here i am! i was here the whole time! hiding. and not posting stuff. because of… good… reasons. ohhh all the good reasons. just… you know, bein’ busy and livin’ life.
today i was given the distinct honor to be asked to work on a sharepoint site not for the company i work for, but for one of our customer companies. beautiful sharepoint, in all its glory. imagine working with sharepoint full time as a job! imagine the fun to be had! the discoveries to be made! the bugs to report! needless to say, i declined the opportunity.
i spent a good portion of this evening on the script. just addressing issues and small rewrites, none of the major stuff yet. i’m feeling more apprehensive about the major changes, mostly because though i know what i want to do generally, i’m not sure how to do these things specifically. i just need to make some decisions.
this weekend i worked on beginning to catalog my comic book collection. got an app to make the job easier. it’s been fun getting back into the comics and “reading” again (though i really should also be reading things without all the pictures). i missed the stories, and have been pleasantly surprised to find some more stylistic issues among the small number i’ve read in the past few weeks. it’s nice to have have a hobby that only drains my wallet.
last friday we had yet another d&d session entrenched in the depths of the hidden shrine of tamoachan. this marks the fourth or fifth session in what was designed to be a single session dungeon. nothing wrong with that, though. i’m having a lot of fun running the adventure, and this session was particularly fun because “shit finally got real” for the party. and they weaseled their way out of what have could have been a very bad situation for the characters. in spite of the repeated dice rolls and book keeping i had to do for the 15 zombie fight (which necessitated opportunities of attack, regular attacks, coin flips, and saving throws for all 15 pretty much every turn), it was thrilling enough to get me thinking about our adventure again. i want to design my own dungeons again. and i’ve been mentally going over all the loose ends and imagining the fun ways to tie things up as we (slowly) move towards the climax. this month marks our third anniversary for the campaign, and there are still pieces i had planned from the beginning that we haven’t gotten around to yet. it’s exciting to see it all come to pass, and it’s been such a wonderful experience playing with this little group. as much as i love playing d&d as a player, my time as a DM has made some of my greatest memories with the game.
this weekend i took basil to get his nails clipped and he was really scared and was shaking so much. it broke my heart and made me want to cry.
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I feel those “dog getting nails clipped trauma” feels. I feel dem feels only too well.
Agreed on the session, although two players were basically “held hostage” by the situation, all of the character decisions felt *right*. Also, it’s good to get reminders of our mortality in d&d. It was definitely very exciting!
Get dat schript done.
done and done!