| July 15th, 2008 |
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Monday morning I worked on Ellis and got about 1000 words written on the bestiary. I'm very happy with that. I played a little CoV while Becca was still sleeping.
We got together with everyone and went into Medford. First stop was Sonic to get Becca some REAL food (ie. chicken strips). Then we went to Harry & David's and wandered around for a surprisingly short time. This is another traditional stop, and it usually takes a very long time. I got a bottle of Chaucer (the name of the winery) Mead, complete with mulling spices in tea bags.
Then we went to a used book store in the same mini-mall. Becca got the third Maximum Ride book and wound up reading it all day. She finished the 405 page book around 9:00 pm that night.
The next stop was to find the only game store in town. It took a little driving around because of VERY poor street signs before we found the store, about 2 blocks from Harry & David's.
Now I've been to a lot of game stores over the years. Whenever I travel, I try to find one. I go for a few different reasons: Hope of finding some long forgotten gem, professional curiousity, to get ideas about what other stores are doing, etc.
This has to be the worst game store I have ever been in. The place was a complete, disorganized mess, but in enough order that it seemed to be the normal state of affairs. After talking to the employee, we learned that they had just the day before moved from the space next door into this larger storefront. So maybe they have an excuse for being a little messy. If that is, the employee hadn't been listening to his long heavy metal and painting miniatures, but had been cleaning or reorganizing. The selection was awful: a few German games, but not many. Not even a consistent pattern as to which they were stocking (like new releases, or family-style, or hard-core). They had three large miniatures tables and some minis, but again, no consistancy. Some Confrontation, some Flames of War, some War Machine, a lot of 40K -- all jumbled together in a weird mess or pegwall, standard metal shelving and cardboard displays. Their RPG section was practically non-existent, and yet they had some of the oddest things in it: The Great Pendragon Campaign, Hackmaster, an odd Paranoia supplement. The rest was all d20 and they had a few 4th ed books (no PH). Oh, and I almost forgot -- no Munchkin!
From there we went to a mall and wandered around. Becca talked me into buying her a pair of Converse sneakers (no tax, wooo!). We talked to a guy at Software Etc. about our Xbox problem and he gave us good advice (since he claimed to have sent back 4 Xboxes due to red ring errors). We had some good time there away from everyone else.
After the mall we came back to hotel and hung out a while, then went out for dinner to a Thai place. Becca didn't care much for it, but the rest of loved it. I had a delicious (and hot!) chicken red curry.
After dinner we all hung around the hotel room and Becca finished her book. Then she turned on the TV and we caught G4's coverage of E3. Wow! Talk about big news. Gears of War 2, Fable II (Becca is already drooling and clammoring to get our fixed), and Final Fantasy XIII. I found a lot of the marketing statements very interesting ($1,000,000,000 in Live Marketplace sales in 2.5 years).
Today we have the Comedy of Errors at 8:30 pm and then the long drive home tomorrow morning. I think we're going to stop at The Cascades Raptor Center along the way.Current Mood:  happy |
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Quoted from: http://peromniasaecula.blogspot.com/2008/03/wmam-et-al.html
"Isidore [of Seville, a medieval bestiarian] has this to say on the badger:
The badger (melo, ie meles) is so named either because it has a very rounded member (cf. malum, "round fruit"). . ."
Now I wonder about our gnome friend here . . . |
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