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I'm also looking forward to 85° opening this weekend here locally. We found it in California on Disney trips and it's going to be great not having to drive 6 hours to get baked goods.
Also, really looking forward to Eyes of the Ten III on the 11th. Maybe we can even finish the scenario in one night!
Anyone fixin' to go dice-wild this weekend? I'm probably going to run a remote game for a couple of new players in Pennsylvania on Saturday, but that's the only gaming-related thing I have going on.
After a hiatus of five or six years, The Trans-Siberian Orchestra is playing in Little Rock tonight (about 30 minutes from where I live). They really don't ever change their set list or their stage show much but we don't care. We used to see them at least every other year and attending the shows became part of our Christmas tradition. I'm pretty excited to get to go and see them. I dread the physical toll it'll have on me, but it's rock and roll and pretty much the greatest pyrotechnic display I've ever seen with a band. There. Is. So. Much. Pyro.
(Dang, it's barely Friday. You're getting an early start.)
I've seen TSO two or three times! Yes, that's a lot of sparks and lights. I still get chills whenever I hear "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24". Enjoy!
The holidays are here, so we have a school event for one of the kids, and we need to finish decorating the tree.
For Spring Break, we are planning a trip with another family, and the airfare planning has already gotten too complicated to continue via text, apparently. So we're going to do breakfast at their house one morning and get that all hashed out.
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We're supposed to get half a foot of snow this morning so I know what I'll be doing the rest of the day.
Also, the wife and I are going to go see Modest Mouse on Sunday.
(Dang, it's barely Friday. You're getting an early start.)
I've seen TSO two or three times! Yes, that's a lot of sparks and lights. I still get chills whenever I hear "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24". Enjoy!
This will be my ninth or tenth time to see them. More than any other band, for sure, with Iron Maiden running a close second.
I remember the first time I heard that song. It was on the Savatage album, "Dead Winter Dead" (TSO was started by members of Savatage and others). I was just gobsmacked by it.
Yeah, kind of an early start on the weekend stuff. I'm in the middle of the first insomnia stretch I've had in a couple of months and I thought I'd make the post while I was still coherent...lol
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We're supposed to get half a foot of snow this morning so I know what I'll be doing the rest of the day.
It might get cold here in Houston next week. I think on Thursday it might drop to 61 Fahrenheit!
Yeah, kind of an early start on the weekend stuff. I'm in the middle of the first insomnia stretch I've had in a couple of months and I thought I'd make the post while I was still coherent...lol
Yeah, my sleep is all messed up, too. I keep staying up to about Midnight or so, and then I keep waking up multiple times throughout the night for no good reason.
We're supposed to have snow tomorrow. We'll see.
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Minimal snow for another week, then two days of predicted 3-6 inches per day. I'm betting it will be less.
As for this weekend, I'll be trying to break a bad cycle where I sleep until noon, play two hours of an MMO, take a three hour nap, read for a while, get up and eat something, and then stay up doing nothing useful until 3 or 4 in the morning. Or somethings, try to get to bed at midnite, and then get up at 4:30 because I want a sammich. Also, Youtube is insidious. :-)
Minimal snow for another week, then two days of predicted 3-6 inches per day. I'm betting it will be less.
As for this weekend, I'll be trying to break a bad cycle where I sleep until noon, play two hours of an MMO, take a three hour nap, read for a while, get up and eat something, and then stay up doing nothing useful until 3 or 4 in the morning. Or sometimes, try to get to bed at midnite, and then get up at 4:30 because I want a sammich. Also, Youtube is insidious. :-)
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We're supposed to have snow tomorrow. We'll see.
And we surely did.
Gearing up to play Saturday. Normally I'm the one griping about not getting to run my games but I've had an especially trying week and if it weren't for three players who've been away from the fold for a long time making the effort to come game during their holiday time I'd skip it. My head is literally not in the game at this point because there is a very real chance I could become homeless in a couple of months. I'm sure we'll have a good time when we get together, but right now I just want to crawl into a hole and pull it in after me.
So what's up with y'all this weekend?
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This Sunday we'll be seeing Zoolights at the Phoenix Zoo, before our roommate flies back to Texas for Christmas with his family. It'll just be us and my brother all next week, since the other housemate is flying to Oregon tomorrow to spend Christmas with her fiance. Probably some board games while I'm on my PTO four day weekend, but nothing much else.
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We're going a-protesting tomorrow, and we are (meaning I am, most likely) also painting the doors. You may think that rust-proofing Jim Morrison this far down the line is a bit of an exercise in futility, but those are my orders nonetheless.
I shall also have PF2 on Sunday.
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Well, we all know Jim Morrison has actually been living somewhere around Bristol with Elvis Presley, John Lennon, and Jimi Hendrix for decades.
