Donald's story highlights just how generous Americans are when they find out someone needs help.
Our pawsitivity for the week was camping with longtime friends (some go all the way back to high school) and family out on the Olympic peninsula. The weather was cool-ish, but it didn't rain, for which we are very grateful! Ya just never know in the PNW, even in August!
That is the honest truth! However, we do have family in AZ and NM who like to come in the fall so that they are almost guaranteed to experience the rain!
One of my favorites was "Washington's two seasons: Cold Rain (picture of duck with raincoat and umbrella being rained on) and Warm Rain (picture of duck in sunglasses and shorts being rained on).
I did not have enough tissue on hand to get very far into Donald and his wife's story, so went straight on into the eagle..... And used up my tissue there. Thanks.
Long-time DnD player here. Mostly in the DM role, because I liked the story-telling (Bard-like ?) aspect of it. Especially trying to connect a string of unrelated modules together in a coherent story arc. My sons play 5th Edition and there are so many character classes now, nobody is 'stuck' being the cleric, thief , or the dreaded BARD of the party because the ability to heal, pick a lock, find traps, and talk your way out of a situation can be spread out over several different players. The great thing about the game now is that it gets a group of 5, 6, or 7 teenage boys off of their screens, trying to solve problems and learning to converse. It's almost a forgotten skill, which is kind of sad . . .
Your story about getting roped into the occasional Dungeons and Dragons game reminded me of college where my roommate was a Dungeon Master. Like you, I was more into athletics and novels set in the D&D universe rather than the game itself, but it was great to see D&D reimagined in “Stranger Things”.
First off, you sir are a BARD!!! The Devil Went Down to Georgia and a pitcher of beer make everything better! Secondly, you started off as some type of healer or at best a Paladin with all that dang white you loved to play back in our MTG days. Keep up the great work!
No way... You forgot you could drink an entire pitcher of beer while singing a super fast paced song, usually at the end of the night where we had already had 5 pitchers? Weird.
LOVE your post...Mondays with you are always a JOY !! That Golden was just Golden ! and the VET did have me in tears :) YEAH for his Service and the generosity of my fellow humans !!
Well, everybody's heard about the bard, as the song goes.
Never played a bard myself: D&D was nobody's go-to system thanks to how unintuitive and cumbersome and mechanistically unsound it was. People here played swedish games (Mutant, Drakar och Demoner, KULT), or ICE MERP/Rolemaster, WEGD6SW, Paranoia, CoC, Twilight 2000, Traveller, Chill and such.
And that's not mentioning all the board-games, like Axis&Allies (aka WW2 in real time using tokens) or SoC or Talisman (1st and 2nd ed, the ones with the five or six extra floorplans, necessitating a ping-pong table to play it).
Ahhh, good times. The tabletop is the best place for war.
Rolemster still takes the cake for "the kitchen sink and everything on it". A game system where character creation has the option "roll to see if you survive being born"? Hilarious!
No, I meant Interstate Highway 80, but it's funny I didn't think of that interpretation because I grew up next to Hwy. 80, East of Sacramento, and we usedvto joke in high school about going 80 on 80!
No pawsitivity post this Monday I guess.
Loved the big kitty! It looks like a bigger version of our Nebelung kitties from many years ago. Have you seen this big kitty from Russia: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CgucRXurn3n/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_rid=9b8072bc-7104-453c-b941-1af6b24c9b85
Donald's story highlights just how generous Americans are when they find out someone needs help.
Our pawsitivity for the week was camping with longtime friends (some go all the way back to high school) and family out on the Olympic peninsula. The weather was cool-ish, but it didn't rain, for which we are very grateful! Ya just never know in the PNW, even in August!
Mrs. "the Knife"
For anybody wondering when the correct time to visit the PNW is: It's August.
That is the honest truth! However, we do have family in AZ and NM who like to come in the fall so that they are almost guaranteed to experience the rain!
Mrs. "the Knife"
If you want to experience the rain, that's easy too....just show up anywhere from October to May. :p
😂🤣 Back when we were in high school, there were T-shirts celebrating our rainy reputation:
"Seattle Rain Festival - January 1st - December 31st"
Seattle-ites - We don't tan, we rust!"
"What is that big, round, yellow thing in the sky?!"
Mrs. "the Knife"
One of my favorites was "Washington's two seasons: Cold Rain (picture of duck with raincoat and umbrella being rained on) and Warm Rain (picture of duck in sunglasses and shorts being rained on).
