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Unclogging the Pipes
*shhpomp* *sshPOMMP!* --- Did I ever even mention _DC Adventures_? I picked up the Hero's Handbook the other day. Reading it. I think _Icons_ will remain my go-to game for quick supers games, DCA has a certain gearhead appeal. --- whoa. LJ remembers that I was going to post those four sentences years ago when I discovered that LJ wouldn't let me ( Read more... ) -
Snowmageddon Raincheck
attention anyone who may've been expecting my presence up in Home State today or tomorrow: due to the huge snowstorm that moved from grounding the airline's planes on saturday night to covering the whole destination region this morning (including airports for connecting flights), I am still at my sister's place until my flight tomorrow/Tuesday ( Read more... ) -
The Glass is 20% Full... (I'll keep bleeding into it.)
Money is still tight, the car still needs repairs. Being a starving artist, I've found, means that the "starving" part tends to rob time and attention from the "art". My final word count for NaNoWriMo was 11,123 words, approximately six days' worth of actual typing spread across a month ( Read more... ) -
Perversions of Game Design
1. Having read Steve Kenson's blog, where he's enthusiastic about narrative cards as an rpg play element (eg. Torg's Drama Cards, Marvel Saga's FATE Deck, the new Gamma World's Alpha Mutations and Omega Tech), I wonder if my Fudge Rifts rules, which continue to evolve even though I've only actually run one session, would benefit from rules that ( Read more... ) -
Crime Does Not Charge
hey, everybody, not to make you all paranoid and everything, but if you check your passwordy webpages over wi-fi , you may want to read this: http://siderea.livejournal.com/810607.htmlRead more... ) -
Today was an uphill battle, but at least I'm up the hill at the end of it.
Today started out rough. I had to throw out my morning coffee because it tasted like an old ashtray. On my way to work, a car zoomed across where I needed to be, forcing me onto the wrong road, so I had to turn around. However, we finally got a shipment of paper towels for the restroom dispensers, after over a week without any, and the public's ( Read more... ) -
Today was a croissant of 'being appreciated' and 'being irritated'
Woke rested despite spider-packed nightmares. Managers tell me they appreciate me for doing task x (cleaning a clean floor until no man can call it dirty, or something). I ask them to arrange the upcoming work-schedule (the next one to be scheduled) so I have that particular Sunday off. (there's a party) They say they'll see what they can do. hrm ( Read more... ) -
The Internet is full of candy for my brain
There is SO much I'm supposed to be, need to be, doing. phone calls, household chores, appointments, emails, social engagements to rsvp, birthdays to acknowledge, ... but when Thymewind asked me to look over the FoxCon website, I saw that 'DoddNK' (my GMing Sensei) was running a superhero rpg at the Con that I didn't recognize. 'How could this be? ( Read more... ) -
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I saw 'Inception'. It was ok, but I was hoping for something trippier. Some revelations that were shaped as if they were surprises were obvious to me. It was closer to 'Total Recall' than 'What Dreams May Come' (a fabulous movie, that mirrors this one in ...some odd ways, probably apparent if you've seen both.) So... yeah. "Senator Quayle, I've ( Read more... ) -
Today, my head was in the clouds
My body may be scrubbing toilets, but my mind is... well, actually, it's composing a song parody about the Golden Age Hawkman. I guess that's equally pathetic, really. Maybe my spirit is doing something useful? I'll have to go check. Excuse me while I do that. In case you're interested this is as far as I got before I packed it in ( Read more... )