The YoungMan turned 14 yesterday - among other things we gave was his first kitchen knife (a decent quality paring knife) and a copy of the 1st Edition Player's Handbook for AD&D.

He graduates 8th Grade tonight.

My boots fit him and sylvarthorne wears an pair if his old snow boots (a couple of years old now) outside in the winter to get wood for the fire. He ( Read more... )

So life is going pretty well it seems. Work continues, client load is a bit low, but I'll see what I can do to boost it up (yes, if you know my legal name you can find me pretty easily now on Google, one way or another) - and I've managed to continue to snag some presenting gigs as well, there was CARAS, now a semi-local university this Thursday, ( Read more... )

...and didn't turn on my computer once. If I missed anything, let me know. Yes, I know about the death in Madison already, my condolences go out to the survivors ( Read more... )

So I'm finally getting around to posting about SPLF.

We had a great time. It was just sylvarthorne and I this year. Phoenixprime stayed home and slept the weekend away much to her great contentment. I made it through TSA with my cane with no problem, which I'd been worried about. We managed to connect a whole host of folks - emeraldliz and crew (her fear that her fangirl squee was ( Read more... )

Da Boy recieved not just his own copy of the Call of Cthulhu rpg, but some Cthluhu dice, an anthology of Lovecraft and an anthology of Cthulhu genre, and a trio of WWI resource books for CoC research - plus a DVD of The Dunwitch Horror.

sylvarthorne was given her own copy of the CoC rpg, and a copy of The Red Tree by greygirlbeast - one of the very few authors who was not ( Read more... )

The first sentence from the first open or F-locked post of each month.

January: The first half of last year was, by most measures, pretty good. The second half was about as bad a year as I've had - bad enough that it really overshadows the good from last year.

February: ...stop using "fuck" as an expletive.

March: So, one of the things I have ( Read more... )

Most of my kink commentary has moved over to Fetlife. I also find myself "hanging out" there far more in the Gay Leather groups. It's been interesting to see my own identity flex and shift around "Queer Leatherman" in the last couple of years ( Read more... )

...you both want the same historic and incredibly expensive text that is coming out in October.

Ok, so we gamed on Sunday and it was a session that really did feel like group of 1st level AD&D characters. They figured out where TEH GURL was ("The Black Stair" *cue ominous music*), negotiated another deal the Witches Three to get teleported to her, and then showed up about a mile away from it and started the hike in ( Read more... )

I was over on Fetlife and followed a comment that wylddelirium made in a discussion on the "BDSM and Spirituality: The Spiritual Side of Leather" Group. Reading through the whole discussion, I saw a comment that passionandsoul made on teachers/instructors:

"...some folks I know who I think should be teaching on it but have been too busy or only do it privately such as JD ( Read more... )