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Happy New Year, one and all! Here's hoping your new year is filled with natural 20s!
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Happy New Year, one and all! Here's hoping your new year is filled with natural 20s!
According to the calendar on my phone I still have another day to screw up this year.
I was just getting a jump on things...lol. I'm acutely aware that things could go all pear-shaped in the next several hours...LOL
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I was just getting a jump on things...lol. I'm acutely aware that things could go all pear-shaped in the next several hours...LOL
I have a family gathering today so the odds are not in my favor.
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Still two and a half hours of 2022 to go for me...
After months of game cancellations, illnesses, and just bad timing, it looks like I'll have a dozen players tomorrow, counting two that will be playing remotely. From famine to feast!
What's going on with y'all?
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Not much this weekend. Kids finally go back to school on Monday, and I finally go back to work.
Getting over a cold and hibernating as much as possible.
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I've made pickled onions and a fencing bag, improvised some bookends, and fixed the bed. I've done some exercise, played the guitar, been down the shops, and am now having a nice Belgian beer.
Tomorrow, I need to cook for the week, and will have a PF2 game in the evening. Level 6, hey hey.
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I've made pickled onions and a fencing bag, improvised some bookends, and fixed the bed. I've done some exercise, played the guitar, been down the shops, and am now having a nice Belgian beer.
Dang, that's a full day!
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We had a good time tonight. Counting the player joining over Facebook Video I had 11 players, one a friend who's not gamed in a long time. He brought his daughter along and there was another new face. The game didn't last long, however, as they figured out well before the boss fight that the bbeg was The One Eyed, One Horned Flying Purple People Eater. This was supposed to be the Halloween game but since we didn't get to play and I just held onto it until tonight.
I'm glad you finally had a good game, Cal. You deserve that.
Thank you. It was fun, for sure. And it felt good to roll weirdly shaped dice among friends again.
Hi, all. Who's doing what this weekend? There's no game at Sweet Home Calabama, but if all goes well there will be next weekend. The days of planning games every weekend with no space between them and especially games made on the fly are over for this GM...lol.
In-laws were supposed to come into town just after Christmas, but the Southwest snafu rescheduled them to this weekend. Visting/entertaining will take up most of my time while they're here.
I will be fixing more Brass Things to the door, putting up some shelves back up that fell down, doing some exercise, and trying to play guitar more or less like Jerry Garcia (probably less). I also have some Politics to do on Sunday, plus our regular PF2 game.
And once again, my health crashes another gaming weekend. My body is rejecting my pain medicine, causing the pain receptors to "backfire" so even though I haven't fully stopped the meds cold turkey (that's bad, kids) I feel EXACTLY as I did when I did go through opioid withdrawal in 2005. This started on Monday and there has been no let up. Oy.
I hope everyone has a better weekend in mind than mine!
I have a furry brat that torments my dog and me whenever I sit down to do anything. That's her cue to climb up on the left side of my chest and lay her head on my shoulder only to bite me when I make the slightest move...LOL
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Sneaker: I'm going to wait for a momentary lapse in attention from the Titan and then leap up onto the counter and attempt to scoff his breakfast, even though I've already had mine.
Squeaker: Well, I'm just going to and and and and , and then I'm going to sidle up to your blind side and bap you on the head
LOL!!!!
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Though there was no game this weekend, I found out tonight my landlord offered to sell the duplex where I live to my son and his girlfriend before he put it on the market AND at a substantial discount from his asking price. The process started Friday and I have a feeling of hope I haven't known for a while. It's not a done deal yet, but I'm crossing fingers and tentacles for a good outcome.
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The only pets we have is the mouse that inexplicably evades my mouse trap.
I got a new one though that I'm hopeful will solve the problem and we can have the house animal free again. At least until the swallows try to nest in the dryer vent again.
Also, there is the spider colony I've reached an accord with (I don't kill them and in return they kill the other bugs (yes I know arachnids technically aren't bugs).
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"Bugs, Mr. Rico! Jillions of 'em!" -- R. A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
Playing at Sweet Home Calabama tomorrow night. It'll be a smaller group than the last two times, which I'm totally okay with.
How about everyone else?
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We got a foot of snow this weekend so that's what I did.
