Sadly, I’m not going to Pennsic this year. We would have to bring the boys along, and camping for a week or two in 14th century style (but with port a potties) does NOT sound appealing with two five year olds. And 95 degree high humidity heat. So the Husband is going up for war week with one of his buddies. They’ve been busily building and repairing armor all week.
I find this funny because my response to a large event is to want all-new garb, while his is to want new armor. I did make him a bit of new garb, but he’s still got quite a bit of decent garb, so I didn’t bother with much.
They’re heading out Saturday night (why? Men are so weird) and then as soon as he comes back, he’ll be going out on another out of town job. Hawaii. Wish we could pick up and move there already. One of these days I’m going to make that happen. And then I’m never leaving Hawaii again.
And a quick kid funny: The boys are building with Legos right now (they LOVE Legos) and Twin B is saying “This police car going to blow your feet off. That means it going to be very surprising. It going to knock your socks off forever.” And because they always need to top each other, Twin A responds, “Well these spaceships are going to blow your HEAD OFF.”
I’ve been playing on foursquare a lot lately. It’s so pointless, yet so fun. Everywhere I go, I check in. I’ve checked in at about four or five local bridges, and am thinking of going up to the peninsula this weekend just so I can check in on the Monitor-Merrimac bridge-tunnel. I want to go to a cupcakery in Hilltop to see if it will give me the Cupcake badge, or if I need to visit a few more cupcake places (there are only two around here, sadly, and I’ve already been to the other one). I’m mayor of my house and my kids’ speech clinic. I have several badges and on the way to several more.
There really seems to be very little purpose to this thing, though, I have to admit. It’s sort of like a game. But now I want to go somewhere, so that I can check in to local places somewhere else. I keep thinking how fun it would have been to be foursquaring while I was in Hawaii or San Diego, or up in Maine. In two weeks, I’ll be down in Florida for Infinitus, and I’m going to be checking in left and right down there. I can’t wait. In the meantime, I’m looking for somewhere interesting I can go this weekend so I can get some new check-ins. I’m almost at the 25 check-ins badge.
This was just a short ‘un, down to the OBX for the day. Swimming in the sound, sifting for fossil shark teeth at the Elizabeth II, ice cream in Manteo, and Wright Brothers Memorial. The usual round, basically.
While at the Wright Bros, I attempted to instill a sense of the grandeur of history in my evil twins. I explained about Wilbur and Orville Wright and the first flights, and added “It was over a hundred years ago!” Twin A immediately piped up, “Dinosaurs lived 65 million years ago!” If this were Twitter, I think the appropriate hashtag would be #justgottold
A few pics I snapped on my phone. I would share the ones I took with the spiffy camera, but sadly, my Internet is still not working. I will try to remember to add them later.
I have now been without Internet for over 24 hours. If I didn’t have a Droid phone, I might actually be losing my shit right now.
Yesterday I realized, I no longer function without internet. I had to look up a phone number. Couldn’t find the yellow pages. Had to use my phone’s browser to search for it. Wanted to check the weather to see how long the storm was meant to last; the storm had taken out the satellite tv. Had to use my phone again. Wanted to find a recipe, couldn’t get on allrecipes. Scrapped it and made something else instead of trying to use my phone (I wonder if allrecipes has a Droid app?). About a hundred times throughout the day, I wanted to look something up (I do bits of incidental research all the time) and couldn’t without my internet.
Verizon needs to hop to it and get that circuit fixed. I need my information back. My Droid is really keeping my ass out of a sling, at least I can check Twitter and Facebook and pop off a quick blog post.
