Procrastination Opportunist

Even more excuse not to make any further blog entries for a while - I'm gearing up for a 10 day cruise on the "Pacific Sun" to Vanuatu! This one's been in the pipeline for a while, but it has really raced up. Let's hope it won't race by. Although I could imagine my begrudging readers wanting it to be over quickly, or for the water to be filled with huge icebergs. Or perhaps both, the 'over with quickly' being as a result of the giant icebergs. Yeah whatever, sea travel is safe as houses (in Johannesburg).

Wimbledon highlights are playing and Lisa Raymond is losing to Venus Williams. It will be nice to leave all these mundane stressors behind for a week.

Times are changing... On Monday night Dom and I decided to forgo the usual Desperate Housewives fare and invite Scotty over for a games night for old time's sake. We played 'Betrayal..' mentioned below, but the good guys lost, Malc and Mix giving in to the niggling lycanthropy that had been bugging them, but Scotty and Dom deciding to die rather than hunt me down. Kudos to the kudos mates team. The night was still a young 10.30 when we finished so we decided to go out for a game of cut-throat pool. Scotty was destined to be 'd'Arcys' (denominations 1-5, don't ask why), but in the end d'Arcy was destined evidently to be the winner, and even cleaned up the white ball on the final shot!

The night ended on a kudos note (apart from the whole saying goodbye to Scotty thing) because I don't want to use words like beautiful, cathartic, emotional or soulful. None of that crap. We discussed power tools and monster trucks. Then we took some pics of us in the altogether. ... um I mean, with all of us together, ehe heh, I might shut up now.

Check out the soulful shot with the beautiful ambience showing Scotty in a cathartic expression of emotion... Damn it! And I thought I could at least make it to the end of this blog entry without using any one of those words, let alone all of them? I really will shut up now, but much kudos to Scotty and his blog, he can even put a positive spin on my shortcomings! Now, if only I could lose graciously now and then...

OK, false alarm. Blogspot had some server error and nothing was updated for an hour or so. I am leaving the withdrawn post in, however, just so as to prove I do update my blog now and then. More "then" than "now".

I'm not a student anymore; why does my blog fail to recognise this? To the left it would have you believe nothing has changed for the past year! Personal life/love life, sure, nothing has changed in the past 5 years - it may never - but as far as my professional life goes I'm a successful, officious and maladjusted lawyer! (Pity the two extra perfect describing words for me had to have such negative connotations :) ) Did I fail to mention that earlier? I was so sure I had had it sounded from the rooftops.

April! I can't believe that's when my last post was!? OK, but I have plenty of excuses like wedding ring plus work contract equals...

But aside from my passion there is also my latest craze - Munchkin and Betrayal at the House on the Hill. Me, the flatties, Justus and Matt Caradus all played them for about 7 hours straight today!

Munchkin is pretty standard fare, but captivating nonetheless. It's a basic card game which sees everyone on a race to get to level 10 first. You have races, classes, and various bonus items and you gotta try and kill monsters and gain levels without anyone else cursing you (which happens in many senses, often after the game is over), interfering in your fights or otherwise hurting your chances of victory. Simple, but addictive.

And the other is Betrayal at the House on the Hill, in which you explore a creepy house which all too soon becomes haunted - one of the players becoming treacherous. The rest of the players have to follow the 'Guide to Survival' and find out which one of the many scenarios is taking place. There are 50 different possible 'haunts' and it involves the traitor (and often his lackeys) against the rest of the group in many wildly varying storylines. We played 3 games straight; amazing how they're never the same twice!