjoyed the film quite a bit. It's not Gilliam's best by any measure, but it was fun (I expect his next film will be more in-line with what folks expect from him). We'll definitively be picking it up when is comes out on DVD. (We also need to replace all my Gilliam laserdiscs with DVDs...). Ran into rarcke, neoparn, lemonherb, Laura, and others in the theater. They invited us to join them for a late meal at a diner in Norristown - good time had, thanks!

Saturday morning I did some yard work - probably only the second or third time I've worked out there this year. We've completely lost control over some parts of the "flowerbeds" (I'd need a chainsaw to start weeding and a chipper to finish), and are just hanging on to others. I'd love to hire someone to go in and just clear it all out, but I suspect that would cost quite a bit at this point. Anyway, I got the front and one side of the house to the point where I wasn't embarrassed by it.

That afternoon was gaming with a full house of people. It was great! We started with a game of Fluxx to give us something to do while we chatted and waited for more people to show up. After that I played Secret Tijuana Death Match, then three games of Carcassonne. I saw games of Lord of the Rings trivia, Scattergories, SPANC, and a monster blended Munchkin game. There may have been others that I missed. I know I was caught up in playing that I wasn't paying any attention to the time and completely spaced doing anything about dinner. There were enough munchies around that I didn't go hungry, but still not the best way to treat guests (Sorry about that! Usually we order pizza or Chinese or something).

Sunday was a lot of sitting around the house. Some cleaning, some sleeping, but nothing much really got done. Mostly I just remember looking at the clock every so often and being surprised by how late it was each time.

Monday was the first fencing practice in quite a while. I tried out my new armor (which I bought over a year ago...) for the first time. I like it a lot better then what I'd been wearing. Now I can finally return the loaner armor to Tadcaster :)

and it's not done yet...

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Not from me, but some fans have had last minute cancellations and are offering tickets (at cost) up on the Can't Stop the Signal forum at:
browncoats.serenitymovie.com

Well, I was only partially successful in my quest for tickets to the Philadelphia screening. I was able to get about a third of the number that I could have used, which is disappointing to me. Amy says it's not my job to get tickets for everyone, and she's right, but it would sure be cool if I could have.

If I was able to get you a ticket, you've already heard from me. If you've not heard from me - sorry, no luck this time. I managed to place two orders while the tickets were available, the first one went through at 11:05:24 AM and was successful,. The second one went in at 11:06:39 AM, and was unsuccessful. After that you couldn't even place an order.

One rumor says there will be at least one more screening before the official release. I won't be trying for tickets to any more, but if I hear about them, I'll let folks know.

Philadelphia went on sale around 11, and sold out in about 5 minutes.

Washington, DC; New York; Norfolk, VA; and Boston, MA are also sold out.

Hartford, CT; Providence, RI; and Columbus, OH are not, but probably will be soon.

The next pre-release screening is June 23rd in 35 cities. Some cities went on sale at midnight. Haven't seen Philly yet.

Check Can't Stop the Signal for more information.

Too much to think about, not enough time to figure it all out.

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