I want to stay up all night to feel like I actually have some time to myself.

Spent the week mostly sick, but trying to work through it because there's too much to do. Missed both TV Nite and the inaugural meeting of the Elevens Book Club, which was a drag. I need to remember to post a review of Jenny's pick, The Big Year.

Too-short weekend. Worked all day and night Friday because ... shit is busy is because. This was the extent of the overclocking I was prepared for for the weekend, but was unexpectedly called in for Saturday day and night because of employee sickness, so that was that. It was 10pm Saturday when my weekend started. Was going to grab cocktails with ranai, but that fell through so I just had dinner at Seersucker. Which was fine! Not the greatest dinner I've had there, but whatever. Triggerfish? I've never even heard of em, so that's what I ordered. It was tasty but I'm generally not a fan of fish with an excessively meaty taste or texture, and this had both. Washed it down with a glass of the Long Ireland Brewing Co's Celtic Ale, which was the most mediocre beer I've had in a long time, just completely void of qualities. I ordered an Old Fashioned made with sorghum to scratch my fancy cocktail itch, but it turned out to be undrinkably sweet. Dessert made it all worth it: rice pudding with apples and roasted peanuts, which ruled. I could have eaten a gallon of that stuff.

Today was game with the folks at the Aggrodome, and it was a towering epic conclusion to the current campaign storyline. It was dramatic dénouement of the kind that I have so far only aspired to as a dungeon master. In the end, the entirety of Nazi ground forces was occupying Paris (thematically, not literally), and so we sacrificed one of our own to summon Godzilla to raze Paris to the ground, to make sure no Nazi would survive. It was cathartic and carried a real sense of investment in the outcome, and I felt the campaign really, really come together for everyone in the room.

The downside - we ran late. So I didn't get home until 11pm, which means, three hours before Maggie gets home from work, answering work e-mails and leveling my character. Then a quick dinner when my baby gets home and then bed and ... back on the crazytrain of work tomorrow morning.

Painfully slow progress with my coding education. After looking at it for a week, finally figured out why IdentifyMyParts.x = 2 in one of my textbook's quizzes. Which was, of course, really easy, but I just wasn't getting it. Until I did. Duh, it's a class field, not an instance field. Whatever. The slowness of comprehension makes even the smallest of victories easy to savor.

I'd really like to take a vacation with my girlfriend. It'd be nice to get away for just a little bit.