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the_rckScott has to go in early tomorrow, so he's already in bed (it's 8 p.m. as I write. He'll be getting up around the time I usually go to sleep.
I've got a test scheduled for the 7th of October to see whether or not I have full on carpal tunnel. It involves needles and electricity and sounds thoroughly unpleasant. I'm not looking forward to it with any sort of pleasant anticipation.
I had energy today, so I did a lot of cooking. Nothing fancy, just dumping things into the instant pot and shoving pans into the oven. I cooked some cod, two types of chicken (I can't eat chicken thighs without reflux issues; Cordelia hates chicken breast) with potatoes and mushrooms. I found some brussel sprouts in the fridge, so I steamed them in the instant pot. I microwaved two ears of sweet corn (I don't eat it, but Scott and Cordelia do). We had a huge sweet potato in this week's Imperfect Foods box. I washed it, wrapped it in foil, and shoved into into a corner of the oven while the chicken cooked.
We got food delivered from Evergreen Wednesday because we had a Firefly session that evening. I still have leftovers and might eat them later this evening.
The Firefly session was fun. I was feeling reasonably good and awake, so I was able to think. My character was trying to investigate an artifact we'd found. She lacks the skills to do any sort of testing, but she could explain what she was looking for and why she wanted to know. The characters who can actually do the testing weren't quite sure why she wanted to do it, not at first.
Today, I mixed a can of Zevia ginger ale with a can of carbonated water and about three tablespoons of lime juice. The goal of this was to make the Zevia palatable to me, and I succeeded. Previous attempts haven't gone really well because they've usually intersected with migraine days. I was almost certain that the migraines were't caused by the Zevia because each occasion had other fairly clear explanations and because there's nothing in the Zevia that ought to give me trouble.
I did wonder if I had an upper limit for the amount of stevia I can handle in one day, but it seemed improbable.
I now have three game ideas for UCon. One is something I wrote for last year and didn't get to run, so it's done. The second is an Amber Diceless scenario that won't take too much work but that also might not draw players. The third is still in the amorphous blob stage of planning.
The one from last year is an SF setting game that mashes up odd elements from Cowboy Bebop, The Expanse, John Varley, The Laundry Files, and six or seven other things I've forgotten just now.
The Amber game scenario will be negotiations between the Courts of Chaos and Amber immediately after the end of the Corwin series. I will play the Amber characters, and the players will take characters I've invented who are negotiating for the Courts of Chaos. I will expect the players to be familiar with the ten books in the Amber series, though, which may mean few players.
The last option is still very handwavy. I want the characters to have amnesia and to face challenges to get their memories back, piecemeal. I want to do something with the environment they're in working more with dream logic than with real world physics. Possibly they'll be in someone else's dream; possibly they'll just be in some sort of parasitic situation that results from an extra-dimensional creature attaching itself to a tasty bit of normal reality.
So there are now questions-- How many hours of games can I reasonably run before I'm too exhausted? Do I want to spend any of that energy on playing something? Will there be players for table top rpgs? Do I want to do the preparation that will be required for two new scenarios?
I know the convention is fairly desperate for GMs. They've got about 10% as many as they would get in a normal year because running online is more daunting than face to face. It's new for most people who'd normally run things.
Scott's now on the concom for UCon 2020 because he's been doing a fair amount of the heavy lifting for figuring out how to make the board game side work and for writing up suggestions for potential GMs.
Given that this convention will be online, if anyone who isn't local thinks they'd be interested in running something or in playing, the con website is here. Local time is Eastern, and the dates are 13-15 November with games starting at 9 a.m. on Friday the 13th and ending at 6 p.m. on Sunday the 15th.
Cordelia's had a week of classes now. Most of the instructors are still figuring out how to make things work and are finding their planned lessons either much too short or too long for the scheduled time.
Cordelia's really missing the social interaction. It's not just the between classes chatting. Normal classes include some time when the kids can talk to each other or, at the very least, exchange glances. Right now, Cordelia's crocheting during some lectures. She's done some classes in bed (which is apparently common) and some in the dining room (also common).
The dining room had the downside that the chairs are all terrible, so she and Scott went and bought a new chair. Scott put it together last night; Cordelia used it today and gives it two thumbs up.
