Sims 4 Update - Life as a Man Ho

Since ArcheAge happened, I've not played as much Sims 4.  With all the queue times you'd think I would have time but I just have not found it.

Picking up where I left off, Roger Tate has not been as busy in the ways of love.  He has become more career focused.  There are perks with that as well!

Roger has 48 children now.  With the career goals, it has been tough to manage his extracurricular activities.  Now that he has become a successful author and a start up genius, Roger can refocus his efforts and wrap up his lifetime achievement of becoming a serial romantic.  Only 4 more "Gold Level" dates to go.

BIG TV

As a matter of fact, the ONLY way to get the huge TV is to become a Start Up Entrepreneur.  I don't feel that is appropriate but I don't make the rules.  

 Staying Fit

With all the woohoo going on, it is important to stay in shape.  NO Sim likes to see my flabby body and man handles, so I hit the treadmill a few times a week to keep my, erm, stamina built up.

Showing Up for Action

As a lover of the ladies, I get many callers.  Some of them even show up at the door ready for action.  This is a true testament of Roger's prowess.

Trust Me

You are the only girl for me!  Trust me!

Too Little Time

Unfortunately, Roger cannot sex all the women when they need it.  Leaving some women around town sad.  Understandably so.  

ONE of Roger's Families

Sometimes Roger has dinner parties with his extended families.  Fun times are had by all.  

Look Familiar?

I found these guys at the park one night.  Do they look familiar?

Some Poetry, My Poetry

As a teenager I used to enjoy writing poetry.  I dabbled with some stories but never stuck to it.  A few years ago I jotted down a few things again.  It was a good feeling to put those emotions on a page.  Going back through some things I found a couple.  Time to share!

Summary

If I could erase myself

From the written page,

If I could live my life,

But never age,

If I could find my freedom,

From inside this cage….

What once was love

Is now lost forever.

What once was always,

Has become never.

What once was healthy,

Is now my fever….

To have the whole world,

And still have nothing.

To finally live my dream,

Only to die in my wailing.

To hold her in my hands,

And to lose everything….

My Little Girl

Curly brown hair

Cascading down in ringlets

Just below her perfect little ears.

Sweet chocolate eyes

Looking up to me with love

Innocence shining though.

Ten little fingers

Ten cute little toes

Held high in the air for me to tickle.

She smiles at me

Knowing she is my all

Everything I ever wanted.

Even though she is gone

My love for her endures

Always she will be my little girl.

Sims 4 Recap So Far - Is Man Ho a Profession?

I'd like to do one of these a week to chart progress for this Sim and others I might begin to play.

Meet Roger Tate!  

Roger is an alluring romantic, self-assured, but noncommittal.  Roger's goals so far have included becoming a best selling author.  His screenplay for "Twilight Bound" was a huge success!

Roger's goal in life is to father as many children as he can.  No matter the consequences.  He's not concerned with who might get jealous.

Holla at a playa if you see him in the street!

Making his move

Notice the bucket in the above picture?  These are VIP buckets and give off a romantic aura from completing romantic tasks.  There are 4 in Roger's bedroom and NO lady can resist his charms in that sacred space.

Where the magic happens!

The Re-Production Line

So far Roger has fathered 41 children with 12 different women.  There is no family tree view for Sims 4 to show.   

Sims4 Here I Come!

Already on my gaming plate is ArcheAge, Planetside2 is a main staple, and I'm really getting back into Star Wars:The Old Republic.  With the new Sims release I was dying to play it as well.

My gaming problem?  I LIKE TOO MANY AT ONCE.

Maybe I should change that question to a statement: GAMING IS MY PROBLEM.

The day Sims4 launched I debated on buying it but wanted to hold off knowing I had other things I was enjoying.  My 12 year old niece, Lexi, stayed with us over last weekend and Labor Day.  She loves playing my Sims and really got into DC Universe Online.  Subconsciously I think I got Sims4 for her for when she returns another weekend.  Yeah!  That's it!

After she left Monday I got to thinking about Sims and something that Mogsy had told me via Twitter about one of her sims having 100 offspring. Here is the blog entry she linked to me about it.  To me this sounds like a worthy challenge.  So I made a sim in Sims3 to work on this.  I'm up to about 12 kids now.

I stayed up almost 20 hours straight playing Sims3!  Doh!

