Yesterday was the ten year anniversary of my brother's death. I spent the day playing DND with some friends. It is a new campaign set in the Forgotten Realms. My character is a sun elf wizard from Evermeet. We have just started so I don't really have much more to say, but I am thinking of putting together a blog for my character. Anyhow, it is hard to believe it has been ten years, but then I look at my nephew and niece and see how they have grown. I guess it still depresses me somewhat.

It has been a rough month so far. I spent the last two weeks in Plano, TX for work. I have to say, I am not sure it was worth the money to send me down there. I think they are trying to get me to care about the project, but the program manager keeps thwarting their effort. It didn't help being stuck without a car. There were four of us sharing a car. I did get the car most of the week end, but I didn't go hardly anywhere. I mostly stayed in the hotel and watched TV. BBC America was having something of a Footballers' Wives marathon and I must have watched 6 or seven episodes. It kind of got me hooked. It comes on Sunday Night and I have watched it the last couple of Sundays. I'll have to see if I continue to watch much longer.

Also, I haven't had a dance lesson in four weeks due to a variety of reasons. In the end I had gained several pounds since dancing is really the only exercise I get. The trip to Texas didn't help either. I went to the Saturday Social on Saturday, but I didn't dance much. We actually tend to socialize more at the social than dance. I really needed the exercise, but it was easier to sit and chat.

During the trip I actually bought an iPod. I am not sure if I am going to like it or not, but I did buy an episode of Monk for the plane trip home from Texas. It was kind of cool. There aren't that many TV shows available on iTunes and I don't travel as much as I used to, so I still wonder if it is worth it. I also ordered a bunch of Legos from lego.com. One of the items I ordered is the Lego Star Wars: The Video Game. Unfortunately it requires an nVidia graphics card and I don't have one. I wanted the game after I played it with my nephew when I went up to my sister's house for her nurse pinning. Now, I feel like I should have bought a used Game Cube or something. The video game was $30.00 and the game pad I bought was $20.00, and now I want to buy a game system that will let me play the game. I should return the game and the gamepad, but I probably won't. I am so bad about returning stuff.

Until the next time.