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It's finally Friday!! I've got one more day of stupid people. My back isn't as bad today, which is surprising considering that it was bad last night, and then I had an ungodly thigh cramp and hobbled about for 20 minutes before I said fuck it and laid in bed chewing my lip while the thigh spasmed and screamed. I think I also breathed loudly because Jess did notice and check on me.

It doesn't happen often but when the thigh gets pissed, it gets *pissed*.

We had our team meeting last night, and I actually contributed something. Our one person who is kind of the office liason mentioned that our wait list, which will help to fill some appts is not perfect, because it offers all of our offices, so people who were scheduled in our Bethesda office inadvertantly grab appointments at our White Marsh office, which are about an hour and 30 minutes apart on a good day. And then they're pissed, because they didn't read, and they can't get their old spot back, so now they're way out. And we loose that slot at White Marsh.

Thing is, there's a trick to that. You can go in and edit the wait list, so it will only offer certain sites. So I mentioned this, and got surprised Pikachu faces from the ENTIRE ROOM. Even the motherfucking *trainer* didn't know this feature existed. They were all like "what other secrets does Teresa hide in her brain?" It takes extra time at the end of a call, so I assumed they had decided not to train on it, but no. No one fucking knew it existed. *headdesk*. So, I'm going to be making a little infographic on how to do that. I'm a bit boggled, but game. I love making PDFs and powerpoint.

To night we have Eve of Ruin, which is the follow up for my Strahd group. They're my little goth disasters and I love them.

Tomorrow, Arvandor. We're on the second to last arc, so of course I've started considering the next campaign. Arvandor was SO much fun that it took me a while to figure out something that could also keep up.

I'm borrowing shamelessly from other media, mostly Seanan McGuire's Indexing series and T. Kingfisher's Clockwork Boys and Bryony and Roses. We'll see what it comes out as. I've got a lot of work to do on it.

Okay time for me to go forth and get my ass in gear. I need a shower. Everyone have the very best Friday!

ETA, because 5:30am is very early, Happy Halloween!!

beanside

It's Friday Eve! Good lord, I was on the struggle bus yesterday. My back was hurting and the people calling me were either so dull/awkward that I couldn't really connect with them, or out and out assholes. I survived, taking 52 calls. And now I get to do it again today.

The back is still cranky. and I'm sick of it. I ended up dropping from my game last night, because I was hurting so much. Today, it's better than last night, but still painful.

I spent some time putting all our outings into the countdown app. I like being able to flip through and see all our stuff.

I ended ordering some stuff from Costco for dinners for the next few nights, so I don't have to cook. Maybe by Sunday I'll feel up to cooking.

From here on out, I'm going to be hoarding my PTO so I will be good for the cruise. If I can avoid taking PTO from here til Feb, I will be able to put my PTO in for the cruise in March. Mind you, I'll start as soon as I start accruing.

I have two half days off in December, one to take Jess to their next post op, and one for the comic con. Though I'm a little unsure of that one. Once I see the schedule, I may decide to give it back.

I have a couple more packages on the way. One is some nail polish, which was an impulse buy. The other was a watch for the cruise. I've been told that sometimes cells and computers have a hard time adapting to the changing time zones in Alaska, so I just got myself a nice analog watch.

Okay, time for me to take a gander at my games for Friday and Saturday. Everyone have an awesome Thursday!

beanside

We are to the halfway point of the week, and I'm ready for Saturday already. I didn't sleep great last night. Woke up a few times, and then woke up at 4 for good. My back=still pissed, which is annoying. I've been so careful to be gentle with it, and it's just not improving at all. I know in the past, it's take upwards of a week to really improve, but that was usually when I actually did something to it. I was sitting! Just sitting quietly. Bodies are annoying.

Yesterday was boring. I did absolutely nothing except work and walking the dog. Jess on the other hand, went out and got their new tattoo done! It's gorgeous and the perfect bright twin to their other.

This is the first one:

Their tattoo artist, Ronie from Layer3 Collective is amazing.

