Chewing Stuff

Ernie has a fun chew toy. It's a big ear of corn and vibrates when you bite it.

Chew toys are now an important part of our repertoire.

Bethesda makes my favorite video games and I've been patiently waiting for Starfield to come out for years. 

It's a departure from their main franchises and has a few issues, but I still played the crap out of it.

Furious Xbox Playing

In addition to squeezing in a lot of live experiences before the baby is born, I've also been trying to play every video game ever made.

Bethesda has an exciting new game being released soon, and while I waited I played one of their classic titles I missed the first time around: Dishonored.

I finished that game and moved on to Ghostwire: Tokyo. It's kind of like Japanese Ghostbusters. One thing that makes the game super fun is that it is entirely in Japanese which has been a good language lesson.

It's also set in what seems to be a pretty good model of the city so it's been fun to spot different landmarks that I recognize.

We can never finish an entire pizza box full of tacos but that doesn't mean that we won't stop trying.

Gearing Up for Baby

We're having Ernie's baby shower in St. Louis, but don't want to have to lug all of that stuff back with us on the plane, so people have just been mailing us the prizes to the Kirkland, WA apartment.

We've been picking out travel fold-up type equipment that many people might use only for trips to be our main item. That way he'll get used to sleeping in the travel crib and won't be uncomfortable in a strange bed while we are traveling. Our philosophy to begin with anyway is that we will keep traveling and take him with us. We'll see what happens when that plans meets reality.

Fold up bed activated!

His stroller folds up real nice too. As soon as we figure out how it works.

I came to the amazing revelation that the Eddie Bauer store at Bellevue Square Mall has a friggin' walk in freezer so that you can test out their winter gear. That's genius and awesome. We have such a fancy local mall.

I've been listening to the audio book version of The Three-Body Problem

novel by Liu Cixin. It's sort of like science fiction on hard mode, as all of the characters have serious Chinese names that are hard for me to distinguish.

I've been enjoying playing DEATHLOOP on Xbox. The premise is that an experiment was being done on an island that looped time. And it worked, so now even the scientists working on it are also stuck in a loop like Groundhog Day where everything repeats over and over even if they die. Your character is one of the few who are aware of the loops so you end up shooting the same people over and over to accomplish your goal of breaking the loop machine. It was pretty awesome. Bethesda is involved which is one of my favorite video game companies so I'm not surprised that it is so fun.