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Going to be an early morning tomorrow, followed by a long day. Borrowing an excavator and a dump truck from work so I can install a 12'x3'x3' French drain at my friend's mother's house.
How's everyone this weekend? Big plans?
I'll be spending the weekend at home beginning week two of "Cal's Covid Adventure Part IV - The Revenge of The Wrath of The Electric Boogaloo's Vengeance". As with the previous three times, all I've had for symptoms are nonstop fevers, fatigue, brain fog, a completely fragged sense of taste, and a mild sore throat. It seems this might be a yearly event with me now. Yippee. So, I'll continue my quarantine, which is fine because I hate to leave my house anyway...lol.
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The boy and I need a haircut
I must make the March Of Shame to the sewing machine repair shop, since I BROKE the one belonging to my wife.
Also, the Spiritualist Church up the road has its 'Summer Fayre' on Sunday, so I shall be interested to see what that's like.
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Big, big plans! I'm working!
Finishing up a huge catalog/calendar type job that is incredibly overdue to be finished (the other hardscape lead foreman started it and was doing such a terrible job that he quit and went back to the place he hated before he would have been fired.
I literally had to pull down and rebuild everything except for 2 walls (I had to rebuild one).
After that I'm getting super baked and will go see the new Borderlands movie.
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GM for D20 Star Wars bailed again, but at least this time he let us know the night before instead of an hour before the game was supposed to start. We ended up going to see Deadpool & Wolverine, then made characters for D20 Dark Souls, which one of our players is going to run as a backup any time GM Star Wars decides to flake out on us.
Dark Souls is going to be interesting-- first off, I don't know thing one about Dark Souls. Secondly, the guy running the game is the guy who always wants to play the fighter, and the guy who always wants to play the barbarian decided to break type and play a spellcaster this time around, so I get to play the tank. Which, not counting one particular PbP, is something that I pretty much never get to do.
What's goin' on this weekend, everyone?
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Well, my car's been in the shop all week, and now they're telling me they have to keep it 'til Monday, so I'm stuck at home. Maybe I'll just sleep all weekend.
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What's goin' on this weekend, everyone?
You first!
You still got Covid?
What's goin' on this weekend, everyone?You first!
You still got Covid?
I do, or at least still have the same symptoms I've had since around July 30th. I meant to buy another home test when I was out running errands earlier but I just kept feeling worse and worse and cut my trip short. I might be over it and it's been replaced with something else, I dunno LOL. All I know for sure is right now I hurt everywhere immediately underneath my skin and I've barely slept this week as a result.
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Ugh, so sorry to hear that.
It's weird to me how much calmer people are about Covid from just a few years ago. It would have been unfathomable to run errands during the middle of the pandemic, and now it's almost unfathomable to expect to stay as isolated as we all were then, even when we weren't sick.
When Noah Lyles ran the 200 meter race in the Olympics when he had Covid, I asked my wife (who is an epidemiologist) about that, and she was telling me how people are now more accepting of the fact that most people are vaccinated, and that we have medicines to better treat the symptoms.
Still, when my wife got Covid a couple weeks ago, she isolated in our bedroom, but not for as long as she did when she got it during the pandemic.
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re: isolating, lockdowns, etc. due to covid. Sitting near the top of my to read pile is Tom Woods' Diary of a Psychosis. Subtitled "How Public Health disgraced itself during Covid mania", it promises to be an interesting read. :-)
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Pretty dismissive of you, Toz. :-(
Happy Friday, all! I'm Covid free! We're also set to game next Saturday, so now the agony of choosing feats and allocating skill points begins!
How's everyone else doing? Any plans?
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I'm Covid free!
Hooray!
I've got a lot of little things lined up for this weekend, but not enough that the weekend feels too busy, so that's nice. A few chores, dinner with friends tonight, and I'm going to finalize my Call of Cthulu/Delta Green PC. The game isn't until September, but the GM is insisting he wants to start working backstories into the campaign.
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A few chores
UPDATE: I just found out I'm unclogging the kids' bathroom sink today. Exciting development.
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Went out today and traded in my old bass guitar for new one. I somehow managed to get significantly more for my old Squier J-series 5-string than I paid for it, which gave me the budget to buy my first real Fender P-bass.
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I always really liked the Gibson basses (EB-3 and the like), so might see if I can pick up an Epiphone version if I ever decide to upgrade.
I had a fencing competition today (pretty poor performance on my part), and also helped my wife fix the (plastic) greenhouse that did a loop de loop across the back yard during Storm Lillian on Thursday. We have a PF2 game tomorrow as well.
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I always really liked the Gibson basses (EB-3 and the like), so might see if I can pick up an Epiphone version if I ever decide to upgrade.
Never got the chance to use any Gibson basses, but my long-running workhorse (electric) guitar has been an Epiphone Les Paul Junior clone.
Went out today and traded in my old bass guitar for new one. I somehow managed to get significantly more for my old Squier J-series 5-string than I paid for it, which gave me the budget to buy my first real Fender P-bass.
My son has a P-Bass, but he recently swapped out the neck for a new one with a Telecaster style headpiece.
