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.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?
I understand that. I bought a free-standing (but small one) for my kid, and the hole for the sand in the base is strangely small.
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.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?
Bruh! No grains no gains! (eats more steroid-laced candies or something)
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Bruh! No grains no gains! (eats more steroid-laced candies or something)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.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?
Bro, do you even lift (your backpack full of 8 different workbooks and a laptop, to and from every class, because they got rid of the lockers)???
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I'm old so I predate the use of backpacks in high school. That didn't really become a thing where I'm from until sometime after I graduated in 1982. Heck, I didn't even buy one for college until 1985 (and I carried my gaming books in it most of the time!). I figured out a work around in college to the even-then ridiculously high-priced text books. If a text was mentioned on the syllabus, I'd give it two or three weeks to see if the book was even going to actually be used for the class (it was amazing to see how many weren't, even though they were "required"). If it became apparent it wasn't, I didn't buy it. Also, unless the book was going to be extensively referenced and used, I would just scribble down the reading assignments, go the university library's textbook section, read what I needed to before the next class session, write pretty copious and detailed notes, and just scoot along just fine with more money for beer, gaming stuff, and basically spending enough to keep the lights turned on at the used record store in town...lol
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Bruh! No grains no gains! (eats more steroid-laced candies or something)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.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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**Cal reaches out his hand and pulls the cord on Sweet Home Calabama's "Open" sign, turning it off**
For my own health and peace of mind, I'm going on hiatus. I'll still be haunting the message boards, though. If anyone cares to read the very lengthy reasons why, here is the link to the post in the "DungeonmasterCal's House of Respite" thread.
It's Finally Friday once again! It feels odd to say it, but making my hiatus "official" in an announcement to my gaming group was cathartic in and of itself. Although we didn't play every weekend, or every other weekend anymore, knowing that I actually don't have the pressure of putting together a game for any time in the near future has relaxed me some already. Everything I need will be there when I'm ready to come back.
Anyway, how about everyone else? Big plans for the weekend? Early Valentine's Day stuff?
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Taking my son and his friends to see a Percy Jackson musical at a local theater, tonight; my wife has arranged for us to take family pictures, tomorrow; and we're celebrating a friend's birthday, tomorrow night! Maybe on Sunday I'll get some time for myself! I do have to log in and do some work, though. Plus, laundry and groceries somewhere in there.
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This weekend is quiet, the most we have planned is board games on Sunday and maybe some anime on Monday. Gotta take the Rav in for the last service of our maintenance plan, then I'm free of the dealership and can take it elsewhere. The quality has dipped the last year or two, from the stellar service we had at the start to sloppy paperwork and missed items. Sad, but we already have a backup that my brother has been going to since he moved down here and has good rapport with.
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I got done with shoveling some of the heaviest wettest snow I've ever shoveled in my 18 years of professionally shoveling snow. So I'm going to relax and hopefully my wife will massage my newly grown muscles and we'll see where things go from there (I mean, we're both super hot so I have a pretty good idea where things will go but I don't want to be presumptuous).
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My partner's Mum is coming to stay tomorrow, so those two will be mostly having conversations in loud voices in front of the TV. I shall occasionally be called upon to carry things, or make tea, but am otherwise required to be quiet and stay out of the way, which are things I can do excellently.
It's finally Friday. What are you up to this weekend?
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I've been secretly building a garden show exhibit inside a cattle birthing barn (needed somewhere warm) on the edge of town for the last 6 weeks and we just spent two days (and then a snow run on top of that.
So I will be taking the family down to the garden show at Monona Terrace to show it off.
I'm super proud of all the hard work we put into it.
In the meantime, I just got done this morning with working 40 out of 48 hours (with the last 24 hours working straight through) so I'll probably take it easy tonight (of course what I think is taking it easy is often a lot different than what other people think is taking it easy).
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I am having a glass of brown ale and listening to an old Austrian prog album. It has a cool cover, but the music's a wee bit too symphonic for me to be truly keen on it.
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My kid has his first debate tournament, but I just learned that he's been waitlisted because they won't have enough judges. No idea if he'll debate or not.
Other than that, not much going on.
My kid has his first debate tournament, but I just learned that he's been waitlisted because they won't have enough judges. No idea if he'll debate or not.
When my son was in high school, he and some friends wanted to start a debate club. They found a teacher to sponsor them but was ultimately told that the school didn't have the funds for such a thing. The very next semester they proudly announced the new gun club. Really.
I am having a glass of brown ale and listening to an old Austrian prog album. It has a cool cover, but the music's a wee bit too symphonic for me to be truly keen on it.
I don't mind a symphonic sound with prog (The Moody Blues, etc) but this record just didn't make me "feel" anything, if that makes sense.
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No, I know what you mean. There wasn't much to it beyond showing off, really - very competent showing off, but nothing playing or composition-wise to make you sit up and take notice.
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My kid has his first debate tournament, but I just learned that he's been waitlisted because they won't have enough judges. No idea if he'll debate or not.When my son was in high school, he and some friends wanted to start a debate club. They found a teacher to sponsor them but was ultimately told that the school didn't have the funds for such a thing. The very next semester they proudly announced the new gun club. Really.
Ugh.
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Very nice, cap!
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We have reached level 2 after some really horrific encounters this evening. Now my humble clockmaker can disarm traps at range.
We also managed a round of Spirit Island before the game, causing a delay thanks to it running long. Playing the mist spirit is a bit harrowing, but fear victory makes the struggle worth it.
