Florida Wrap-Up

I'm writing this late tuesday night, from home where we have finally returned. Let me wrap up various threads and stuff that happened in Florida while visiting Mylanda:

RPG's: We played two different games of M's, the first being a D&D story we started on our last visit. I especially like my character for this one, though his name will go unmentioned (as I managed to get away with not actually telling anyone it this session). Very interesting to play all the crazy situations we get into. We spent a good part of an hour or more working out how to best attack a group of essentially mushroom-people. It ended up working out very well, and we managed to walk away with a small fortune in loot that may not have been apparent just from the mission statement. The second game is the long running Mage game involving world traveling in the 1940's and rescuing artifacts of all types. We finally continued our investigation into the Great Bear's Nail, an artifact from Lakota legends. Again, I really like the characters in this game which makes it interesting to play. Sadly we were down a few characters, but hopefully more will re-enter the game. We managed two pretty useful magical effects which involved nearly all the characters, allowing us to talk with the shaman from a vastly spatially separated tribe, in addition to working out exactly what trouble the artifact was in. Looking forward to continuing both these stories, hopefully at a faster pace if we can visit M more, or he can visit here.

Console gaming: Lots of Mario Strikers was played, it can get REALLY frustrating on the cup mode, as the computer starts playing very very well. Aside from that though, it's great fun on the slightly easier settings and the normal match play mode where you can set the difficulty. There was also some Guitar Hero monday evening, and we all wailed a bit. I don't recall any especially stunning solos, but one song I played left my hands crippled for that night.

Foods: Whoa, wings! We picked up hot wings monday night to cap off our food excursions, and M decided to test the place's Atomic wings. We also got hickory-smoked BBQ, Hawaiian (pineapple flavored, not exactly teriyaki though as that was another entry), Original Hot, and Cajun (much hotter than the original, in a more black pepper sort of way). I tried one of the Atomic wings, and I normally like pretty hot stuff, though not on the level of M or others I know. One bite later, I conceded defeat. Wow. That was pretty much pure concentrated burn. It took a while for it to cool down enough to make a stab at the other types, which were good (I had the two latter types).

Lots of other stuff I could write here, but I'm tired and want to catch up on posts.

Gone to Florida!

We are setting off on the journey to Florida today, to visit Mylanda and see picturesque Gainesville. Okay, so maybe not the latter, but the first is plenty! The whole gang minus one or two is going to be out there, so it should be a good time. Look for possibly infrequent posts here, perhaps punctuated by some guest blogging or live blogging, as I'll have my laptop around.