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One of our friends from the Homestuck events Katie's been running turned 21, and I had to work (boo) in the evening, so I wasn't able to go. Kay was, though, and seemed to have a great time, and that's always pleasant. Since I'm pretty much toast after getting off work at 9 PM, and I've already done most of the stuff I expect to do in a day, I figured I'd stop by the store on the way home and picked up rail bourbon and soda. Most of my night was spent drinking bourbon highballs and listening to loud music, but there's always a little time to sneak on the internet and embarrass yourself a little bit. The temptation is difficult to resist!
So, the hangover's over even before noon works its way around due to good hydration, and I'm mostly just sitting around waiting for Kay to get back. My schedule for the next week is less demanding then the one leading up to Frank's wedding, but it still involves a gaming session sandwiched in between my two most demanding work days. (That would be Wednesday and Thursday, which are going to be even worse than usual. There's really no getting around it, since people are getting their tax returns in, there's a huge, several week long sales event, and incredibly heavy furniture is flying out of the store almost faster than we can truck it in.) I've come to grips with the fact that for as long as the sales event is going on, I'm gonna be physically wiped out. I can't stress enough, though, that it's better emotionally than being unemployed or even my last gig. Other Ops members in the warehouse assert strongly that there are head-games and stress aplenty, and I'm sure they're right, but I'm not sure if it's on the same level as what I was dealing with before.
I've been continuing my read through of everything we've got physically at the house. I'm still on Foucault's Pendulum, which has started to pick up. Eco is a talented writer, but the reading is much denser than a lot of other stuff I've picked up in the past. I had finished Guide to the Traditions (which just made me want a copy of Guide to the Technocracy to pair it with), and wasn't in the mood for more dense reading this morning with the hangover, so I picked up the dharma book for the Bone Flowers from KotE. KotE has always had issues with exoticism, and I think that a post-colonialist reading of the core game book and its splats would probably be really interesting, but we already know, in a broad way, the kinds of issues the line had. Stephen Lee Sheppard over at RPG.net has long espoused that the Bone Flowers book is rubbish and, while I did purchase and enjoy the Devil Tiger book at his prompting, I still like the Bone Flower book quite a lot.
I don't really know if it's worthwhile to really discuss the gaming books on here, but despite my pseudo hiatus (which is really more me being unconcerned about not posting than it is actively cutting back), I feel like I probably will - just somewhat sporadically.
So, the hangover's over even before noon works its way around due to good hydration, and I'm mostly just sitting around waiting for Kay to get back. My schedule for the next week is less demanding then the one leading up to Frank's wedding, but it still involves a gaming session sandwiched in between my two most demanding work days. (That would be Wednesday and Thursday, which are going to be even worse than usual. There's really no getting around it, since people are getting their tax returns in, there's a huge, several week long sales event, and incredibly heavy furniture is flying out of the store almost faster than we can truck it in.) I've come to grips with the fact that for as long as the sales event is going on, I'm gonna be physically wiped out. I can't stress enough, though, that it's better emotionally than being unemployed or even my last gig. Other Ops members in the warehouse assert strongly that there are head-games and stress aplenty, and I'm sure they're right, but I'm not sure if it's on the same level as what I was dealing with before.
I've been continuing my read through of everything we've got physically at the house. I'm still on Foucault's Pendulum, which has started to pick up. Eco is a talented writer, but the reading is much denser than a lot of other stuff I've picked up in the past. I had finished Guide to the Traditions (which just made me want a copy of Guide to the Technocracy to pair it with), and wasn't in the mood for more dense reading this morning with the hangover, so I picked up the dharma book for the Bone Flowers from KotE. KotE has always had issues with exoticism, and I think that a post-colonialist reading of the core game book and its splats would probably be really interesting, but we already know, in a broad way, the kinds of issues the line had. Stephen Lee Sheppard over at RPG.net has long espoused that the Bone Flowers book is rubbish and, while I did purchase and enjoy the Devil Tiger book at his prompting, I still like the Bone Flower book quite a lot.
I don't really know if it's worthwhile to really discuss the gaming books on here, but despite my pseudo hiatus (which is really more me being unconcerned about not posting than it is actively cutting back), I feel like I probably will - just somewhat sporadically.
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