Phorgetful Phorties

While it may seem that a significant change in age has also caused a significant change in the ability of yours truly to remember to keep these humble Tales updated on something of a regular schedule I'm here to present evidence to the contrary.

Nothing has been forgotten from these weeks of silence - except possibly where I left the thingo, you know the whatsit.

Anyway here is a sampling of some of the many things that have kept me too busy to blog.

• Work of course, and far too much of it. Although I did finally receive my birthday present of my very own minion. Ms Magpie herself was lucky enough to be the recipient of the great honour.
• a lovely conference dinner with a guest appearance from Madame President over from the land of the long white sheep.
• going live with a Library Management System upgrade
• putting in a live appearance at The Viking Hat GM's latest game. Lured in by the promise of the strong leadership of Exploding Ninja Pony.
• making a brief attendance at the conference's trade show aka pen and novelty scavenger hunt. Afterwards I decided to avail myself of the shopping in the city and was then caught in the torrential downpour. There's nothing like catching the train home literally dripping water everywhere. Luckily the book I was reading was a library book so I can just say it was all wrinklified when I borrowed it.
• an expedition to the games shop to spend my librarian gifted birthday present. I now have even more of "far too many games and books", yay.
• a poker night with Dubrovnik Hater and friends in which I unfortunately cleaned up on the last hand most likely causing myself to never be invited back (since eating all the nibbles would never cause that)
• shopping in the city with The Great Sandro. Looking for my birthday present from him - Rome (the TV series, not the city) - and reminiscing about the great time he had with the librarians at my party - I did tell you he's crazy didn't I?
• last minute gaming events organised at my place by Elfboy
• a day home sick almost dying from the latest strain of man-cold - the vestiges of which are still with me to this day
• going to "our first NAB cup footy game together" with The Great Sandro and spending the whole first quarter queuing outside the, currently named, Etihad stadium to find an almost empty arena once inside - no wonder I hate that place.
• beer and board games with Badger
• Tuck's first attendance at the regular Sunday games only to have me spend several hours assuring him that, yes there are usually other people here, when everyone else decided to only make the evening.
• playing pirates with the Tuesday night gamers
• going back into the shed at work to prepare another round of new computers
• being cornered and missing out on drinks and nibbles at our new catalogue product launch
• filling my house with people for the latest of our regular card tournaments - Couch Killer was well behaved this time and no furniture was harmed
  
• a much delayed family birthday lunch at which Legion3 produced dirty rotten lying scales for our regular brothers weigh off - pffft 3 extra kilos!!!
• a training day with lots of food and me being under the weather with resurfacing man-cold and nasty headache. Honestly I was only able to eat two peoples worth of free lunch I was that bad off.
• a last minute gathering of geeks with great attendance, conversation and results. All thanks to The Viking Hat GM for going to the effort to organise lazy gamers into action.
• a day of setting up new computers with my trusty minion at my side
• a fortuitous game cancellation allowing me time to actually prepare for said games next occurrence
  
• a trip for groceries ending with my being pelted by golfball sized hailstones in the car park and once again being drenched to dripping-point - a trend I am not liking.
• and finally having to write a long and involved blog catch-up post to get you all back up to speed.

So there you have it - not a sign of any forgetfulness or mis-remembering of actual events, but then again it was only yesterday...
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