So I'm there talking to Ian about SOLAR. We're laughing about my character's view of the gnome race. Gnomes are awesome! They're industrious little creatures who make the most amazing things! Gnomes are so wonderful, in fact, why haven't they been subjugated yet? Why aren't they someone's slave race? Why doesn't some clever person have gnomes up ( Read more... )

Spent my 4-day weekend LARPing at SOLAR, the last for me before the move - and therefore also probably the last until autumn. Once settled in Texas, I plan to check out NERO DFW. NPCing will be free and hopefully a nice way to meet some people. Still, filed under last week's "I'm getting too old for this shit" is the determination that I really, ( Read more... )

( Went to Clanthia to LARP. Had a surprisingly good time. )

While Ian stayed home to finish the last of his sketchbook for the Guildhall (see previous post), I went off LARPing without him. Originally, I'd hoped to get my entire team together for this Shadowmoor weekend, one last hurrah for us, and boy, did that ever not work. At all. It ended up just two of us, my buddy Robert and me. We had fun, certainly ( Read more... )

Last night was wonderful. Despite the dreadful experience of too much "hurry up and relax" to get to the spa last night, all was forgiven once I walked inside. I wish my home smelled so perfumed and delightful as that spa does! I have tons of incense and scented candles and sadly I just don't burn them as often as I used to. (To be fair, Ian ( Read more... )

Participated in an unusually social weekend. Really enjoyed every visit, and still managed to get the essential housework mostly done. Wondering a little bit if the other shoe will fall later this week and I'll regret not getting more done? Eh. Today's subject line is borrowed from the "Procrastination" theme of my calendar from despair.com that ( Read more... )

The subject of this entry is taken from Christopher Moore's story of the Christmas Miracle, The Stupidest Angel. You really had to be there to understand the beauty of the entire text of Chapter 17:

"So that sucked."

And on that note, we begin this broadcast day with...

( Medical TMI of a girly nature )