Here is the proof...

Honestly I cannot think of when I stayed up that long playing anything else.  I'm sure I have before, just cannot recall it.  

Blaugust is Ending - What I've Learned

I have REALLY enjoyed participating in Blaugust.  During the month I have found some of my blogging voice I'd hoped to find when I started a blog.

Along the way I have made some new acquaintances I hope can blossom into friendships.

My goal was for people who read my entries to get to know me and some of the major events in my life that shaped me into the person I am today.  I feel like I have achieved that.

While many participating generally blog about gaming, my personal entries were well received.

I was telling Belghast on Twitter there are are so many active blogging communities out there.  Diabetics are very active bloggers for example.  Maybe next year we can find another community and do a "Blaugust Crossover Event".  That probably sounds corny, but I think it would be a great thing.

Thank you to everyone who took a moment to read at least one of my entries.  Thank you to Belghast for throwing the party.

NOW.... if you will excuse me, I have to go tweak my Steam wishlist!

Did Your Wife Leave You for Someone She Met In An Online Game? If So Call 1-800-96-JERRY

Blaugust is winding down and I've been saving my best story for last.  In keeping with the personal gaming experiences theme I started the month off with, I thought I'd share the most personal one I have maybe.

For those that I do interact with on Twitter or in a game, you may have heard me say something to the effect of "It's all fun and games until your wife leaves you for some rogue in Nebraska."

When I first started playing online games in my early 20's, I thought it would be a cool place to meet members of the opposite sex.  Gemstone was full of people who would go off to the local inn in game, lock the door, and roleplay their encounters.  You can get extremely descriptive in a text based MUD!

One story from Gemstone in particular has stuck with me all these years.  There was a mature woman living with a comfortable lifestyle in Boston who was married with two kids who had graduated college already.  She fell in love with this teenager from New Orleans.  After a time, she left her husband, and paid to relocate this guy to Boston.  He had never seen snow before and was awestruck by it.  She helped the guy to get a real estate license and they struggled to make it all work.  It was a struggle too.  I'm not sure how that story ended, but I'm certain many of you know of similar cases.

Fast forward to my own experience.  My first wife, we'll call her 1.0, had never been a gamer.  Never seen an online game.  Most of us feel it would be cool if our spouses/SO's played games with us.  When we met, I was playing EVE a lot and I knew this would not be a game for her.  A new game was about to come out and I was in the beta.  World of Warcraft it was going to be called.  I'd played the stand alone PC game and loved it.  Blizzard makes the best cut scenes!

Once I showed her WoW, she fell in love with it.  We were sharing the computer, so when I was not playing, I was showing her how to play.  She had decided an undead mage was her favorite, and she just chose the first randomly generated name that popped up.  "Olis" it was.  Thus wife 1.0's gaming identity was born.

We get a second computer so we could play together at launch.  Took time off the first few days to play a lot together.  She'd found a guild for us to join prelaunch and I was OK with that.

Fast forward to 2006ish, I'm bad with dates.  A lot had happened in our lives since WoW launched.  We'd lost a child, got married, I'd found a new job at Dell that would turn into a nice 8 year gig.

We were just not the same people after losing the baby.  Understandably so.  She began to spend ALL day in WoW, and was not going to work due to medical leave.  She had became an officer in our guild and took on a leadership role.  Pretty soon she was talking with guild members over the phone that lived across the US.  Chatting about strategy and guild drama.

One day I came home from work and she informed me she was leaving.  Moving to North Carolina to live with a friend of hers that lived near the beach.  Being near the ocean she felt would help her find herself again.  All I wanted was for her to be happy and whole again.  If being by the ocean was what she needed, by all means, go do it.  I knew she was leaving me and I would never see her again.

We did argue about it, I fought for her to stay.  After all, she was the only tie I had with the child I lost.  Losing her was losing that tie.

Then she did something strange.  1.0 packed up her car with all it would hold, including our dog, and drove away.  That was strange because she left about ALL her clothes, personal effects, furniture...just left it with me.

A few days later I began getting mail about the checking account change of address for her.  It was in Nebraska.  NEBRASKA.  Who in their right mind would move there under their own free will?  Besides, she TOLD me she was going to stay with a friend near the ocean.  My very limited Tennessee public school education had taught me there was NO ocean in NEBRASKA!  This upset me greatly to say the least.

