Gah-- 7 hrs to drive from Santa Maria to La Mesa, which is in the northern part of the San Diego metroplex. I didn't think i'd make the target time, but i figured i'd make it before the night desk closed at the hotel. I didn't and it did. So i'm staying at my sister's tonight. She's hosting the family Easter bash. But that's not what i'm here for, ( Read more... )

Tonight-- we take 16 ordinary people-- people who never thought they could be anyone's oracle. We're going to train them, enlighten them, help them open the gates of occultic perception, put them in tune with the cosmic order ( Read more... )

I've figured out how to accomodate furries in Lipaks. May the gods forgive me.

Well actaully both arms, but the right especially, enough to make it hard to type or mouse. It started last week after i had a lot of digging to do, follwed by lifting some very heavy and awkwardly balance furniture. Gah, physique of a geek.

There is only one magic system. It covers pure casting, rituals, and items with stored power.

There are magicians who can produce magic directly, but can't manipulate it. These are called sorcerors.They can draw on their own stored power to produce simple effects. For instance, when such a magician produces fire, it appears instantly as a simple ( Read more... )

I've got the character stuff pretty well conceptualized.

The simplest characters have all their capabilities in a single grouping, called a type, and all capabilities advance together in increments called ratingsThat's pretty much equivalent to D&D levels. But the components that make up types can be broken out and advanced independently. Or ( Read more... )

I just watched this week's episode of Hack. I always watch shows late, i use vcrs. But that means i can ff through commercials.

Anyway, this episode was excellent. It started with the main character sitting in his cab reading Raymond Chandler, then it segued into a perfect noir. By perfect i mean it could be used as a model noir in a film class.

The workers voted to accept the settlement last weekend. I have been to Albertsons twice and Vons once since. I hadn't set foot in either since early November and that was just a couple of times to buy lottery tickets at the front desk. I hadn't been un to buy groceries since mid October ( Read more... )

Recently, two women who were accused, respectfully, of pimpinmg and prostitution, were convicted, not of those actual acts, but of conpiracy to commit them. Now they are cooperating, apparently in exchange for leniency, in the investigation of the city attorney, who supposedly offered them leniency in return for tape showing that the police chief, ( Read more... )

The latest news about the grocery strike here in California is that there is no news. It seems every other week there's a rumor about arbitration but nothing ever happens ( Read more... )