And the initial mess gets less and less

Did I mention my life is YAFIYGI? All of my kids are WYSIWYG - it's so much simpler, and I envy it - but this is what happens when the Magician and the High Priestess are standing just over your shoulder, giggling at you . . .

JG is now quantumduck. Thus, the two people I was the most lamenting in my post of Jan. 3rd have in fact both promptly shown up here. (Thanks, guys!)

Heard from moontyger last night and today - they made it here safely, thank goodness. Unfortunately, I don't think exposing to them to whatever cold the Spouse has come down with is a good idea, so we may not get to see them for a little bit. (Grrr.)

--

Things to Do, Gaming-Wise:

1) Finish the "Seven Kingdoms" part of GURPS: Talislanta. Having a ready-made non-Tolkenian fantasy world in a system that actually works would be quite cool.

2) Cobble together the shards of GURPS: Master of Orion and have a usable Space Opera campaign ready to go.

3) Decide what I want to do with my old fantasy campaign from the Tuesday Gamer days.

4) Join one of the ongoing WoD games in binaryathena's social circle, probably the Changeling game, as I can't seem to get invited directly to the Mage game.

5) Trim down a couple of my old Magic: the Addiction, whoops, I mean Crack: the Gathering, oh, well, you know what I mean, decks and take them with me on the math club's next few tournaments - I know a couple of my kids are cardfloppers . . .

6) Corrupt memeslayer and DM and turn them both into gamers. They're both computer-gamers already, so the battle's half-won . . .

. . .

247) See if Jorune can be battered into GURPS-able format, or, failing that, FUDGE.

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The second batch of the clothes showed up on Movie Night. Everything fits. I'm pleased, although I now have too many tops and not enough bottoms, and one of the things I bought really demands ironing, which I hate doing.

I need to figure out what, if anything, I'm going to do about having been invited to our Prom this year. I don't have a suitable dress, and I really can't keep buying clothing, even though I can clear some of the oldest, just-post-fire stuff out of there. I don't particularly want to go, since I wouldn't be working (I'm working graduation, this year as every year - and it looks like it's going to be on a Friday), but I also don't want to seem ungracious, since this is the first year that the kids have really asked me. There's a sage-colored hammered satin affair in one of the BryLane catalogs that is really tempting - and it would be perfect for being the "responsible adult" but still dressed appropriately for a prom - and while it's expensive, it's not that expensive. Ah, well.

I tried a new cookie recipe for Movie Night (one of the inadvertent results of my having to bus to the store the last two weeks was a book of nothing but cookie recipes, all US native (although, really, most cookies are, except for a few French ones and shortbread). It was quite a hit, although it makes 50 cookies (I should probably halve the recipe next time) and they were a bit oversalted (I guess when they said use unsalted butter, they meant it; usually they don't). PB did mention he would like more chocolate next time, so next week is going to be a chocolate-chocolate chip affair (I have several to choose from). I do so enjoy having a captive audience to show off my baking to.

In other random culinary news, I have over two dozen different kinds of tea on my shelf, counting herbals. This includes four different variations on Earl Grey. The Spouse, as some of you will recall, is not a tea drinker. While I can sometimes talk a guest into a cuppa, usually DM, I'm the only one who drinks most of it. I'm going to have to get creative before summer comes (either that, or I can emulate the spouse's aunt, who ices Earl Grey).

And the initial mess gets less and less

Did I mention my life is YAFIYGI? All of my kids are WYSIWYG - it's so much simpler, and I envy it - but this is what happens when the Magician and the High Priestess are standing just over your shoulder, giggling at you . . .

JG is now quantumduck. Thus, the two people I was the most lamenting in my post of Jan. 3rd have in fact both promptly shown up here. (Thanks, guys!)

Heard from moontyger last night and today - they made it here safely, thank goodness. Unfortunately, I don't think exposing to them to whatever cold the Spouse has come down with is a good idea, so we may not get to see them for a little bit. (Grrr.)

--

Things to Do, Gaming-Wise:

1) Finish the "Seven Kingdoms" part of GURPS: Talislanta. Having a ready-made non-Tolkenian fantasy world in a system that actually works would be quite cool.

2) Cobble together the shards of GURPS: Master of Orion and have a usable Space Opera campaign ready to go.

3) Decide what I want to do with my old fantasy campaign from the Tuesday Gamer days.

4) Join one of the ongoing WoD games in binaryathena's social circle, probably the Changeling game, as I can't seem to get invited directly to the Mage game.

5) Trim down a couple of my old Magic: the Addiction, whoops, I mean Crack: the Gathering, oh, well, you know what I mean, decks and take them with me on the math club's next few tournaments - I know a couple of my kids are cardfloppers . . .

6) Corrupt memeslayer and DM and turn them both into gamers. They're both computer-gamers already, so the battle's half-won . . .

. . .

247) See if Jorune can be battered into GURPS-able format, or, failing that, FUDGE.

--

The second batch of the clothes showed up on Movie Night. Everything fits. I'm pleased, although I now have too many tops and not enough bottoms, and one of the things I bought really demands ironing, which I hate doing.

I need to figure out what, if anything, I'm going to do about having been invited to our Prom this year. I don't have a suitable dress, and I really can't keep buying clothing, even though I can clear some of the oldest, just-post-fire stuff out of there. I don't particularly want to go, since I wouldn't be working (I'm working graduation, this year as every year - and it looks like it's going to be on a Friday), but I also don't want to seem ungracious, since this is the first year that the kids have really asked me. There's a sage-colored hammered satin affair in one of the BryLane catalogs that is really tempting - and it would be perfect for being the "responsible adult" but still dressed appropriately for a prom - and while it's expensive, it's not that expensive. Ah, well.

I tried a new cookie recipe for Movie Night (one of the inadvertent results of my having to bus to the store the last two weeks was a book of nothing but cookie recipes, all US native (although, really, most cookies are, except for a few French ones and shortbread). It was quite a hit, although it makes 50 cookies (I should probably halve the recipe next time) and they were a bit oversalted (I guess when they said use unsalted butter, they meant it; usually they don't). PB did mention he would like more chocolate next time, so next week is going to be a chocolate-chocolate chip affair (I have several to choose from). I do so enjoy having a captive audience to show off my baking to.

In other random culinary news, I have over two dozen different kinds of tea on my shelf, counting herbals. This includes four different variations on Earl Grey. The Spouse, as some of you will recall, is not a tea drinker. While I can sometimes talk a guest into a cuppa, usually DM, I'm the only one who drinks most of it. I'm going to have to get creative before summer comes (either that, or I can emulate the spouse's aunt, who ices Earl Grey).

And a Few Lemmings For Good Measure

( Fiction ahoy! )

And a Few Lemmings For Good Measure

( Fiction ahoy! )