November in Review

[rowyn]

Health/Fitness
It's too dark after work for me to go for bike rides, which torpedoes my enthusiasm for exercise. Still, I managed to exercise 15 times this month, mostly on my exercise bike in the basement. Could be worse.

I ate lots of unhealthy food, though. Mmm, Thanksgiving.

WritingI wrote probably five thousand words in November, in the

Comments

[tuftears]

Good luck with the re-launch of Terrible Butterflies! Sorry to be less than totally enthusiastic about Elect; it was interesting but I think it ran into the problems of people being AFK/forgetting to respond/not responding to All and I think that may be the nature of PBEM RPG, one needs a campaign that's resistant to such. Maybe a campaign told through people sending letters so there are natural excuses for less-than-immediate responses?

You're always welcome to use Sinai for logging RPs or ask me to set up a MUCK for you with the appropriate holodeck/logging tools if you want. :)

[rowyn]

Oh, it's fine. PBEM is not for everyone. I assume Terry is even less enthusiastic than you are, given that he didn't respond at all

[tuftears]

I can totally understand that, but despite the dread of setting up the game (for the Avatars 2.0 campaign I ran, I did a lot of preparing maps for upcoming play with MapTool) it still rocked pretty hard in actual play, since everyone's there and present and you can get a lot of bantering on the side. I guess it's a matter of preferences though! Different things (groups of players, play styles, themes, game systems) work for different people.

As for Terry, who knows, maybe he's just AFK, or it fell through his mailbox or something!

[rowyn]

Oh, the sentence that got cut off: emails from the butterflies Google Group automatically reply to the group. The sender's not even listed on the email. Instead of doing that freakishly annoying thing where it replies to the sender, like the Elect list does. Apparently there's a setting somewhere that I forgot about and that has an awful default? That would've been good to know a year and a half ago. :/