We spent this past weekend in Oklahoma with our families. Nikki's family had been down recently but we hadn't seen Grady, Crystal, Aiden since May and my Mom since April. We packed a lot into one weekend. We drove home Thursday, which wasn't too bad but hurt my back. I just can't take long car rides anymore. Friday, my mom and I went to see "Public Enemies." It wasn't bad, but it was high action or drama really either. The director, Michael Mann, did a lot of things to give a a particular "look." He used a lot of natural lighting and very few "sets" so it had a very documentary look to it. It seemed like some of the scenes were shot all in one take too but I wasn't really watching for that so I couldn't tell. I'd give it a "good rental but no reason to see it in the theater".
That evening, Grady and I played 40k. I think it was the worst game of 40k I have ever played. Not that it wasn't fun, I just had the worst luck ever. I failed every single leadership roll I had to make and had at least 3 units run off the board and my warboss unit missed with all his hits the first time he went to attack. I still almost manged to pull out a draw. If I was more familiar with the 5th edition rules and targeted Grady's troop transports right off it could have been a draw.
Saturday we had lunch with Nikki's family to celebrate her sister birthday and then that evening went and saw District 9. It was a really good Sci-Fi film, probably the best I've seen in a while. It was, however, violent and gory. Nikki liked the story quite a bit but was put off by the violence, so be warned if you go see it. Not for the squeamish or children.
Dragoncon is less than 3 weeks away now and folks are getting excited.
I finally got around to taking pictures of the game room remodel with everything complete so here ya go.
