Eric Herman - Travelblogue: 2008 Spring/Summer Tour

Larissa called and invited us to come over again today, and added that she and Sam really wanted to play Pandemic again. Kent also called to see if we were staying at his house tonight, and added that he really wanted to play Pandemic again. I think we need to buy a bunch of copies of that game at a bulk price and resell them to the people we play it with. It really seems to be infectious... no pun intended.

We went to Larissa's and then went out to the park with all of the kids. Evee is not feeling 100% yet, by any means, but she is clearly feeling a lot better and was a lot more active today, which is great to see. It was a somewhat overcast day (it actually rained briefly a few times) and so we decided to take some promo pictures. Larissa is a professional photographer and did a really nice job, and the park had a lot of cool places for different picture ideas. Of course, as with any photo shoot involving me, there were numerous tie hanging in a weird direction issues, floofy hair in the wind issues and assorted strange-looking expression issues, so a lot of the pictures weren't usable at all, but there were a surprisingly high number that were potentially useful. We still need to narrow down some choices from those and have them edited and color balanced and all that, but a couple of the pictures are below. Those and others will probably turn up on my website or on flyers or other promo materials. I should mention that many of the promo pics I've used in recent years were taken by Roseann's brother, Jim, who lives near Seattle. He does a great job, too, and each time I go out there he seems to have a bigger and stronger camera with more filters and lenses and other miscellaneous attachments, much to his wife Cindy's chagrin. An advantage we had with today's shoot was that Roseann was with us to help point out some of the tie/hair/expression problems, whereas it's usually just me and Jim for his shoots.

Sam came home and we had a nice spaghetti dinner and then played Pandemic, barely losing at the very end. We had found the means of winning but got crushed by outbreaks before we had the chance to win. One of the fun things about that game is that even when you all lose (which is often), it is still very entertaining to be a part of.

While we were there, Becca went potty and was trying to wash her hands when she pushed down on the foaming hand soap dispenser and it shot a big clump of soap into her face. She panicked and rubbed it right into her eyes and she was in heavy distress for quite a while after that. We flushed it out the best we could and had her lay down, but it was still a little hurty by the time she went to bed later.

We went over to Kent's and talked with him and Kris for a while and then played Pandemic again. It looked like we were doomed but we were able to figure out a solution that barely worked and so we won at the last possible moment, which was quite thrilling. After that, we watched House and The Simpsons and then went to bed.

Evee's feeling a lot better...