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A Better World
Jun. 17th, 2021 05:42 pmI unsubscribed from several podcasts and decided to download the archived episodes of a few - Ken & Robin TAS, Glowburn, Appendix N Book Club, Old Gods of Appalachia. Just going to download things a couple of days at a time.
Mom got to go home yesterday. She sounded great when we talked last night, and Dad says she looks really healthy. Her medication regimen got another review, with a couple prescriptions cut and some others reduced - some interactions had led to the low hemoglobin levels and lack of energy. The prescribed blood thinner seems to have been the biggest culprit.
A few weeks ago, I went to my nearby Half-Price Books for the first time since COVID lockdowns hit. I'd been looking forward to it for a while, but the damnedest thing - I walked the aisles and shelves for nearly an hour, and didn't find a thing I wanted to spend money on. Nothing. Today, I picked up a book I'd reserved at the LFPL, and it was just the opposite. I had to make myself check out only three books, including the reservation. Still have about 120 pages to go on the Averoigne anthology, and there's the Kindle-format collection I won from Goodreads, too. It's a far cry from the 12- or 15-deep to-read stacks that lived on my nightstand in the '90s; I'm not as disciplined a reader as I was.
I'm not enjoying the D&D 5E Ravenloft guide. It's good, well-written, all that, but there are just enough 5E-isms, even in the setting-focused chapters, to throw me out of the groove. I may not keep this one after I finish it.
Going to see Dad this weekend. Mom, too, of course, but it's Father's Day. Expecting a very lazy day.
Next weekend is DCC Day. All of the other GMs are set, and I just have to hit up the Purple Sorcerer to create a stack of characters. I'm pretty happy with my chosen adventure, sending the fantasy adventurers into the damaged laboratory of a time-traveling collector/thief/black-marketer. I think I'm going to have a second adventure ready to go, in case we get a bigger crowd for the second slot. It's another science-fantasy adventure, because dammit that's what I'm up for, and DCC has plenty of it for me.
One of the podcasts I kept is Knowledge Fight, a couple of guys who listen to Alex Jones so the rest of us don't have to. I'm listening to an episode right now, in fact, and ... goddamn. This is such a level of pig-fucking ignorance.
Mom got to go home yesterday. She sounded great when we talked last night, and Dad says she looks really healthy. Her medication regimen got another review, with a couple prescriptions cut and some others reduced - some interactions had led to the low hemoglobin levels and lack of energy. The prescribed blood thinner seems to have been the biggest culprit.
A few weeks ago, I went to my nearby Half-Price Books for the first time since COVID lockdowns hit. I'd been looking forward to it for a while, but the damnedest thing - I walked the aisles and shelves for nearly an hour, and didn't find a thing I wanted to spend money on. Nothing. Today, I picked up a book I'd reserved at the LFPL, and it was just the opposite. I had to make myself check out only three books, including the reservation. Still have about 120 pages to go on the Averoigne anthology, and there's the Kindle-format collection I won from Goodreads, too. It's a far cry from the 12- or 15-deep to-read stacks that lived on my nightstand in the '90s; I'm not as disciplined a reader as I was.
I'm not enjoying the D&D 5E Ravenloft guide. It's good, well-written, all that, but there are just enough 5E-isms, even in the setting-focused chapters, to throw me out of the groove. I may not keep this one after I finish it.
Going to see Dad this weekend. Mom, too, of course, but it's Father's Day. Expecting a very lazy day.
Next weekend is DCC Day. All of the other GMs are set, and I just have to hit up the Purple Sorcerer to create a stack of characters. I'm pretty happy with my chosen adventure, sending the fantasy adventurers into the damaged laboratory of a time-traveling collector/thief/black-marketer. I think I'm going to have a second adventure ready to go, in case we get a bigger crowd for the second slot. It's another science-fantasy adventure, because dammit that's what I'm up for, and DCC has plenty of it for me.
One of the podcasts I kept is Knowledge Fight, a couple of guys who listen to Alex Jones so the rest of us don't have to. I'm listening to an episode right now, in fact, and ... goddamn. This is such a level of pig-fucking ignorance.