The Girl and I have gone to the gym a whole two times this week, so go us! We had engagement pictures to pick up on Tuesday and we’re meeting her brother-in-law tonight for dinner, so that cut down the frequency a bit. But we’re riding bikes after work and we have a Kid-less weekend coming up, so hopefully we’ll throw in a few more sessions. I am a bit sore today, so mission accomplished, at least on some level.

The engagement photos came out pretty good. I think there were 58 total, which we narrowed down to three for purchasing purposes. Unfortunately it takes three weeks for him to process the order, which includes some sort of tweaking on the computer. Isn’t that cheating in the World of Photography? Whatever makes me look good though, I don’t care.

I have become addicted to two games on Facebook.  One is called Vampire Wars, where you try and get blood through missions and fighting, and you get through missions and fighting by buying abilities and adding to your clan count (through friends).  Missions costs energy and fighting costs rage (and hit points and blood if you lose), but like any good vampire, those costs heal themselves.  Of course, the more abilities you have, the more blood you need to spend to sustain yourself, so then you have to possess minions to get you blood on a regular basis.  My current Blood Flow (income vs expense) is 161,715 per house, so not too bad!  The more missions and fights you succeed in, the more experience points you get, which opens up more abilities, missions, minions and people to fight.  And the bloody cycle continues.

The second game I am addicted to is Knighthood.  This one reminds me somewhat of civilization in that you build your castle, adding defenses like walls and towers, or social things like marketplaces and hospitals, all in an effort to try and be big enough to defend against and attack opponents to get even bigger.  If you were invited into the game, you start out as a vassel to someone else, though you still get your own castle.  In my case, I am a sovereign, which isn’t much different, except I have no higher person to help me out.  I could swear my allegiance to someone bigger than me, but I haven’t yet.

The cool thing is, one way to get vassals is by recruiting friends, but unlike most applications, if the friend doesn’t say yes, I still get to use them in my army, the downside being their power ranking stays at 10.  But still, thanks Squire Jenna for your hard work in my Marketplace generating me money, and to my sister Squire Rebecca for patrolling my wall.  And kudos to my brother-in-law for actually playing the game and becoming my most powerful vassal so far.  I could not build as fast without you!

Now stop reading this and get back to work!

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