Choir is going to be an issue for me because I wake up and want to make tea halfway through the period. I can be in the kitchen during choir, if I'm quiet, but I can't use anything that whistles or dings.
Skyline Blues poses a similar problem to food preparation because the rehearsals run two hours and put the kitchen off limits. For Blues, Cordelia wants us in our bedroom, the bathroom, or the basement for the duration because being reminded that we're in the house increases her anxiety about doing well.
I think the Skyline Blues stuff is mostly a matter of me and Scott adapting. We can make sure we have food before practice starts. I'm less sure about choir. The classes run just short of two hours, and I need 10-15 minutes to be able to make my tea. If I set an alarm and get up at 10:00, I can do it before choir. Otherwise, I can't do it until after 12:10. I'm mostly waking up between 11:00 or 11:30. Sometimes, I sleep as late as 1:00 (having gone to bed between 3:00 and 4:00 a.m.).
I keep meaning to work on shifting my schedule to an earlier bedtime, but my body keeps wanting me to stay up later every successive night. I think my internal clock might be expecting a 24.5 hour day or something.
I've leveled up in Ingress. Almost all of the points involved in that came from recharging portals since I haven't gone out much in the last several months. I need one badge in order to attain level 16 (currently working on 15, so it will be a long time). At the beginning of this year, I assumed that I'd be getting the 4th level in Trekker for distance walked sooner than any of the other options, but I think I'm going to have to try for one of the others (I think it's called Sojourner), the one for playing daily for so many days in a row. I hadn't wanted to commit to 360 daily treks to the nearest portal, but I'm more than halfway there because of how they shifted what counts toward it.
I'm just concerned that I'll miss a day and have to start over. 360 consecutive days is a lot. I'm at 184 days now, and it's something I'm currently capable of doing, but...
I've put in a grocery order for pickup. I'm not sure whether the substitution thing was toggled on or off because the state wasn't marked in either position. The last time I ordered for pickup, I said no substitutions, so I'm hoping that will hold.
In many cases, it's better to get nothing at all than to get whatever the Kroger employee thinks is the closest match. I mean, the half and half would be fine, but the wrong hummus cups would mean I couldn't eat them. I picked a loaf of bread that didn't contain anything that would make me sick, but some other whole wheat breads do and so do other breads from the same company.
I've got a test scheduled for the 7th of October to see whether or not I have full on carpal tunnel. It involves needles and electricity and sounds thoroughly unpleasant. I'm not looking forward to it with any sort of pleasant anticipation.
I had energy today, so I did a lot of cooking. Nothing fancy, just dumping things into the instant pot and shoving pans into the oven. I cooked some cod, two types of chicken (I can't eat chicken thighs without reflux issues; Cordelia hates chicken breast) with potatoes and mushrooms. I found some brussel sprouts in the fridge, so I steamed them in the instant pot. I microwaved two ears of sweet corn (I don't eat it, but Scott and Cordelia do). We had a huge sweet potato in this week's Imperfect Foods box. I washed it, wrapped it in foil, and shoved into into a corner of the oven while the chicken cooked.
We got food delivered from Evergreen Wednesday because we had a Firefly session that evening. I still have leftovers and might eat them later this evening.
The Firefly session was fun. I was feeling reasonably good and awake, so I was able to think. My character was trying to investigate an artifact we'd found. She lacks the skills to do any sort of testing, but she could explain what she was looking for and why she wanted to know. The characters who can actually do the testing weren't quite sure why she wanted to do it, not at first.
Today, I mixed a can of Zevia ginger ale with a can of carbonated water and about three tablespoons of lime juice. The goal of this was to make the Zevia palatable to me, and I succeeded. Previous attempts haven't gone really well because they've usually intersected with migraine days. I was almost certain that the migraines were't caused by the Zevia because each occasion had other fairly clear explanations and because there's nothing in the Zevia that ought to give me trouble.
I did wonder if I had an upper limit for the amount of stevia I can handle in one day, but it seemed improbable.
I now have three game ideas for UCon. One is something I wrote for last year and didn't get to run, so it's done. The second is an Amber Diceless scenario that won't take too much work but that also might not draw players. The third is still in the amorphous blob stage of planning.
The one from last year is an SF setting game that mashes up odd elements from Cowboy Bebop, The Expanse, John Varley, The Laundry Files, and six or seven other things I've forgotten just now.
