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For the holiday season this year, the wife decided to do bit more cooking this year, beyond the traditional cookies. Last week, we canned up home made pickles, today’s challenge was home-made beer mustard. Hopefully the flavors will mellow a bit, fresh and still hot the horseradish was a bit over powering. But after a few weeks canned and resting it will likely be much better. Of course, we have 7 jars now for friends and family, so it will be around for quite some time. Assuming it turns out decent, I will share the recipe post-holidays.
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With our current Pathfinder game reaching high level characters (currently 17, approaching 18), it is becoming a much more common occurrence for 15 or more dice to be rolled at once for various spells and effects. As a result, several of the players have gathered large piles of dice to make the rolling a bit faster. During the last game however, this lead to a rather frequent occurrence of dice being dropped and scattered on the floor, to rattle off to parts unknown. Enter a dice organizer, a simple design I found on Thingiverse (thanks to TimTimTimTimTim), which holds d6…
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We continued the Pathfinder campaign conclusion, with the second part of the assault on Karzoug’s citadel. The group managed to finish off their first encounter with a full power Rune Giant, and then broke into the throne room, where they faced one of Karzoug’s generals. However, the battle was relatively quick, thanks to a well timed Prismatic Spray spell, and some well aimed vorpal swords. After only a few rounds, the general’s head was removed, the Rune Giant faced a similar fate, and another of the Cloud Giants was whisked away to another plane. The rest of the foes fell…
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Had the opportunity for the boys to both participate in a flag pole dedication for our local church sponsor. A family had donated the installation of the flag poles, as a memorial, and the church asked for the Boy Scouts to help with the ceremony. Fairly straightforward, this is something the Boy Scouts do on a regular basis (raising and lowering the flag), but it was nice to be able to help out the sponsor with their request. And it was nice to see both of the boys active in the event.
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A Happy Anniversary to my wife, who opted to marry me many moons ago (264 moons ago to be precise, or 22 years). Although I haven’t always made a bit deal about it every year, it makes me happy that she said yes. This year, I decided to go artsy, and wrapped her presents in paper that looks like resin ink artwork. It goes with her general crafty-ness. Thank you for all the fun so far, and for many more years to come.
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We continue the conclusion of the Pathfinder campaign this weekend, in one of the few remaining sessions. At the end of the last one, the group had encountered their first Rune Giant, and interacted with an image of Karzoug – now fully aware of the groups activities and location. We will see how long the group can hold out, and what tactics they come up with. At this stage, we are still eyeing finishing the campaign before the end of the year, though of course that will depend on how quickly we move thru the content. At a minimum, I…
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I have had a few days now to get used to the new WordPress version, within which the biggest change is a the new “block editor” formatting for posts. I am old-school – I started working on websites when you wrote out the text long hand in html code – so the changes feel a bit foreign. It was a change (for the better) when gui-based interfaces were developed, and in truth, this block format is an improvement as well. However, it does feel like there is more limitations (or perhaps I just haven’t learned how to do things yet). …
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Continuing my efforts with Elite: Dangerous (it has been distracting me a lot recently), here is a view from the rings of Frey 4, in the Frey system. This particular location is a resource extraction site, popular with pirates (and thus good for combat), but it is also rather peaceful when you just stop and enjoy the view. The haze is due to the star casting a shadow across the planet and rings.
Halfling13 Hobbies
Something about nothing – a collection of miscellaneous hobbies
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