After some lengthy phone discussion with her I was able to drag the story out of her.  All of her time online in WoW she had bonded with a guy playing a rogue in our guild.  I knew him a little from the game but not well certainly.  She had essentially packed up her car with all it could hold and moved to Nebraska to be with him.  Her plan included me packing up the rest of her stuff and shipping it to her.  LOLOLOL  After informing her if she wanted those things she needed to come back and get them herself, she resigned to leaving them with me to do as I saw fit.

Over the long distance we worked out the divorce.  It was a fairly painless process.  I'd later discovered she fed the same "moving to the ocean" line to our marriage counselor.  That really let me know how invested she was in working things out.

I could go on but that's a great overview of the situation.  My current wife, 2.0, is not a gamer.  Will never be a gamer, but I did try to turn her on to it despite my past experiences.

If you are curious, 1.0 and I still speak from time to time on Facebook.  It sucks far more energy out of me to hate someone that it does to forgive.

Just What Are Echoes From the Abyss?

For the 29th of Blaugust I wanted to mention the "why" behind the name of my blog.  Rowan did a similar blog entry yesterday and asked others to speak about the name behind their blog.  I've written many posts this month about gaming, however, I did not start out the idea of a blog with that in mind.  I didn't know one gaming blogger until I played Rift.  That is where I first met Rowan, his wife, Scary, and a few others were in my guild.  They may not even remember me in that game.  Usually I would send them my collectible items via in game mail I could not use.

For me, the intention of doing a blog was more of a therapeutic tool in many ways.  Life is what we make of it, and sometimes life just has a way of happening to you.  Things out of your control either lift you up, or beat you up.  

Since I was a teenager I've always sort of felt like I was in some dark place.  Depression really.  The "abyss" speaks of that place.  A part of me will always reside in it.  

The "echoes" are the feelings, events, and ideas that emanate from that "abyss" out onto the blog.  

Not all of the echoes are depressing, there is plenty of light coming out of that abyss from time to time.  Right now, today, the light is winning.  Tomorrow, next week, could be a different result.  It is a constant battle.  

College Football is Back!

On the 28th day of Blaugust college football has returned!  I am super excited!

Since I no longer have cable TV, I thought this season might be hard to keep up with.  Thanks to the interwebs, I found a nice site that bootlegs all the games.  Not just college football...  If you want to watch Japanese baseball, they got it.  If you want to watch badminton in Qatar, they got that too.  If it is a sporting event taking place somewhere in the world, chances are they got it.  So I'm all set!

I did not graduate college, so I do not have an alma mater I root for.  My team is Alabama.  I'm not a bandwagon fan though.  As a kid, their games were always on TV.  They were just the team I grew up watching.  In the early 90's I was living in Tuscaloosa the year after they won the championship.  While living down there, I was able to meet a few members of the team where I worked.  Also was able to meet Gene Stallings, the coach at the time as well.

Since I do live in Tennessee, I also root for the Vols (unless they are playing Bama).  That probably sounds strange, but I have a hierarchy for the teams I root for.

Enjoy some football this weekend!

Blaugust Slog

Today, the 27th of Blaugust, is the first day this month my entry feels like a chore.  From reading many of the other participants, I've done well to last this long!

Having said that, I do think the intentions for Blaugust have worked on me.  I am absolutely writing more.  Thinking about writing more.  Usually genuinely enjoying what I'm writing.

I find myself wanting to blog about my health in general as it is on my mind a lot.  Diabetes has been causing some complications with other systems in my body, mainly my liver.  Part of me worries I'd come across as "woe is me", but part of me feels like "it's my blog, I can write what I want".  I fall in between those somewhere.

At this time I'm also doing some job interviews and I don't want to write a lot of craziness on here an employer might frown upon.

Tattoos of Your Favorite Game: Would You Ever Get One?

Today is the 26th of Blaugust!  Certainly we are in the dog days of the month.

I was considering today that my wedding band has gotten too small, or rather I've gotten to fat, and was curious about getting a tattoo of a wedding band instead.  This train of thought spilled over into my blog and I considered if I'd ever get a tattoo of something from one of my favorite games.

It's a tough question for me at least.  I have one tattoo that is deeply personal so I would not be against getting others.  Doing a quick Google search on the topic reveals a LOT of material.  I'll let your fingers do the walking in your search bar.  But as for me, here are a few I might consider for myself.

