The Fire Room in Montecasino is one of our favourite restaurants, and Kat and I joined a friend, Juanita, there yesterday for the public holiday.

Some pics:

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D&D is going very well (with the Monday group, at any rate!). We've been running on Foundry VTT for remote gaming. I downloaded a town for Foundry, complete with various buildings all set up, and I fleshed out the plot suggestions with townsfolk, creatures, plots, etc. It a lot of prep work, but very enjoyable. Foundry is a really amazing system, ( Read more... )

Back in the days of bulletin boards, dial-up modems, SLIP/PPP, Winsock, and those things, just about anyone you chatted to online had some IT connection or involvement, and I think it became a natural thing to assume that people who were interested in IT were interested in online communications ( Read more... )

I often wonder what's happened to friends from my childhood. As a kid, I always had a few close friends. I doubt that I'd still be friends now; after all, interests diverge and people change. Still, I wonder what they did with their lives.

Here are some:
Primary school, Alberton and Germiston

• Eddie King (Charles Edward King) - he and Alan Cook and ( Read more... )

OK, as I said I would last week, I've done a bit of a friends cut. If you do read my journal, or don't want to be cut, for whatever reason, please reply and let me know! I've not done it because I don't like whomever I've cut, I've done it either because I think the journal is abandoned, or because I don't think the friend actually reads my journal ( Read more... )