I continue to sleep very poorly. Part of the problem is long-standing, and part is due to ongoing pain from adhesions from my bike accident last summer.  I get enough hours of sleep, but not enough deep sleep.  Even if I add a couple of hours to my sleep time, I'm no better rested.  My sleep study of a decade or so ago showed no indication of ( Read more... )

This morning, I finally got hit hard by the cold that's going around.  I've had mild sniffles for a couple of days and had hoped that was as far as it was going to go.  No such luck.  I'm skipping work today, as my brain is mostly off-line ( Read more... )

I'm looking for some hex tiles to prototype a game idea that I dreamed up (literally (by which I mean "really", not "metaphorically" or "emphatically")).  About the size of Catan tiles; a couple of people have suggested that I get hold of some used Catan tiles and draw on their backs.  Blank tiles are available for purchase on-line but the shipping ( Read more... )

The night before last, I was at the Foglios' for a fannish party - come one, come all, and there were a lot of "all".  One main event was in a large banquet hall: a bingo-style game called "Pick 50".  Players had double-sided bingo-type cards with grids of answers: words, numbers, phrases.  The caller asked riddles, puzzles, cryptic questions, ( Read more... )

This morning's dream involved me being repeatedly annoyed by the sounds from the big-screen video game in my bedroom until I finally tried to continue playing the game, by which time the game position was, essentially, too late to do anything but try to salvage the situation.  My inability to remember how to play, and to figure out the instruction ( Read more... )

I had a weird dream this morning of sitting in front of a Mac-like computer running a program to generate AD&D character stats for a character as described.

( Snipped for the benefit of the non-RPG-geeks )

The Eye of Rassilon

This ancient Gallifreyan artifact appears to be a fine faceted citrine, about an inch and a half across, and has a faint indeterminate magical aura.  If an adventurer attempts to look through it, s/he may (10%) see a brief image of the past or the future, or from an alternate past, present, or future -- and at the same time will ( Read more... )