Random Update
Life seems to be very busy at the moment. Previous few weeks have included:
- Armadacon
- Visiting Stockport to see keith_martin, then a day trip to Manchester.
- Seeing various films at the cinema: Dr Strange, Arrival, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them. (Interestingly the cinema in Manchester was much cheaper than the ones in Bristol by several quid).
- Playing Only War RPG. I have re-done my character, as it is one of those games where you have to have played it to understand how to create a character who can walk and chew gum at the same time.
- Running Werewolf the Apocalypse RPG. Missing a couple of players due to floods and transport woes.
- Running Doctor Who RPG. The players stole the engine of a centuries old, decrepit void ship from the cybermen. What could possibly go wrong?
- Playing Waggle Dance the boardgame. I really like it. My friends also like it but don't like the 'random special ability' cards. I'll be playing the 2 player version with my brother when he's here over Xmas, so we'll see how that works.
- Wrestling with the new Bristolcon website. This year there is a new interface for paying by paypal and a 'registration' process, which is supposed to capture all the data we need. So far in testing it has done weird things (like refusing to give membership numbers if 1 person buys 2 memberships). I'm not convinced that this new system will be less work for me when maintaining the membership list. e.g. all the people who pay by cash or cheque now have to be entered manually on 2 webpages AND added to the spreadsheet, instead of just the latter.
- Adding random bits to various writing projects (mainly the RPG stuff), but not actually finishing any of them!