I woke up this morning with, ummm, a bad attitude. I think that is a polite way of putting it. One of those days where an angry depression. I know Sue was confused early in the day as I got up, made coffee and tea and said nothing. After a half hour I finally just flat told her I was having a temper/depression problem and she has avoided me all day. Smart lady. I have no idea how I got so lucky.
Anyway, as I complete tasks I have been posting the links on Twitter and paste them in the draft for the next DS update. I have the twitter feed running on the right hand side of this blog.
Tomorrow is a day off. I'll finish up the project on the table and then get some sleep.
Friday, January 16, 2009
And the Oracle Spoke
The Oracle speaks:
In a smoke filled room deep in the clanhold the ancient creature opened its eyes. She scanned those assembled around her. From her breast arose a low deep throbbing sound. It was if an orchestra resided within her. It was a trick to be certain everyone listened carefully. That even the old were awake and alert. In a few moments the room itself vibrated from the deep base pounding emanating from the oracle. Suddenly it stopped and the oracles lips began to move.
Your people do not see the real danger. It embraces their souls while they look about themselves. They fear everything without, yet the enemy is rotting the souls of the people. They flail out at the outsiders, those they perceive as enemies. Yet it is among those enemies that the answers may be found, but only if the people can reach the power within themselves.
OK, time to get back to work.
In a smoke filled room deep in the clanhold the ancient creature opened its eyes. She scanned those assembled around her. From her breast arose a low deep throbbing sound. It was if an orchestra resided within her. It was a trick to be certain everyone listened carefully. That even the old were awake and alert. In a few moments the room itself vibrated from the deep base pounding emanating from the oracle. Suddenly it stopped and the oracles lips began to move.
Your people do not see the real danger. It embraces their souls while they look about themselves. They fear everything without, yet the enemy is rotting the souls of the people. They flail out at the outsiders, those they perceive as enemies. Yet it is among those enemies that the answers may be found, but only if the people can reach the power within themselves.
OK, time to get back to work.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
It is Midnight Here.
I ran a game tonight. The characters are still trying to sort out the bad guys from the good guys. I ran for the "youngsters" (Now about 600 cp party). The big boys will come out when they find a suitable target. The main event tonight was the assassination attempt on a brand new Elethay Priestess. Last week she killed a Jikadell Acolyte, so, well, there you go. After the game I made him up as an encounter for the web. He is right here. Click and look.
They also met an old man (dragon) who wants to "use" them. He says he is not part of the bad valarians, the duped valarians, the rogues, Dyson's gang, Blackbanes contingent, Jikadellian, Brotherhood or with the Pylos. He claims to be a new faction, with a room down the hall from "those other guys", but said he can't/won't even prove who he is. They were discussing creating a scorecard, it is getting confusing.
I am wondering if encounters like I did with the assassin have any value to my gamer friends? Any comments?
I'm taking tomorrow off. So there.... Night!
They also met an old man (dragon) who wants to "use" them. He says he is not part of the bad valarians, the duped valarians, the rogues, Dyson's gang, Blackbanes contingent, Jikadellian, Brotherhood or with the Pylos. He claims to be a new faction, with a room down the hall from "those other guys", but said he can't/won't even prove who he is. They were discussing creating a scorecard, it is getting confusing.
I am wondering if encounters like I did with the assassin have any value to my gamer friends? Any comments?
I'm taking tomorrow off. So there.... Night!
Monday, January 12, 2009
Yes, I'm up
I am not sure why, but I started trembling yesterday in the morning and it has continued into today. It is not enough to be seen, but I'm noticing it as I type or reach for coffee. I suspect that as my 58th birthday (feb 3rd) approaches I'll be seeing a few more signs of age. All in all I'm feeling pretty good and getting some work done here.
I started my day with ye old paperwork. I have two orders ready to take to the post office, along with a bill. *yuck*
Sorry for the delay there. I stepped away to talk to Sue about Dragon Storm card sponsorships etc. She has a negotiation she is working on. The info we are learning will turn into a full write up for the web page in a few days. Now that we have the full custom card page we are finding more, and easier to handle, requests coming in.
