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And if you fall I’ll pick you up

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Good morning fellow earthlings. It’s another day in the metropolis of TinyTown. The sun is coming up, and if you can notice, it’s a layer time in the morning. Yesterday I shut the alarm off in hopes that we’d be able to sleep in a little. I managed to sleep in, but I don’t think that Crystal was able to.

I think she was out on the couch around 5 this morning. When I got up she was getting up as well. I turned her bed up too high by mistake. I’ll have to remember to only turn it to 1.

Yesterday was a typical Saturday. No one showed up until five minutes before closing. Thankfully they were just coming to pick up the furniture that they bought the day before. But still. It’s all good. I basically sold one couch, a small sectional, and two recliners between Saturday and Sunday.

Today as you know is Chore Day 2 ™️. Nothing major, just the regular stuff to do. I usually start it around this time, but since I slept in, I’m sure I’ll be starting it shortly.

Ok, ready, set, coffee time!

Book haul, but not for me

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So yesterday, while I was in CapitalCity, one of the main goals was to find this specific book for my dad for Father’s Day.

Let me preface this by saying that my dad isn’t a reader. I believe he may be on the spectrum, and has a heathy dose of dyslexia. It’s very very hard for him to do any reading. When he was studying for all of his mechanics courses, he would literally memorize the entire book for the course. My mom would read all of them to him.

Anyways, I told him about this book a couple of weeks ago, and immediately was very interested in it, and was asking a lot of questions about it. So like I said getting this book was one of the main reasons to drive 2.5 hours to a city that actually had a book store.

I get to the book store and find the last copy of it. I was so happy, I think I did a little happy dance right there in the store.

I have a YouTube video for him to watch, and then he’ll be able to make his own murder wall!

I have all the faith in the world that he’ll solve this mystery!

Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high

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It’s been a hot minute since I’ve posted a book haul, but here it is. It was my birthday a couple of days ago, and Crystal got me a book. She’s really really REALLY good at choosing strange, weird, and wonderful books for me. She’s been responsible for all my amazing books.

She didn’t fail this time either! I’m proud to present –

According to a random blog post about this book there’s 15,511,210,043,330,985,984,000,000 different ways to read this 60s masterpiece. I don’t know if that’s true, or if that blogger is just blowing smoke up my ass.

I’m very excited to read this bad boy. Should I read it how it was presented to me when I opened the front cover, or should I shuffle it more and dice in that way?

Like I said in my previous post, I went to a second hand store, and found a book that completes my movie cover collection of the Twilight Saga! Yay for completionism!

But first, The Unfortunates!

We’ve had one, yes. What about second breakfast?

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Let me start off; choosing a good name is really, really hard. I’ve struggled with choosing a name since Tuesday.

The names I originally had in mind, didn’t fit. Not one bit. Disheartened, I pressed on to find the best name for her.

I narrowed it down to two. Crystal suggested that I flip a coin, and as it was flipping, I’d know which name I’d want for her.

It flipped the way I had hoped.

So let me introduce properly this time, Pippin. Claws of steel, snuggle monster, demander of attention.

Phew! It’s done!

Take a chance, roll the dice

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Ok, here’s a little appreciation post. Today it’s going to be about Critical Role. We started to watch when Crystal was up here on her tour of the wall. We started watching campaign 3, and something surprised us – we really liked it. We got through, I think, 4 maybe 5 episodes where we just really enjoyed watching.

After Crystal left, I couldn’t handle waiting a week for new episodes, so I started watching campaign 2. You know, to pass the time between episodes of campaign 3.

In campaign 2 there’s 141 episodes, and approximately 537 hours. It’s very daunting, but you do what you do, and you start at the start. Which I did. Without doing a shit tonne of math, I’m guessing I’ve watched probably over 350ish hours so far. At the time of writing this, I’m on episode 90. the episodes range in time from just over 3 hours to around 5ish hours. I have heard that the final episode is over 7 hours.

Of course, it took a number of episodes to really fall into the swing of things. They were all pretty despicable characters at the beginning. But it was entertaining. It started off rather slow, allowing for the watchers and the players to get used to their new characters.

There was one character that felt like they weren’t a good fit – and that was the character of Mollymauk Tealeaf played by Talisin Jaffe. Talisin really looked frustrated every battle and fight. It just didn’t seem like it was working out the way they wanted the character to end up.

It’s so easy to watch, after you wrap your head around how many hours and episodes there are. If I had a long day at work, they’re easy to just put it on for noise – which is what I always say. It’s just on for noise, but honestly, I pause it more than I’d like to admit so I don’t miss anything.

It’s totally relaxing for me. Their senses of humour really kind of mesh with me, and I find myself laughing and laughing. There’s been some times that I’ve teared up. These simple voice actors sure know how to convey happiness, desolation, and fear so well.

I’ve never met these people, and I know for a fact that I will never meet them. That’s ok. But through these 90 episodes that I’ve watched, I can totally see bits and pieces of me in all of their characters. they’ve been my friends in TinyTown when I really don’t have any.

Spoilers ahead – if you haven’t watched campaign 2, and don’t want to be spoiled, I’d probably skip my top 5 scenes.

My top 5 scenes (so far) in campaign 2:

5. Mollymauk’s surprise death – 4:22:51 C2E26. The build up and the intense stress of the episode was immense, and resulted in Talisin walking off the set. It was incredible to see – and has reverberated even to episode 90 where I’m at today.

4. Fluffernutter – 2:34:59 C2E39. This is comedy gold. It was all Nott and Jester – pure chaos and totally unexpected. The improv is amazing.

3. Nott one shots a guard – 2:46:42 C2E76. In the vein of chaos again. Nott one shots a guard on a natural 20, and with his weapon, automagically shoots again. It was totally out of the blue and reduced the cast to genuine belly laughs from all the cast.

2. Beau’s meditation – 1:35:38 C2E86. Every one of the characters have had growth, but Beauregard, I think has had really the most so far. The just way she describes how she does this is simply breathtaking. To see the rest of the cast dumbfounded is amazing. And as an added bonus; she surprised Matt Mercer the DM.

1. Wall of fire – 3:41:52 C2E42. Liam O’Brien plays his character very soft spoken, and this was really the first time that he really shows off his power. Again, it totally surprises the rest of the cast.

Ok, I’ve spent way too much time on this post. I don’t know how to describe the happiness that I get while watching Critical Role.

We love you very much, and is it Thursday yet?