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Sorry to hear about your situation, Cal. Hope things work out for you. Keep us updated.
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My company's holiday party is this weekend. I wasn't really excited to go, but then they announced that the venue is Minute Maid Park, which is the field that the Houston Astros play at, so my wife and I didn't want to miss an opportunity to walk the bases in cocktail attire.
I think we have our Christmas shopping completed!
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Elvis is not dead. He went home. -- Agent K
My game was a bust. At the last minute, one of the crew texted me to let me know he had strep throat so he and his daughter wouldn't be able to attend. My remote player was having issues with her computer and she couldn't log into any remote gaming or conference website. My player who drove over two hours forgot her character sheet. I had a copy on my computer so I let her borrow my laptop to access it, but then that began to b!+$#+~s up. By this point over an hour had passed and I had just completely lost all momentum and interest in running the game. I'm starting to really think I've come to the end of the line with my gaming career.
Sounds like it may be time to let someone else GM and just be a player for a while.
Sounds like it may be time to let someone else GM and just be a player for a while.
That would be great. No one will take up the DM mantle, though. I've tried more than once. Except for a very rare one-shot here or there, I have been the sole GM for 30 years.
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That's a long run!
That's a long run!
Yeah, it is. There were times when one member of the group would decide to run something, like Call of Cthulhu or DC Heroes. But he'd run two or three sessions then announce that coming up with adventures was too hard so he was going to stop the campaigns. My friend Eddie, who drove over from Memphis for games (two and a half hours) offered to run Stargate, using the 5e rules. I was the only one who ever wanted to play. Everyone else decided they didn't want to spend time learning a new rules system and wouldn't be playing in it. So, the buck got passed back to me.
Yeah, listening to the frustrations that you've put up with that you've shared on the forums, it's understandable that you'd experience burn out (or however you'd characterize what you're feeling). Do you think someone else will step up, or is everyone else just going to linger, hoping someone else will be the impetus for getting everyone together?
My plan for tomorrow is yet another trip to the dentist to take care of one of the teeth that I already spent a ton of money on. Now it's cracked stem to stern. Then off to work after probably having it pulled. Bleh.
Ugh. I hate to hear that. Best of luck!
Yeah, listening to the frustrations that you've put up with that you've shared on the forums, it's understandable that you'd experience burn out (or however you'd characterize what you're feeling). Do you think someone else will step up, or is everyone else just going to linger, hoping someone else will be the impetus for getting everyone together?
No one else will put on the DM hat. I don't even mention it anymore because I know it's not going to happen. If I don't run the games no one will. The only player who has ever volunteered to run something else lives in Memphis and after having his fifth stroke this year he's not allowed to drive. His friend used to play with us and he'd drive, but his job changed and he works on Saturdays now so Eddie is unable to join us at all. But even then he wanted to start up a Stargate campaign using the 5e ruleset and I was the only one who was willing to play because no one else "didn't want to bother learning new rules".
So, here I sit. I'm going to offer to run one more time on the 8th of January and we'll see where it goes from there. I am going to run a game for some friends of my son who are home for the holidays but it will just be a one shot. At least they're new players who haven't seen all of my tricks yet so I should be able to terrify them with the BBEG encounter; The One Horned, One-Eyed, Flying Purple People Eater, created for PF1e by forum member Phillip Gastone. I am also going to play the stupid song as battle music.
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I'm trying to get my Christmas shopping done before the blizzard hits on Thursday.
Once the blizzard hits I'll be working pretty much until Christmas morning.
We're not supposed to get any blizzards, maybe an inch of snow but the temps are going to drop like rocks for a few days and nights. I know the cold is a hardship to many, especially here in the south where people aren't accustomed to them much, but if it's not cold for Christmas then it doesn't feel right to me.
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I'm trying to get my Christmas shopping done before the blizzard hits on Thursday.
Once the blizzard hits I'll be working pretty much until Christmas morning.
In case you want to go all 'hippie blizzard guy' with your own electric bike snowplow.
After a few prototypes, he arrived at his current strategy of attaching two shovels angled outward to plywood mounted onto his cargo hold.
I will pass it on to the boss and head mechanic (as well as a few other mechanics I know).
It's going to freeze tomorrow and last probably through Saturday or Sunday. No rain or snow, so it won't be too bad, but people here in Texas are still traumatized from when the state power grid went down during a freeze a couple years ago. The relevant officials are assuring us it won't happen again, however.