I am digging through Sue's art storage and finding pieces we had forgotten about. I'll be continueing to scan them and put them up on Etsy for sale. It will also give us more prints to sell. Obviously e will have a greater variety on etsy than we can carry to cons.
Well, my mind is wandering to other projects so I'll go redo and repost some Beta Cards.
I started my day with ye old paperwork. I have two orders ready to take to the post office, along with a bill. *yuck*
Sorry for the delay there. I stepped away to talk to Sue about Dragon Storm card sponsorships etc. She has a negotiation she is working on. The info we are learning will turn into a full write up for the web page in a few days. Now that we have the full custom card page we are finding more, and easier to handle, requests coming in.
I am digging through Sue's art storage and finding pieces we had forgotten about. I'll be continueing to scan them and put them up on Etsy for sale. It will also give us more prints to sell. Obviously e will have a greater variety on etsy than we can carry to cons.
Well, my mind is wandering to other projects so I'll go redo and repost some Beta Cards.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Take a deep breath and get to work
Now is the time of the living. Yesterday is for the Dead and tomorrow is for those yet to come. I just wish these frakkin zombies and demons would stay in yesterday, they keep popping up all over the place today. I'll show 'em all, I'm headed into tomorrow.
So, what is on the menu for today? I already covered the morning paperwork, order preps and reworked the Free PDF downloads page (got some from history in there.) Finished morning e-mail and responded to blog posts about the Public Edit cards.
Looks like I have the text for the next page in Travels of Kit from Sue. She says she has the roughs for the next Perils of Pearl for me to post to the customer. I can start the set up for Issue one of the Perils of Pearl. Our Etsy ad runs wednesday, I need to make sure it is set to go and get some new art up there.
I need to send Sue specific cards for February release. I'm liking the Decipher card ideas. Something for the GM too. We could start piecemealing out the Spiritwalker cards. hmmm. I'd like to do something with the Totem Shamans, need to e-mail Tim. I really need to get his "The Conduit" from 2005 back up (I just located it!). Sue just handed me a work order, so thats it foe now.
I know my function!
So, what is on the menu for today? I already covered the morning paperwork, order preps and reworked the Free PDF downloads page (got some from history in there.) Finished morning e-mail and responded to blog posts about the Public Edit cards.
Looks like I have the text for the next page in Travels of Kit from Sue. She says she has the roughs for the next Perils of Pearl for me to post to the customer. I can start the set up for Issue one of the Perils of Pearl. Our Etsy ad runs wednesday, I need to make sure it is set to go and get some new art up there.
I need to send Sue specific cards for February release. I'm liking the Decipher card ideas. Something for the GM too. We could start piecemealing out the Spiritwalker cards. hmmm. I'd like to do something with the Totem Shamans, need to e-mail Tim. I really need to get his "The Conduit" from 2005 back up (I just located it!). Sue just handed me a work order, so thats it foe now.
I know my function!
Friday, January 9, 2009
Day of Fasting is over
Sue and I enjoyed a day of fasting yesterday. What we did was ate a Yogurt with Flax, bilberry jam and walnuts for breakfast Thursday and then the same this morning. What surprises me is that I did not really get hungry, I was working. I think half of my eating is habbit rather than need.
Now to get my mind around todays work. I did not finish yesterdays new cards yet. I got too distracted. So, three pages to write up first. I'll post the links on twitter as I get them up. I should probably do an LJ update with links to the write ups and remind people to participate in the final tweaking of the new cards.
The morning paperwork is done, but I still need to go to the Post Office. Not sure when, Sue says she has a commission to pack as well.
This evening I need to put some new art items up on Etsy.
I started the Rogue Clan framework (one of my distractions) on the web page so I need to finish that first. Clean up the cards and the write ups for each card. I put in some article headlines as well, so I need to do a rough of those.
I got "placeholder" art done so I can enter the titles of cards to publish this year. The actual order will be determined on getting art from Sue... and getting them through the DS Beta procedure.
I really want to get back to podcasting as well. I should do a rough for one on the new cards.
