Evenings...

Left work early yesterday to take care of neo_blackwolf. Originally, I was going to head back to the office afterwards, but I managed to wrangle out of that. Likely I'll be staying late some this week in any case. It is Microsoft Patch Week (note exciting use of capital letters!) and I'll be working that this month for the large number of Windows servers in our datacenter.

Unfortunately, yesterday wasn't terribly productive. I did manage to bundle up all the wiring as planned, but that was about it for productivity. I was feeling a tad under the weather, so I spent much of the afternoon/evening reading instead of cleaning or doing productive things. Neo did his homework, then joined me in the reading routine. He's been re-reading some books, and then moved on to Sir Thursday, as he is catching up on that series. I think Lady Friday is due soon, so I'll have to pick that up for him when it is out.

For my part, with White Night due in less than three weeks (already pre-ordered on Amazon), I'm starting my re-read of the Dresden Files. Yum. I'll finish up Grave Peril tonight (being a little ahead of myself, I already put it in as read in my yearly reading tracker. Further proof I don't enter things in order is the fact that I read the Stasheff book over the weekend. :)

We squeezed in some work on Neo's Crime Prevention Merit Badge, then started a game of Munchkin. Didn't finish, but continued it for a few minutes this morning. I'll have to park it somewhere besides the living room floor (where we were playing) until he is here next.

Dinner was general's chicken, with green beans and white rice. While I cooked, I talked Neo through partitioning the hard drive on his new PC. Next time we have a few minutes, we'll move his My Documents to one of the new partitions and use the file/settings transfer wizard. That'll complete the build and we can put it in place of his old PC. Said old PC will then migrate to his mother's. Wheee.

I squeezed in about 45 min worth of FF XII as well before stumbling off to bed at a reasonable hour. To shock all of you, I never even turned on my PC after I got home yesterday. Scary, isn't it?

Now how many weeks is it until Heroes comes off hiatus? :)

EDIT: Almost forgot. We watched "the Locket" episode of Farscape last night as well. Closing in on the end of Season 2.

New Bad Habits...

DC Archive Editions are pretty!

I picked up the Legion of Super-Heroes Archive (Vol. 1) from Amazon recently. These editions are gorgeous. Solid hardcover construction, brilliant colors. A nice introduction to the first volume, all the covers of the books the stories were in and credits for all the contributors. I'm looking forwards to picking up the rest of this set and also up some of my other Silver Age favorites. This is a nice way to get your hands on inexpensive and durable reprints of the books involved.

The stories held up better than I imagined as well. The first generation of the LSH was basically a series of moderately slight backup stories, but the creativity and inventiveness really shines. I didn't expect these to be dark modern classics (I had only read about half these stories, coming into Legion fandom predominantly during the 80s), but they were solid tales for their era. Definitely worth the cost. I can't wait to point neo_blackwolf at them. He loves the other silver/golden age stuff I've shared with him, both DC and Marvel.