interesting.....

Oh man, why didn't i listen. The warning was clear!

http://barkman.livejournal.com/2004/05/23/

I may have found the game to replace City of Heroes.......
YAR! The official game of TLAPD*

Other than that, work is work, and fairly busy for start up. building up a fair bit of mileage. I think it's time for new computer bits, been taking a look around at what parts to put together that'll last me another 4-5 years like orthanc has. One month till the birthday too.


Things are good, even if i have to be a bachelor for the next week because of a scheduling conflict.







*TLAPD - Talk like a pirate day!

I'm jonesing a bit for some role-playing. I've got at least one outlet in the next little while, and depending on how much i shanghai shlemkevich into picking up a little Twilight 2000 again i should have some outlets for this desire.

Upcoming for the end of September is the Phantasm Game Convention in Peterborough. I'm running the larp on saturday night again, and it looks like i'm going to be running a (with player co operation) high political conclave for the night. Called by a (to be determined) Justicar in the City of New York, the plots and politicking of the vampires of the city, and the world should be pretty interesting. I'm setting up plots and plot seeds right now, but those interested in playing, should, as always preregister by emailing congame@witchscauldron.net and let me know what you'd like to play ( High Policitcal, Low Political etc, and choice of 1,2 or 3 clans. If you have an idea for a character please send it in as well.) There are no garantees that anyone will get their request, but i will endeavour to fulfill them, as numbers and plots allow.

Other than that, i'm vacillatating between wanting to run either Paranoia, or in consultation with a couple of people, a DnD(3.5) game set in the Forgotten Realms, the City of Splendors, