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Notes on the Burning Wheel
Some of you may know that I recently picked up a new roleplaying system recently. The Burning Wheel is an independently published system; there isn't a company like WotC or SJ Games behind it, but there does seem to be a somewhat active community, between the forums and wiki, and the creator is definitely involved in both ( Read more... ) -
Adventures in Car-less-ness
It's a strange thing... I don't mind staying at home for long stretches when I know I can leave if and when I like, but it makes me a bit restless when I know I can't leave, when I'm stuck at home, particularly when everyone else is out at work or school or running errands ( Read more... ) -
Dog-sitting can be a fun adventure
Just got back on Friday from dog-sitting for a week, which was a lot of fun. The dog was tiny (our greyhound would have eaten him in one gulp - okay, maybe two - which is why I went and stayed at the house to dog-sit rather than him coming and chilling with our family), and he was also very well-behaved. Played a lot of fetch and tug-of-war with ( Read more... ) -
Sermon Writing is Hard (Complete with Random Notes AKA Life Update at end)
When I agreed to preach the sermon for next Sunday (well, I had a bit more notice than a week, but anyway) I thought it would be at least kind of easy. I mean, I've been listening to sermons for a while now, I've written plenty of papers in college, and I've gotten up to speak in front of people in any number of classes and even more as a student ( Read more... ) -
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It's been a long day today, part of which was getting home from class last night about 10:30 pm and having to get up at 5 am to get ready and go in to sub in a very crazy classroom, and part of which I will talk about under a cut because it's kind of sad.
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So I'm probably giving a sermon on April 26, for "Passion and Purpose Sunday." I'm honored that our priest thought of me, but also kind of terrified. I haven't officially said that I'll do it yet, because she just asked me last night and it came as a total surprise to me, but I get the sense that it's something I should do. And hope that I don't ( Read more... ) -
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Thursday-Saturday I'm going to be in Wildwood, helping out with the Diocesan Convention, which should be a new and exciting experience. I've been to the Jersey shore once, briefly, to keep my mom company when she was dropping off my sister at Cape May for the diocesan youth choir camp (to which we basically forced her, practically kicking and ( Read more... ) -
Cats and Computers
At the moment there's two major things (besides the job thing) that I'm worried about - my laptop and Chloe, the cat who ended up being mine even though I didn't want a cat at first. I'll go into the story of the laptop first, mostly because it's more of an annoyance sort of thing and not as likely to upset people, and then I'll cut the part about ( Read more... ) -
Pathfinder Classes
Originally, this started off as a comment in reply to the comment wolviepris made on my previous entry, where he asked about some of the basic differences I'd noticed in classes and equipment between Pathfinder and 3.5,. Since I hadn't really looked too closely, I started comparing the d20srd to the Pathfinder PDF, and quickly realized that my comments were ( Read more... )