Jai and I went to see House of Flying Daggers this afternoon. About two minutes before everything went completely to hell, I thought, “Oh, shit! This is going to end badly!” And lo, it did. I mean, of course it did: it’s a Chinese movie. They always end badly. (Wonderfully, but badly.) I felt rather silly for not realizing it until ten minutes before the film ended. Of course, Jai said she was completely blindsided by it all ending badly, so at least it wasn’t just me. :) I enjoyed…
more gaming
I’ll write the San Francisco leg of the adventure next. Maybe even today, depending on how efficient I am with the writing of things I’m actually being paid to write. :) Gaming was fun, as usual. Melissa and Pat are becoming moderate gaming geeks, and putting genuine thought into their characters and starting to do things like multi-class and generally having a good time with it. Hee hee. :) It’s really nice to actually SEE people and hang out and have fun! And I am currently shirking an opportunity to…
1890s campaign
Ok, screw it, doing a fast and dirty writeup of the campaign so far because otherwise I’ll never get it done, obviously. More behind the cut tag.
the awful URBAN SHAMAN dream :)
So the other night I had this nightmare about URBAN SHAMAN. I dreamed I got my advance copies and I was reading through it, and there was an entire chapter in which Petite, Jo’s 1969 Mustang, had inexplicably turned into some older-era jalopy sort of Jeep thing, complete with the model numbers and all written into the story. And I was reading it in horror, thinking, “…this can’t be fixed. This is the printed version of the book. It’s already gone to press. I *know* I didn’t miss this in…
I can take a hint.
All right, fine. I can take a hint. Jai called to ask, quite dubiously, if I was the person who’d wanted the treadmill her mother had decided to give up. I wasn’t, but with the offer on the table I decided I should say yes, since I’ve been bitching interminably about the cold and the slipperiness and the wah wah wah. It will go live in the garage, and I’m going to take some of my mad money and buy one of those little hundred dollar 13″ tv/dvd units and…