I'm in a bizarre mood today, one that I'm blaming entirely on spring - hence our now green-ish background. I might actually look into changing that again sometime soon. The options aren't all that varied, but a lot of them beat plain old black. Besides, who says you need to keep a template for any real length of time? I've also added a picture slot to the blog. Partially because I have a small collection of cool or amusing photos I might swap through there, but mostly because the option for putting that there was labeled 'add gadget'. They've found my instant-attention word.
Now back to spring-related stuff. The temperature is slowly but inevitably creeping above the freezing line and that means I can finally get back to things like hiking or exploring without worry for being buried in a snow drift or attacked by roaming yetis. The only downside is how much snow we managed to collect in the latter half the season, it's made the melt-off enormous and turned most of the surrounding forests into practically swamp land. Still, I'm going to take a drive out to check out some of the surrounding areas later today and see if any of them are fit for our little wars.
With any luck it won't be as impossible to find dry ground as it initially may seem. We habitually pick flat(-ish) fields with rock outcropping, which are usually a bit raised up from the ground and surrounded by denser bush in the lower area. If you've never been on what geography somewhat pompously calls The Canadian Shield then just think of a low hill about a football field across with very little soil over bedrock that occasionally peeks through. Since there's very little soil and everything is raised up by perhaps a dozen feet in these areas all the water tends to have run off, leaving a dry is slightly damp playing field. Also one can't dismiss the usefulness of having a thick forest all around these events; nothing we're doing is illegal in any sense, but if we're shooting silly little tennis-ball covered arrows into the air the last thing we want is some oblivious passerby to catch it with their face. They tend to not be up for explanations are that point, notably not if it's from people carrying about swords.
After that I'm hoping to check out a couple local gyms I stumbled across last night after I made my post. It might very well be possible to go train in a nearby place for very little cost, no more than $6 a day. Going to run by the place and ask a few questions, see what exactly they're willing to let us do.
Oh, yes, by the way. A bunch of interesting new Kinect news has recently come out - ideas here, I mean. They haven't updated the hardware or anything, but people are coming up with increasingly bizarre and innovative ways to use it. Id' love to throw a post together about it all, but I have way too much that needs doing today, so I'll regulate that to the future, for now just go read what the guys at Penny Arcade are talking about.
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