{"id":3602,"date":"2020-01-01T23:20:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T04:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=3602"},"modified":"2020-01-01T23:24:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T04:24:12","slug":"christmas-new-years-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=3602","title":{"rendered":"Christmas, New Year&#8217;s, Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/life.alanv.org\">life&#8217;s<\/a> stats and photo journal pages have been updated. Not too much interesting this time around&#8230; life has been crazy, but not due to trips, at least.<\/p>\n<p>It was a really weird Christmas, weather-wise. Mostly because it was super warm out on Christmas day and we sat outside on the deck with a bottle of wine, playing Paperback.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/1120weather.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/images2\/1120wine.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also got Playstation VR for Black Friday, and have been playing a lot of Beat Saber. I&#8217;m consistently passing Expert songs now, but am nowhere close to passing an Expert+. I also highly recommend Astro Bot Rescue Mission as a game that makes extremely good use of VR, and is just generally adorable besides.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos2.alanv.org\/knowngalleries\/Games1219\/NKN_1318.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, there isn&#8217;t much to update. We had a small group over last night for New Year&#8217;s, and ended up starting a game of Salem after midnight (which was great and actually only lasted until about 2 AM since Ben and Steve are so fast).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos2.alanv.org\/knowngalleries\/Games1219\/WRL_1330.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lots of photos of everything are at <a href=\"http:\/\/photos2.alanv.org\">photos<\/a>, as always. That, this journal, and life are about the only parts of my site I actually update, nowadays.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been seeing a bunch of &#8220;Decade in review&#8221; posts pop up recently, and I guess it could be interesting to do one for myself, as well. The highlights though would be something like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moved back to Pittsburgh<\/li>\n<li>Got married<\/li>\n<li>Bought a house<\/li>\n<li>Lost a parent<\/li>\n<li>Had something like five or six years in a row with (at least) 4 weddings to attend<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s been an eventful 10 years, and I hope the next 10 have a lot fewer big life events.<\/p>\n<p>(Also, related to my <a href=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=3598\">reverse games post<\/a>, we tried Hey That&#8217;s Your Fish yesterday and it didn&#8217;t work very well. I think the game needs more tweaks to placement or movement rules to be viable as a reverse game.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>life&#8217;s stats and photo journal pages have been updated. Not too much interesting this time around&#8230; life has been crazy, but not due to trips, at least. It was a really weird Christmas, weather-wise. Mostly because it was super warm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=3602\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-games","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}