Reading, Relaxing and Shopping
I had a good weekend.
I ran my modern-day horror game briefly as two of my players were completely spent; one from working for 3 days with almost no sleep and the other from fighting all day at an event. Wouldn't you know it would be the game I spent 10 hours prepping for? Oh well, I will be soooo ready when next game rolls around. We lounged about a fair bit this weekend and I got to read some of the stories in; Tales of Pain and Wonder. I love them all so far and am appreciating the little threads of connection between the stories. Caitlin Kiernan is an amazing writer, I am really looking forward to the upcoming 'Best Of' that is in the works over at Subterranean Press. I also read a bit more in Carol Berg's; Breath and Bone and in M.R. James'; A Warning to the Curious. Both excellent so far.
Yesterday was taken up with a lot of tax-free shopping. The great state of Massachusetts held a tax-free weekend so we finally picked up a grill, and garboy got it most of the way assembled. We are stuck because one of the factory installed screws we need to loosen is apparently super-glued in place and our efforts to budge it are starting to strip the darn thing. We'll get it sorted. We also picked up a bird bath, a bird feeder and something to hang it off the deck, a hose and a sprayer nozzle, some paint I needed and little crafty bits, a new controller for the X-Box and I got a copy of; Swords & Dark Magic; a new anthology with an obvious theme. I'm looking forward to reading it especially Caitlin's; The Sea Troll's Daughter. Getting a hose and watering the lawn, as I expected, finally brought some much needed rain. Hopefully people's wells will have come back from their dry states. We really need more rain, hopefully we will get more later today.
I have a long list of things I need to do today, I should get to work on it.
I ran my modern-day horror game briefly as two of my players were completely spent; one from working for 3 days with almost no sleep and the other from fighting all day at an event. Wouldn't you know it would be the game I spent 10 hours prepping for? Oh well, I will be soooo ready when next game rolls around. We lounged about a fair bit this weekend and I got to read some of the stories in; Tales of Pain and Wonder. I love them all so far and am appreciating the little threads of connection between the stories. Caitlin Kiernan is an amazing writer, I am really looking forward to the upcoming 'Best Of' that is in the works over at Subterranean Press. I also read a bit more in Carol Berg's; Breath and Bone and in M.R. James'; A Warning to the Curious. Both excellent so far.
Yesterday was taken up with a lot of tax-free shopping. The great state of Massachusetts held a tax-free weekend so we finally picked up a grill, and garboy got it most of the way assembled. We are stuck because one of the factory installed screws we need to loosen is apparently super-glued in place and our efforts to budge it are starting to strip the darn thing. We'll get it sorted. We also picked up a bird bath, a bird feeder and something to hang it off the deck, a hose and a sprayer nozzle, some paint I needed and little crafty bits, a new controller for the X-Box and I got a copy of; Swords & Dark Magic; a new anthology with an obvious theme. I'm looking forward to reading it especially Caitlin's; The Sea Troll's Daughter. Getting a hose and watering the lawn, as I expected, finally brought some much needed rain. Hopefully people's wells will have come back from their dry states. We really need more rain, hopefully we will get more later today.
I have a long list of things I need to do today, I should get to work on it.