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Friday evening I was allowed to paint a little. Saturday was spent mostly making dinner or being slept upon. Sunday was early dinner with my parents, celebrating my father's birthday, then home for the SO's game time. I spent most of that giving lap again.
Hope you managed to have a proper game night, Cal.
Thanks, but I'm sad to report that I didn't. I've GM'd through anxiety episodes but this one burst forth as a pure panic attack with no anxiety preamble an hour into the game and I had to shut it down. I felt awful doing so but if I'd not stopped things could've escalated further into heart attack territory.
It breaks my heart to consider it, but given how much momentum we as a group lost to COVID and the difficulties we've had since being able to gather again (about half or more related to one aspect of my health or another), I may have gone about as far as I can with gaming. At least as a GM. Since 2021 (and the great majority of the time leading back to 1985) I have been the perma-GM. I can count on two hands and have fingers left over the number of times I've gotten to be a player since. I'm utterly burned out and no one, NO ONE in my group will take over the GM duties. I am burnt out.
I have a lot to think about.
DW, we used to do things like that and they were loads of fun. Attempts were made to revive them but there was virtually zero interest in doing so. And absolutely no one in my group besides myself ever watched "Avatar" because "they hate the animation style". It's a difficult spot to be in.
My sympathies. If you are burned out, take a break. Do something else, like board games or card games, watch movies or sports or whatever, but take a break from GMing. If your hobby is more of a burden than a joy, it's time to stop doing the supposed hobby, at least for a time.
This is what I'm going to have to do, but my guilt complex kicks in because one of my long, long-time players has a terminal illness and I want to make the time she has left fun and another has had five strokes (and is younger than I by about five years) and lives 2.5 hours away and only gets to attend when someone is available to drive him. If those folks get weekend jobs, he'll be left out again. I shouldn't worry so much about those things (I guess) but I do. Board or card games are right out as absolutely none of my group has interest in those things and I have no interest in sports, myself. But honestly, my fuel tanks are empty and coasting on fumes can only go so far. I've had two complete breakdowns in my life and I've come to recognize the way I feel when I'm headed in that direction again. I don't wanna do that ever again (though the first one, in 1987 where I descended into actual psychosis and took on a new persona for a year does make for some interesting stories...lol).
You folks need a good fishing hole to spread out your lawn chairs, and sit and fish.
Not a bad idea at all. I would, however, be the only one who knows how to bait a hook. I ain't kiddin'...lol
No game this weekend at Sweet Home Calabama. It's actually still sort of dicey (see what I did there?) for travel out of Memphis, where three of the group drives in from. Plus, I'm still dealing with complications after an emergency tooth extraction 9 days ago (on top of it breaking, bicuspids are only supposed to have two roots. I'm in the 6% of Homo sapiens with three), so that sort of threw the dentist off a bit...lol.
So what are the rest of you lot up to this weekend?
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I was going to a poker game Saturday night, but it turns out my buddy's wife is also hosting a baby shower the same day (and it runs into the evening, I guess?), so the poker game got nixed.
A couple other things going on also got cancelled, so I'm not sure how the weekend will go. MYSTERY!
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We've got a punchbag in the cellar now, and everyone is very excited to get thumpin' It was our 5th anniversary, too, so we had a bit of a celebration. I have a PF2 game tomorrow, where my duck familiar will probably save the day A-GAIN.
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I was going to a poker game Saturday night, but it turns out my buddy's wife is also hosting a baby shower the same day (and it runs into the evening, I guess?), so the poker game got nixed.
Update: Turns out my friend has Covid, so the baby shower his wife was hosting got rescheduled. The poker game is back on as an online game, pandemic-style.
I told my friend it was a power move to get Covid to get out of a baby shower.
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We've got a punchbag in the cellar now, and everyone is very excited to get thumpin'
One of those big heavy things Steve Rogers knocked off its hanger or one of those little rapid punch bags?
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I told my friend it was a power move to get Covid to get out of a baby shower.
I see nothing wrong with this ploy.
We've got a punchbag in the cellar now, and everyone is very excited to get thumpin'One of those big heavy things Steve Rogers knocked off its hanger or one of those little rapid punch bags?
It's a heavy bag, but it's free-standing. We need to pour more sand in the base, as it's a bit wobbly, but actually getting the sand in there is a huge pain in the backside.