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Nov. 16th, 2017 09:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckYesterday afternoon was an object lesson in the sunk cost fallacy. I had planned to walk part of the way home after my nutritionist appointment, and I didn't change that plan even though it was raining. Then I kept telling myself that the Ingress portals I really wanted to hack (they were new to me portals, and I'm trying to get more of those) really would process 'soon.' That is, I stood in the rain and waited and waited and waited for Ingress to deign to process what I was doing. I had strong signal. My GPS was working. I could retrieve my email and do everything else requiring my dataplan.
But I'd been there so long already, and leaving without the hacks done meant I did if for nothing. Sunk cost fallacy.
My long down coat was soaked through by the time I got to the bus stop to get the rest of the way home. I had to change my clothes once I got home. There's a bus that runs along the street I walked down, but if I got that, it would let me off at the bottom of a steep hill, and I'd have had to walk as far to get home from that stop as I was going to have to walk from where I was to the bus route that would leave me at the top of the hill.
Of course, I got to the second route, looked at the time and realized that it would be potentially faster to walk the rest of the way home rather than wait for the bus. I was too tired, though, to keep going, so I tried to keep warm while I waited. I got home about 2:00. I hadn't had lunch.
We had friends over for games. I should have said no to it because I completely dropped from exhaustion in the middle of the game of Sentinels. The idea, though, was to help me pick a villain and setting for what I'll be running at UCon tomorrow morning. We got that far and played a little. I'm not sure I remember much of what either the villain or the setting were like, but I suppose it doesn't matter that much.
Today is going to focus on sleep, packing for the convention, and finishing the characters for the table top game I'll be running on Saturday morning. I'm running Sentinels from 10 a.m. to noon tomorrow morning. We can't actually check in until considerably later (I think it has to be after 3 p.m.), so I won't have the hotel room as an option at that point. Cordelia will get home around noon. Scott is running an event that starts at 3 p.m. I'm not sure when that ends. Somewhere in there, Scott wants to get the car serviced.
Scott and I will get up with Cordelia at 5 a.m. tomorrow, and she'll leave the house a little after 7 a.m. That will give us some time for packing/preparation before we absolutely have to leave for the convention. We probably don't want to leave here before 9 a.m. because fighting traffic before that will mean a much longer trip. Maybe we'll splurge and get breakfast out? I don't know that we should given the likely expenses over the weekend, but it's tempting.
My Sentinels game is sold out (so four players). I said I was open to inexperienced players, so I don't know what experience levels the players will have. I've got a smallish set of characters I recommend for people who're wanting straightforward choices in play.
For my table top game, I'm running into the problem that I know that not all of these characters will get played but that I want them all there because each of them has something unique. My intention is to tweak the setting and encounters depending on which characters are played, but when I make characters, there's always a little sorrow for the ones that don't make it into play.
But I'd been there so long already, and leaving without the hacks done meant I did if for nothing. Sunk cost fallacy.
My long down coat was soaked through by the time I got to the bus stop to get the rest of the way home. I had to change my clothes once I got home. There's a bus that runs along the street I walked down, but if I got that, it would let me off at the bottom of a steep hill, and I'd have had to walk as far to get home from that stop as I was going to have to walk from where I was to the bus route that would leave me at the top of the hill.
Of course, I got to the second route, looked at the time and realized that it would be potentially faster to walk the rest of the way home rather than wait for the bus. I was too tired, though, to keep going, so I tried to keep warm while I waited. I got home about 2:00. I hadn't had lunch.
We had friends over for games. I should have said no to it because I completely dropped from exhaustion in the middle of the game of Sentinels. The idea, though, was to help me pick a villain and setting for what I'll be running at UCon tomorrow morning. We got that far and played a little. I'm not sure I remember much of what either the villain or the setting were like, but I suppose it doesn't matter that much.
Today is going to focus on sleep, packing for the convention, and finishing the characters for the table top game I'll be running on Saturday morning. I'm running Sentinels from 10 a.m. to noon tomorrow morning. We can't actually check in until considerably later (I think it has to be after 3 p.m.), so I won't have the hotel room as an option at that point. Cordelia will get home around noon. Scott is running an event that starts at 3 p.m. I'm not sure when that ends. Somewhere in there, Scott wants to get the car serviced.
Scott and I will get up with Cordelia at 5 a.m. tomorrow, and she'll leave the house a little after 7 a.m. That will give us some time for packing/preparation before we absolutely have to leave for the convention. We probably don't want to leave here before 9 a.m. because fighting traffic before that will mean a much longer trip. Maybe we'll splurge and get breakfast out? I don't know that we should given the likely expenses over the weekend, but it's tempting.
My Sentinels game is sold out (so four players). I said I was open to inexperienced players, so I don't know what experience levels the players will have. I've got a smallish set of characters I recommend for people who're wanting straightforward choices in play.
For my table top game, I'm running into the problem that I know that not all of these characters will get played but that I want them all there because each of them has something unique. My intention is to tweak the setting and encounters depending on which characters are played, but when I make characters, there's always a little sorrow for the ones that don't make it into play.
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