His name is Ur, and he’s somehow the patriarch of a humanoid tribe in the Real Time Strategy Fantasy game called SpellForce 2. We reviewed it a few years ago for the since-repurposed game site Gamezilla.com. It’s rated M, but since son Leo has begun acquiring such games on his own we decided to break this and another M game we’d salted away out into general household release.

So SpellForce 2, in the midst of all its wild fantasy hocus schmocus and blatant Lord of the Rings imitation, someone in the backstory was named…Craig. Yuh.

Drinking Report: Mrs. Shears and I popped for a fifth of Absolut Pears. It’s pear-flavored vodka. Mm hm. It sounded good, and Mrs. Shears had had an airplane-sized bottle of their orange. Well, vodka is not really meant for sipping, as any Russian, Pole or Finn might tell you. So the first night or straight-up Pears didn’t really knock our socks off. But last night we added OJ for I guess what you ‘d call Pear Drivers. Much better. But I’ll be pushing for another bottle of that authentic unflavored Ukrainian stuff we had a few years ago.