• 35.75 mpg on the Matrix at the last refill. That’s kissing close to the best advertised highway mileage, and includes at least two trips to Golden during which I was NOT driving optimally. I’m trying out different speeds each tank to figure out where the engine’s true sweet spot is, and I think I might have gotten closer this time, because the numbers shouldn’t have been that good.

• I am sometimes reminded (thank you, Internet) that my nearest and dearest friends are part of the smart minority — the 10% of everything that isn’t crap. I’m lucky.

• Collaboration on creative things does amazing things. I’ve had great stuff come out of the stories I’ve collaborated on with Kate, so I knew this, but I’d never tried it with gaming. Randy and I are both running stuff in this new game we’re starting up, and Dave will later also (I hope), and sharing the vision and incorporating each other’s ideas takes us in directions I’d have never gone on my own. Doesn’t make it any better or worse, just excitingly different.

• The longer we do it, the easier the trip thence-and-back between NYC and Denver gets.

• The longer we do it, the yuckier the time in between trips becomes.

• SUX airport. Heh. Still funny.

• Spent a chunk of last weekend fixing up the ‘sight lines’ for the sprinklers in the front yard — big sections of the lawn were drying out and dying simply because some of the pretty flowering plants had grown up to the point where they totally blocked the sprinklers nearest them, which in turn made them flourish even more. Ruthless pruning = lawn dry spots on the mend.

• I need more paving stones for the walkways in the yard.

• Sprinkler system is leaking. :P Just a little, but :P

• Casa Testerman now gets all its electricity from a front range wind farm.

• The recycling truck comes by EARLY. You don’t want to miss it, either, because it’s only a biweekly pickup.

• Mmm… rice.
  

I certainly hope to join the GMing Collaborative for SotC ... I'm just hinky at the moment about actually running a game without having at least once watched the system in action (in the last couple of years).