Weekend: action packed, with chewey caramel center

Thursday: Took the day off and put up some insulation. Noticed the difference immediately.

Friday: Celebrated 11/11/11 with a rockin' Spinal Tap party at my folks' house. Words cannot do it justice. Jesse nearly hurt himself laughing when we discovered Effect 19 on the effects peddle with the electric violin (westrider says it's a talk-box). It sounds reasonable slow, but when you play a fiddle tune through it it sounds like a chorus of electric guinea pigs singing in a fish tank.

Summary: Electric violin! Effects peddle! And a drum kit! And multiple electric guitars and basses! AND AN ACCORDION. Because I know the type of of people who just happen to have an accordion in the car.

The best picture to come out of the night is westrider in the pink/purple bob wig. O.M.G. There was also a bit of nostalgia when Em, emony42 and I were sitting on each other in the big blue chair, and Em looked at Emony, who was pretty much asleep, and said "This is basically every highschool party we had in microcosm, isn't it? People at work ask what kind of wild parties I went to in highschool, and I say 'I went to Sarah's house and hung out with her dad.'" (at which point Dad, who happens to be wearing a green-and-black rocker wig, looks over and says "Hey!" and Em quickly adds "And it was awesome!").

(Oh, yes -- Emony is totally capable of sleeping through a drum kit, electric violin, two basses, a guitar, and an accordion. This surprises no one.)

Saturday: Hung out with westrider in a slightly quieter environment. :P Started trying to make the contents of three boxes of studio crap fit into two boxes of studio crap.

Sunday: emony42 came to visit and be my Lovely Assistant. Finally reinstalled the light-fixture over the sink. The empty can's only been dangling for, er, a year and a half... One of the downsides of growing up around constant remodeling is that these things don't bother me, which means I basically stop noticing them entirely. But it's fixed now! A few hours after she and her pooch left I even managed to get the cats inside, though Monkey hid under madalchemist's bed and cried until I lured him out with treats.

Also, successfuly got the three boxes of stuff to become two boxes of stuff. Now the third box is full of flamingoes.

In conclusion: Houses! Friends! Flamingoes! Effect 19 is the best effect ever!

And I got sod all done for the creativity challenge. I'll post amphibilizard journals to make up for it, yes?

The adventures of Zkalune and Horse: An Amphibilizard of Property

(first installment here)

Day 9.
Have been hearing about mansion for sale here in Anvil, cheap! May investigate, as this is the first town with decent weather I have visited. Even has a pond for swimming in! (Town, not mansion).

P.S. Mansion may be haunted.

Day 10.
Mansion a real bargain! Too good to pass up. Sold everything from the vampire marauders, bandits, and unattended crates around town and paid in cash.

Hinges squeak, inside dark, dusty. Not sure if haunted, or just in need of good cleaning.

Day 11.
Slept in new mansion! House most definitely haunted. Will have to ask someone how to get ectoplasm out of carpet.

Day 21.
Fetched prior owner of house back from Imperial city to lift family curse. Discovered altar and necromantic skeleton behind runic inscription in basement. Prior owner scarpered. Am left with powerful-looking mostly-dead-undead-thing.

Tried to get Horse's opinion, but Horse refused to go down stairs.

Day 34.
Adventuring in the east. Enjoying water, flies, occasional bandit attack. Horse less pleased about flies, but getting v. good with bandits! Considered painting small bandits on Horse's neck to mark kills, but am not v. good with paint.

Also, Horse wiggled too much.

Day 37.
Encountered walking skeleton in cave. Defeated it easily, but am reminded of deadish undead necromancer thing left in the mansion. Hope no children wander in. Possibly should have locked the door.

Day 38.
Back at the Imperial City. Have begun to regret leaving Anvil. Am being of property now; should have stayed to finish what I begun. Passerby in street called me no-good wandering adventurer, suggested I get a 'real job' and become respectable. Much to think on.

Day 39.
Got real job! Am making fresh start; becoming real member of community. (Bought small shack v. close to Thieves Guild contact. Should make commute to job easier!)

Day 40.
Have decided to travel for work, as Horse is starting to get fat. Also, small price on head.