I have some old notes on another Herbalist proposal I need to start getting in shape. It will need to be discussed as a system like I did with the diseases.
I have a 2/3rds done full write up on the Brotherhood I could work on as well.
In the back of my mind I have a desire to create PDF sheets of cards and use a "donation" system to pay for them. I can use "spot" art initially and if I actually get donations I can convince Sue to do real art.
That is already way more than I can do, so I better get back to work.
Now to get my mind around todays work. I did not finish yesterdays new cards yet. I got too distracted. So, three pages to write up first. I'll post the links on twitter as I get them up. I should probably do an LJ update with links to the write ups and remind people to participate in the final tweaking of the new cards.
The morning paperwork is done, but I still need to go to the Post Office. Not sure when, Sue says she has a commission to pack as well.
This evening I need to put some new art items up on Etsy.
I started the Rogue Clan framework (one of my distractions) on the web page so I need to finish that first. Clean up the cards and the write ups for each card. I put in some article headlines as well, so I need to do a rough of those.
I got "placeholder" art done so I can enter the titles of cards to publish this year. The actual order will be determined on getting art from Sue... and getting them through the DS Beta procedure.
I really want to get back to podcasting as well. I should do a rough for one on the new cards.
I have some old notes on another Herbalist proposal I need to start getting in shape. It will need to be discussed as a system like I did with the diseases.
I have a 2/3rds done full write up on the Brotherhood I could work on as well.
In the back of my mind I have a desire to create PDF sheets of cards and use a "donation" system to pay for them. I can use "spot" art initially and if I actually get donations I can convince Sue to do real art.
That is already way more than I can do, so I better get back to work.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Whew, I hit a wall?
After a few hours of work today my body wanted to lay down for a nap. Well, it sat me down for a couple hours and it doesn't want me to move. The ole knee is screaming nicely. I got the new proposed cards done and up for Public Editing. It is good to get people catching the errors early.
Part of the problem I have is that my Quark program is somewhat aged and it does not run well under the new OS. The spell checker is out of commission. I'm on version 6.5 and they are on 8.1 ish. So about 5 years since mine came out. I plan on doing that upgrade when the cash flow improves in the spring. Winter is never a good time for us to spend. I tried the 8 demo, I likes it a lot.
I need to take this evening and do write-ups for the new card pages and get them all prepped to go up. I am thinking that I should do a "place holder" card so the info gets up early. I can actually have the pages up and in place well ahead. I should start by Pre-Prepping the "New" card page. OK, I think I'm getting my head around this project. Start with the "New" card sheet, make a placeholder card, do the five individual pages for the web site, add the links to the new pages on the individual Index pages.
Off to the evening shift.... Mocha says that she needs her dog walk first.
Part of the problem I have is that my Quark program is somewhat aged and it does not run well under the new OS. The spell checker is out of commission. I'm on version 6.5 and they are on 8.1 ish. So about 5 years since mine came out. I plan on doing that upgrade when the cash flow improves in the spring. Winter is never a good time for us to spend. I tried the 8 demo, I likes it a lot.
I need to take this evening and do write-ups for the new card pages and get them all prepped to go up. I am thinking that I should do a "place holder" card so the info gets up early. I can actually have the pages up and in place well ahead. I should start by Pre-Prepping the "New" card page. OK, I think I'm getting my head around this project. Start with the "New" card sheet, make a placeholder card, do the five individual pages for the web site, add the links to the new pages on the individual Index pages.
Off to the evening shift.... Mocha says that she needs her dog walk first.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Thinking, working and game prep
I don't talk much about what I do in my private life because it just is not exciting. Last night, and over lunch today Sue and I had an invigorating political discussion. I don't talk much about these because I see that our current system does not cover todays world, it is wonderful for the past, but we do not live in the past. Beyond that I'm actually afraid of the powers the current system has accrued and I do not want to be in one of there many data bases or on their list of 12 million (and growing) US terrorists. So, no comment.
Tonight I am GM'ing and I need to present a game that furthers our current theme of the dirty Valarians. Right now it is the turn of the 75-150 CP characters who are doing the scouting work. Once they identify the targets the big boys will be sent in. Now that I have updated the proposed Disease rules it is time to throw that in as well. Oh fun....
