Time Flies

I used to get so annoyed when my mother would say, “Twenty years from now, nobody will know the dif­fer­ence.” She was wrong in a sense — I cer­tainly still know the dif­fer­ence, about so very many things.

On the other hand, I do under­stand the longer view much bet­ter now. Twenty years seemed like such a long time then, and now? It’s so very short.

In any case, Katie did get home from her trip to the great north­west. She had a mar­velous time and thinks she has found her school.

I’m really proud of her. She planned this trip, to a place nei­ther she nor any of us had ever been before, all by her­self. She went with­out a qualm, had a mar­velous time, man­aged her money mar­velously, and made some great new friends.

Since then she also went to her first LARP. Again, she had a mar­velous adven­ture, lots of fun, and found a new thing she enjoys. I think we need to acquire camp­ing equipment.

Sam has started play­ing Burn­ing Wheel with a group of local peo­ple. He really enjoys the game. I’m glad to see him get­ting out and hav­ing some social time with others.

I had a big thing hap­pen, but I’m going to stay quiet about it a lit­tle longer, ’til it’s also a sure thing.

In the mean­time, I’ve found a nice out­let for my OCD urges as a “librar­ian” at Good Reads.

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I missed what?

It was National Gram­mar Day AND Gamemaster’s Day, and I didn’t real­ize either until the day was almost over!

It was date night, though, and my favorite GM and I did play, so at least there’s that. I’ll have to get him a make-​​up present, though.

You know all those dif­fer­ent click-​​to-​​give sites? I very geek­ily gath­ered up all the ones that I know about and stuck the links on one page so I don’t have to try to remem­ber them, or install short­cuts or tool­bars or what-​​have-​​you. It isn’t gor­geous, but it is convenient.

I finally got started on Sea­son 1 of Shadow Unit, now that Sea­son 2 has started. Good stuff!

And finally, just so I can close the tab that’s been open for a cou­ple of days, a new wrin­kle in that whole nature/​nurture debate: Child Abuse Alters Stress-​​Fighting Gene.

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McCain Blogger Flubs His Roll

If you’re a gamer, you’ve prob­a­bly heard the hoorah by now. Michael Gold­farb, a blog­ger on McCain’s offi­cial cam­paign site added a lame anti-​​gamer slur to his rinse-​​and-​​repeat “but he was a POW!” bull­shit. Sam (and many oth­ers) responded to the twit (who keeps com­ments dis­abled on his blog – afraid of a lit­tle com­men­tary, Gold­farb?). This isn’t the first time McCain’s peo­ple have attacked their oppo­nents with com­ments about D&D, either, as some of the folks on Boing Boing have pointed out.

Gold­farb was respond­ing to a post on the Daily Kos that called McCain on his pla­gia­rism dur­ing a media event this week­end. The DK blog­ger has a nice response.

Gold­farb has sup­pos­edly apol­o­gized, but oddly enough, his “apol­ogy” isn’t posted on his blog, or any­where else on McCain’s site as far as I can tell. If he isn’t man enough to make the apol­ogy in the same venue in which he posted the attack, that says a lot about him and the entire McCain cam­paign.1


1 None of it is sur­pris­ing to me, but it is still telling.

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Good Reads Migration Finished!

That was not pain­less at all. The import fea­ture is tetchy, at best. I had to go through the entire list of 1300+ books and fix their “book­shelf” assign­ments, and add some that just didn’t import at all. I had over 1400 books in Now Read­ing, and I haven’t quite fig­ured out why there are fewer books in Good Reads. Oh well. It’s pretty much done!

The dates I’d read books, my rat­ings, and my reviews did NOT trans­fer to Good Reads, which is highly annoying.

I was able to go through and update a bunch of books that I’ve read since NR stopped work­ing, and use the to-​​read cat­e­gory to request books from the library. As a result, there are 33 books await­ing pickup now, and another 61 pend­ing (mostly books that are really new or not yet avail­able). That doesn’t include the inter-​​library loan items I requested.1

Sam and I had bonus gam­ing time tonight. He’s stor­ing up brownie points before Dragon*Con. Katie, unfor­tu­nately, couldn’t sleep last night, then slept all day until about 11:30. Now she’s re-​​hydrating and get­ting some food now. I hope she can go back to sleep. She’s def­i­nitely hav­ing a fibro flare. :-(


1 I’m so tick­led that the library added a way to put in ILL requests online!

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My name is Cynthia, and I am a roleplaying addict

My one and only com­plaint about gam­ing with Sam is that I never, ever get enough. He’s just so good, and the sto­ries are so fas­ci­nat­ing, that I always want more! I’m just greedy, I guess.

Yep, I flubbed my sav­ing throw against being a geek.

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