A couple days ago, I read this article about the game Wurm Online and a man who was a king. I found it really poignant, the image of the author and the man riding together through an overgrown and abandoned landscape, littered with the crumbling ruins of what was once a vibrant community of players now almost all gone. A single house, alone in the ( Read more... )

Some of these will be pretty similar to softlykarou's list, but you know, we're married. It kind of makes sense.

In no particular order:

• Family Vacations!: We took two trips last year that I've been wanting to take for a while-- one to Oregon, where I've spent over a year of my life when you count all the summer trips I took as a child, and to Philadelphia, ( Read more... )

I ran a Delta Green game for three years (about eight months of which was active play time), and one of the things I did for the game was write a bit of flavor text after every mission that F Cell went on. They're all stored on a private Facebook group at the moment, but since I don't trust Facebook to keep them safe, I'm going to reproduce them ( Read more... )

Yes, that song I'm "listening" to is a real song, and it's exactly as bad as you're probably imagining it to be.

For Labor Day weekend, softlykarou and I went out to visit my parents in the suburbs, prompted by them mentioning that they had tickets to go on a boat ride on the Fox River, which was pretty much exactly like I expected. It was only an hour and ( Read more... )

This is a listing of some of the auto-complete entries in my copy of OpenOffice ( Read more... )

i can has a lot of things lately.

Anyway, softlykarou found some curry paste somewhere, for mixing with water, and since she was at work today, I figured I'd try my hand at making it. It went pretty well, until the part where I messed up and it took an extra 45 minutes to thicken because I didn't actually simmer it during the previous stage. Once I did that ( Read more... )

I've been having stomach troubles (just nausea and a vague sort of unsettled feeling) for three days now. I hope it's just transient and doesn't develop into the flu that nytesenvy and sephimb had...or isn't some sign of something worse. Ugh ( Read more... )

The Good ( Read more... )

The more I work on this JET essay, the more convinced I am that it's a waste of time and I shouldn't bother.

I will, of course. But after close to eight hours of work (on a two page double-spaced essay, no less) it's still a pile of shit. My hope is pretty much gone by this point.

五万つ言葉を書きました ( Read more... )