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Ice skating with assault rifles

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Shadowrun went pretty decent last night. We finished a big fight with some corp-type security guards, and the group is set up for the finale confrontation next session. The webcam link to Amy functioned pretty well, and there were albino gluten-free cookies for all. Now I have two synopses to type up 🙂 One pitfall which urban-fantasy GMs must always be aware of: while fantasy-game swords kill slowly, guns are instantly lethal, which can sometimes be a challenge to the game. Our players arrived to a less-than-spotless house. Starr and I had a rare weekend where neither of us worked … Continue reading →

The Obligatory Holiday Post

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I can think of several things for which I’m thankful today: Everything is out of the apartment now except for some random cleaning supplies, and a couple of lamps and a vacuum cleaner that wouldn’t fit in the car last night. This will be taken care of this weekend when I drop off the keys. For this I am very thankful to Starr and, well, me. We’ve both put no small effort into all these boxes. I am thankful to Starr for many things, in fact; but they’re all mushy and I’ll save that for some other time. I am … Continue reading →

Racing around

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Okay. I have owed my sister a phone call for several days, and perhaps if I post it here, I will be looking at it tonight and go, “oh yeah, I really need to do that”. We actually managed to get out of the house for a bit on Friday night – we’ve not been good at that for the last couple of weeks. It’s so easy, when one of us doesn’t get home until 7:30 or 8, to say “screw it” and vegetate for the rest of the evening, but we made ourselves go out with friends, and had … Continue reading →

On The Move

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It’s been a heck of a week, and I haven’t had much opportunity to post. Let’s see if I can catch up a bit. As of Wednesday evening, Starr and I began sleeping at the new house. This was slightly impeded by the fact that our bed hadn’t been moved yet, and Starr’s parents had returned for some of their stuff, so we had to share a twin bed in a guest bedroom. Note: no matter how cuddly the other person is, tucking two people into a twin bed gets old quickly. I’m now getting up at 5:30 every morning … Continue reading →

Drama Burger, may I take your order?

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I’m back home from Roanoke. (Salem, if you’re being picky.) As I mentioned in the locked post, Mom’s in the hospital after suffering a stroke. She’s lost motor function in her right limbs, but still has full sensation, vision, and her normal faculties. Sunday night Starr and I discussed the situation, and I decided to head up Monday morning. Mom was surprised and very touched to see me, and I got to see her moving her limbs ever so slightly – perhaps a centimeter or two – which, only days after a stroke, is a major accomplishment. I’m hoping for … Continue reading →

Another crushing Invid defeat

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Last night I had my first taste of lobster in decades. I’d been putting a lot of energy into taking care of Starr lately, with her overwork issues and such; she decided it was my turn, and set up a lovely lobster and shrimp dinner for me. Those things are hard to stare down – I’ve always been a bit wary of food that’s looking back at me. Luckily, lobsters look evil enough that I can tell myself that it would gladly eat me if our roles were reversed, and start dismembering the thing. (Cows are the same way. Don’t … Continue reading →

But can she run Linux?

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After starting the series 6 years ago, I finally picked up the last two volumes and have finished reading the Chobits comic. I liked it a lot, and I’m glad I gritted my teeth to read eight graphic novels backwards. (I usually take in an entire comic page in a glance or two, and reading unflipped manga for me is a bit like taking your car up to 55 mph in second gear. You can do it, but it’s not comfortable.) Y’know, only the Japanese could combine 1) a serious examination of computer emotion and sentience, and 2) innocent, adorable … Continue reading →

Margaret Hamilton nowhere to be seen

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If you want to know what last night was like in these parts, Google “obici tornado”. The storm wasn’t bad for me. We got the alert around 4 here at NASA, but all I had to deal with on the drive home was some rain and a bit of wind on the bridge. Starr, on the other hand, stood in her hospital as a funnel came right for the building, tossing around cars in the parking lot and cracking some hospital windows with flying debris. She had to stay at work a little late, in part because the road home … Continue reading →

The Last Days of Technicon 25

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My Sunday Technicon experience was brief and poignant. Reluctantly awake by 10:00, and out of the Microtel by 11:00, I headed back to McBryde for a final time. My plan was to leave Blacksburg by 1:00, thereby getting home around 6:30-7:00 and having time for dinner and decompression, so my time was brief and rushed. I got to catch up briefly with nanoreid, had my picture taken with ranchonmars‘ Skull plush, and won an awesome Thunderchild print from rattrap. (It’s based on a plastic model I designed and we built many years ago.) I finally had a few seconds to … Continue reading →

Preparing for Return

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Starr should be coming home tomorrow, or Saturday at the latest. Her various chemical levels are stabilizing, and the new meds are doing the trick with her digestion. She’s itching to come home! She’ll probably still be kept off work for another week or so, but that’s cool. I am so pleased that she’s getting well and will be back where she belongs! Midori will be THRILLED!