some things, mostly involving puzzles and pirates

Yo ho, yo ho, an insomniac's life for me...

Today was my dad's 60th birthday! And despite that I forgot to get him anything until last Thursday at which point I ordered him stuff from Amazon, he got the present today! Wow! Go Amazon :) I got him the Reduced Shakespeare Company's Compleat Works Abridged video 'cause I couldn't think of anything else offhand (he collects a rather esoteric selection of movie genres, to say the least, one of which is Shakespeare. I figured this wasn't in his normal spectrum of stuff, and I was right. When he called tonight he said it was very funny, very strange, and very Monty Python. He also said that apparently my brother ordered him something from Amazon too, a few days before I did, but he chose cheapo shipping, so I WIN.

My daddy is old though :( I worry about him sometimes.

Anyway, you don't really want to hear about that.
I'm not sure what you want to hear about though. ( But I bet it isn't Puzzle Pirates! )

I hate myself. I need to sleep more. I'm turning into a hermit with this PP game :( I need to go make some plans to do things. Dammit, I need to go fabric shopping for a Halloween costume this weekend, I think... shame Tanya will be super-busy :( I wonder if I can find someone else to come with me... I find fabric stores fabulously boring when I'm alone.

This is what I think of the baseball postseason

Several people have asked me on IRC / AIM / Zephyr / etc what I think of the baseball postseason, and mostly I've been giving scattered answers. So, in deference to anukul, I'm gonna quickly scribble my thoughts. I might be totally wrong about some of this stuff because I was mostly following these teams as "dire enemies of the Mariners that I wish to understand better":

( Giants vs. Marlins )

( Cubs vs. Braves )

( Twins vs. Yankees )

( Red Sox vs. A's )

I was really hoping the schedule right now would be:
Giants vs. Cubs
Braves vs. Phillies

Red Sox vs. Royals
Yankees vs. Mariners

Then Phillies vs. Giants, Mariners vs. Royals, and then Phillies vs. Mariners OR Royals and I woulda been happy. But oh well :(