Season's Wishes

Happy holidays!

I hope you're all having a great Christmas Holiday period. I couldn't resist sharing the card above, which Luka Rejec sent to his patrons on Patreon. (He's a fantastic illustrator and creator of gaming material, check out his stuff, especially the Ultra Violet Grasslands).

Jedi/Sith fighting.

We've had a good break, with my Dad up with us. The kids got pretty excited with some proper fencing grade lightsabers, which looked spectacular and because they're built by a fencing equipment company they're great quality and can take a hammering.

Sith?

The eldest demonstrated that he is not yet fully developed in his skills because he managed to take his and his brother's blades apart and disconnect connectors he shouldn't trying to work out how to charge them. With his, the charger port was visible without disassembly (he just assumed it would be a USB connection rather than looking at the cable). His brother's did need a cover removing, but it didn't need all the interconnections removing cables disconnecting, which was why I was stripping down and reassembling a lightsaber after one in the morning. For some reason, the eldest had decided to sneak downstairs and cause carnage charge the sabres, rather than going to sleep.

Jedi?

The usual Christmas morning carnage happened, with blizzards of paper. Unusually, we got a bit of lie-in as Aidan slept later. The most technically challenging part was pairing the set of his and hers Homepod mini's that Jill and I had managed to buy each other. Once I realised that we needed to enable two-factor authentication to do this, it worked smoothly enough, although I'm sure it will come back to bite me later as we have a shared account.

She likes a nice bit of wrapping paper.

The cats liked the paper and boxes, but generally avoided the carnage and had the occasional fight with each other. They weren't impressed with the cold weather.

Reading a fair bit; there are some roleplaying games that I want to read, but that's balanced by the fact that I know I'm very close to the number of books I read last year (according to my tracker on Goodreads) and it would be nice to match the same number.

Dad seems to be enjoying himself, although he mostly reads (now he's stopped the marathon Christmas Card writing sessions). The eldest has enjoyed having lots of chats with him.

Christmas dinner came together well; Jill's project management skills showed through. Most of the preparation gets done on Christmas Eve, so it's all about timing. No doubt we'll be eating the leftovers for the next few days.

Hopefully, we'll get a few games in, miss out on COVID-19 Omnicron, and have a relaxed few days. I hope you do too.

26 December 2021