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Oct. 2nd, 2017 08:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI talked to Scott last night while Cordelia was in the shower. He says that he keeps having some idea that we should do more family stuff during December, heading into Christmas, but the only specific thing he could come up with was baking. I pointed out that it's never been Yuletide that has kept me (or him) from baking. Last year, it was Cordelia's illness. The year before that, it was me recovering from radiation. I still managed fudge for tree decorating day both years.
He admitted, though, that part of it is that he has absolutely nothing in his life that he enjoys the way I do writing. He could enjoy GMing that way, but two of the five players in our group show up for maybe one session in four, and one of the others is having major family health crises right at the moment. We don't expect to see him for a while. Even if we were meeting reliably, we have a session every other week.
I'm not going to suggest online rp of the type generally done on DW to him because I think it would contain all the things he doesn't like and none of the stuff he does. I know there are options for playing games in places like Discord, but I know damn all about them. They'd also require what Scott refers to as 'sorting out the wingnuts.'
Reading, watching TV/movies, playing board/card games on his laptop (either solo or with friends online) doesn't do it.
Scott's as trapped and stressed by what's going on with Cordelia as I am. I wonder if he's depressed? I'm not sure how to find a way to address that possibility given his schedule.
The furnace repair we had scheduled for today has been put off due to the technician being out sick. I'm trying to decide what to do with my morning now. I've made one phone call and am waiting for it to be returned. I need to make one more phone call and have two others that I should make but that aren't nearly as urgent.
I'm also really, really tired, and I want to take a walk, and I want to write.
I think I need to make that other call and then lie down.
He admitted, though, that part of it is that he has absolutely nothing in his life that he enjoys the way I do writing. He could enjoy GMing that way, but two of the five players in our group show up for maybe one session in four, and one of the others is having major family health crises right at the moment. We don't expect to see him for a while. Even if we were meeting reliably, we have a session every other week.
I'm not going to suggest online rp of the type generally done on DW to him because I think it would contain all the things he doesn't like and none of the stuff he does. I know there are options for playing games in places like Discord, but I know damn all about them. They'd also require what Scott refers to as 'sorting out the wingnuts.'
Reading, watching TV/movies, playing board/card games on his laptop (either solo or with friends online) doesn't do it.
Scott's as trapped and stressed by what's going on with Cordelia as I am. I wonder if he's depressed? I'm not sure how to find a way to address that possibility given his schedule.
The furnace repair we had scheduled for today has been put off due to the technician being out sick. I'm trying to decide what to do with my morning now. I've made one phone call and am waiting for it to be returned. I need to make one more phone call and have two others that I should make but that aren't nearly as urgent.
I'm also really, really tired, and I want to take a walk, and I want to write.
I think I need to make that other call and then lie down.
