Visiting my folks this weekend for my youngest niece’s 3rd birthday. \u00a0I drove down to my parent’s new house on Saturday morning and got the grand tour. \u00a0It’s nice – one story with plenty of storage and a huge garage. \u00a0They have good neighbors and seem pretty happy here.<\/p>\n
We headed over to my sister’s after lunch and helped with the setup for the party. \u00a0The theme was butterflies so I learned how to make those out of paper and then taught Dad so we could help decorate.<\/p>\n
The birthday girl was super excited \u00a0– even more so when she got a little frosting in her. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42 \u00a0 The kids did some crafts and played outside before it was time to head to dinner. Before we left, she was fussing a bit about getting her hair fixed into pigtails – or “birdy hair” as she calls it. \u00a0 I sat down on the floor with her and suggested that her mom would fix my hair the same way after she was done.<\/p>\n
My niece looked at me incredulously and told me – in no uncertain terms – that I did not have enough hair for birdy hair. \u00a0We bantered back and forth a bit while she was getting her own hair done and she was soon laughing again at how silly “uncle” is.<\/p>\n
Dinner was good and we said our goodbyes. \u00a0I stayed the night at my folk’s new house and I’m doing a little reading and writing this morning while they are at church.<\/p>\n
The book I’m reading is an adaptation of a video game. \u00a0It’s always a little interesting to read how an author can try to expand or create a story from a standard slog through a dungeon, but it’s a fun read and not too challenging. \u00a0Though it could have done with a better editor – the typos and grammar are a bit distracting.<\/p>\n
The characters in the game \u00a0– Gauntlet – are healed from their injuries by eating. \u00a0When a character is near death, a voice will intone “Wizard needs food badly!<\/strong>”<\/p>\n And for some insane reason, the author choose to force that<\/em> line – in the most obvious and blatant way possible – into the story. \u00a0I’ve read this book before and I’m always cranky when I get to that one stupid section.<\/p>\n So, today, I skimmed back through the book to find that line and with a black marker, I struck the line from the text.<\/p>\n Not something I did lightly, but with grim determination and certainty of purpose. \u00a0I think the book is better for it.<\/p>\n Think it’s time for a snack and some sitting outside. \u00a0Feeling…quiet today. \u00a0And I think I needed it – the last couple of weeks have been rough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Visiting my folks this weekend for my youngest niece’s 3rd birthday. \u00a0I drove down to my parent’s new house on Saturday morning and got the grand tour. \u00a0It’s nice – one story with plenty of storage and a huge garage. \u00a0They have good neighbors and seem pretty happy here. We headed over to my sister’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1850,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions\/1850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}