I'm really bad at having good ideas at bad times. 
For example, while I was trying to work on NaNoWriMo I had an amazing inspiration about how to hide undead at Maelstrom, and while I was trying to get to sleep two days ago, I had an inspiration for a piece of creative writing about my D&D character.

What Geoffrey Did on his Holidays

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I've been behind on my intended word count because I hardly wrote anything on Thursday as we went and played board-games with Griff and Ceri, and then we had D&D on Friday.  However I've been working on it over the weekend. 
I am now on 26006 words which means:

• I've managed 2000 words a day on average (which I was aiming for)
• I've written more than ( Read more... )

Spent the weekend playing Call of Cthulhu with Griff, Matt, Ceri, Adrian and Rich.

About 10 minutes after creating the character, I realised he'd be a sanity-loss magnet, as he had a working knowledge of three old languages - Latin, old Hebrew and Aramaic.  Oops.  But he is a biblical scholar, so it can't be helped.  The party had an eventful time ( Read more... )

I just spent Saturday morning in work. It was dead quiet, and I got to sit next to a colleague I don't know so well.  We got talking about random stuff. Dave must be about the same age as me, as he was a fan of all the same kids' shows and had a Spectrum as a kid.  Apropos of this, he wrinkled his brow and asked whether I'd ever played the Spectrum ( Read more... )

Resuming my old D&D cleric who I haven't played in over a year is like putting on a coat I haven't worn in ages - which turns out to be surprisingly comfortable and well-fitting, even though I'd forgotten it was in the wardrobe.  And which has lots of interesting stuff I'd forgotten about in its pockets.  In this case (amongst more boring things):

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hammerhydra has gone off to play White Wolf, leaving me on my own.  I didn't ask to join the game as, at the time, I was in two.  Now 40K has ended and D&D is on hold.  Ho-hum. 
I didn't realise how much I'd miss 40K.  Normally my characters aren't the great leader in any player party, and while she certainly didn't start out that way, my character somehow ( Read more... )

We played D&D last night. Last week we got quite badly beaten up by a load of orcs, but fortunately we did a bit better this time. I think we totally walked away from an encounter, as there were some elves who were doing something sneaky in the woods. My character wasn't hugely curious (and nor it seemed were any of the others), so we never ( Read more... )

"I'm not worrying about the difficulty of closing the gate.  I'm more worried about getting my arse bitten off by a fucking sabre-toothed Womble or something."

"I'm not sacrificing my ally to the Great Ritual.  It's a cat with a moustache.  I can't sacrifice a cat with a moustache."

"Unless you sacrifice your cat with a moustache, we'll all have ( Read more... )

From our Warhammer 40k role-play game tonight:

"I think we should get into our space suits.  That way, if the ship's shields go down, we'll still be OK.  Of course, that might irradiate all our food."
"Guys - meet my new friend.  His name is Mr Cheesy.  He is an astronaut.  Made entirely of cheese."

It shouldn't have been *that* funny, but it cracked ( Read more... )

In furtherance of my scientific research into cake I tried some vanilla cupcakes from the same library book as before.  This time I used the right sized tins so they stayed the right shape.  They turned out nice, but somehow I got a lot more entertained by the decorating rather than baking/ eating.  I finally cracked open the pots of food-grade ( Read more... )