Today, it's more work, then game! It's been a hot minute since I've had a Wednesday game, so I'm looking forward to it. I may take a little nap after work to be ready for it.

Basically, I'm just waiting for my games this weekend. I need to do a bit of prep work, but otherwise, I think I'm good. the bonus is that I'm only GMing 2 of the games out of four.

We're under 200 days for our Alaska trip, and my passport request has been recieved. Hopefully, the 6 weeks they quoted is correct. I've got so many things coming up, and I'm so excited about each and every one.

Okay, time for me to drink some more coffee and maybe be ready for work by 8. Everyone have an stupendous Wednesday.

hannah

It's my Livejournal's birthday today. I'm always a little taken aback when I get the emails about it - a bit of "really? that thing's still on?" and a bit of "it has been a while since high school." Most years it passes by with just those thoughts, a day in, a day out, and for most of today it was going that route up until I heard Cameron Crowe at Symphony Space.

Not Cameron Crowe for the innate value of Crowe himself, not Crowe for the shine of someone worth all the applause, not for someone who said Joni Mitchell could talk in third drafts and said music is a way to tattoo moments. He spoke well, he read aloud with a lot of charm, he answered questions thoughtfully, and when the interviewer asked the last question of the night - whether there was still hope for music to blow his mind the way it used to. Crowe leaned over, put his hand on his arm, and said to keep hoping. Words to that effect, at least; I lost the exact phrase in the immediate applause right after. And very much words to that effect. Keep hoping, stay open, keep listening.

It sparked the memory of my dad saying it's hard for music to hit him the way it used to, and of several memories reading different people's comments that they wish music could hit them the way it did when they were in high school, or college, or some other point in their life that's simply when they were younger and, I suspect, didn't have as much on their minds and hadn't heard nearly as much music. It goes beyond having listened to a lot more and having had the world sand down a lot of the edges. There's some of it - how much, I don't know - about not being open to having your mind blown. Of course it takes more work to blow your mind when it's already been blown so many times already. And to say it can't, it won't, is to commit to a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you're not open to it, if you don't keep looking, of course it won't happen.

I got a lot of good music in college and grad school, true. And I've heard so much since then, I'll often come across a new song and it'll strike me as a very good one, a superb variant on something I already know, a clever turn of phrase that's a pleasant arrangement of words. And I'm still willing and open to hearing new music, and it's true it doesn't happen as often that I hear a song that makes the world feel absolutely new, and it's true that it still happens.

My Livejournal's old enough to graduate college. It would've spent the last four years listening to music it never could've imagined, and in a density and intensity that's probably not going to come around again. And it's going to be listening to more music than it can believe.

To stay open and keep listening. To periodically get a reminder to keep hoping.

Current Mood: touched
Current Music: The Beautiful Sea - Hem

ride_4ever

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Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

beanside

I survived Monday! It was super busy at work, and I was very tired by the time I got off. I'm always grateful that I get off a bit before my sister so I have an hour of just Jess and I. A lot of times when I get off, I don't want to talk to people (Jess is not people, they're just part of me as far as my brain goes.) So I have quiet time/D&D talk, etc for an hour, and by the time my sister gets home, I'm a little more communicative.

We drank some of the wine last night. I had slid the bottle of Niagra into the fridge, so we pulled it out and cracked it open, and had some of the fintest sweet white wine in the land. I forgot how much I loved Mt Hope Winery, because this was fantastic.

Today, more work, and then I shall go forth to pick up Jess from their tattoo. They're getting a phoenix feather to match the raven feather on their right arm. It's their same tatoo artist, who is amazing, so I know I'm going to love it.

Then I shall come home and see if I am cooking dinner. My back has been a bit too peeved to stand at the stove. Last night we had Chinese. It was very tasty.

My ring and Jess' suit came! The suit definitely needs some altering. They couldn't quite get the pants zipped. but the suit coat looked nice. Pictures of my ring tomorrow--I'm going to try to get a picture in the morning light that shows the sparkle. I love it though, and I would 100% recommend Provence Gems for jewelry. It seems like each piece is made to order, complete with Computer Aided drafting and a real dialogue to make sure you're happy at each step. Now I'm debating on a bracelet or necklace to set off my dress.

