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winterbadgerI've not been on LJ much lately, but I'm trying to catch up with the big stuff people have posted about.
Finished plans for my trip to Scotland next month. Seeing a couple of the Blas gigs with the Antiquarian, then having a (very) whirlwind tour of Orkney, spending parts of a couple of days in Dundee (to try to get a sense whether I would enjoy living there or not), and then back home having used (I think) all known forms of public transport short of post van.
A friend has opened a new game store in Virginia. It looks very nice, and he has good stock and a very entrepreneurial spirit. I hope it goes well. I was out there Saturday doing some gaming with chums. Sunday I drove up (through a torrential downpour) to Glen Burnie and ran a game there based on the skirmish at Clifton.
Still gearing up to do that recap of the VT trip. Trying to resist packing the cats and my clothes in the car and moving up there tomorrow. :-) Or to Portland ME, which also looks nice.
been enjoying my Roku player (which may be related to the delayed trip report...)
There's more, but it's time to do a few errands and head home...
Finished plans for my trip to Scotland next month. Seeing a couple of the Blas gigs with the Antiquarian, then having a (very) whirlwind tour of Orkney, spending parts of a couple of days in Dundee (to try to get a sense whether I would enjoy living there or not), and then back home having used (I think) all known forms of public transport short of post van.
A friend has opened a new game store in Virginia. It looks very nice, and he has good stock and a very entrepreneurial spirit. I hope it goes well. I was out there Saturday doing some gaming with chums. Sunday I drove up (through a torrential downpour) to Glen Burnie and ran a game there based on the skirmish at Clifton.
Still gearing up to do that recap of the VT trip. Trying to resist packing the cats and my clothes in the car and moving up there tomorrow. :-) Or to Portland ME, which also looks nice.
been enjoying my Roku player (which may be related to the delayed trip report...)
There's more, but it's time to do a few errands and head home...
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Date: 2010-08-17 01:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-17 03:36 pm (UTC)ROFLOL! The Glen Burnie store is about ten miles from you. Chris's store is in Ashburn, about 35 miles from where I live. :-)
I can get there after work, when it's only about 9 miles from me, but I still have the 35 miles to drive home. :-)
No worries on the game. It went OK, but I have to remember that the AOCM guys aren't much into role playing (despite the fact they play D&D all the time :-). Effort that I put into providing historical background or creating conflicting sets of motivations or different sets of known information for different actors on the same side seem largely wasted (except perhaps for Scott and Kelly). They're happy just to take whatever units they're going to get and run them at each other... All the larger context is just like the grownup voices in Charlie Brown, "BLAHBLAH BLAH BLAHBLAHBLAH..."