Ooh, that is a good one!
Mrs. "the Knife"
Was that cat a horse dressed as a cat?
I did not have enough tissue on hand to get very far into Donald and his wife's story, so went straight on into the eagle..... And used up my tissue there. Thanks.
Long-time DnD player here. Mostly in the DM role, because I liked the story-telling (Bard-like ?) aspect of it. Especially trying to connect a string of unrelated modules together in a coherent story arc. My sons play 5th Edition and there are so many character classes now, nobody is 'stuck' being the cleric, thief , or the dreaded BARD of the party because the ability to heal, pick a lock, find traps, and talk your way out of a situation can be spread out over several different players. The great thing about the game now is that it gets a group of 5, 6, or 7 teenage boys off of their screens, trying to solve problems and learning to converse. It's almost a forgotten skill, which is kind of sad . . .
Happy Tuesday, but it is good to always go through a Monday post.
I love all of the videos.
How absolutely touching.
Americans are the greatest.
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Your story about getting roped into the occasional Dungeons and Dragons game reminded me of college where my roommate was a Dungeon Master. Like you, I was more into athletics and novels set in the D&D universe rather than the game itself, but it was great to see D&D reimagined in “Stranger Things”.
First off, you sir are a BARD!!! The Devil Went Down to Georgia and a pitcher of beer make everything better! Secondly, you started off as some type of healer or at best a Paladin with all that dang white you loved to play back in our MTG days. Keep up the great work!
Also..........
ANARCHY
OMG I somehow forgot about that.....probably the pitcher of beer while singing. ;)
No way... You forgot you could drink an entire pitcher of beer while singing a super fast paced song, usually at the end of the night where we had already had 5 pitchers? Weird.
Katie Ledecky—but can she beat Lia Thompson? The penis mightier than the sword!
Mine isn't. (Ouch!!)
SC - Not good, but excellent. If you want to be a bard, heed this advice from my day Mr. Mulder...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSIKFyOECD0&t=35s
(Note the house feline and some young ingenues who became very famous)
Poetic.
Somewhere out there I even have a couple books of poetry. Luckily, that was before the digital age so they're likely buried for good. ;)
LOVE your post...Mondays with you are always a JOY !! That Golden was just Golden ! and the VET did have me in tears :) YEAH for his Service and the generosity of my fellow humans !!
Well, everybody's heard about the bard, as the song goes.
Never played a bard myself: D&D was nobody's go-to system thanks to how unintuitive and cumbersome and mechanistically unsound it was. People here played swedish games (Mutant, Drakar och Demoner, KULT), or ICE MERP/Rolemaster, WEGD6SW, Paranoia, CoC, Twilight 2000, Traveller, Chill and such.
And that's not mentioning all the board-games, like Axis&Allies (aka WW2 in real time using tokens) or SoC or Talisman (1st and 2nd ed, the ones with the five or six extra floorplans, necessitating a ping-pong table to play it).
Ahhh, good times. The tabletop is the best place for war.
Rolemster still takes the cake for "the kitchen sink and everything on it". A game system where character creation has the option "roll to see if you survive being born"? Hilarious!
I have the digital Talisman with a whole bunch of the expansions :D
No, but I will.
No, I meant Interstate Highway 80, but it's funny I didn't think of that interpretation because I grew up next to Hwy. 80, East of Sacramento, and we usedvto joke in high school about going 80 on 80!
Thanks to my miniscule knowledge of the road system, I know I80 goes all the way to the east coast. Do you know where?
No, not Boston. The Eastern terminus of Interstate 80 is New York City, just West of the George Washington bridge.
I need to take Interstate 40 to visit suannee in Northern New Mexico.
Hey, I thought I was responding to suannee! I pressed the wrog button, Max! (A line from a movie.)
Boston, if memory serves. I'll look it up. I've been as far as Detroit (not on 80, I know) by car.
I've driven over a million miles, but 99.99% in Cali.
That's where Rote 20 ends up! Newport to Boston, longest road in the US!
Huh?
Newport, Washigton?
Oregon
Ah! Found it.
I was recently and briefly in Boston and I drove right near 20!
I'd call it Newport to Fenway.
The Golden was obviously a fairy in her recent prior life. What do suppose her pronouns would be then?
good/girl