Forgot to mention yesterday that Xander made his first "Gingerbread House" in school.  WTF is up with schools nowadays.  Goddamn kids have more fucking homework in kindergarten than I did in fifth grade.  Me not doing my homework is beside the point! Regardless look at how janky of a fucking gingerbread (see also Graham crackers) house they do.  A fucking milk carton, are you kidding me?  Obviously teaching kids how to faff around with food is not on the agenda!  :( \[gallery size="medium" ids="9355,9357,9356"\] Had a hell of a good time last night at the Mineshaft.  I couldn't believe how off-the-chain busy they where for Monday. I get it they have that game room (actually I didn't get it until I went up there) and they have deals geared towards getting people up there.  But still they where balls to the wall the entire time we where there.  They seem to have something for everybody, but if your going strictly for the fantastic food your probably better off going somewhere without a game room.  Burgers where overdone but on a 7-Top I'm not complaining.  Cara did mention the waitress sucked.  I had a Barnyard Burger, Cara had a California burger, Jill had a Burrito, Dad a Reuben, Nicole had a cheese quesadilla with a bunch of added veg and a side of rice.  Wait staff looked all weird about it, but they delivered and Nicole was actually quite amped up about it.  Xander had Mac & Cheese and Corinne had a Cheeseburger. Then it was up to the game room.  Had a blast with that shit too.  The only things I truly recognized straight away where ski-ball, air hockey and pinball.  Delighted they had at least one Pinball machine, but I failed to get a game in.  I jumped in on the first racing game with Xander but then I just said the hell with it and just sort of watched them get down.  They have the attention span of a being that makes me looks impressive so it was interesting to see how quickly they would hop in between games. \[gallery size="medium" columns="2" ids="9360,9358"\] Came home and the kids went to bed.  There was an update to Minecraft and it's introduced lots of things that have been on the PC version for a while.  Sea Lanterns and all sorts of fun flowers that have been around for a while. Wrapped gifts and then Fallout for a little bit.  Talked to Mom and then just sort of put the PS4 to sleep and then started to get at Cara a little bit.  Ran through that and I know she was waiting for that for a while.  It was one of those moments in life... Go talk to Preston Garvey YET AGAIN or feed off the vibes your getting from the bombshell sitting next to you on the couch. _See bitch, I'm not a real gamer!_ Off to get **Project Fatman** stuff accomplished today.  Interesting going to bed early the last two nights and how I spring up on my own without an alarm at an almost disturbing early time. **_Great fucking news though_**, despite having opened the new eLeaf mod just to look around, and given up almost all hope, I gave it five clicks this morning just to see if it would turn on.  Nope.  Plugged it in as well and was **mindblown** to see the display light up and start charging.  Perhaps this is a sign from the Old Gods and the New that making positive changes bring on positive results.  Or maybe not, but for now we are back up to three mods.  I'm hoping to one day figure out the center post problem.  I'm going to primarily rock the IPV4 I think, despite it not feeling as "comfy" in the hand, and definitely no good while also holding a PS4 controller (holy fucking first world problems) I do like the bulkiness that it brings to the overall setup.  It just looks sexy with the Subtank Plus. Got a new 8" nonstick from Walmart while taking the children yesterday so Xander could get Corinne a gift.  She got him a LEGO Minecraft set and he got her a "pop star" doll that is extremely large.  Thank god it does not make noise though. Time to have a day now so I don't type all fucking day.  Pictures mostly related. \[caption id="attachment\_9364" align="aligncenter" width="350"\][](http://openpluto.com/e/29.22_9354.46/20151222_074108) New 8" pan is money. White over green, green over grey. In my experience anyhow\[/caption\] Also so happy to see so many of these in the only real grocery store in Hartford. [](http://openpluto.com/e/29.22_9354.46/20151222_081842) A secret for the Old Gods and the New, I let Cara hang back with Corinne as I had woke up so much earlier and cooked Xander breakfast and set him up at the desk so he could watch a YouTube video about the new stuff in the Minecraft Update.  I drove him to school and shot down to the Pig to get Lenin food.  I shouldn't have done so, but it's not like something I'm exploiting every single day.  Only when it's absolutely necessary and it's done with good strategy.  Tell you what tho being that early in the morning and smashing the vape, I got some really clean flavorful vapes off of it before the tongue was scorched by traditional cigarettes. I think it's going to really help my vaping for the day. [](http://openpluto.com/e/29.22_9354.46/20151222_081335)