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No one else will put on the DM hat. I don't even mention it anymore because I know it's not going to happen. If I don't run the games no one will. The only player who has ever volunteered to run something else lives in Memphis and after having his fifth stroke this year he's not allowed to drive. His friend used to play with us and he'd drive, but his job changed and he works on Saturdays now so Eddie is unable to join us at all. But even then he wanted to start up a Stargate campaign using the 5e ruleset and I was the only one who was willing to play because no one else "didn't want to bother learning new rules".
So, here I sit. I'm going to offer to run one more time on the 8th of January and we'll see where it goes from there. I am going to run a game for some friends of my son who are home for the holidays but it will just be a one shot. At least they're new players who haven't seen all of my tricks yet so I should be able to terrify them with the BBEG encounter; The One Horned, One-Eyed, Flying Purple People Eater, created for PF1e by forum member Phillip Gastone. I am also going to play the stupid song as battle music.
I wish I knew what to tell you. I hope it works out for you somehow.
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Thank you. At present, I'm more concerned about the future of my living situation, which probably plays into this, as well.
I have friends all over Texas. I felt really bad for them that winter. I wouldn't trust "the relevant officials" in the least. I'll be crossing my tentacles that everyone stays warm!
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The relevant officials are assuring us it won't happen again, however.
"How can you tell when a politician is lying?"
"His lips are moving.":-)
Welp, it's colder than a witch's...it's cold. My son's furnace went out in the night and it dropped down to 3 degrees F (-16 C for those of you in civilized nations). The landlord is sending someone out to look at it today but for now he's moved their pets (two cats and their tiny Muppet dogs (my nickname for his gf's teacup Yorkies) into my place for the time being. Also, there is no gaming this weekend at Sweet Home Calabama as everyone is doing Christmas things.
I hope that everyone has a wonderful holiday weekend, be it gaming with friends and family, swapping colorfully wrapped loot, or just spending time with the ones they love.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
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Ha. And Ha ha.
Well, the Texas power grid is fine. There's some wind damage that's knocked out some power lines, but the state power grid seems to be okay.
HOWEVER!
I spent so much time making sure we had the groceries done for Christmas dinner and also helping a new neighbor disconnect her garden hoses with the rusty collars, that I neglected to notice that the insulation for the water pipe leading from the main line to our house had somehow been shredded or otherwise torn away. So, that pipe is frozen and we have no water. Hopefully it's just the two feet exposed to the air in between the ground and where it enters the house. This is also where the main shut-off valve is, and it's frozen so that I can't turn it.
I turned off the main valve at the street. I went to Home Depot and bought a space heater, which I set up right next to the two foot section of pipe in question. I used my kids' Crazy Fort to build a frame around the heater and pipe and clipped a blanket over the frame. We'll see if that does the trick.
I've also re-purposed a pool noodle for insulation if the pipe ever warms back up.
Other tips from non-subtropical climes are welcome!
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It worked! Water restored!
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It worked! Water restored!
Woohoo!
Living in the frozen North it's absolutely wild to me that the water pipe is above ground at all. Ours comes into the basement 3-4 feet underground.
We don't have basements in Houston because they would flood all the time.
Living in the frozen North it's absolutely wild to me that the water pipe is above ground at all. Ours comes into the basement 3-4 feet underground.We don't have basements in Houston because they would flood all the time.
What do you do if there's a tornado?!
Our basements flood in Wisconsin too, but that's what pumps are for.
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After all the hype, including the county Executive holding a presser to tell us all what he's doing to help, I am laughing. Yeah, it's colder than f**k, but the wind's stopped blowing, there's less than an Inch of snow on the ground, and I still have power and water. Of course, that's just this little corner of the county. Can't speak for elsewhere. :-)
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What do you do if there's a tornado?!Living in the frozen North it's absolutely wild to me that the water pipe is above ground at all. Ours comes into the basement 3-4 feet underground.We don't have basements in Houston because they would flood all the time.
We shoot at it with our six shooters.
Our basements flood in Wisconsin too, but that's what pumps are for.
I guess the difference is that Houston (and other cities along the coast) are built upon swamp lands.
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What do you do if there's a tornado?!Living in the frozen North it's absolutely wild to me that the water pipe is above ground at all. Ours comes into the basement 3-4 feet underground.We don't have basements in Houston because they would flood all the time.We shoot at it with our six shooters.
Our basements flood in Wisconsin too, but that's what pumps are for.I guess the difference is that Houston (and other cities along the coast) are built upon swamp lands.
So is Madison.
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What do you do if there's a tornado?!Living in the frozen North it's absolutely wild to me that the water pipe is above ground at all. Ours comes into the basement 3-4 feet underground.We don't have basements in Houston because they would flood all the time.We shoot at it with our six shooters.
Our basements flood in Wisconsin too, but that's what pumps are for.I guess the difference is that Houston (and other cities along the coast) are built upon swamp lands.
Tell me, what are Houn Stones?