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Some time tomorrow, we'll be heading for Columbus to attend Origins. The last time we went was just after Delia's first birthday, so we're out of practice on attending big gaming conventions, and we haven't done the sort of planning and preparation that we used to do when we attended GenCon regularly. We missed event registration entirely in spite of having a couple of months to deal with it. I have no idea what sort of games we'll manage to get into.
Scott's likely to have better luck than I will. I can only manage table top RPGs or LARPs, and those tend to be hard to get into. Scott enjoys board and card games, too. (While I have a phobic reaction to trying to play. I can watch, but playing is so stressful that it's not worthwhile. I shake. I get headaches. I generally feel physically and emotionally awful.) Our current plan is to buy a lot of generics and hope.
I'm also taking my GMing supplies. There's a kids' room. Scott and I will be taking turns in there with Delia. I believe we could leave her on her own, by convention rules, but I don't think she'd be happy about it. I'm going to see if I can manage a pick up game with other parents and/or older kids in the kids' room. I'm taking the Amber books and the basic GURPS books and considering options for a much more off the cuff way of setting up characters. I used to be a passable improv GM. I'm way out of practice, but I'd enjoy trying.
I'm also thinking a bit about writing LARPs again. It's unlikely to happen this year, but I have a couple of simple scenarios in mind. One's inspired by a movie that I caught part of but didn't get the title of. Another's inspired by a volume of manga I just read. The former has had more time to stew in my brain, but the latter could be designed to be smaller. Ah, well... It's not like I have time to write this year (and Delia's going to be in half day kindergarten after all, it looks like, so I'm not going to have much time after she starts school).
We'll be sharing a hotel room with
dagoski and his wife. We're looking forward to that. We haven't seen them in a few years. Plus, Delia wants to see the woman who made her 'Aunt Michelle blanket.' She sleeps with it every night, but Aunt Michelle isn't anybody she remembers meeting.
Today's going to be all about packing and running last minute errands. My list includes grocery shopping (with a side trip to Trader Joe's to get their sunflower seed butter. It's out of our way, but I reliably like the stuff, and we haven't found another brand that I can say that about), the library, dropping off a key with the friend who'll be watching the house, a haircut (which probably won't happen) and an appointment with my social worker/life coach.
Then we clean and pack. There's laundry to be done. Delia needs a bath. The dishwasher should get run and the fridge cleaned. Also, we have to leave the house tidy enough that our cleaning lady can come in while we're gone and do the floors, counters, bathroom, etc. without needing to excavate. She will excavate if she has to, but she doesn't know where anything goes and often puts things in weird (for us) places. Plus, we only have her for two hours a week. (The benefit from having her come in is half in the work she does in getting rid of underlying dirt and half in the schedule of forcing us to put our crap away so that she can get at the dirt. Without the impetus of her visits, we keep putting the tidying off or stack things in awkward places that are out of the way right at that second.)
Anyway, I'm not going to be around much tomorrow through Sunday. I believe that our hotel has wireless, but with luck, I won't be in the room that much to use it. Well, except during the evenings when I'm watching Delia and stuck there. That'll be half me and half Scott if all goes to plan. When I'm not with Delia, I'll be out in the scooter we've rented, looking for a game to play in.
Scott's likely to have better luck than I will. I can only manage table top RPGs or LARPs, and those tend to be hard to get into. Scott enjoys board and card games, too. (While I have a phobic reaction to trying to play. I can watch, but playing is so stressful that it's not worthwhile. I shake. I get headaches. I generally feel physically and emotionally awful.) Our current plan is to buy a lot of generics and hope.
I'm also taking my GMing supplies. There's a kids' room. Scott and I will be taking turns in there with Delia. I believe we could leave her on her own, by convention rules, but I don't think she'd be happy about it. I'm going to see if I can manage a pick up game with other parents and/or older kids in the kids' room. I'm taking the Amber books and the basic GURPS books and considering options for a much more off the cuff way of setting up characters. I used to be a passable improv GM. I'm way out of practice, but I'd enjoy trying.
I'm also thinking a bit about writing LARPs again. It's unlikely to happen this year, but I have a couple of simple scenarios in mind. One's inspired by a movie that I caught part of but didn't get the title of. Another's inspired by a volume of manga I just read. The former has had more time to stew in my brain, but the latter could be designed to be smaller. Ah, well... It's not like I have time to write this year (and Delia's going to be in half day kindergarten after all, it looks like, so I'm not going to have much time after she starts school).
We'll be sharing a hotel room with
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Today's going to be all about packing and running last minute errands. My list includes grocery shopping (with a side trip to Trader Joe's to get their sunflower seed butter. It's out of our way, but I reliably like the stuff, and we haven't found another brand that I can say that about), the library, dropping off a key with the friend who'll be watching the house, a haircut (which probably won't happen) and an appointment with my social worker/life coach.
Then we clean and pack. There's laundry to be done. Delia needs a bath. The dishwasher should get run and the fridge cleaned. Also, we have to leave the house tidy enough that our cleaning lady can come in while we're gone and do the floors, counters, bathroom, etc. without needing to excavate. She will excavate if she has to, but she doesn't know where anything goes and often puts things in weird (for us) places. Plus, we only have her for two hours a week. (The benefit from having her come in is half in the work she does in getting rid of underlying dirt and half in the schedule of forcing us to put our crap away so that she can get at the dirt. Without the impetus of her visits, we keep putting the tidying off or stack things in awkward places that are out of the way right at that second.)
Anyway, I'm not going to be around much tomorrow through Sunday. I believe that our hotel has wireless, but with luck, I won't be in the room that much to use it. Well, except during the evenings when I'm watching Delia and stuck there. That'll be half me and half Scott if all goes to plan. When I'm not with Delia, I'll be out in the scooter we've rented, looking for a game to play in.
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