Everybody wave hi to my new connection here, biancasimone, a subtle and enthusiastic roleplayer whom I met at Wildlands West this past weekend.

TRACEZILLA!
I woke up human today! Well, probably more technically (not really) I woke up hobbit today. But really the takeaway for you is that I woke up free of the desire to crush Tokyo underfoot and take those high ( Read more... )

Ian and I are home in Dallas from our weekend in Kentucky for Wildlands. Weekend with friends was excellent as it always is, and worth any inconvenience of travel, hassle, money, and so forth. Ran into some snags, though. I've taken dozens, maybe scores of round trip flights for LARP, and to date only ever had two problems. We were running a little ( Read more... )

Pete's Visit
peepslayer came in for the weekend. We made it a point to take photos throughout the weekend, and I'll post some eventually, but probably not this week. Busy, ya know ( Read more... )

Wildlands West
Flew to Kentucky this past weekend to play Wildlands West and it was a great experience. I feel recharged socially, and the game was fun. Incredible roleplaying! As much as elderdutton has ever impressed me before, his performance this weekend was worthy of an Oscar nomination. There may or may not be more about the event in a future entry; we' ( Read more... )

( Boring LARP stuff, and I do mean... boring. )

The Prodigal Wrestler Returns
Received an interesting phone call this morning. Months ago I mentioned that I was worried about my friend Clint, whom I hadn't been able to reach in awhile. Clint always surfaces eventually, and so he did this morning, out of the blue with a belated birthday call (actually to thank me for my birthday card sent to him ( Read more... )

I've got some neat things to look forward to in the next month or so, many of them embarrassingly geeky, I have to admit ( Read more... )

Have returned home to Texas after my whirlwind tour of the southeast. I'm exhausted. I had a wonderful weekend! I always know that I'll feel recharged by a weekend with friends, and yet somehow I'm still nevertheless surprised by just how happy and invigorating it is indeed ( Read more... )

In order to qualify as a true No Obligation Weekend, you have to spend at least one full day and night cycle completely in your pajamas and never actually leave the house. My weekend was not nearly so laid back as all that, but darn close. For all that my life is not especially stressful right now in general, a Do Little weekend was nevertheless ( Read more... )

FinancesSince doing my taxes on Saturday, I'm feeling very strong financially. I ran the numbers and realized that if Ian puts his tax returns toward our credit card debt, we'll be free of it in early April. We can start saving that month. If not, then we're still on track to pay off the credit cards in June. I've shown him these numbers, and he's ( Read more... )