Thaw

I lost most of the day today. It's always strange to me when it happens. It's not all that uncommon, no, but they're far apart and irregular intervals enough that I can't get used to it. I hit the sack at 7 AM, like usual. Didn't wake up to 6 PM. Normally I'm up and ready to attack the world at 10 AM, by the way. So losing a full 8 hours kind of gets to me. It destroys the plans I had made for the day, since most everything in this town closes down at 8 PM more or less. And I hate myself for doing it because I feel lazy and unproductive.

Though I did have a fairly interesting dream that might make for a half decent Fantasy RPG campaign. At least there's that.

I still having got my work done for my friend's game though. Him and I are playing out an alternate history version of Star Fleet Battle's (http://www.starfleetgames.com) General War. Massively alternate at that. While the historical alliances behind the war are there, we also have new comers from the Omega Sector, Pirate Cartel Alliances, and Random Andromedan incursions. A lot of logistical, record keeping, research, and strategic work, but it is fun for me. I've always loved war games ever since I was four years old, when my brother and I used to have a little war game of our own playing out with our Legos. More sophisticated than you'd have thought, but not much compared to professionally designed games.

If all goes according to plan, I should hope to have the work for the General Wars done tomorrow perhaps. I got to squeeze everything I was supposed to do today in there anyway, might as well add in one more thing.

All I really got to do today was go to the book store, by the time I got towards where I was going, hoping to get one thing accomplished, the town was shutting down. Well, other than the bars. Got to take a quick scan of the things there. Course I was disappointed that 4th Edition D&D had taken over the RPG/War games section. Can't even find anything for 3.5 anymore, like they expected me to just throw away all my books and modules? Ug.

Did find two interesting things. A card and dice game, "Inn-Fighting", related to D&D. It seemed interesting, reminded me of a game my buddy and I liked called "Lunch Money" in its brand of humor and niche it fills as our "We got 20 minutes til we gotta break up the meeting and that's not enough time to go on with our Campaign" side attraction.

The other was some new RPG called "Anima". Apparently it just came out this month, the store only got it in the last 2 weeks since I've been there. With as frustrated as I am that my 3.5 D&D rulebooks are now worthless, and the cost of 120 bucks just to get the new edition, I was seriously looking at it. Everything in one book, book was only 60 bucks. That made it mightily attractive to me. Refreshing to see a game where I don't have to spring 40 or more for a core rulebook then find I have to spend 40 more on modules just to get the "extra" stuff that most people act like is the core of the game, with the core rulebook giving you almost nothing.

Yes, I'm looking at you World of Darkness. Would it be that hard to cut out the fiction pieces and just have the core rulebook and the three main "expansions" all in one tome?


The weather's starting to turn warm here. It broke above freezing today, though not by much. Kinda sad, I had managed to make some extra cash when it was still falling. Now that it's melting? No more snow service. And no lawn care bucks until spring at best I reckon. I'll just have to soldier on best I can through the lean months.

Either that or hope for a late blizzard to come swinging through. Well, not a blizzard. Ideally snow shallow enough all the midgets still gotta go to school and won't steal the work away but deep enough that people will still part with the cash. About 6 inches or so would be ideal.

I guess the warmer weather will be good for me though. I'll get farther out of the house. I've been taking it somewhat easy, not working myself to the point where I can barely stand up anymore. Last thing I wanted to do was be exhausted to the core, not watch my feet, and slip on some patch of ice and get a bad sprain.


Til next time,

Grind Away