Well, I have an hour and a half to exercise, eat diner and prep the game, so I'm going to get to it.
Tonight I am GM'ing and I need to present a game that furthers our current theme of the dirty Valarians. Right now it is the turn of the 75-150 CP characters who are doing the scouting work. Once they identify the targets the big boys will be sent in. Now that I have updated the proposed Disease rules it is time to throw that in as well. Oh fun....
Well, I have an hour and a half to exercise, eat diner and prep the game, so I'm going to get to it.
Monday, January 5, 2009
Monday's Thoughts
As usual my mind is just chocked full of possibilities and there is no way that I can deal with them all. Somehow in the back of my mind I think that I should come up with a list and then schedule a time to work on each. The problem is that the scheduling/listing becomes yet another task to keep track of. Just this moment it occurs to me that I want to do a "Foes" book for DS. Ten minutes ago the thought was not in my head.
Some minds spin out ideas at a dizzying pace. Most of the ideas are not worth pursuing, but how do you know unless you take the time to examine them? When you look you have to consider not only the ideas surface but also the kernel it comes from. If you turn the poor idea over, does it have a bright shiny idea inside? If you look superficially and dump it, have you missed a real opportunity? I think that it could be so.
Anyway, all this thinking is hurting my head. Now, herbalist? diseases? tweak blogs? comic posting? set up to show new alpha rules? study the economics of business taxes? consider eating habits? Foes book? Scenario's? get some older stories reposted? Sue's art postings? prep for FC con? give the cat a good scruffing? chase the dog? practice podcasting? Well, I better do a DS blog update first. Ohhh, art assignment for Sue for new PDF card idea? edit contest rolls for new game? rewrite Action rules for new game? what about the idea of a weekly gamer comic idea? the grandilar podcast is half done... write more on jason? write more on individual cards for DS? figure out way to put up DS and kanchaka cards on web? What about a ring special, the tattoos are starting to move? .....
I better go get something done.
Some minds spin out ideas at a dizzying pace. Most of the ideas are not worth pursuing, but how do you know unless you take the time to examine them? When you look you have to consider not only the ideas surface but also the kernel it comes from. If you turn the poor idea over, does it have a bright shiny idea inside? If you look superficially and dump it, have you missed a real opportunity? I think that it could be so.
Anyway, all this thinking is hurting my head. Now, herbalist? diseases? tweak blogs? comic posting? set up to show new alpha rules? study the economics of business taxes? consider eating habits? Foes book? Scenario's? get some older stories reposted? Sue's art postings? prep for FC con? give the cat a good scruffing? chase the dog? practice podcasting? Well, I better do a DS blog update first. Ohhh, art assignment for Sue for new PDF card idea? edit contest rolls for new game? rewrite Action rules for new game? what about the idea of a weekly gamer comic idea? the grandilar podcast is half done... write more on jason? write more on individual cards for DS? figure out way to put up DS and kanchaka cards on web? What about a ring special, the tattoos are starting to move? .....
I better go get something done.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
A new year has begun and I'm behind
The truth is I'm going to enjoy my last couple of days as a free man and get back to work monday.
I can say that despite my many complaints about overwork, food experiences and the effects of age, I am thankful for the friends and fellow gamers that I have. I'm damn glad to be alive and to know all of you. I wish there were an easy way for all of us to see each other more.
I have been spending some cuddle time with Sue, Mocha and Mac, and enjoying the hell out of it.
I have also started putting information on Susan's new 2d6 role-playing system. Actually it is a tweaking of the DS system. The blog is here. I will get it on the main links page soon.
I can say that despite my many complaints about overwork, food experiences and the effects of age, I am thankful for the friends and fellow gamers that I have. I'm damn glad to be alive and to know all of you. I wish there were an easy way for all of us to see each other more.
I have been spending some cuddle time with Sue, Mocha and Mac, and enjoying the hell out of it.
I have also started putting information on Susan's new 2d6 role-playing system. Actually it is a tweaking of the DS system. The blog is here. I will get it on the main links page soon.
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