Since I identify with villains, perhaps this

Maybe the Chelsith Stone from EQ2

Loved Rift: Defiant Symbol

Planetside Vanu Sovreignty

Starcraft Protoss Logo

Can't Blog, Busy Gaming

Had my second with Verizon, well I'm calling it a second, interview of sorts today.  Basically I went into their call center and took an assessment of sorts.  It is one of those opinion survey things that give them deep insight into your psychological makeup.  Along with multitasking skills, customer scenarios, and even typing skills.  It was very thorough and I passed.  Wednesday I go back for my final for real interview.

Getting back on the bandwagon of Star Wars: The Old Republic has been a lot of fun.  Even grouping some in the starting areas to complete some of the heroic missions has been good.  I'm weird when it comes to grouping.  I WANT to group with people I know, but I'm NEVER playing a game with people I know.  And 9/10 times I have the opportunity to group, I still go solo because I want to do my own thing at my own pace.  All of this I find perplexing.  With Elder Scrolls Online I stopped playing because I felt it was too solo and I wanted more group play.

What IS my problem?!  Let me know when you figure that out.  I need some advice.

I did resubscribe to SWTOR this week.  All the restrictions were strangling me.  It was apparent when I completed some low level quest that offered a chest reward, and the message told me I was not allowed to get that loot because I was not a sub.  Besides, I missed all my titles and legacy stuff.  We'll see how long I stay subbed.  

Blaugust the 25th!

Just When I Thought I Was Out.. They (SWTOR) Pull Me Back In

Today I subscribed to SWTOR again.  I WANT to blame Blaugust because it has me all nostalgic for games I have tossed away.  If I'm facing facts however, it really boils down to my desire to play a villain.

Earlier this month I talked about the lack of evil characters in MMO's.  To be a format that pretty much in every case has a good vs. evil scenario, it usually boils down to a few factions fighting each other and the same evil trying to destroy them both.  Neither faction is evil.  They are just vanilla.  Maybe one race on each side might LOOK sketchy, but that is NOT evil.

In Star Wars: The Old Republic I can straight up be evil.  I can seduce some of my companions to the Dark Side.  I can play a Jedi and make him go Dark.  There are all sorts of twisted scenarios I can do.

For now I created a brand new character to play so I can learn the game again after three years away.  A Sith warrior was my choice and I'm head over heels in love with him.

Adventures in Babysitting

For a couple of 40-somethings with no children, my wife and I probably aren't the best choices when it comes to being your babysitter.  I absolutely love children, but my supervisory skills are probably lacking.

tonight we agreed to babysit for the couple across the street.  They just hit their 30's.  Their kids are precious.  A 5 year old girl and a 2 year old boy.

The evening consisted of us coaxing the girl into eating her dinner while she thought of every lie to just get desert.  The boy he pretty much cleaned his plate without a peep.  She wanted the stuff he was eating because she didn't have any cheese.  And she LOVED cheese she said.  So we gave her some cheese.  Then she wanted grapes but nothing else on her plate.  I said no grapes until she ate her dinner.  Miraculously her stomach began to hurt and she was no longer hungry.  Grapes would make her stomach feel better though.  So we gave her grapes.  LOL

See?  We suck.

All manipulations aside, when it came to movie watching time, she was very sweet and snuggled up next to me while we watched Jungle Book, then some Curious George.

The boy was like a bowling ball.  Rolling onto things; couch, car seat, floor, and then right off again.  I was a bit worried he might bang his head, so I kept a close eye on him.  All in all he was well behaved and even let me tickle him until he couldn't breathe.

At one point a night light turned on as darkness fell and he saw his shadow on the wall.  It fascinated him.  His mom said he'd probably never really seen his shadow before.  He followed it back and forth across the wall, trying to figure out why it moved when he did.  Sort of like a cat with a laser pointer.

Things settled down until about 5 minutes before the parents were to arrive home, then everything went buckwild.  Running, chasing, jumping up and down.  A hootenanny broke out!

Luckily for us, it was time to leave... Blaugust the 23rd.

