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After a pretty long day on Friday, I was exhausted when I got home in the evening. Since we had a coupon that needed to be used before Labor Day Weekend, we headed over to Ronin Sushi for dinner, trying out their curry and noodles for the first time. We had the Drunken Noodles and the Panang Curry, both of which were AWESOME. I spent the rest of the evening working on my D&D character.

I spent Saturday morning updating my actual character sheet for D&D, through the ridiculously complex but highly entertaining method of logging in to my work computer (which has the official Dungeons and Dragons Character Builder installed on it) to update my character sheet, which I saved digitally. I’m also been wanting to try out iplay4e on my phone in game, so I loaded a copy of my character sheet into that app, followed by saving a copy of it to my Dropbox account (for access to it in case I forget my sheet). Since I needed a physical copy as well, I printed a PDF version of the character sheet, then saved that to my Dropbox account as well, so I could print it off at home. Almost too easy…

After taking a nap (because I’m old), it was time to head out to a gig at Tryg’s with Rare Medium. It was a good show, even though I’m definitely starting to feel the rust on my playing. It might be time to put a more concerted effort in to practicing, as the mind is willing, but the flesh is definitely week. Three sets are hard work, and by the time we played our last song I was pretty exhausted.

The next morning, I got up bright and early and hung out with my wife and drank some coffee, followed by heading to the range for some quick practice. I had a pretty off day, and wound up losing an arrow, which sucks. I actually had lost two, but did wind up finding one of them. After a quick lunch, it was off to the main event of the day, Dungeons and Dragons!

It was a fun session, in which we actually fought a dragon. How awesome is that? One of the new things we’ve started doing (that is to say, Rygar and Lundo have started doing) is putting together stop motion photo montages of the miniature combat. It’s pretty damn cool, and you can see the results here:

A days worth of drinking an even combination of Moutain Dew and beer made me insanely sleepy by the time I got home, and after watching some Futurama, it was off to bed.

See, the problem with taking too much time in posting Weekend Update posts is that I forget what I did. Such is life.

To the best of my knowledge, Friday was fairly typical; work followed by hanging out at home. I believe we cooked a pizza, although I am most likely wrong.*

Saturday morning I headed out the the range in the morning to shoot some arrows, and was completely flabbergasted to find another archer already there. Since I have no idea what the etiquette is for sharing archery lanes, I left my bow in the car and walked around the park for a bit before heading home. I stopped by an hour or so later and shot for another hour, and headed home. I’m getting better, but I’m saving that for a separate post!

After heading home and getting cleaned up, I headed off to the American Carnage tour, which you can read about here. I was starving on the way home, and as I had received a text from my wife requesting a quesadilla, I stopped at Taco Bell on the way home.

The next morning, I managed to sleep until 11:30, which is insanely late for me. I had intended to head down to the range again, but I tried on two separate occasions, and each time it was packed. As deer season is rapidly approaching, I’m assuming that the archers I’m seeing are practicing for that, and not training for the Longbow Competition. One can only hope.**

Instead of firing arrows, I instead spent the afternoon mowing the lawn and doing some reading. I attempted to head back to the range in the evening, but as could be expected, it was full once again.

As for the rest of the evening, I believe I tracked some drums and read. Hooray!

* I now believe it was burgers.
** As everyone else I’ve seen has been using compounds, it’s a safe assumption.