Monday Minutes

SIGN OF THE SEASON: This shot is a leftover from our visit to Pacific Place last week for their snow show the night the kids went to see "Holiday Inn." 

ADD IT TO THE LIST: Here's part of my/our ongoing problem. A couple of days ago we walked into a building materials salvage/reuse store in search of flooring materials, and we saw these wood balustrades and furniture feet. I should have walked right past, but NO! They were only a dollar apiece and surely something could be done with them and then it took me about a third of a second to see that they simply HAD to be made into a chess set.

And so now we have 34 of the pieces (you need an extra queen you know) waiting to be transformed. A ridiculous purchase, really, given our already lengthy to do list, but ... sigh. We just couldn't pass them up.

So, when we're not busy remodeling our house or doing the bajillion other things we're doing, we'll tackle this. Some day.

MEGAVERSARY: For awhile now, CJ had been tracking a special webcast set for today. It was a Capcom event on the 30th anniversary of the iconic Mega Man video game series.

The event went live at 11 a.m. our time today. I'll let him tell you about what went down.

Today, Capcom (a prominent Japanese video game company) broadcast a livestream on their Twitch (the most popular livestreaming service) channel. The livestream was for the 30th anniversary of their Mega Man franchise, which started on the Famicom/NES on 17 December 1987. The franchise had not received a main series game in over 7 years, so the stream was highly anticipated by fans of the franchise.

For an hour before the main event, there was a pre-show. I did not see most of said pre-show. The stream featured interviews with several Mega Man series developers. One of the questions that many of the developers were asked was "what is your favorite Robot Master?" Answers included Ice Man (MM1) and Gravity Man (MM5).

The stream had three big announcements. The first was that all of the Mega Man X games (1-8) would be coming to the PlayStation 4, the Xbox One, the Nintendo Switch, and PC. The second was that both volumes of the Mega Man Legacy Collection, a collection containing games in the main series from 1 to 10, would be released for the Switch. The third was the announcement of development for the long-awaited Mega Man 11, which is set to appear on the aforementioned platforms in late 2018.