It's a very busy weekend of games! I have four (three of which I'm DMing) games between Friday and Sunday, plus one coming up tomorrow (also not GMing). Jess actually has six games, as their game of Strixhaven is Sat night.

We were able to shift our early afternoon game an hour ahead, and will be able to sneak out and watch KPop Demon Hunters in the theater. We're going to try out a new theater (in the same location as the old theater). It's a kind of ritzy theater in a ritzy area of town. I wish I could go to the movies during the week. Tonight is Lost Boys and Thursday is Blade. I freaking love Blade. It was such a formative movie. I have not yet seen KPop Demon Hunters, but a lot of people who I know really love it. Jess swears the music is fun and earwormy. So that should be fun.

I think we need to get out of the house more, honestly. Every time we go out, we're like "this is so nice." and then we don't go out again for a few weeks. There just haven't been any movies I wanted to see or that much fun to go do. I need to look for some festivals and stuff that we could do.

November is not great for games, so we're going to have a couple of free weekends in there. Already got brunch with

poisontaster in mid November, so we'll have to figure stuff out for other fun things.

Okay, time for me to go forth and get myself together. Everyone have a wonderful Tuesday!

beanside

It's Monday! I could use another weekend day to recover, but alas, it's back to work.

We had an good day yesterday. We got up early and left at 8am to get gas and get on the road. My back didn't feel horrible, but I took a cane with me to be sure. Googlemaps took us the weirdest way imaginable, down all of these tiny country roads, but we made it there in good time. We got there at about 9:30, and proceeded to the little wine shop, and proceded to shop hard. We ended up with like five bottles of wine, plus a four pack of hard cider. We don't really drink much, so that's a lot of booze.

Jess kindly walked the booze back to our car, and then we walked down to the entrance of the faire. We sat in line with the *cutest* little white poodle wearng blue bat wings. She was so good. Just sweet and happy, and she did the trick where she jumped into her mama's arms. It was very cute. Before too long, we were let in, and we began our day. First, I grabbed a hot cocoa. because the morning was rather chilly. Then, it was onto some perogies.

We strolled some stalls, and bought some nerdy things--a D&D pin for me and a bracelet for Jess. Then, it was onto the serious eating phase of our day. I got a smoked beef sandwich with horseradish cream, which was very good, though messy. Jess grabbed a broccoli cheddar soup in a bread bowl, which was...okay. We walked a bit more and I got my goddamn turkey leg, which was excellent. We watched some falcons and owls being very pretty and regal. Then, we...well, we were tired. So we went to the Harmless Danger Juggling show. It was a lot of fun! The performer was personable and funny, and we had an excellent time. After that, we headed to the Globe for Fire Whips and Swords, but by the time we got there it was packed, so we walked on. We did some general shopping, got kettle corn and some pet treats, and headed out of the faire. On the way out, we walked past the Distillery shop, and stopped for still more booze. (Some drink mixes and a bottle of rum cream.

By this time, my back was getting pissy. Drove towards home, and decided that we both could eat. A quick stop at Hoss steakhouse handled that, plus I have steak for breakfast today! Then it was home again home again, arriving in plenty of time for game, which was a lot of fun.

When I got into bed, I crashed pretty quickly, and slept through the night.

All in all, a very good day that I thoroughly enjoyed. My back didn't, but I did.

And now, I shall go forth and get myself ready for work...and take some ibuprofen. Everyone have the very best Monday!

serrico

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beanside

It's Sunday! And it is ostensibly Renn Faire day.

On the other hand, during our outing yesterday, I managed to tweak my back, and it's still rather cranky today. I'm still probably going to go, but it may be a short-ish visit.

We went to Yankee Candle around 10:45, and were easily able to find parking at the mall. I'd planned to just grab my package and go, but there were these absolutely adorable halloween smaller candles. One was skull hands clutching a cauldron and one was a lidded cauldron. And the very sweet person behind the counter reminded me that I had a $5 off $10 coupon. And they were already 75% off! So, they came home with me, too.

