time is fleeting
Nov. 21st, 2020 12:30 pmIt is surprisingly difficult for me to get much done in the evening when my phone insists that it's an hour later than it really is, which it's been doing for the last couple of days. "Oh, I guess I can't make it to the post office and I need to eat something quick for dinner." I would not have expected this, and yet.
Other than that, I had vague intentions of going down to Vancouver next weekend for Hollycon ][ (aka "Holly and friends gather in a house for a weekend and play a bunch of boardgames") but the steep caseload curve of the last month has officially put paid to that notion. As of Thursday BC is under an actual order to wear masks in public and not socialise with anyone outside your household ("plus one or two people if you live alone") and a Strong Recommendation to minimise travel. There's supposedly a chance that this will lift come 7 December but let's be honest, it's not going anywhere til March at the earliest.
Doubly irritating because this fall Apple saw fit to release a normal-sized iPhone for the first time in four years. I wasn't sure how I'd take to it after a couple years of too-large screens, so I powered up my old SE and tried it out... and it feels right in my hand. No dislocating my thumb to reach the far side of the screen, no stupid swipe-down-no-not-like-that to bring the top couple rows of icons into reach. Yeah, the screen's smaller, but I don't seem to notice, or at least to not object. And yeah, I can just mail-order one, but the advantage of picking it up in the store is that I can also get them to apply a screen-protector and not worry about bubbles or dust-flecks underneath it.
Bah.
When I went down in October I picked up a copy of Fate Of Cthulhu, a role-playing game best summed up as "what if Terminator, but Cthulhu." In 2050 one of the Great Old Ones has risen and mostly conquered/destroyed humanity; a small group of PCs are sent back in time to 2019 to try and change history to prevent its rise, or at least weaken it enough that there's a fighting chance against it. I'm intrigued and have been kicking around the notion of trying to run a game online, and I may actually have players (James says "sure," Holly says "maybe," and Julianne says "tentatively," so I figure that's about 2.25.) So... will see if I turn that into anything.
Other than that, I had vague intentions of going down to Vancouver next weekend for Hollycon ][ (aka "Holly and friends gather in a house for a weekend and play a bunch of boardgames") but the steep caseload curve of the last month has officially put paid to that notion. As of Thursday BC is under an actual order to wear masks in public and not socialise with anyone outside your household ("plus one or two people if you live alone") and a Strong Recommendation to minimise travel. There's supposedly a chance that this will lift come 7 December but let's be honest, it's not going anywhere til March at the earliest.
Doubly irritating because this fall Apple saw fit to release a normal-sized iPhone for the first time in four years. I wasn't sure how I'd take to it after a couple years of too-large screens, so I powered up my old SE and tried it out... and it feels right in my hand. No dislocating my thumb to reach the far side of the screen, no stupid swipe-down-no-not-like-that to bring the top couple rows of icons into reach. Yeah, the screen's smaller, but I don't seem to notice, or at least to not object. And yeah, I can just mail-order one, but the advantage of picking it up in the store is that I can also get them to apply a screen-protector and not worry about bubbles or dust-flecks underneath it.
Bah.
When I went down in October I picked up a copy of Fate Of Cthulhu, a role-playing game best summed up as "what if Terminator, but Cthulhu." In 2050 one of the Great Old Ones has risen and mostly conquered/destroyed humanity; a small group of PCs are sent back in time to 2019 to try and change history to prevent its rise, or at least weaken it enough that there's a fighting chance against it. I'm intrigued and have been kicking around the notion of trying to run a game online, and I may actually have players (James says "sure," Holly says "maybe," and Julianne says "tentatively," so I figure that's about 2.25.) So... will see if I turn that into anything.