last weekend, and next weekend
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jazzfishI've just earned the second level of magic by finding the Book of Bù. This book is a keeper of knowledge. It allows me to read the rocks and to talk to the animals. (I'd totally forgotten that it also causes all the skeletons in the temple to stop trying to kick my butt and start bowing down to me.) (I have successfully passed the first and, I think, most annoying of the levels where Twinsen's drunken inability to walk a straight line really gets on one's nerves.)
So, as is becoming pleasantly usual, I spent the entire weekend in the company of the lovely![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
uilos. Friday night was Snakes in a Play, starring badmagic and KT. Okay, not really starring, but they were who I came to see. The play started out a little shaky but found its feet quite admirably by about the half-hour mark. Excellent stuff. Met Mo and airncbuh there; ran into heptadecagram and various others during/afterwards. Didn't go to IHOP because I was feeling grumpy and asocial; would've been nice to hang out with people, since I haven't done a lot of that lately, but oh well.
Satyrday we went to the Small Press Expo and I determined that I am insufficiently Alternative to go to one of these things. (I lack facial hair, a sufficiently scruffy shirt, and a large bag containing my 'portfolio.') Sadly Jules Feiffer was only there on Friday; no meeting the first (or possibly second, after Quentin Blake) illustrator whose name I knew. Butowlyfriend was hanging out in the Top Shelf booth. He's not /quite/ as incredibly shy and nice as you'd expect, but close. He was kind enough to sign my Owly #1, and even draw Owly and Wormy and Tiny and Angel on the front page.
Other amusements: Action Philosophers. The Dada Detective. The Victorian, which I nearly started buying except that they were out of volume one and volumes four and five have yet to be published. Lots of Alex "Box Office Poison" Robinson's stuff; I dunno if he was there or not. I bought a couple Xmas presents and "Journeys Into the Mystic," a collection of stories on the topic of magic. I did /not/ buy Alan Moore's Lost Girls, as it is seventy-five bucks.
Then more Arlington Board Gaming. Thurn and Taxis is a neat sort-of-set-collecting game; I can see why people are raving about it. The interaction is even more subtle than in Puerto Rico. You're sort of racing other people to complete certain sets, and sort of interfering with their card choices, but there's very much the feel of each playing zir own game. Antike, on the other hand, totally and unquestionably rocks. A Civ-type game nominally playable in an hour (with six new players it took us more like three or four hours, but still), where turns are mostly short and everyone's involved for the whole game. Very cool. Broke down and ordered it from Funagain since it's on a half-price sale.
Sunday I got to play in a Changeling game for the first time since 1998. I am exuberant. (I am also playing the same character, as it happens.) Then I came home, and talked touilos and nixve, and was perhaps helpful.
None of which is sufficient to convey the general air of Contentment that pervaded almost the entire weekend. (I woke up too early on Satyrday, knocked over a tea plant, and went back to bed with a declaration that I was starting the day over. Other than that.) So, I dunno, pretend you're wearing fuzzy slippers and sipping your favorite Warm Beverage as you read the above, and you'll get the general idea.
Wednesday I get on a plane and fly to Seattle to visitnixve for three days, because she's cute and awesome and two months is really too long to go without seeing her. Satyrday I get on another plane (or maybe the same one, who knows) and fly to Minneapolis to visit scathach for a day and a half, because I've been promising to come visit her for ten years now. (Ever since making her ride down to Blacksburg with me and my parents, and then back again with just my parents. I'm still not done apologising for that one.) (Er, not to say that she's not also cute and awesome.) Monday I get on yet another plane (I presume) and fly home, and dine with uilos and then go home to try and readjust my internal clock so that I can get up and go to work on Tuesday.
I am uncertain whether this whirlwind tour really counts as a 'vacation' but it's as close as I'm getting 'til Thanksgiving.