My house is gonna smell good, dammit!

Then we were debating on food for lunch, but nothing opened til 12, and it was barely 11. So we drove the 20 minutes to Shrewsbury and went to Cracker Barrel. It was here that I annoyed my back, and I did it by...sitting quietly in a chair. My back just sudenly spasmed, and continued to hurt for the rest of the night and into this morning. Aging bodies *suck*. The food was pretty good, though.

Tonight, we shall have game. This is the third arc of a longrunning campaign, fully homebrew. I'm looking forward to it! We just had a little tough combat which is winding down, and now we shall actually get some plot relevant information.

Tomorrow of course, is back to work, having had a lovely weekend to enjoy, despite the back spasms.

Now, it's off to get ready to go get a turkey leg! Everyone have a stupendous Sunday!

hannah

When I held my niece A. this afternoon, I told her parents J. and E. that she weighed a bit more than a golden eagle. They didn't know how much that was. I told them it was about as much as a housecat. They didn't know how much that was, either.

I can get not knowing the golden eagle. It's the housecat that's baffling me. J. and I didn't grow up with a cat and, apparently, neither did E., but I'd think they'd both have a heuristic model for that already. It's possible that given my social circles, I might be over-estimating how common housecats are across the United States.

But that's not the best part of the afternoon.

Months ago, I had a dream - a literal dream - about a russet potato dessert. When I told the internet about it, someone pointed me towards white potato pie. I knew I had to make it someday, and when my younger brother R.'s birthday came around, it seemed like a good fit. Last year it was a carrot pie, and this year it's potato.

The recipe I used made enough batter for two nine-inch pie shells, so he got two pies. I had some blueberries in my freezer, so I made an easy spiced blueberry compote to go with the pie. We all had some this afternoon, and rarely do I get the chance to mean it when I say it was the stuff dreams are made of.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Cabin In The Air - Nancy Wilson

beanside

It's Saturday and I can sleep as late as I wanna. (So I'm up at 7:15, facepalm.) I don't really have a ton to do today. I may run up to the mall. I have a candle on hold at Migraine Land, aka Yankee Candle, so I need to get that.

I used to have one in the house, but it got kinda tossed. It's called Witches Brew, and it's a black candle that's kind of spicy and resiny. I like it, so when I saw an ad for the halloween candles, I had to grab one. I'll probably go early before the mall gets too crowded.

Then nothing to do until I start cooking around 3:30pm. I'm going to make steak subs, so I need time to chop up some onions, saute them , saute mushrooms and then cook the frozen steak ums.

In between, plenty of time to read a PDF and work on upcoming games. I've got a lot to do in the next month for Crooked Moon, and a *lot* to do for the Land of Marchen in a few months. Crooked Moon is a premade, so I just need to make sure I'm familiar with the story line, and work in a few things. I also need to send out final backstory questions for my players to fill out. It's no real heavy lifting until the game starts.

Marchen is all heavy lifting. Right now, I'm working out the basics of the land. It's a pocket dimension with various nations. Each is in the grip of one or more fairy tales, and I'm looking forward to fleshing it out. I just figured out the three deities, so that's a start.

Once I flesh out the world, I need to flesh out the plot further. Then, I need to start sourcing all the tokens and maps, and make character sheets. Some are going to be harder than other. Where does one find the stat block for a Yaobikuni, a Japanese person who eats mermaid flesh and turns into a monster. What kind of monster? Guess we'll find out.

I'm starting the characters at 3rd level, so I need to come up with some mid-tier monsters in addition to the tougher ones. At first, they're going to be interacting with the lesser known fairytales or gentler ones. I don't think they want to fight a great black dragon at 3rd level.
We also have a game tonight and tomorrow that I should probably do a bit of prep for.

Tomorrow, off to the Renn Faire! I've been looking forward to this all week. We're going to go early and get our liquor first, put it in the cooler, and then proceed to the fair. This of course, depends on how early we get there, and how close our car is.

Then, we'll walk through the Renn Faire, and have plenty of food, and then go forth and come home for game.