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I always really liked the Gibson basses (EB-3 and the like), so might see if I can pick up an Epiphone version if I ever decide to upgrade.Never got the chance to use any Gibson basses, but my long-running workhorse (electric) guitar has been an Epiphone Les Paul Junior clone.
They're pretty good guitars. My main guitar's an '80s Riviera, which I got ages ago when they were cheap.
Well, dang. Our fourth "monthly" game since January was supposed to take place tomorrow but now it's been rescheduled, and the date the GM set for next month neither I nor my ex-wife (we're best friends) can be there. So, there's that. I will probably run the one shot for my son's group sometime next week, though, so I need to put the finishing touches on that this weekend.
How about everyone else?
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A nice long empty holiday weekend.
Hey, all! Here's hoping everyone had a good week. What's going on this weekend?
The one shot for my son's friends got postponed because we had to say goodbye to our dog Buster last night. He was 13 years old, and his body was failing him. It was time. So, we'll try to reschedule that game for next month or so. How about everyone else?
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OMG it's Friday again already? No plans, except I have to set up my inkjet printer again (it's been offline in the corner for several months 'cause I got mad at it).
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Condolences, Cal. It sounds like you know you did the right thing.
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Call of Cthulhu on Saturday!
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Hey, all! Here's hoping everyone had a good week. What's going on this weekend?
The one shot for my son's friends got postponed because we had to say goodbye to our dog Buster last night. He was 13 years old, and his body was failing him. It was time. So, we'll try to reschedule that game for next month or so. How about everyone else?
So sorry to hear that Cal.
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Sorry to hear about Buster, Cal.
PF2 this Sunday, and we may also attend the local scarecrow festival.
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Game night tomorrow, hopefully. Last time was our first session of Dark Souls, what with the GM for Star Wars pretty consistently flaking out.
Aside from that, most of my time has been getting eaten up by working overtime, but I managed to talk a buddy of mine into teaching me how to weld after I get off work every day. 8 hours of lessons in, and I've finally progressed to "extreme beginner."
Game night tomorrow, hopefully. Last time was our first session of Dark Souls, what with the GM for Star Wars pretty consistently flaking out.
Aside from that, most of my time has been getting eaten up by working overtime, but I managed to talk a buddy of mine into teaching me how to weld after I get off work every day. 8 hours of lessons in, and I've finally progressed to "extreme beginner."
Long, long ago in high school, our shop class was called "Agri", because being a tiny school in a rural area, agriculture encompassed more than just planting and raising livestock. I was told by my teacher that in his 44 years of teaching I was the worst welder he had ever seen. I grew up on a farm so skills like that were just born into most kids. I sucked at all things mechanical. ALL of them...lol.
I hope Buster meets up with my Ozzy on the other side and they have a great time.
Thanks for the condolences and kind words for me and Buster, everyone. He was the very goodest of good boys. TriOmegaZero, Buster will meet Ozzy in Sto'Vo'Kor and they will create deeds that heroes will sing of in the great halls of Kahless for all time to come!
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So far, the Dark Souls tabletop game has been surprisingly fun, with a few caveats.
The good:
- Using a single resource pool for your health, spells, and action points, as well as your experience points pool also being your money, leads to some really interesting resource-management decisions. (Do I cast a spell, or do I want to save my hp in case I get hit next round? Do I want to level up, or buy a new set of armor?)
- When you die (which happens at least once or twice per session), you respawn at the nearest save area, like in a video game, but you lose all of your unspent experience points. Again, resource & risk management is a theme here, and it's actually super engaging.
The bad:
- It's based around the D&D 5e rules set, which feels weirdly simplified. There isn't really much in the way of character building--you just get a starter pack for each character class, and then go through a very linear progression as you level, with no real choices.
- More of a nitpick, but the book is really disorganized. Almost as bad as Bloodlines & Black Magic, and that one gets a pass because it's from Storm Bunny Studios and was made on a shoestring budget. Dark Souls was put out by Steamforged Games. They should know better.
The head-scratcher:
- Whoever wrote the magic and combat section either didn't do too great in high school math, or has never played a tabletop game on a grid before. Several spells (but not all of them) have ambiguous areas of effect (i.e. "affects a 40-foot sphere") or uses a measurement that makes no sense (i.e. "affects a 20-foot circumference"). "I cast fireball, engulfing everyone within 2/π squares in magical flames!"
EEK! Friday the 13th bit me yesterday. The pain in my lower back was so bad (and even worse today) that I forgot to post my normal, reg'lar as the sunrise Friday question! What's going on this weekend, everyone?
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Hope your back feels better presently, Cal.
No PF2 on Sunday, so I'll attend my Agrippa lecture instead. We were also going to go for a family walk, but the weather's supposed to be filthy, so that'll probably be called off.
Condolences, TOZ.
Flying out tomorrow for my fathers funeral.
Oh my goodness, TOZ. I'm so sorry.
Well, the weekend looms great against the sunset once again. Our September 28th game has been moved to October 5th (providing the venue of the host is available). What's everyone up to?