Over the weekend I had two thanksgiving dinners.

The first was on Friday with my mom and my brother and sister and their assorted menageries, during which I basically watched parts of Star Wars Episode II three times (due to various interruptions and people arriving and such). We also worked out Randy's character for Exalted.

The second was Jenna's dinner hosted here at my place. Lots of people came, and since most of them brought food, we managed to actually exceed the amount of food that was at my family dinner. We definitely exceeded the amount of soft drink, because Ray and Stacy bought something like 50 billion 2-liters. Well, perhaps that's a slight exaggeration, but it was a large number. ^_^x

I wound up watching Mike's copy of Vampire Hunter D Bloodlust after we ate dinner -- beautiful animation, and inspiring for Exalted, but sadly it was the horrid English-dub only version -- and I got into some Lightwave discussion with Ray. Everyone seemed to have a good time.

Obsidian Requiem starts this Friday. I have (finally) started adding material to the campaign web page. I have lots of ideas, but nothing is completely coherent yet. I haven't got all of the PC's info yet.

My teefs hurt. I really need to find some dental insurance so I can go have my last two Wisdom teeth out. (Along with at least one other tooth.)

I got approximately 1 hour of sleep last night. My roommate woke me up to get a jump, which turned out to be most likely unnecessary. I then spent the next hour and a half trying to get back to sleep. Since I had only four hours to sleep in the first place, I wound up getting up and now I'm sitting here on the computer typing this and cooking some food. And I'll be at school until 5:30, with a game tonight. bleh.

Memo to self: extra minutes on your phone cost $0.35/min (or more), not $0.05/min. Two hour conversations during the week, which produce $70 phone bills, are a bad idea.

Memo to people I know: Avoid calling me on weekdays (except for emergencies), for the next two weeks.

Memo to T-Mobile: Your website sucks, and your voicemail system is only marginally passable. They were better under Voicestream.

So, I went to see Two Towers last night.

It was pretty cool. One of my friends is manager at one of the local cinemas, and the paper announced that they were holding a midnight preview showing of the film. (They hadn't been planning to, but they wound up holding it anyway.)

Since he was getting off around then, and since the theatre was going to be open anyway, myself, him, and his wife, plus two employees of the theatre, got to use a second screen to watch it by ourselves. No crowds of fanboys quoting incessantly in the rows around you.

I felt that the movie was very impressive. Since I'm presently running Exalted, I kept thinking how cool the imagery was for that setting.

The one thing that I was ambivalent about is Gollum's character design. Mostly, I didn't like his Pretty-boy-blue eyes. But then again, they probably make him more human (or hobbit-like). The Ents (specifically treebeard) weren't entirely convincing at times ... they moved too stiffly, even for Ents.

Friday night was session 3 of Obsidian Requiem, which marked the achievement of a sort of unofficial milestone for me.

I managed to freak out the PCs just by having their antagonists (two Deathknights of the group that invaded the PCs homeland) in the same inn...

... completely ignoring them, flirting with barmaids, drinking and chatting.

It was pretty cool.

It was also amusing to be playing the "Ominous choral music" (Blaze, from the Escaflowne soundtrack) -- which had previously been used for things like portentuous eclipses and horrendous imminent thunderstorms -- in a pub setting. The Pub of Doom!