Rancor Monster Workout

This morning, we were doing a bit of a Rancor Monster Workout.  For those of you unfamiliar with the image above, basically it's a game where Madison uses the Kinect to play as a Rancor Monster, rampaging through various environments.  It's actually pretty fun!  It reminds me of the old game "Rampage," but in 3-D with a Star Wars theme to it.  It's loads of fun.  In fact, look who else was trying it out:

Mommy was attacking Mos Eisley Spaceport, doing some serious damage!  By the time you're done wreaking havoc, the entire place is devastated, and the Rancor Monster is pretty much worn out.  But it's super fun!

Today was a lot of work for Daddy, who was spending a lot of time learning this new online service that allows KidPak to send emails out to massive amounts of people.  It actually took a good bit of time creating the graphics and putting it all together, but in the end, the final product should look pretty good when it is sent out.

Madison did some piano today, working on her new book as well as her recital piece, plus she's starting out with two hands for Victor's Piano solo from "The Corpse Bride."  If she gets that one by October, Daddy will be super impressed.

Speaking of music, Daddy got a They Might Be Giants release that just came out, one that is designed as a benefit... for the band.  Specifically, it benefits their band members and crew who suddenly aren't touring and making money in any particular direction during this national crisis.

It's called "Modern," and it's all the songs I already have elsewhere, but They Might Be Giants have been good to us all these years, so why not go ahead and order it?  I like to have jewel cases for all their CDs, but this is obviously a downloaded one.  Still, we made jewel cases for the download of "Long Tall Weekend" way back in 1999.  That was actually the first ever full album released online, and here we are 21 years later, and of course that's how many of these musical releases are done by everyone.  Anyway, again this is entirely material that's already out there and in my collection.  It's just a donation from a fan.  Plus another chance to hear a few old favorites like "Ana Ng" and "Mink Car."  It seems a bit random, which is actually saying a lot.  But I'm glad to have downloaded it.

We were indoors a good bit today, ordering things online like new stamps and also signing up for our taekwondo classes next week - in person!  That's right, we'll physically be on the premises next week.  It's a limited amount of students, so we signed up as soon as we could, reserving a spot for Madison next week on Tuesday and Thursday.  The time slot is different, but we'll actually be at Edge ATA next week, training with plenty of distance between the students in a pretty structured environment.  Life must find a way, and we can't just stay in the house all year round.  Eventually we have to get out, and we're glad to support this small business.

Mommy had a wonderful Italian dinner for us tonight, a pasta that was just delicious.  One thing about this time at home has been the wondrous variety of food that we've had, different meals and preparations.  Mommy is keeping it amazingly interesting, and we're never tired of her cooking.

Tonight we were watching the fireworks at Disney World, a livestream event that they had shared.  A lot of other people were watching online too, a large community of people watching the latest fireworks show, which is pretty astounding.  The things they can do with the castle now are hard to believe.  We all enjoyed that quite a bit.

We also enjoyed the new episode of "Clone Wars" immensely.  Wow.  It was so intense, with one of the best lightsaber battles we've seen so far, and such a big moment shortly before Order 66 and the fall of the jedi knights.  Ahsoka is caught up in the middle of it all, and we've been there since the beginning with her character.  We know she'll be with us for "Rebels," but this is a pretty painful time for the good guys in the Star Wars world.  Anyway, we watched that, and then a few earlier episodes - we're going through the older episodes one at a time.  We're way back in season one, so that will take a while.  But even watching these episodes, we're remembering why we loved this show so much.  The three of us are Star Wars nerds.

Tonight we read more from Narnia, and we said our prayers.  Things will start opening next week, and we're ready for it, even if we're just getting our toes back into the water first.  We're looking forward to diving back in though.  It's been too long.