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What's everyone up to this weekend? Things are still on hiatus here at Sweet Home Calabama, though one of my players has offered to run me on some one-on-one games and I'm damned near giddy. I finally arrived at a class and his origin. The character hails from our fantasy version of ancient Egypt, Khemt. He's all prepped to go but she wants a photo or sketch of the character. And I'm here to tell ya, just doing Google and Deviant Art searches turns up LOTS of images of ancient Egyptian manga and Furry pharaohs. Mostly that stuff, but lots of the gods and sexay Egyptian girls (and more than a few completely nude men and women in various art styles, with some in... compromising positions). All I want is just a normal looking Egyptian dude, not royalty or priesthood. Is that so much to ask? AAAAAGGHH
Anyway. What's The Plan for the weekend?
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I'm on a Kindle binge. Mostly SF, some urban fantasy (a half-elf bounty hunter who ends up married to a dragon?!), some contemporary thriller stuff.
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Had to take Squeaker to the vet's - he was in a bit of bother yesterday, but has his appetite (and voice) back now. My partner and I played the random dungeon crawl game Four Against Darkness this afternoon, and started preparing the garden for what we're going to grow later on in the year, and I also did some exercise and played the guitar. There might be a PF2 game tomorrow, if the GM feels better.
Sweet Home Calabama remains temporarily closed, but what about all the rest of you? Work? Games? Kafkaesque Metamorphosis? Laundry?
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Nothing major planned this weekend. Gearing up for heading out of town next weekend for Spring Break. We're vacationing with another family, and we're going to Zion National Park in Utah. We'll also do a day trip to Bryce Canyon, and we'll be spending our last day in Las Vegas, because that's where we're flying out of. Since we're leaving on Friday, we're going to get started on the packing this weekend.
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The Kindle binge continues. Lunch Sunday in celebration of a good friend who passed away years ago.
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The Kindle binge continues. Lunch Sunday in celebration of a good friend who passed away years ago.
I'm beginning to acquire an unpleasant number of losses among my friends. I'm looking down the barrel of 60 this year and for the first time I'm actually depressed about this upcoming milestone. Raise a glass from me to your friend. May they live on through you.
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I'm getting up at Nonsense O'Clock to go to a historical fencing get-together, which should be a laugh. By an odd coincidence, the curtain poles for sale at my local DIY store are just the right size for the quarterstaff workshop, a fact that I'm sure has Deep Cosmic Significance.
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Playing the first game as an actual player here at Sweet Home Calabama today around 5:30ish. It'll be a solo game via Skype and I am so excited to finally be on the wrong side of the GM screen after so long I can hardly contain myself.
What do you all of youse guys have going on this weekend?
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Catching up on some TV, napping, paying bills and taxes, and napping. :-)
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My return to the wrong side of the GM screen tonight was a blast. It felt so great to be a player after so freaking long. The adventure was the first one my player Tamela has ever run, and it was a short, pretty basic dungeon crawl she worked up as both a game for me and a way of familiarizing herself with the rules and things a GM gets to do. It was around three hours long all told, and I loved every freaking second of it. I have believed for thirty years she'd make a great GM and I wasn't disappointed. She definitely wants to write up adventures with other elements to them and not just the Dungeon Crawl of the Week and she's going to be great.
The only thing I would change is to go back in time to get her to do this much sooner, as her health is rapidly deteriorating and she may not have many years, or even months, left that she'll be able to participate. Still, I will enjoy all the time we have left, both as her GM and a player under her direction.
Cal, that's so great to hear. A little bittersweet, but still great to hear. What class was your PC for your solo dungeon?
As for me, I'm in Utah.
Nothing major planned this weekend. Gearing up for heading out of town next weekend for Spring Break. We're vacationing with another family, and we're going to Zion National Park in Utah. We'll also do a day trip to Bryce Canyon, and we'll be spending our last day in Las Vegas, because that's where we're flying out of. Since we're leaving on Friday, we're going to get started on the packing this weekend.
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Cal, that's so great to hear. A little bittersweet, but still great to hear. What class was your PC for your solo dungeon?
As for me, I'm in Utah.
There are worse places that Utah, I would imagine!
We use a lot of 3PP material for out campaigns. Rogue Genius Games released a set of rules to play each specialist wizard as its own class, so I chose the Evoker. It's probably over-powered, but I'm not a good judge of such things. If it is a little more revved up than most other classes it will probably work in my favor since it's a solo game.
Here is a link to it:
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Looks like a PF1 class. :-)
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Cal, that's so great to hear. A little bittersweet, but still great to hear. What class was your PC for your solo dungeon?
As for me, I'm in Utah.
There are worse places that Utah , I would imagine!
We use a lot of 3PP material for out campaigns. Rogue Genius Games released a set of rules to play each specialist wizard as its own class, so I chose the Evoker. It's probably over-powered, but I'm not a good judge of such things. If it is a little more revved up than most other classes it will probably work in my favor since it's a solo game.
Here is a link to it:
As someone who has been through Utah 5 times I can say with certainty that yes, there is probably worse places to be, but not many.
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I went to Utah once. It was closed. -- With apologies to W.C. Fields. :-)
Anyone have big doin's planned this weekend?
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More Strange Aeons! My humble clockmaker has learned from the asylum records that he is the focus of all the weird poltergeist shenanigans following the party. So I don't get to make everyone think the place is haunted now, but now they get to wonder why he's haunted.
More Strange Aeons! My humble clockmaker has learned from the asylum records that he is the focus of all the weird poltergeist shenanigans following the party. So I don't get to make everyone think the place is haunted now, but now they get to wonder why he's haunted.
That sounds pretty fun!