Ice Bucket Challenge.. I'm SO Over You

As someone suffering from a chronic illness, diabetes, I totally think anything that raises awareness or money for a disease is awesome.  A buddy of mine texted me this week saying he had been challenged for the Ice Bucket and said he was thinking of nominating me.  I'm guessing he was just feeling me out to see how I'd take it.  He said he HAD to do it, that he had no choice.  He's known me throughout all my health issues so we always joke about them.  I let him know that with my delicate heart condition he didn't want to be responsible for my death from the shock the icy water would cause on my system.

But let's face it.  The Ice Bucket thing has to die down, take a backseat, fade away, whatever.  It's 15 minutes are up.  I no longer watch the videos.  Well I should say I only watch the "Ice Bucket Fail" videos.  Some of those are really good.  Much better than the successful ones.

Of course, celebrities have jumped on the bandwagon.  Later than everyone else, when they realized all the cool kids were doing it.  There was one celebrity challenge that really I think summed up where the Ice Bucket stands at this moment in time.

Liam and Noel Gallagher.  Brothers.  They can't fart without it being news in the UK.  You may know them from their band's Oasis, Beady Eye, or High Flying Birds.  These cats absolutely LOATHE one another.  Liam challenged Noel.  Here is a link to a British music tabloid with all the deets.  Enjoy!

Happy Blaugust the 22nd!

Long Day

Today was very busy and my little rubber band is about to wind down.  After only about 2 hours of sleep last night, I got up at 6am to make certain I was prepared for my phone interview at 8am.

Interview went as I expected.  I'm overqualified for the job.  To get hired at this place is like getting clearance for Fort Knox.  They won't even consider you if you've had a speeding ticket in the last three years.  Monday I'll go to their office for a second interview of sorts, then if I pass that, on to the hiring manager.

Once the interview was wrapped, I had to call the Chevy dealership and finally set up my car for their ignition recall.

I did manage to get in some hockey on the XBOX (I love sports games where I can play the team GM and build a dynasty), plant some barley in ArcheAge, and kill some fools in Planetside.

Usually I am up until about 3am, but tonight I'm going to bed early.

For some better blog entries than mine today, check out all those participating in Blaugust.

Job Interview Tomorrow - And Why I'll Still Be A Dragon

The 20th of Blaugust!

Tomorrow morning at 8am my time, I have a job interview with Verizon for a spot in their call center here in Murfreesboro, TN.  Remember when you needed to go to a physical place of business to pick up an application?  It was always best to hand that application to someone who would be doing the hiring.

Well times sure have changed.  My last job with Dell I answered an ad online through the local newspaper online classifieds.  It took a few weeks for them to call.  By the time they did, I had totally forgotten what the position was I even applied for.  I went down to speak with them in person for a formal interview (this was 9 years ago).

The job was for something called the XPS sales queue.  The XPS brand was being launched as a higher end system and I was to be one of those chosen to help sell them.  My new hire class was the first Dell had done directly and not through a temp agency in quite some time.

Best part of my interview was when they asked me... "If you could be any animal, what would it be and why?"

My response: "Well, it isn't really an animal per se, but I
would be a dragon."

I then elaborated... "A dragon is really this magical thing.  It can be anything it wants to be.  If it wants to fly, it can do that.  If it wants to take human form, it can do that too.  They are extremely intelligent as well."

For whatever reason, this got me the job.

Tomorrow, however, this will be a phone interview.  Even though the building is about 10 minutes from my home, we'll conduct the interview over the phone.  Probably even with someone who doesn't live or work at this call center.

Time have changed when it comes to interviewing for a job, but for certain when I'm asked what sort of animal I'd be again, that answer is simple.

My Diabolical Plan - Turning My 12 Year Old Niece Into a Gamer

My only sister has two daughters.  The previously mentioned Lily, who turned 4 on Sunday.  And my favorite niece, solely because I'm her favorite uncle, Lexi.  Lexi will be 13 this November.

My wife and I do not have any children.  That ship has sailed for us.  We have sorta made it a goal to do more things with Lexi as a result.  Usually we take her fun places like the zoo, or aquarium out of town.  Now that she has gotten a little older, she has become interested in some of the games I'm playing.  She does have an XBOX of her own, and I'm currently borrowing NHL12 from her right now for funsies.

The last weekend she came to visit I discovered that she liked anime and manga.  These are things I know absolutely NOTHING about.  We took a trip to Barnes & Noble for her to pick out some manga books.  I was able to find on Hulu the TV version of her favorite series, Soul Eater.  Much of the weekend was spent watching this with her and I will admit I got into a bit.