Then bed, and back to work, feeling hopefully satisfied and happy with our weekend.

Jess goes Tuesday for their new tattoo, a phoenix feather to match the raven feather on their other forearm. I can't wait to see it. Their artist, Ronie does amazing work. This'll be Jess' third tattoo with them. Pictures to come!

And on that note, time to do some work. Everyone have an awesome Saturday!

ride_4ever

obi_ki and her son Alan have been two of my Con*Strict friends. I've just today learned of Alan's death. Too sad for me to write more here but you can read about Alan's life and his family and his friends at Alan's obituary.

Current Mood: sad sad sad
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

beanside

It's Friday! Time to do the happy dance. I cleared some things off my Saturday, so I have nothing to do until around 7pm when we have game. It occurs to me that we also have game tonight, and I'm not sure I've read the module. I should get into that.

Yesterday was a steady day. I spent most of it getting emails for people to call and backfilled a couple of cardiac slots. In between, I wrote some more on the campaign, and created a new Kanka website for it. There's a lot of things that I need to do for it, but I feel good to have the beginnings sorted. I also want to make one for Crooked Moon, which is really what I should be working on, as that game is in a month.

I've also been reading that module. The book is 638 pages, so it's been slow going. I'm looking forward to the game, but it's a lot of prep. I'm thinking I'm going to be done by 11/26, but we shall see.

Today shall probably be a bit quieter, maybe? I can never tell. Plus it depends on how many cancellations there are that I end up filling.

I'm really looking forward to Sunday when I can go to the Renn Faire. I think we're going to leave early, and do our booze shopping at the Winery half first. If we get there early, we can put the booze in our car to bring home, and then go to the Faire and eat our way through.

Does this not look amazing?

The downside of the wine shop is that this is my favorite winery, but I hardly ever get up there to get wines, so I'm going to be shopping til I drop. Since the last time we were there, they added a brewery, a cidery and a distillery. I want everything, probably to the tune of $200+.

I will downsize. Maybe I don't need a Reisling and a Niagra wine. (Oh yes, I definitely do.)

Okay, time for me to get myself together. Everyone have a most excellent Friday!

beanside

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I will never understand how this got airplay on the radio in the 90's. I guess by that time Tipper Gore had mostly wanked herself to irrelevance. No, instead they had to worry about my Poison album having a long tongue.

Yesterday was kind of a chill day. Not horribly busy, but enough stuff that I wasn't losing my mind. I got a few patients in for their scans, which makes me happy. After work, we started watching campaign 4 of Critical Role. We're going to be slow as shit, but I wanted to give it a try. The episodes are usually 4-5 hours, and we can get 45-60min at a time.

Then, as I settled in to go to bed, I had a little burst of inspiration, and got more of my fairyland fleshed out. I'm reading through fairytales of the world, and picking out ones to be represented.

I'm also making a ton of work for myself, but we'll get through it. IF anyone has any good mapmakers, please send them my way. So far, I'm a patron of Czepeku, Darkestmaps and 2 Minute Tabletop.

I have a feeling that my world map this time is going to be a mess. I am not legendary at inkarnate or any of the map making software.

I'm kind of proud of myself. I need to add maybe two more lands, and then get to building cities, but I've done a lot.

I may do some work on it on Saturday. We don't have anything planned til our one-shot at 7pm.

But first two more days of work. Which shouldn't be too bad, I hope.

And on that note, time for me to get myself together. I need to boil some eggs so I have breakfast! Everyone have a perfect Thursday!

valoise

When Livejournal folded I imported all my old posts to DW, but never went back to read them again. On a whim I looked to see when I joined LJ - 2003, when I was still lived in Seattle, was occasionally writing X-files fic, and just starting to dip into Highlander again.

No vidding, no Doctor Who, no fan conventions - feels like so very long ago.

beanside

It's Wednesday and we're halfway there! Yesterday was a long day at work, but a pretty good day overall.

Work was busy. My email was flooding with the patients I needed to call to offer earlier appointments. My first emails were there waiting for me when I signed on, and they really didn't stop. I figure I ended up with about 20 incoming calls? The rest were all outgoing.

