Iliya and I went to the Dance Libre performance that Tina was a part of. She did a great job in the dancing as did the rest of her group. The plot was very much separate, and related to the rest of the performance only slightly. The plot was vegetarian zombies turning into flesh eating zombies. The secret to keeping them vegetarian was the rutabaga. That said it did provide a decent amount of comic relief and segues. There were also lots of comic relief points in the dances, and I was most impressed with how well they were incorporated, while the dancers didn’t miss a beat. I was satiated at about an hour of the dancing, but the rest of the performance was still quite good. The thriller dance at the end was a nice finish to it.
The kitties have been wonderful, and very cuddly. They have been especially good about going on their walks. Lana got scared of John when she saw him one day, just like Archer was scared of the Google delivery guy. I am also trying to feed them more of a meal schedule and less of them eating whenever they want.
The Heir of Novron was a great book, and I happened to read it out of order with Rise of an Empire. The character development in this book was very nice, and the way in which the story twisted and turned was great. The lost city adventures were fantastic, and I especially liked the way the magic was used.
We got up early and waited for Rose to come by. Rose is one of Stephanie’s teammates, and she is new to the school. She joined us on the ride up, and we grabbed coffee before hitting the road. We got there a little before the Filipino festival started. I was hoping to do some Filipino arts and crafts, but it was conspicuously absent. I sat down and watched the matches once everyone had shown up and gotten started. They were very fast, but there were quite a few of them. Stephanie only did two rounds:
Video of round1 , Video of round2
After the festival we went to a restaurant nearby and had a relaxing lunch. I drove back to Beachhead and we relaxed for a bit.
Steph and I cooked up some bean salad, and we enjoyed the tasty food before going to Farran’s launch party. She has been doing a lot of great work with videos as a side job, and decided to switch to it as a full time job. She had cake pops there and Steph and I went a little crazy over them, especially the red velvet ones. It was very nice.
Steph and I went to dinner in the city to meet with Peter and other of Steph’s friends from the original Beachhead group. We picked up Jeremy and Nancy, and Jeremy drove into the city for us. The Russian Hill area is annoying to drive in, although we did find a really convenient parking spot. We had dinner at a nice German place nearby. The food was very good. The desserts were amazing, we shared some mousse and strudel.
A group got together to go play games at an arcade that had 4D rides. The group was most of Beachhead house including Tina, Amit, Candice, David, Kevin, Steph, and I. The place was pretty small, and the rides had varying levels of complexity. The big one had a really nice, and silly, great wall experience. It had bubbles, and a moving roller coaster like car. They also had some basic games like ski-ball and pac man. We spent a couple hours there, then went to a burger and shake place for dinner. The shake was pretty good, as it was chocolate and butterfinger.
Stephanie and I went to her parents house for Lunch on Sunday, and the food was delicious. The Lees had prepared some fish taco makings, and some cantaloupe for dessert. I really enjoyed the time we spent with them, and they were great to talk to. After lunch we went on a walk at the reservoir, for about 3 miles total. I ended up getting a little sun burn, but it wasn’t that bad. We saw a gigantic fish sitting in a little cove off the reservoir and Mr. Lee wanted to go get his fishing gear.
This was a really nice ending to a great story. I look forward to any new additions to this, but it seems like it could stop here and go no further without much loss. The ending is different from most books in the genre, with the winning character being morally ambiguous leaning towards evil, with the other main characters not caring for him at all. The inquisitor character has the best story by far, and I would really like to hear more of his story in particular.
It's an Exciting World 