Weekend

Yesterday (Friday) was my birthday. I took the day off of work, spent the morning relaxing, the afternoon playing DA:I, and the evening eating crab for dinner and then playing Gartic Phone with friends. It was supposed to mostly be Among Us after a round of Gartic Phone, but GP was so hilariously ridiculous that we played it all night instead. It's an online implementation of Telephone Pictionary, which is one of my favorite party games, so I'm not at all sorry we shifted gears. Today I had a backyard visit with a friend I hadn't seen since the initial lockdown began, and tomorrow I'm having a backyard meal with other friends, so all in all, as a birthday weekend, it's been pretty nice, especially by current standards.

Also tonight I finally wore T down -- he signed us up for Disney+ and we watched the first three episodes of WandaVision. No spoilers please (although I've picked up a few hints of what might be going on Twitter and in other places); I am very excited to see where it all goes. I will definitely watch The Falcon and the Winter Soldier as it airs, or at least on the same weekend. I also need to catch up on The Mandalorian and probably some other things as well -- any recommendations?

Last but definitely not least, I set aside my m!Trevelyan game, because I think I'm to the point where I played DA:I endgame too recently, and I'm rushing him through when I really ought to give him his due. So instead, I rolled up a new Warden for the first time in five years? six years? (I went back to look it up, and the actual answer is NINE. July 2012.) It's finally time to play Tabris; she's a rogue, likely stealth-and-sneak because that's my favorite mode of gameplay in DA:O. I got her to Ostagar, and oh, starting up that game again, Denerim, Duncan, the music, random dogs barking everywhere in the background and, of course, Alistair... it does the heart good. I don't quite yet know who Devin Tabris is going to be (though she killed Vaughan with gusto, and while she had less than zero interest in an arranged marriage, she still put on the wedding ring that was on Nelarose's body -- all that must mean something), but I look forward to getting to know her.