During quiet moments, I worked on my game and started working on a subclass for one of my player's new Pied Piper Bard.

Jess kindly went and had no trouble getting the money orders from the post office, so after work, we got dressed (and prettied up a bit in my case) and went to get our passports started. The lady was SUPER sweet, and despite some mistakes (on our part) that necessitated refilling the forms out, she walked us through and did our pictures, and lo, we were done.

Yesterday morning, I saw a thing about some bars near us that had liquor license violations (serving minors). I looked at them and discovered that there's a bar right on the main drag that's an Irish Pub and restaurant. They're very close to the library, so I suggested picking up dinner from them. We ended up going and eating there, which worked out well. It was such a little dive, but the food was really good. We started with curry fries, which were amazing. It's hard to find British curry around here, and this was perfect. I had the shepherd's pie, which was excellent. It had the little rosemary kick that I really wanted. Not overwhelming, just a nice little touch. Jess had a steak and stout pie. I liked mine better, but it was still pretty good. The best thing about them is that they have a back parking lot, so you can 100% avoid the main road. Very convenient and tasty and atmospheric. We took my sister some fish and chips which she enjoyed.

Today, I'm definitely going to cook something, just not sure what. Probably steakums. We'll see. I also have chicken out, so it could be either.

As the week has gone on, I'm getting more and more exited for the Renn Faire. I keep going back to the list of food and trying to make a game plan.

On that note, it's time to go forth and get myself together for the day. Everyone have an outstanding Wednesday!

beanside

We survived Monday! It was a busy day! Lots of calls, lots of callbacks. I was definitely kept hopping.

Today, I work, Jess runs to the post office to get money orders for our passports, and then we go forth this evening to apply for our passports. It'll be awesome. It'll be a busy evening, but we'll get it done.

I'm looking forward to having my passport. It's been 34 years since I got my first one and I let it lapse, which was dumb. I guess I figured I was just tied to the house so why would I? And it's not like financially, I ever had a situation where I could just fly to Europe. So I didn't. I sat for 31 years, and did nothing. About 3 years ago, we did Disney, and that was the best thing I'd done for myself. It gave a last sweet memory before the 2 years of Dad hell.

But now, it's finally time to live again. It's very weird to realize that we can just go. I can just say "can we go to Comic Con in Pittsburgh so I can get pictures with Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman?" and the answer can be "sure, let's do it."

Once we have our passports, if we want to go to out of country for a long weekend or a vacation, we know we can.

But first, all the in-country trips!

The week is going very slowly since I'm looking forward to the weekend. I cannot wait to eat my way through the Renn Faire. It looks like they have a lot of good food.

Things are slowly starting to shape up for the fairytale land game. Which is good, even though, it's so far off. I will have a fully fleshed out plot, and everything set up to go by the time it's needed.

Jess booked their next tattoo! It's going to be a phoenix feather to match the raven feather on their other forearm. The artist is amazing, so I can't wait to see what she makes of it. Pictures when it's done, of course.

Okay, time for me to go forth and get myself together. Trash ain't going to take itself out. Everyone have a terrific Tuesday!

beanside

And just like that, it's Monday again. I've moved back to my normal space, which is going to be so nice. It just didn't seem like it was worth it. Hopefully, they'll send us a note before they come do the dryer, but I'm just not going to be able to wait for it. I've spent three weeks in my sister's room, on a much smaller monitor and desk. I'm not going to do it any more. I need my sunny window.

Yesterday, my sister got back from vacation at about 12:15, which gave us time to slip out and get some delicious Indian food from the buffet. It was quite tasty. Then we came back, and game got delayed because all the players had migraines, so I had some time in which I could conceivably been productive, but was not.

The biggest thing I did yesterday was to begin to plot my next D&D campaign. It's for the other server to come after Arvandor. That still probably has a few months, maybe more, left. But probably in spring, we'll be looking at a new campaign. I've got the setting, and the basic premise, but now I need to figure out the actual plot. I've got a while, but I want it to be ready to roll out right away.

