Raithe

Ordered some things from Amazom.com as christmas presents for some friends kids... Noticed it had been delivered, only to realise that for some really stupid reason I forgot to double-check the address, and the one I'd sent them to was the house they moved out of last month. Goddammit. When you forget to double-check things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CeY0VdhXK8

They've got a good history. Just their last century or so haven't been so great. I guess it's been a reputation on a downslope since Napoleon lost (again) at Waterloo..

After nearly 20 years of batting around in Hollywood... https://youtu.be/wXlBep9uFjI

Maybe not strictly politics, but still.... Washington Post - US Citizen illegally held by Florida sherrif for ICE, after case of mistaken identity, threatened to be sent to Jamaica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gOWs0O1gGI&feature=youtu.be

I will admit, that my Ranger/Inquisitor playthrough somehow ended up in the middle of the bisexual threesome with Octavia and Reg. Not quite sure how it happened, but it seemed to suit the character.

Sojourner Truth Project - Compare the Speeches Finding out that Frances Dana Barker Gage, a white woman, rewrote Sojourner Truth’s famous speech to be more stereotypically “Southern slave” (complete with slurs and misspellings like dat, dere, dey) when Sojourner Truth was actually from New York and spoke only Dutch until she was almost ten and wouldn’t have actually sounded that way linguistically and decidedly did not use the phrase “Ain’t I A Woman?” at all is…whew. And on top of everything, she embellished details about Sojourner Truth’s life (like the number of children she had/how many of them were sold into slavery), wrote that ST said that she could take beatings like a man, and the reception of the speech in the room (she claims ST was called a n*gg*r, earlier accounts say the room was welcoming). Accurate Version: May I say a few words? I want to say a few words about this matter. Compared with Gage's Version: Well, chillen, whar dar’s so much racket dar must be som’ting out o’kilter.

I still have a soft spot for the pulp westerns of yesteryear. I do have a large batch of J.T.Edson books in my library. One of those amusing little quirks, that an English writer turned out westerns that got him made an "honorary Texan" and was once told by an editor that it was over the top to tie a heroine to a railway track - to which his response was to then write a book which involved a heroine being tied to a lumbermill saw track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV08tEMP8qU

I quite liked the island settings and sea-roaming idea in PoE2. Although for some reason the big city of Neketaka seems to be a slight dragging turn off that's making me struggle to get back into the game. On the pathfinder side of things, I had just arrived in Pitax shortly before the big patch update... but been juggling my time and such so I haven't returned to it yet. I need to find me some gaming time and appropriate mindset to sink back into it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjab8fanzHc

Since my sister is off with her fiancee this Christmas, when my father stumbled on a cheap offer to spend a week at the Luxor over Christmas week (fly out on the 19th, then flying back on the 26th) he decided to grab it. So it's that sort of late age father-son trip. Might also include catching a flight to day trip out to LA or San Diego during it as well.