The Amber game scenario will be negotiations between the Courts of Chaos and Amber immediately after the end of the Corwin series. I will play the Amber characters, and the players will take characters I've invented who are negotiating for the Courts of Chaos. I will expect the players to be familiar with the ten books in the Amber series, though, which may mean few players.
The last option is still very handwavy. I want the characters to have amnesia and to face challenges to get their memories back, piecemeal. I want to do something with the environment they're in working more with dream logic than with real world physics. Possibly they'll be in someone else's dream; possibly they'll just be in some sort of parasitic situation that results from an extra-dimensional creature attaching itself to a tasty bit of normal reality.
So there are now questions-- How many hours of games can I reasonably run before I'm too exhausted? Do I want to spend any of that energy on playing something? Will there be players for table top rpgs? Do I want to do the preparation that will be required for two new scenarios?
I know the convention is fairly desperate for GMs. They've got about 10% as many as they would get in a normal year because running online is more daunting than face to face. It's new for most people who'd normally run things.
Scott's now on the concom for UCon 2020 because he's been doing a fair amount of the heavy lifting for figuring out how to make the board game side work and for writing up suggestions for potential GMs.
Given that this convention will be online, if anyone who isn't local thinks they'd be interested in running something or in playing, the con website is here. Local time is Eastern, and the dates are 13-15 November with games starting at 9 a.m. on Friday the 13th and ending at 6 p.m. on Sunday the 15th.
Cordelia's had a week of classes now. Most of the instructors are still figuring out how to make things work and are finding their planned lessons either much too short or too long for the scheduled time.
Cordelia's really missing the social interaction. It's not just the between classes chatting. Normal classes include some time when the kids can talk to each other or, at the very least, exchange glances. Right now, Cordelia's crocheting during some lectures. She's done some classes in bed (which is apparently common) and some in the dining room (also common).
The dining room had the downside that the chairs are all terrible, so she and Scott went and bought a new chair. Scott put it together last night; Cordelia used it today and gives it two thumbs up.
Choir is going to be an issue for me because I wake up and want to make tea halfway through the period. I can be in the kitchen during choir, if I'm quiet, but I can't use anything that whistles or dings.
Skyline Blues poses a similar problem to food preparation because the rehearsals run two hours and put the kitchen off limits. For Blues, Cordelia wants us in our bedroom, the bathroom, or the basement for the duration because being reminded that we're in the house increases her anxiety about doing well.
I think the Skyline Blues stuff is mostly a matter of me and Scott adapting. We can make sure we have food before practice starts. I'm less sure about choir. The classes run just short of two hours, and I need 10-15 minutes to be able to make my tea. If I set an alarm and get up at 10:00, I can do it before choir. Otherwise, I can't do it until after 12:10. I'm mostly waking up between 11:00 or 11:30. Sometimes, I sleep as late as 1:00 (having gone to bed between 3:00 and 4:00 a.m.).
I keep meaning to work on shifting my schedule to an earlier bedtime, but my body keeps wanting me to stay up later every successive night. I think my internal clock might be expecting a 24.5 hour day or something.
I've leveled up in Ingress. Almost all of the points involved in that came from recharging portals since I haven't gone out much in the last several months. I need one badge in order to attain level 16 (currently working on 15, so it will be a long time). At the beginning of this year, I assumed that I'd be getting the 4th level in Trekker for distance walked sooner than any of the other options, but I think I'm going to have to try for one of the others (I think it's called Sojourner), the one for playing daily for so many days in a row. I hadn't wanted to commit to 360 daily treks to the nearest portal, but I'm more than halfway there because of how they shifted what counts toward it.
I'm just concerned that I'll miss a day and have to start over. 360 consecutive days is a lot. I'm at 184 days now, and it's something I'm currently capable of doing, but...
I've put in a grocery order for pickup. I'm not sure whether the substitution thing was toggled on or off because the state wasn't marked in either position. The last time I ordered for pickup, I said no substitutions, so I'm hoping that will hold.
In many cases, it's better to get nothing at all than to get whatever the Kroger employee thinks is the closest match. I mean, the half and half would be fine, but the wrong hummus cups would mean I couldn't eat them. I picked a loaf of bread that didn't contain anything that would make me sick, but some other whole wheat breads do and so do other breads from the same company.
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