8r4d The sun was setting and I ran into an old coworker sitting on the ground talking pics of the sunset and her dog. If you squint and zoom…

8r4d Lucky #running streak day thirteen and we logged nearly seven klicks in the lingering heat of the trails thru Mill Creek.

gamerdad I finally bought it. Heck, it’s been on my wish list since it released a couple years back, but what with not working much and knowing it would likely consume me, I held off and waited for a good sale.

A mediocre sale was the next best bet.

It took two hours to install, what it being 100GB or so, but then there it was and I loaded up the game for the first time and sat there wondering which of the many paths to take. Character? Difficulty? Just a couple of the more obvious choices before the game-proper even began.

I recalled from playing Divinity Original Sin 2 that Larian games have a lot of threaded narratives and the game you get can change a bit based on early choices. I guess that’s what makes it replayable, huh?

There was no sense in dawdling tho, so I just jumped in and started. I can’t even really tell you what I picked besides mostly sticking with the default options. When I get some in-game time on the clock maybe I’ll know better for a second play thru. But for now, vanilla it is.

To be sure, a couple hours into it I’m far from an expert able to write with any depth on what I see is obviously enormous depth in this game. I’ve kept my ear to the ground these last couple years, reading write ups and listening to podcasts, so I have a share of third hand info that not only helped me make the decision to buy it and play it, but helped avoid some of that first wave overwhelmingness that I suspect wild come to anyone just jumping in completely cold.

Stay tuned.

8r4d Day twelve of #running streaks took me down into the river valley. I cheated a bit and parked near the trail head so I could spend more time in the trails and less on the hot asphalt road in between. [read more...]

8r4d Wandering around the #university campus at night is something I haven’t done in a couple decades. [read more...]

8r4d The Kid was doing something dramatic at the #university this evening so I found myself reprising the role of dad’s taxi service, but then finding a cozy place to sit and write at the Rutherford Library, and hey, legit, I worked in this library as a part time job when I went to school here. [read more...]

8r4d day eleven of my #running streak was another morning lap of the neighbourhood shortly before lunch, and almost soon enough to beat the returning heat and lingering #firesmoke

8r4d #running streak day ten and I got my 6k run around the hood done even as the day was getting a lot smokier out. It’s supposed to be a warm week, which I had hoped to avoid by doing this into September, but I guess #summer isn’t quite done with us yet. #firesmoke

8r4d I’m logged in at the nearby Starbucks with a keyboard and a #coffee and thinking it’s probably one of those morning when I need to write a short post here to bookmark the efforts I made in the code for this very site over the weekend. [read more...]

8r4d When someone burns their toast at the condo across the street, the real Summary evening excitement begins…

#neighbourhood #firetruck

pixelazy #insect on sunflower in the neighbourhood trails [read more...]

pixelazy I was experimenting with framing using natural and less-than-natural elements, like a flower through a washer hole. [read more...]

8r4d Sunday #running with a whiff of #firesmoke made for day nine of my growing streak [read more...]

8r4d A couple years back I started having some issues with my GoPro camera. It would freeze and give error messages when taking photos and videos. I didn’t really have the mental energy back then to figure it out, so the camera spent nearly two years on the shelf.

Long story short, I finally did some reading and figured out it was probably a corrupt memory card, or at least s memory card that was too big or having some spec issues. An SD card is like ten bucks these days tho, so a quick replacement let me confirm my research: bad memory card.

So, even shorter version: my camera seems to be working just fine again. Stay turned!

8r4d A break by the #river to try and cool off on our #walk in the dog park, but we already know someone is afraid of the water, huh? [read more...]

8r4d I found this #fossil in the river, just glancing down and saw it there. May as well take it home because it won't last long exposed to the flowing water as it was. [read more...]

adventuredog It was a bit of a hot day for a #walk but we went down to the dog park anyhow and did a lap. So much fun chasing bikes (*even when dad says NO!) [read more...]

8r4d The biggest challenge of day eight of my #running streak is navigating my timing around tomorrow’s anticipated longer Sunday run. I squeezed in a neighbourhood five kick tour before lunch, and before the heat of the day really set in.... with still lots of recovery time before meeting the crew in the morning. [read more...]

8r4d Animal spotting on a neighborhood #walk

8r4dsfeets The road less travelled branches off from the asphalt into a dusty diversion

8r4dsfeets Seeking #grate wisdom of directionality mid-run

8r4d To cap off a week long #running streak (to be continued of course!) I went down to the dog park on a Friday morning and set off into the wild yonder across the bridge from there. They winding trip back was the most interesting by far.

8r4d #running streak day six was a wee bit of adventure in the southern suburbs of the city, and the temps were just about right for a late summer six klicks

8r4d #runclub was a scorcher again this week but the temp was only 28c so i braved it for the sake of day five of this #running streak