End-of-the-Month Highlights Day

A few new photos have been added to the Life, 2015 album, but the large majority of activity was in the new Europe album.

• Events
  • Had our parents over for dinner and post-Europe slides on S 8/8.
  
  
  • Took a rock-climbing class on S 8/9 and learned how to belay.
  
  
  • Met Amanda and Frank for dinner on Lake Anne on F 8/14.
  
  
  • Played Dungeons and Dragons with the Ahlbins on S 8/15.
  
  
  • Went rock-climbing again on S 8/16.
  
  
  • Went to the Smiths for Game Night on S 8/21.
  
  
  • Rebecca went to Ocean City for a B(e)achelorette Weekend on F 8/28.


• Projects
  • Rearranged the living room.
  
  
  • Patched the holes in the foundation of my relationships house, and repaired some glue seams in our carpets.
  
  
  • Started experimenting with various game development programming libraries.


• Consumerism
  • Enjoyed seasons of Newsroom, Orphan Black, and Silicon Valley (reviews on Thursday), and the movie, Ex Machina. Also started watching Narcos and am really digging it.
  
  
  • Played no new games this month, but still have Hearthstone on auto-pilot.
  
  
  • Got a new queen-sized bed for the harem, and a new camera (Canon ELPH 340 HS) to replace the one I inevitably dropped that no longer focuses correctly.

August's Final Grade: B+, a good month of downtime after Europe to regenerate before "back-to-school" season at work.