I find myself thinking about the future and the past alot at the moment. This, i think, has been precipitated at least in part by my recent Event. I'm not the best at planning things in advance, never have been. Generally speaking, i tend to stick with what i know and follow the engineers maxim of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Up until the last few months, i figured that that was grand. I'm coming to realise that the reason for this is not so much happyness with life as it is, but more to do with fear of change.

This evening, i came home from Gaelcon, and for some reason launched into the room clearout that i've been humming and hawing about for ages. As i was going through my wardrobe and cupboards, digging out clothes i haven't worn in years, in some cases since before i moved into Seamount 4 years ago, i found myself getting really emotional. Some of these shirts i wore at important times in my life, but i couldn't see myself ever wearing again. It felt like ditching old friends, part of my past. It's manifestly the right thing to do, the things are just hanging in the wardrobe taking up space, but i was actually tearing up at the thought of throwing them out. It confused the hell out of me, i mean, these are just clothes.

So i thought about it for a while. These items are tangible links to my past, things that i can look at and touch, and that will for a brief minute will help me remember a happy time in my past. My memory is absolutely atrocious, so any help it gets is gratefully recieved. What i came to realise though, is how much i rely on past good times to feel good now. Remember When works fine for a while, but after enough time passes, it gets boring. It needs constant replenishing with Lets Try This, and Ooh, This'll Be Cool and even occasionally We're Gonna Get In So Much Trouble For This!

I just wish i'd managed to figure this out about myself about 4 or 5 months ago.

There is tiredness. Oh dear lord, while i love gaming to bits, spending 8 hours doing something can really take it out of ye!

So today was my very first experience of GM'ing, and by and large a pleasant experience it was too. The fact that i have to write the blinking campaign was giving me the wibblies, but the introduction to the thing went ok i feel. Character gen took a looooong time, which was ok, cos the system(GURPS) gives you a LOT of options. It makes for a lot of variety in characters, although it can be a bit tricky to figure out what you are actually rolling against. I'm in two minds about the combat system, it seems a little complicated but that might just be because i'm not very familiar with it.

The guys were very gentle with me, and very obligingly did what i needed them to (" Look, a plot hook!!! Let us all jump upon it immediately, Huzzah!) and in turn i savagely mauled them with gribblies ("Right......it's got Damage reduction of 12 and these pistols damage is for......oookkaaayyy, 2d6.....bugger!)

Also, there may have been a certain amount of me losing track of who is doing what to who in the combat phase....oops!

Overall , very happy, and also tired too!!

Ok, this whole reading of the entire archive of a web comic in a single sitting thing, i've really gotta cut out!

This evening was the turn of Ctrl-Alt-Delete.

Soon..... PvP Online........

So, at the moment, I'm thinking Friday at 8pm, Parnell UGC. At this point, I think I'll need Numbers, so email, text, or comment to let me know, gonna book online to avoid all that nasty queue standing in nonsense!

So Pirates of the Caribbean is out on thursday, which is tomorrow. Who would like to go and see it on Friday evening.

And where? Suggestions were made in the Merc on tuesday that it might be cheaper to see it in Bray. The downside of this, of course, is the getting to and from Bray for people.

Opinions?
Suggestions?

Note to self: when you have had a few drinks with a friend and said friend drags you into HMV after those drinks, this is a BAD thing.
On the bright side, i now own the Back to the Future trilogy, Batman Begins and The Life of Brian :-)

HMV, currently having a BIG sale, lots of cool stuff. Had some self contol, still have money for food, possibly this is only because the shop closed before i could BUY more stuff......

Found this , and laughed :
From the same Kind of people who brought you Brokeback to the Future,


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9rzMaAucI4

Saw this on a thought for the day yesterday, no idea of attrbution or such, but it just made me smile:

 

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy

They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.