The deal is, I've been up to so much stuff lately (and trying to go to bed a bit earlier) that I haven't been spending as much time in front of the computer at home. I keep up with fi-uh and FB on my phone, but LJ's a little more difficult on a mobile platform. But I do love LJ, even if it's less populous than it once was. If nothing else, it's a ( Read more... )

So, two weeks ago, I went to the doctor, got antibiotics, and started feeling better. And I needed to! I engaged in Extreme Tooling at work on account of a big project. I went to the office on Saturday and from there, went straight to Cinematic TitanicThis was basically most of the original cast of MST3K doing their thing in front of a live ( Read more... )

As is often the case, the two previous weekends were sufficiently eventful that I didn't find the time to write about them.

Two Fridays ago, I found myself wanting to get out and about where people were. I picked up a copy of the Shepherd Express to see what was up and found out that it was Gallery Night. We'd been vaguely meaning to attend a ( Read more... )

...as today WotC announced that they weren't renewing the license ( Read more... )

You work in a coffee shop ( Read more... )

Running my demo at GenCon brought to mind many of the things I've learned as a frequent player and occasional GM of one-shot convention games. I figured it would be helpful for me to write them down for future reference, and that others may also find them useful ( Read more... )

Busy weekend!

Saturday was given over to the last session of our Star Wars campaign. It was such a satisfying wrap-up that it's hard to be too sad that it ended, though I suspect I'll suffer withdrawal pangs once it sinks in. More on this later, but Talia actually lived! After the game, everyone came over to our place to watch Return of the Jedi, ( Read more... )

...meaning to type up that last post for ages, but since I'm not at all sure Talia's going to make it out of today's session alive, I figured now's the time. I cross-posted it from the campaign blog but wanted a copy here as a backup.

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GenCon badge registration was today, and hotel registration is on Tuesday. Hopefully it will be easy like last year and not a disaster like 2 years ago. (Especially since I will only have a half hour free at best to try and get a room.)

Who else is going?

I'm going, but mrsmetallian can't because she has a conference in Tanzania that weekend. Neither of us ( Read more... )