Bugging Out for the Weekend

[emo_snal]

   Just as I pulled into my driveway Friday, my friend Mick pulled up in front of the house. He had had business in nearby Colac. Mick works as a "machine programmer" for a laser etching company. I haven't been to his work but I picture it as some wild sci fi scene with lasers shooting everywhere. I always have very interesting conversations with

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[wpadmirer]

I like Mick's cat!

I also like your D&D ideas. I'd read those!

[emo_snal]

O: that's myyy cat! :-3

[kitzune]

I like how you're going on pretend adventures inbetween real ones ;)

Dungeons and Dragons really depends on the group you're with. It can be really fun or it can be kind of boring. It helps if the Dungeon Master is a good story teller and knows what they're doing to lead the group in a good direction.

[emo_snal]

Haha I hadn't thought of it that way.

AlsoI like how you used a fox icon (: (:

[pondhopper]

You've made me realise how complicated bee-keeping is!

I'm not at all certain I'd be able to be a good bug-person as I am not comfortable around most insects though if we're talking butterflies, count me in.

You have a gorgeous cat! Maine Coon?

[emo_snal]

I am told that he's not, that his siblings look like normal short haired cats, but he sure matches descriptions of main coons I've seen. So maybe one of his ancestors is and he got all the recessive main coon genes his siblings didn't get. I lorve him he's the best!!

[meisje_viktoria]

I have read articles on the ecology of the monsters in D&D. There has been a lot of fans of the game who have figured out everything from the supposed behavior of the creatures to gestation and diet of some of the rarer of beasties. The good thing is, in a story based game, if you DM is open minded enough, you can work any idea into a game for a character. Hope you enjoyed it again.

[emo_snal]

Hmm I need to find these D&D ecology articles! I wonder if anyone has written a quest that maximizes encounters with strange beasts, to sort of send one on a study expedition! If so I'd love to go on it.

[mexpatriot]

I think you'd like Redmond O'Hanlon's Congo Journey. I've thought of you while reading it, actually, as he described flora and fauna in Latin and educated terms. :)

I like Paul Theroux's travel writing, as well. I feel somehow, though, that I don't much like him as a person. Not sure exactly why.

[emo_snal]

I actually have Congo Journey sitting here on my to-read pile!! I was going to read it during my Congo trip ... which was supposed to be last July, and then this April, and now is put off till probably next year :-/ maybe I'll just read the book, I had read the first few pages and it seemed pretty good, I'm actually impatient to read it (:

Hmm I'm not sure how I'd feel about him as a person. I was thinking one of the things I've learned from his writing is that I used to write kind of like a newspaper journalist, myself hardly inserted into my accounts of what went on around me -- I've had more than one regular reader of my blog whom I knew in real person say "despite your blog I feel like we don't know you at all" -- but from Theroux's style I've learned to put myself in the story a little more.

[mexpatriot]

In my case, I am probably too much in the story! :)

[emo_snal]

I'm actually kind of fascinated by the idea of oneself as a character. (: