Happy belated calendar Samhain and other news

I had the week off for Samhain, and it was nice ... really, really nice. No work email, no phone calls, no coming in on my days off. Just lots of relaxing with Will, some board games, some Rock Band, catching up on what little TV we watch, that sort of thing. (Will did get totally addicted to the Deathnote anime. Hee.) Oddly, though, we never got around to carving our pumpkins (sorry, "punkins" ... we are in Indiana), and I never did the fall cleaning or the memorial altar. Never made it out the gravesites, either. I think I just desperately needed some decompression time, and even my minor observances felt like too much work this year.

We did finally get to tour the lair of Zombie 0 and her family on Friday evening, which was really neat, though I couldn't stay as long as I would have liked. One of my co-workers showed up just as we were getting ready to leave, which was a pleasant surprise. (Cher Mere, I hope your leg is feeling better!)

The Monica has a great memory-jogging article on Bram Stoker's Dracula posted at Cracked.com. I haven't seen the movie in years, but since it (and several others I can safely call "classics," now) are posted for free on the site, I might have to check out a few. I wish I'd figured that out during my week off. Ah well.

Also, apparently Evn is Wicca's David Hasslehoff. My computer and I are so, so glad I wasn't drinking coffee when I read that.

In game news, we had a makeup Changeling game last week, followed by our usual session of Libri Vidicos, but sadly I wasn't feeling well on Halloween, and so didn't get to sit in on the Wushu game Saturday as I'd hoped (Edige was kind enough to extend the invitation on that). It sounds like a very entertaining group. Ah well. Will has also begun a one-player Mage: The Awakening game for me so we can try out the system and flesh out his setting a bit. We just had the first session last night -- it was a lot of fun, but he refuses to run it for me every night. Clearly I'm doing something wrong, here. ~.~