Even the quince branches were covered at dawn.
Now they’ve melted.
But the snow is starting up again.
It’s going to be this way for several days.
I went to the store and got food for several days yesterday. There is a warm fuzzy feeling about having food in the fridge and no reason to take to the roads. I enjoy driving in the snow, but today I want to just stay warm.
Jane says catch Yu Na Kim’s performance on the Ladies’ Skate. Says it’s very special.
I like Gracie Gold’s little commercial about taking the impact of a rodeo performer and the g’s of a fighter pilot. Do not stand near a figure skater starting a spin if they have a bad cold. 😉 It’s true that you train the ability not to get dizzy. Something about teaching your brain not to be confused.
Our current game has had an Event—unlike games on a disc, the online ones can revise the play map, and disaster has come to Lion’s Arch. [Guild Wars II]. The confusion is so massive Lynn and Jane and I can’t get together on the map and play in our usual way; we just independently charge and bash and fire; and meet afterward in the triage spot. 😉 But the loot is interesting. We don’t know what to do with half of it. We all have over-40-level fighters, so we can get access to the fight. The under-40’s don’t want to go there, and poke about the landscape that’s still normal. 😉 It’s just a different way of gaming. What I DO like most—no charges for this, no ads, no tricks. I don’t know when the ‘new’ will wear off this, but Jane and I have so needed a mental challenge that also got the adrenaline up.
And otherwise, I’m now headed toward the end of this book.
What impresses me most is when they change positions in the spin, in particular, the head–like from a “standing” spin to a layback.
I did see one spin I thought should have been better. Her arm was out and whipping around. I’d’ve rather seen her hand up at the axis of the spin. It reinforces that it’s a spin about an axis.
Both her performances were exquisite and have very much enjoyed the daytime coverage with Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir. I’ve learned a lot from Johnny! I rather miss Dick Buttons though and wonder why he wasn’t part of the prime time crew.
Dick Button is getting on in years (84) and would be in a lot better shape except for two incidents, once being attacked by anti-gay thugs wielding baseball bats; and the other time in a life-threatening fall while skating on public ice in 2000. Jane and I saw him —the exchange of a very nice note—here in Spokane some time after that. But age 84 and those two injuries will slow you down a bit.
Scot Hamilton is doing well on the prime time coverage, but Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski are a better team in my opinion – and they are doing the commentary for the live broadcasts. Too bad it’s all over except the gala…
Tara is, I think, benefitting from Johnny’s tone—she was kind of going along with the senior female in the slot, being very ‘surface’…though of course she knows the technicals. With Johnny, she’s a lot more inclined to drop the fluff and get to the specifics. I mean, would you try to discuss football never mentioning the word ‘kick’ or ‘pass’ or ‘quarterback’ because it might bewilder the viewers?
I’m enjoying the coverage much more this season. I’m capable of seeing grace and flow and bobbles for myself, but as to WHY they bobbled, or why they lost points, that info is all new to me. And usually about the time I say, ‘you know that costume looks like a negligee,’ Johnny won’t be able to hold it in anymore and will say something about it too. 🙂
As for the loot from Lion’s Arch— if you combine the four blueprint scraps in the Mystic Forge (which is now over in Vigil Keep in Gendarran Fields), you get a blueprint that you can then combine with more stuff in the Mystic Forge (including the blade shards that are also dropping from all those loot bags) to create increasing levels of item (20, 40, 60, 80 exotic, 80 ascended) that goes in your back slot. (It’s a rather unfriendly-looking set of blades that would make trouble in a crowd if people actually interfered with each other.) You need crafting skills to make some of the ingredients like iron ingots.
The children’s drawings are just another form of Essence of Luck— doubleclick them and you’ll be increasing your chance of getting magic items when you kill something.
We did get the missing piece of the diagram. We’ll look into it. We just figured out that the varied entrances raise your score.