First, congratulations to Sandy for his staggeringly successful Kickstarter on the Cthulhu Wars game.
With a starting goal of $40,000 (which admittedly would have made for a pretty bare bones game), they shot up in the end to $1.4 million bucks. Luckily, I myself am personally on the hook for well less than 10% of that. Considering that Sandy and his two compatriots have been working on the game sans pay for two years now, it’s obviously fantastic to know this worked out for them so well.
Went to a Cubs game yesterday, my first in several years. We have great seats, with our vantage basically being what you see in the picture below.
It was very hot (well, fairly hot but quite muggy as well), though, and there was NO breeze where we were sitting. And although I like the meditative pace of the game, this is one of those deals were all the pitchers were moving molasses slow between pitches. That you don’t need, especially when the weather is stifling. On the other hand, I didn’t need either the sunscreen or the umbrella I brought, so there was that.
Closer Kevin Gregg, to our resigned horror, allowed the NL leading Pirates to tie it with the last batter in the 9th inning. Miraculously, though, the Cubbies pulled out a win in the 11th. As you can see, the massive crowd of die hard fans were exultant.
Oh, and of course we got one of these. They are up to $17 now, but we got to the park in time for the ‘one hour before the game’ food rates, and got it for $12 instead. At that price, a pretty terrific deal, given baseball park prices.
On video I watched Arnold’s failed but quite solid comeback effort The Last Stand, and watched about five episodes of Grimm before my interest petered out. I also had downloaded last week’s MotD feature Carry on Screaming off YouTube and watched it on a burned disc. It was one of those films that was consistently watchable and amusing even if you don’t burst out laughing all that often.
I haven’t seen hardly any of the Carry On series, but it definitely felt like a film with an established ensemble cast. Guys would come on for a scene and it just felt like they anticipated the audience going “Oh, there he is, my favorite guy!” It took me a bit to see through all the extra hair and coke bottle glasses, but Jon Pertwee had a too small role, and the guy who played the Major or whatever on Are You Being Served? (a show I never cared for, frankly) pops up too. All in all an entertaining piffle.
How about you guys?
