Author: rommel

Most of the day went to preparations for BlizzCon, the small logistics that always take longer than they ought. The plan shifted underneath me late on: Gustavo’s flight was canceled, so he caught an earlier one, and I collect him today rather than tomorrow. A day sooner than expected, which is no hardship at all.…

A quiet morning, most of it given to the Spotter project, the kind of steady work that leaves little to report beyond the fact that it moved. Later I mowed the lawn, and it looks the better for it. Time with Liza, and picadillo for supper. Nothing about the day was remarkable, and yet I…

The heat has settled over San Diego like it means to stay, a record for this stretch of September, and the day became less a matter of doing than of enduring. Little got done that the temperature did not dictate. Across the city the talk has turned, almost as one, to SDGE and the price…

The day was given over to Tijuana, and to getting Liza to her appointment. The drive down was quick, twenty minutes and no trouble. It was the return that undid us, hours of it, the kind of traffic that turns a short crossing into an ordeal and asks patience of everyone in the car. There…

A round of beers at South Park to begin, the easy kind of afternoon that asks nothing of you and gives back more than its share. The evening carried on at home over cocktails, unhurried, in good company. Not every day needs to amount to something. Some are just good, and this was one of…

After a long campaign, I finally brought down Baal and saw Diablo II to its end. The fight was a real test and I enjoyed it, though the ending itself struck me as a touch silly for all the trouble it took to reach. In the afternoon I meant to make the community dumpster day,…

The fitness profile I have been building with the AI assistant is finished at last, and there is a particular satisfaction in setting down a thing that will keep working after you stop tending it. Act V of Diablo is nearly behind me as well, two quests short of the end, though I find I…

Act IV of Diablo II fell today, and only one remains before the campaign is done. I’ve decided against buying the third game; there is a two-hour account of its whole story waiting on YouTube, and that will serve well enough to close the arc without another purchase. The better hours went to the fitness…

Took the measure of the lawn today, quite literally. I set a tuna can out and worked the hose over each section by hand until it held thirteen millimeters, and the result was plain: I had been watering nowhere near enough, which accounts for the brown that has crept across the yard these past weeks.…

The Diablo campaign advances well. Act II is behind me and the end of Act III is within reach, which is more ground than I expected to cover. I broke my usual rule against pre-ordering and put in for Ace Combat 8; the remade Ace Combat Zero came bundled with it, and since the game…