Brain dump #203
I remain bad at planning for trips and big things. I need to finish my poster, pack my clothes and anything else, and find a new suitcase.
Still reading some Oryx and Crake. It is not a rip-roaring adventure sort of post apocalypse like, say, Damnation Alley. It is a reflective, sad post apocalypse. Which is a little more authentic, isn't it? Certainly it's topical.
Played some more Pokemon Heart Gold. Got through a Rocket base and to a new gym leader. It turns out that some of the grinding I had to do was because I was playing the game in a weird order.
Too many plates spinning. Let's just.. let some of them fall, for now.
There is a show I heard of called Leverage. It's about a team of con artists tricking governments and corporations. It's something I might check out later.
There are two shows coming up that I'm somewhat interested in. Murder by Death is playing at the end of the month. And so is Dinosaur Junior. I've been really liking MBD lately, but it's a three hour drive and on a Thursday. Dinosaur Junior is closer and is actually more famous but I'm less familiar with them. And, I don't know how much I'll want to do once I get back from the conference. (Also, I don't want to spend the money on both of them.)
This is the dilemma I seem to run up against, actually. There are many things I want to do. Generally I seem to set up more things for myself to do than are even possible. Because that's the only way to figure out what is possible, right?
Also I have really come to hate saying I'll do something (run Mouse Guard, cook something, whatever) and not following through. On that subject, I think I need to gush less over the shiniest new RPG system. It's just going to scare off my players if they think they'll have to learn something new for every single game.
Further, I have come to hate the Calibri font, but that comes of too much time spent working with Powerpoint. Calibri, your rounded-off letters lack conviction.
I have one free weekend between the conference and the music shows/north Pat coming to visit, anyways. My dad's hop plants are getting ready to harvest - maybe I could go up north and help him harvest them and even make a batch of beer?
We still need to make that Cain and Ebel clone, too. And get some cider.
I'm starting to go from "begrudgingly interested" to "excited" on the karate class thing. I guess it is a thing we are really going to do, for a semester at least.
I think when working on something creative, there is a temptation to pour as much of yourself into it as possible. Sometimes this is good; sometimes it gets you impossibly hung up on details. If you try to make each thing that you produce into your definitive work.. you probably won't finish very much.
It's getting to the point where I can't check the news and facebook in the morning because the political stuff makes me so angry. It's not a new sentiment by any means but I've never been paying this much attention before.
Still reading some Oryx and Crake. It is not a rip-roaring adventure sort of post apocalypse like, say, Damnation Alley. It is a reflective, sad post apocalypse. Which is a little more authentic, isn't it? Certainly it's topical.
Played some more Pokemon Heart Gold. Got through a Rocket base and to a new gym leader. It turns out that some of the grinding I had to do was because I was playing the game in a weird order.
Too many plates spinning. Let's just.. let some of them fall, for now.
There is a show I heard of called Leverage. It's about a team of con artists tricking governments and corporations. It's something I might check out later.
There are two shows coming up that I'm somewhat interested in. Murder by Death is playing at the end of the month. And so is Dinosaur Junior. I've been really liking MBD lately, but it's a three hour drive and on a Thursday. Dinosaur Junior is closer and is actually more famous but I'm less familiar with them. And, I don't know how much I'll want to do once I get back from the conference. (Also, I don't want to spend the money on both of them.)
This is the dilemma I seem to run up against, actually. There are many things I want to do. Generally I seem to set up more things for myself to do than are even possible. Because that's the only way to figure out what is possible, right?
Also I have really come to hate saying I'll do something (run Mouse Guard, cook something, whatever) and not following through. On that subject, I think I need to gush less over the shiniest new RPG system. It's just going to scare off my players if they think they'll have to learn something new for every single game.
Further, I have come to hate the Calibri font, but that comes of too much time spent working with Powerpoint. Calibri, your rounded-off letters lack conviction.
I have one free weekend between the conference and the music shows/north Pat coming to visit, anyways. My dad's hop plants are getting ready to harvest - maybe I could go up north and help him harvest them and even make a batch of beer?
We still need to make that Cain and Ebel clone, too. And get some cider.
I'm starting to go from "begrudgingly interested" to "excited" on the karate class thing. I guess it is a thing we are really going to do, for a semester at least.
I think when working on something creative, there is a temptation to pour as much of yourself into it as possible. Sometimes this is good; sometimes it gets you impossibly hung up on details. If you try to make each thing that you produce into your definitive work.. you probably won't finish very much.
It's getting to the point where I can't check the news and facebook in the morning because the political stuff makes me so angry. It's not a new sentiment by any means but I've never been paying this much attention before.