Lexi loves to play my Sims 3 games on PC.  She created her own sim and started out in town.  She was dying to go to college though, and I cautioned her that college was hard on a sim.  What with loud music, keggers, showers breaking, spoiled food everywhere, no time for sleep...  Lexi dove in head first, however.  Later she admitted I was right.

For her next visit two weeks from now, I downloaded the Sims 4 creator for us to play around with.  I told her I'm even waiting on her to visit so we can use it together for the first time.  She mentioned how much fun it was for her to watch me play Planetside while listening to classical music.  I thought perhaps a trip to the virtual reality training ground on Auraxis might be fun also.  This way she can learn how to shoot stuff without it shooting back.

And we still have another 30 or so episodes of Soul Eater to get through if all that fails.... Blaugust the 19th!

Evil is Real and it Exists in Star Wars: The Old Republic

Darth Thanatos was weak.  Weaker than I.  And so he is dead....

I was one of those people who pre-ordered SWTOR and played the hell out of it for a few months.  It is honestly the only game besides WoW that I raced to max level.  Once I got there, the game felt empty.  Like the heart of the game itself was just gone.

The class story for my Sith Sorcerer was amazing!  I absolutely loved it.  My guild at the time were some strong players, but it seemed like our luck was awful when it came to raiding.  Always encountering bugs and we could seldom finish as a result.

My patience for the game was at an end when a patch was announced that included only fluff and it fixed zero of the problems I'd encountered at level 50.  SWTOR also holds another distinction with WoW as probably the only two games I've rage quit.  (My rage at WoW was on a whole other level but that will probably be saved for my last post for Blaugust.)

My recent blog about games with the option to play a REAL villain got my hunger to play SWTOR again.  Besides the story itself, I totally enjoyed force shocking some insolent fool babbling in front of me.

The whole cash shop system was put in after I'd quit, and I recall from reading stuff at the time how tick tack it was.  Looking it over today, I totally agree.

Here are some of the most evil dudes ever to conquer Correlia!

Tyluroth K`Tarl and Khem Val

Just how diabolical did I have to be to turn a Jedi to the Dark Side...

Ashara Zavros & Her NEW Master... ME

I am terrible and want to subscribe to every game I've written about during Blaugust!  Stop me!

Today My Niece Lily Turned 4

Today on the 17th of Blaugust my niece Lily turned 4.  My wife and I attended the party at my mom's and Lily was in fine form.  Lily has taken a keen interest in all things Ninja Turtles.  donatello is her favorite, so much so, at daycare recently she informed them her name was Donatello and refused to answer to the name Lily whatsoever.

Here she is at daycare dressed in some Turtles garb.

Being 4 she loves to tell the truth.  Today I learned that I was stinky, and funny looking.  At least I got a hug after forking over the first 3 seasons of TNMT cartoons on DVD.  Those brownie points will soon be forgotten I'm sure.

So you know what I was dealing with today, her is a selfie she took on her Leapfrog tablet.

Why So Few Evil Options in MMO's?

I was thinking this week why there were so few options to play a really evil type of character in the majority of MMO's.  Sure you can roleplay someone who is evil.  Maybe a fallen paladin or power hungry mage.  But there are not a lot of options out there (from my experience) to do really dastardly things.

Gemstone being the first real online game I'd played had options to choose a diety to follow.  There were Liabo (light), neutral, and Lornon (dark).  Knowing who a player worshiped gave you an idea of how to deal with that character.  Gemstone Diety List

Everquest has a great pantheon of deityies.  The lore and descriptions of those gods really helped me to immerse myself into the game.  Primarily playing Dark Elves, I fell in love with Innoruuk, and the story of how the Teir'Dal were created.  EQ clearly defines which races are good, evil, or neutral.  This I like.  EQ Race Breakdown

Star Wars the Old Republic absolutely has great evil options with the Dark Side of the force.  This was a game I relished the role of being a Sith Sorcerer.  Knowing my decisions to kill thousands of rebels with my choices excited me!  

I always joke that I play a good guy in real life, but evil characters online.  Something about being the mysterious wild card, chaotic sort of fellow excites me.  

What games have you played that had good villain or evil choices that you enjoyed?

Blaugust  the 16th!