Ten things in 2020
What happened in 2020? Well, eliding a bunch of pandemic stuff I could swear about for tens of thousands of words:
1. We had dinner at Midsummer House for our anniversary. We'd never been sure if it was quite worth it for vegetarians, but when we did it was very very very nice.
Also we got ourselves a breadmaker, which has been extremely useful all year. We really love having fresh bread on tap.
2. I started a new job at the beginning of the year, and pandemic has made everything kind of tiring and given other ups and downs, but overall it's gone very well.
3. I finished running an 18-month long rolelaying campaign, in the fabled Under-Labyrinth I invented, using DnD 5e rules. I also ran an adventure for our partners and their children set in a village on the back of one of the turtles in a big school-archipelago, where they're mentors to a young small island-turtle. And I ran a one-off for some friends from the ex-heffers rpg group.
I also played in a Descent into Avernus game (dnd 5e goes to mad max hell) run by one of the players from the campaign I was running. And one in a Mediterranean medieval faerie tale world run by an old friend from the Cambridge tolkien society. And one in a giant 3d magicpunk city ran by a nanowrimo friend.
4. I kept organising the Cambridge Poly Meet. It was really hard to keep the group going through lockdown. There's a lot I wished I could have done but didn't manage because my attention was elsewhere. But I kept it going.
5. I kept playing semi-regular bridge with Cambridge and London friends online (and also with other friends, partners, and Rachel's family). Spent a year playing Gloomhaven with Rachel and sometimes other partners. Intermittently returned to a long-running Stellaris game. Played a lot of Fortnite with partners' children and with Rachel. Played Penultima with SGO friends. Lots of so-pretty Hades. Steamworld Dig and other games on the new Switch. Other board games.
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1. We had dinner at Midsummer House for our anniversary. We'd never been sure if it was quite worth it for vegetarians, but when we did it was very very very nice.
Also we got ourselves a breadmaker, which has been extremely useful all year. We really love having fresh bread on tap.
2. I started a new job at the beginning of the year, and pandemic has made everything kind of tiring and given other ups and downs, but overall it's gone very well.
3. I finished running an 18-month long rolelaying campaign, in the fabled Under-Labyrinth I invented, using DnD 5e rules. I also ran an adventure for our partners and their children set in a village on the back of one of the turtles in a big school-archipelago, where they're mentors to a young small island-turtle. And I ran a one-off for some friends from the ex-heffers rpg group.
I also played in a Descent into Avernus game (dnd 5e goes to mad max hell) run by one of the players from the campaign I was running. And one in a Mediterranean medieval faerie tale world run by an old friend from the Cambridge tolkien society. And one in a giant 3d magicpunk city ran by a nanowrimo friend.
4. I kept organising the Cambridge Poly Meet. It was really hard to keep the group going through lockdown. There's a lot I wished I could have done but didn't manage because my attention was elsewhere. But I kept it going.
5. I kept playing semi-regular bridge with Cambridge and London friends online (and also with other friends, partners, and Rachel's family). Spent a year playing Gloomhaven with Rachel and sometimes other partners. Intermittently returned to a long-running Stellaris game. Played a lot of Fortnite with partners' children and with Rachel. Played Penultima with SGO friends. Lots of so-pretty Hades. Steamworld Dig and other games on the new Switch. Other board games.
TBC. You can also comment at https://jack.dreamwidth.org/1128091.html using OpenID.
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