Happy Halloween

Honestly that's about all I've got. Hope you've had a chance to watch some spooky movies this month. (We watched Frozen again [still great] and I'm going to watch The Shining and possibly Poltergeist).

Go figure

So realistically I could point out that the Government decided to get its act together the day after we left. Or that it rained the entire time we were at Capon. But honestly those things didn't really bother me. I'd have stayed inside a good portion of the Capon trip reading or visiting anyway (although I would have liked to play some shuffleboard) and we got to wander around the memorials in a much less packed DC. Plus we even snuck into one and how often can you say that?

I am surprised none of the vendors had a "I came to DC and all I got was this lousy t-shirt, thanks Government shutdown" shirt though. Those things would have made a bundle...

Read through John Dies at the End again. I really liked it this time. Weird. It was just much funnier and a little creepier. Or something. I'm starting Doctor Sleep, the sequel to The Shining, at the moment and that thing just jumps straight in with both feet. It doesn't mess around at all. It's already pretty disturbing. And also includes a NOS4A2 reference.

Anyway, the vacation was nice. Photos and commentary can be found elsewhere.

Wait for the beep

You have reached the on hiatus blog of the letter d.

 I recommend hitting the tumblr feed which is actually being updated at the moment. There are pictures. And cookies*.

A happy birthday to lovely wife. I managed to loudly proclaim her age (40!) whilst at dinner the other evening. I shall proclaim it on the internet now as well.

*You brought the cookies right? You didn't? Well, there are no cookies then. Shame on you. I hope you feel bad.

Something about Castle

I really have nothing to comment on as pretty much all of our free time has been taken up by marathon-ing season 5 of Castle. I'm glad we're almost done. Mostly because it would be nice to have a touch more variety in our free time. But the season has been pretty good. Strangely filled with movie homages (lovely wife calls them rip-offs) but good. The 100th episode (a Rear Window nod) was rather funny. Although I'm still not impressed with the new season...

I've been playing San Juan and Ghost Stories on the iPad. They are both well done. Ghost Stories is insanely hard. I'm starting to understand how it works a little better, but I am nowhere close to winning. In a related tidbit, the iOS version of Pandemic comes out today. Looks like it's about $7. Will probably pick that one up as the boardgame is pretty fun.