In which I receive a giant package

So the Pathfinder stuff I'd ordered got here today. It was approximately 25 pounds, which is a lot of paper. I've not really been able to go through any of it yet, as I just got home and was in meetings most of the day. It's a sizable list of things though:

• Pathfinder Core Rulebook
• Pathfinder Bestiary 1 & 2
• Rise of the Runelords campaign book
• Gamemastery Guide
• Bestiary Box (cardboard minis for all the monsters in the Bestiary)
• Rise of the Runelords Pawn set (cardboard minis for all the things in the Rise of the Runelords campaign)

Can I just say that I really dig being able to get the cardboard minis? They're incredibly solid and are a fraction of the price of trying to match minis. Yes, having minis is cool, and where I can I'll likely sub in some of my original Descent ones, but WotC makes it such an expense to try to get minis and offers nothing like this for D&D. I plan to start digging in tonight, before I get into some more The Last of Us. That is, if I'm not playing Borderlands 2, since the D&D themed DLC comes out today.

It was pretty freaking warm today, until it dropped 15 degrees in around 2 hours with an incoming storm. I took some pictures and video. The video is kind of awesome because you can see some clouds moving south, with others moving north. 

It's not quite as easy to see as I'd like, due to shaky-cam, but you can still make it out.

Quick notes

• My daughter is currently reading the Bestiary and asking if we'll have to fight all the things inside. She just asked if we'd have to fight an elf mermaid.
• My Oculus Rift is still in processing hell. Apparently they have a batch (with mine) locked up in customs. This needs to get fixed.
• At some point today, the weather channel said on their site that there was a 'Weather Advisory' for our area. Not a 'Severe Weather Advisory' mind you, just a 'Weather Advisory.' I was henceforth advised that there was indeed weather outside.

Something New

I'm going to update this everyday this week, because I can, and if I do, at least I'll be more apt to most more often. When I don't have anything particular to speak at length about, I'm just going to post some random musings.

• I bought a lot of Pathfinder stuff this week. I'm going to be running a game for my family. Should be fun. I really hope the adventure I purchased isn't too age inappropriate. If it is, I'll just have to work around it. I'm fairly certain I can do this. Also, prepare to see a lot of posts about Pathfinder as I go through it.
• Can I have Project Spark already? Seriously, it looks fantastic. Just watch this video. I would have loved for something like this to exist when I was a kid. The closest I ever got was Maxis' Klik & Play. We made some really weird stuff with that. I'm sure it's as un-intuitive as I remember. This, however, does not look difficult to use, teaches kids a bit about programming, and actually seems to have a large variety of games it can make. My children as super-excited.

• The latest WWE PPV, Payback, and the followup RAW were so good. I hope they continue this week, but as I don't have cable I have to wait until tomorrow to find out.
• I'm about halfway through The Last of Us and it's very good so far. I hate giving numbers, but the truth is that it lies somewhere in between the 10's and the 7's its received. The emotions that come across in the faces of each character are probably the best I've seen in a game. The voice work is topnotch too.
• I'm almost done reading "You" by Austin Grossman. It's an interesting read. Not everything in the book works for me, but the nostalgia is strong. If I could only ever recommend a single fiction book about video games, it would still be "Ready, Player One." 
• My friend Jayson Trost is Shaun Spencer from Psych, without hyper-observation skills and eidetic memory. I've realized this while watching Psych season 6 on Netflix. That probably means Justin Talboom is Gus.