I decided on a Fairytale land, where the land is slowly dying, and no one knows why. The king picks a bunch of fairytale or fairytale adjacent people to find out, traveling around the domain, into various kingdoms, each holding one or two fairytale archetypes. They'll have a quest for each but they'll be interacting around the tale or intervening in the tale, or whatever as well. (For instance, I don't think my players will be cool going about their business when the prince is on his way to have his way with Sleeping Beauty.) Like I said I'm not very far into it, but I do love me a dark and messed up fairytale. I want to go multicultural, so I'm going to be doing some looking at non western European fairytales as well. I know that Japan and the Nordic countries have some fucked up shit, and I'm betting others do too.

I was talking with

poisontaster last night about how many of our campaigns will be wrapping up over the next few months and there's a fair number of them. It kind of makes me sad, but some of these games are fully five years old. It's time for them to wind down and make room for new. We've got a lot of new people on the server, and a bunch of campaigns that are closed. @

poisontaster mentioned that shed like to offer a campaign with a focus on the new people, so they can get a shot, and I'd like to as well. I don't know what that'll look like, but I'm excited to see.

We had a fairly short game with just two players last night. It was a lot of fun, but I feel like the sweet spot is right around 4-5 people. Next weekend, I'm running two one shots.

Okay, time for me to go grab a shower. Everyone have a superb Monday!

hannah

In a moment of deep adulthood, the sort where you're the one taking care of yourself, I'm trying some new sheets tonight. A new fitted sheet, a new duvet cover. I bought them because Ikea was selling them, because I wanted fitted sheets by themselves, and because I wanted something monochromatic. There's times it's surprisingly difficult to find things with only one color. Not even a fringe. I ran into this trying to find a rug a few years ago and ended up not buying one at all, because that was easier. I didn't care it was two shades of green; I only wanted one. That was the level I was going on, which was a level beyond what the sales people could work with.

These sheets aren't quite as soft, even after being washed, and some of that's on them being so new and some of that's me gambling on buying them online. I didn't want to deal with trying to navigate all the different linen stores, especially the ones that are merely departments within much larger stores. All that said, it's not like I'm trying out a completely new set of sheets - I've got regular sheets that work fine, I just needed the fitted ones. So there's some continuity going on, which should help enough I won't struggle too much with the adjustment.

Current Mood: tired
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Another somewhat sleep deprived night thanks to a small dog. I want my sister to go places, because she deserves to get out too, but wow, I hate sleeping in the wrong bed. I slept some, just not as deeply as usual, and not as long. She's back today and it's going to be an early night.

The dog is currently next to me on the couch, with his butt pressed firmly against me. Like he didn't spend the whole night with me.

Yesterday was mostly spent at con. I did my panel in the morning, which went pretty well. Then, I went and did my volunteer shifts, and then I watched a panel about Daggerheart. It was pretty cool, and I'd like to try playing it one day. It's a lot more fiddly, but that could be fun. Or it might drive me to drink, I have no idea. It was a fun panel, and I really liked the character I made. They seemed like the perfect himbo paladin type. I'm actually kind of sad that the campain premise we came up with wouldn't happen.

Now we shall wait to see when my sister gets home, as it will decide what we're going to do. We have a game scheduled at 3pm, so if they get home before like 1, we're going to lunch. I'm in the mood for an Indian Buffet.

So we're doing the renewal of vows on the Alaska trip. We're thinking about doing a party when we get back. Just rent a room in a restaurant and have a little celebration for all our friends.

Now we need to decide where. I'm trying to think of a restaurant that won't be horribly expensive, but also will have good food, of a type that people would like. I want it to be a local restaurant, not a chain, and have ample parking. It's not an easy one to uncover. Oh, and it should be in the Baltimore area, so as not to inconvenience people coming in from other areas.

Or, the other option is to rent a space that has a good parking lot, and get food trucks. Which sounds kind of cool and fun, but then what if if rains?

I think I'm going to go forth and grab some more coffee and maybe shower. Everyone have a most amazing Sunday!