I can't complain but sometimes I still do
Life's been good to me so far
So, as is becoming pleasantly usual, I spent the entire weekend in the company of the lovely
uilos. Friday night was Snakes in a Play, starring badmagic and KT. Okay, not really starring, but they were who I came to see. The play started out a little shaky but found its feet quite admirably by about the half-hour mark. Excellent stuff. Met Mo and airncbuh there; ran into heptadecagram and various others during/afterwards. Didn't go to IHOP because I was feeling grumpy and asocial; would've been nice to hang out with people, since I haven't done a lot of that lately, but oh well.Satyrday we went to the Small Press Expo and I determined that I am insufficiently Alternative to go to one of these things. (I lack facial hair, a sufficiently scruffy shirt, and a large bag containing my 'portfolio.') Sadly Jules Feiffer was only there on Friday; no meeting the first (or possibly second, after Quentin Blake) illustrator whose name I knew. But
owlyfriend was hanging out in the Top Shelf booth. He's not /quite/ as incredibly shy and nice as you'd expect, but close. He was kind enough to sign my Owly #1, and even draw Owly and Wormy and Tiny and Angel on the front page.Other amusements: Action Philosophers. The Dada Detective. The Victorian, which I nearly started buying except that they were out of volume one and volumes four and five have yet to be published. Lots of Alex "Box Office Poison" Robinson's stuff; I dunno if he was there or not. I bought a couple Xmas presents and "Journeys Into the Mystic," a collection of stories on the topic of magic. I did /not/ buy Alan Moore's Lost Girls, as it is seventy-five bucks.
Then more Arlington Board Gaming. Thurn and Taxis is a neat sort-of-set-collecting game; I can see why people are raving about it. The interaction is even more subtle than in Puerto Rico. You're sort of racing other people to complete certain sets, and sort of interfering with their card choices, but there's very much the feel of each playing zir own game. Antike, on the other hand, totally and unquestionably rocks. A Civ-type game nominally playable in an hour (with six new players it took us more like three or four hours, but still), where turns are mostly short and everyone's involved for the whole game. Very cool. Broke down and ordered it from Funagain since it's on a half-price sale.
Sunday I got to play in a Changeling game for the first time since 1998. I am exuberant. (I am also playing the same character, as it happens.) Then I came home, and talked to
uilos and nixve, and was perhaps helpful.None of which is sufficient to convey the general air of Contentment that pervaded almost the entire weekend. (I woke up too early on Satyrday, knocked over a tea plant, and went back to bed with a declaration that I was starting the day over. Other than that.) So, I dunno, pretend you're wearing fuzzy slippers and sipping your favorite Warm Beverage as you read the above, and you'll get the general idea.
Wednesday I get on a plane and fly to Seattle to visit
nixve for three days, because she's cute and awesome and two months is really too long to go without seeing her. Satyrday I get on another plane (or maybe the same one, who knows) and fly to Minneapolis to visit scathach for a day and a half, because I've been promising to come visit her for ten years now. (Ever since making her ride down to Blacksburg with me and my parents, and then back again with just my parents. I'm still not done apologising for that one.) (Er, not to say that she's not also cute and awesome.) Monday I get on yet another plane (I presume) and fly home, and dine with uilos and then go home to try and readjust my internal clock so that I can get up and go to work on Tuesday.I am uncertain whether this whirlwind tour really counts as a 'vacation' but it's as close as I'm getting 'til Thanksgiving.
I can't complain but sometimes I still do
Life's been good to me so far
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Date: 2006-10-17 04:26 am (UTC)Have fun, and I hope that it IS a vacation, in addition to a whirlwind. :)
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Date: 2006-10-17 03:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-17 02:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-18 12:54 pm (UTC)Hey, where do you do most of your running when it gets genuinely cold out? Forty-degree mornings are starting to test my ability to make myself get out of bed and out the door.
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Date: 2006-10-18 02:55 pm (UTC)Grumbling because I really hate the air-conditioned air and 0.1 mile/lap track there. But there are no other good choices, unless I go to the other (small) gym on campus, where I can run on a treadmill or do laps circling a basketball court.
...hmm. "Do laps circling a basketball court" doesn't sound too bad, actually, and I've never tried it. Maybe I should.
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Date: 2006-10-17 11:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-18 12:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-18 01:29 pm (UTC)Okay, not really "triumphant" since I was more "too lazy to go" than anything else, but still.