MAKE IT STOP!!

Urgh what a week!
Everything that can go wrong has and I'm just over it. Anyway onwards and upwards!

We went to Mogo zoo the other weekend which was pretty cool :) Nice little zoo with a surprising range of animals, the kids even got to feed a giraffe which was awesome!
We also called in to Kiama and had a look at the blow hole. I took most of my photos with the DSLR so I'd normally put some pics here but they are still in the body.

We did go for a family bushwalk as well along the National Pass at Wentworth falls and that was super awesome! Across the top of the falls, along the cliff edge, down the stairs and through the valley before heading back up through Empress falls :D

Bushwalking is something that we are really enjoying as a family. Our youngest is now 5 and has so much energy it is ridiculous! He jogged the last 20 minutes of the last 4.5 hour walk we did!

Anyway we are off to do the Ruined Castle walk at Katoomba on Saturday and I'll try to get a photosphere done to post :D I've got my new backpack (for carrying everyone else’s stuff of course) and an awesome jacket. I never normally wear jackets or trousers, but its going to be around 3 degrees so I'll give it a shot!

Movie Night!

In the tradition of taking the fun out of things by scheduling them each week we have a movie night.
The kids watch a movie that they want and then when they go to bed my Wife and I watch one as well.
We have been working our way through the Top 100 movies list from IMDB for the last 12 months or so and the other night we hit number 48, Gladiator.

Gladiator was the first DVD I ever bought and it is the only movie I can remember taking my Dad to see at the cinema.

So far in this list we have seen all sorts of things, from modern big budget movies to old black and white subtitled Japanese films! Its been interesting to say the least!

The current list is HERE, it will be different to the one we are working off as ratings change over time but still worth doing :)

Lots of stuff

So this is a bit random... I know it's been 10 days since I last posted, even I started missing myself.

Anyway a few random thoughts/things....

I know this is almost turning into a board game blog but we are spending lots of family time playing them recently. We picked up Pandemic and lost (Sorry world) and today our other expansion for Castle Panic turned up and we will give that a shot tomorrow night. We have a few more games ordered for upcoming birthdays and have a list of titles that we are looking, if only they were a bit cheaper :)

Another round of the V8's has been and gone and I must congratulate V8 Supercars on their progress. They have managed to turn me from someone who used to attend all of the local race meetings, into someone who made sure they always watched the race coverage on TV live and now into someone who grabs a delayed coverage and watches it by pressing the 30 second skip button all the way through. Who knows where I will go from here!

What else do I have to say? Hmmmm

The little monitors are growing up and I'll probably do a post about them and put up some photos soon. Oh I had an awesome customer the other day as well... but that's all I'm going to say about that :D

Castle Panic 15 - 3 :)
Wizards Tower 2 - 4 :(
Pandemic 0 - 1 :(

New games!

As the weather has been craptacular for the last week or so we decided to go for a drive to a games shop and check out some new board games. After looking around at quite a few shelves of fancy looking boxes (including one that looked so much like Monkey Island!) we walked out of the place with Munchkins Deluxe and 7 Wonders :) Tough games for our 4 year old to play but we will ease him into them and go from there.

So we had our first play through of each game tonight and it was tough (As we had no idea of the rules and the Munchkin manual isn't that new player friendly) so a few more games and we will hopefully have most of it sorted.

The end of the 7 Wonders game... we weren't sure how the points would work out at the end, but I won so it was great :D

On a side note we won at The Wizards tower yay!


Castle Panic 15 - 3 :)
Wizards Tower 2 -3 :(

The Wizards Tower

Keened eyed viewers will notice the addition of another score on the last post. (I know no one reads this, and it's not for anyone to read but I still like to post as though they do, is that weird?)

The Castle Panic board game has quickly removed the other family games from our life and relocated them to a dark spot in the granny flat.
So it only makes sense that we purchased the first expansion pack for it "The Wizards Tower"!

It uses the original board with most of the original pieces but adds bigger, badder monsters and the wizards tower itself. For as long as the wizards tower is still standing you get to use special "Wizards cards" which are more powerful than normal cards, but with the new boss monsters you're going to need them!

So far we have played 3 games with the new add on and lost every one of them! Not by much though, generally getting down to just one monster left that takes out the final tower so I'm sure we will have our breakthrough win soon :D

Castle Panic 13 - 3 :)
Wizards Tower 0 -3 :(

You do what?

So it's been almost a week since I last posted and it has been due to a few reasons.
It's school holidays, I've been busy working and also I am not that interesting :D

So I've been busy working, but doing what? Well I breed Giant Mealworms and supply them to shops and breeders for (mainly) the reptile industry.
It's weird I know, whenever anyone asks me how "the worms are going" I always feel like they are taking the piss. It's been almost a year now since I left my old job (underground cabling) and signed up as a small business. It's different, I get to take the kids to school and pick them up, as well as deal with stuff around the house.

Giant Mealworms are a pain in the ass (That's 2 swears in this post :O ) to breed, they just take a long time to grow. You're looking at 6 months from egg to adult so you have to make sure you have a system in place. So far so good though :)

I sell most of my stuff through Facebook....

 

 

Yep "I've Got Worms"... please hit me with your jokes, I have heard none of them before..... :D

Castle Panic 11 - 2 :)
Wizards Tower 0 -1 :(

Podcasts :D

In my old job I did quite a bit of driving. Sometimes I would leave early and drive 2 - 2.5 hours to a job and then have to drive the same back again in the after noon. The truck I was driving was noisy and the radio hardly worked so I started using earphones and my phone to listen to podcasts. Mainly tech stuff at the time but it soon became corrupted with nerdy stuff as well.

Now I work at home on my own and both of my kids are at school so my podcast list has grown and I end up listening to probably 6 or so hours a day! So what am I currently listening to? Well in no particular order....

The Incomparable :- Pop culture nerdy stuff :) Old movie reviews and more. The Incomparable network has quite a few different shows on it now, most of which I listen to.

The Skeptics Guide :- Interesting science news, the stupidity of the ignorant and a few fun games.

Nerdist :- I only listen to the main Nerdist podcast, they have some great famous guests on and end up talking about some unexpected topics with them.

Critical Hit :- A D&D podcast! How nerdy right?! Well it worked out well for me because it has a few hundred back episodes! I listen to it in the back ground, it's like a story unravelling and can be a laugh :)

The Infinite Monkey Cage :- Science panel show hosted by Brian Cox, funny and interesting.

SciFi Diner :- I've only just started listening to this one, so I'll see how it goes.

This Week In Tech :- Part of Leo Laportes empire of Tech shows :) A weekly roundup of everything tech related.

There are others, they come and go as I feel. The other day I realised that the adverts seem to be working as well... I have several products that I have purchased because I have heard about them on podcasts (iFixIt Pro tool set, Castle Panic, Loot Crate....) Luckily I'm happy with them so I can't complain!

Castle Panic score  7 - 2