This and That

Went to Chocolate Fest last night at Whole Foods. It wasn't as good as last year, the stand out being the Vosges chocolate bars. Which made it all more than worthwhile. Though at $5.99 each I think they won't be something I buy a lot of, to much of the same thing. I like the truffles because of the variety. But the nibs were just perfect and I ate many of them. We met robotnik and papersource there, and ran into D, which was a pleasant surprise (okay maybe not a huge surprise.

Afterwards Robotnik and Papersource came over to our place (after buying bread, cheese and wine) and we had a nice evening talking about politics, Canada, Project Runway and libraries, amongst many other things.

Today we have to go to peaseblossom's great-grandmothers 101st birthday. I'm not looking forward to dealing with extended family for some reason. But we are rather expected because we have the youngest generation. The great-great-grand children.

Tomorrow is the starchild's first birthday party, which should be a lot better. I can't believe she's one already!

This week I want to get over to Pandemonium to pick up heroQuest so I can stop stealing Robotnik's copy (which jeffwik has anwyays). But Peaseblossom doesn't want to bring me (too high snow drifts blocking egress from the car) so it may be a problem.

I wish more libraries carried games

There are a lot of games out there I'd like to read. Fireborn, Ultimate Mystic, Mystic Hero, the list goes on. But frankly I'm not interested in buying them. I can now get about 80% of my comic reading through my library (I prefer tpbs), but not a single rpg boo. Oh well, problem of a fringe hobby. I wnder though if the hobby doesn't need the same sort of organized push I remember comics getting a few years back.

Evil feature

My library has a new feature, My Reading History, which I find disturbing. Like I want to sign up to make it easier for others to see what I'm reading. I can keep track mself if I care. Luckily librarians are good people and they take pains to spell out the privacy issues.

Tsunami throws up India relics

The deadly tsunami could have uncovered the remains of an ancient port city off the coast in southern India.

More at BBC.