I was walking with
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After some prolonged insanity at work, I got to try out the new DnD 4.0 yesterday evening.  My thoughts going in were basically "that's weird & different & I don't know if I like it."  After creating a character & running through some combat (and dinner at an inn), my impressions are that it is weird and different, and I do not know if I like it or ( Read more... )

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I ran the first session of a short DnD campaign yesterday. This will be the second time I've attempted to run a game. The last time was just a module. This time, well, it's basically a dungeon crawl. But I'm making it all up myself.

Fun was had. And pecular Japanese snacks were eaten. But:

• Players will latch on to random bullshit, and assume it's ( Read more... )

In the last two days, I've looked down twice now to find a spider hanging off my person (and I don't know where this most recent one went after I brushed it off; a maddening situation for an arachnaphobe).  It's like how cats can scent out the people who are allergic to them.

A spider a day keeps the mosquitoes away?  Hrrmph.

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Awhile ago, 
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So I had one of those thoughts that only occurs to me just as I'm falling asleep and my mind is firing randomly  (timed just perfectly to catch my husband as he's just drifted off).

I was thinking about religion. Wondering, why do people continue to believe, deeply, honestly, from the very core of their beings, in things that have no evidence ( Read more... )

Just a brief update. Let's see:

• I've had a cold.
• Mr. cheez has a cold (totally coincidental, I'm sure.)
• Our cat has... butt problems. She's had to wear one of those plastic radar-dish looking collars. She is Not Happy.
• She does get drug-laced wet food (normally a treat), so that's something.
• We did not make it down to SLO for the holiday party, due to ( Read more... )

I have a talent for finding New and Interesting Ways to Injure Myself.  I found a new one today ( Read more... )