{"id":240,"date":"2003-07-28T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2003\/07\/28\/first-things-first\/"},"modified":"2003-07-28T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-28T13:00:00","slug":"first-things-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2003\/07\/28\/first-things-first\/","title":{"rendered":"First things first…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy belated birthday to meiran<\/a>. My calendar said your birthday was on the 27th… on the other hand, it also said you were born in 2080, so it obviously needed a bit of correcting.<\/p>\n

Thanks to vond<\/a>, jdunson<\/a>, corin_wolfkin<\/a>, and the Carilion crowd for showing up at Rain’s party, and thanks to yubbie<\/a> for the cake on Saturday \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

It was a heck of a weekend – I got a little personal time in after work Thursday, but Thursday evening I drove some stuff over to Rain’s gaming venue, and finished the evening with dinner at the Tanglewood Macado’s… Friday I went from work, to bill-paying, to home to pack for Rain’s party, to Anne-Marie’s for the actual party *puff-puff, whew*.<\/p>\n

Saturday, over to VTSFFC click-base day, where I discovered (by running demos) that the Shadowrun Duels system is fast-paced and fun, and does lend itself to use in actual RPG situations. OTOH, Benny and jdunson<\/a> both found out a click-base truism: though two sides may be even in points, the side with more figures has a noticeable advantage.<\/p>\n

Saturday night was dinner at the Blacksburg Macado’s, where we plotted to make everyone at nius<\/a>‘ high school reunion jumpy and confused, and we discussed the details of wirelessly networking sex toys.<\/p>\n

Sunday, I had a little personal time, but it got divided between a long-distance phone call, laundry and dishes, and installing MacOS 6 on my G4. (Really – and I had a good reason.) After that, dinner with rattrap<\/a>, corin_wolfkin<\/a>, and Rockbender. Back home, to a couple hours of private time with the lovely raininva<\/a>, and finally to bed.<\/p>\n

And after all that – I couldn’t sleep last night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy belated birthday to meiran. My calendar said your birthday was on the 27th… on the other hand, it also said you were born in 2080, so it obviously needed a bit of correcting. Thanks to vond, jdunson, corin_wolfkin, and the Carilion crowd for showing up at Rain’s party, and thanks to yubbie for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,8,49,14,38,22],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-apple","tag-friends","tag-gaming","tag-parties","tag-sex","tag-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-3S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}