Eatin' and Multiversin'

Eating used to be a highlight of my day, and it's still pretty fun, but I think watching Ern eat might be my new favorite. Will he eat it? Throw it? Wear it? Nobody knows.

We're getting pretty good at rolling around.

Shoplifting has gotten bad enough that the Redmond Target has been turned into a giant vending machine that you can walk around inside.

I finished Starfield. Spoilers!

The end of the game is kind of cool. You meet sort of the entity at the center of the universe who invites you to die and be reborn with super powers in another universe similar to your own. Like a multiverse situation. Most of them are just like your universe but you can make different choices for different outcomes, but others are wild like one character is a houseplant instead of a person, or everyone on your team is a child version of their normal self. I didn't mess around with it too much but I thought it was an inventive way to increase replay value.

It was a bittersweet ending because by choosing to go to another universe you die in your old one, and your friends can't come with you.

Dinner and a Scrub

It's been getting very pumpkiny at the Big Ern household.

We got some reading material from the library to really get in the mood.

Ernie had been eating with more adult spoons but he couldn't ever get the food that was in the bowl of the spoon, if that makes sense. So Lydia got him these flat head spoons that are easier for him to eat off of. Tonight he dined on homemade squash soup and smooshed up bananas.

Eating can get pretty messy so after dinner it was tubby time.

Ern had a fantastic mullet developing. I'm very proud.

We made an appearance at Redmond Town Center for our daily $20 in giftcards walk. Money for nothin', gifts for free. 

After his highness was in bed I played a bit of Starfield. There's a mechanic where you can take other people's ships by force and then add them to your fleet. An amusing bug was that whenever I spent any time in that ship there would still be dead bodies from its former owners strewn about.

Starfield and Starcruiser

We were back in Kirkland at home recovering from our big Italy/Hungary excursion.

One of the worst parts of being away was that my Xbox missed me. Ernie was being very aware today and looking at the screen while I was playing. I may never recover from this. I guess I have to wait until he's asleep now.

Starfield was fun and to add to today's space traveler aesthetic we got these fun little 3D printed coin things from the travel agent in anticipation of our upcoming Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser voyage. I'm super pumped about it. And kind of nervous to be honest. We're going on the second to last voyage before it closes so this is our only chance to get the most out of the experience.

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.