the week that was

[jazzfish]

Draco concordans, of interest to scathach and perhaps one day to elf *poke*, and probably to anyone else who's come by a copy of The Dragon Waiting. (And if you haven't it's readily available on Amazon.) Zarf is a mad and ambitious man for tackling this project. I would dearly love to see it set in print a la The Annotated Alice. I like the medallion design (upper right), too.

Through the Looking Glass: an interview with William Gibson. "People are still asking me about the death of the book, and yet here I am and every day I go out to the biggest bookstores that have ever existed and are doing the most business daily of any bookstores in history."

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Highlights from the past week or so:

• People over for gaming on Monday afternoon/evening, split about evenly between ABG and LJ folk. Pretty consistently had two games going at any given time, which is approaching the 'comfortable' limit for my apartment. Gaming with non-gamers is, as uilos observed, qualitatively different from gaming with people who do this several times a month; it's partly a focus on the game, and partly being used to absorbing game concepts quickly. (Curiously, jonny_law falls into the "gamer" category.) Insert lament for Spiel here. I think everyone had a good time; I certainly did.
  
• Stealing time on Wednesday for lunch with tulip_tree, as she breezed through from Toronto to Dulles to Charlottesville. Reconnecting with old friends makes me happy.
  
• GMing on Thursday, for the first time since the dissolution of the Tuesday Night Music Club in late 2003. I ran Jared Sorensen's Lacuna for the small-press RPG night folk at the Compleat Strategist, and overall it went well. Details to follow, probably later today.
  
• The neverending service pack release at work (featuring not one but two entirely new products) is lumbering towards RC.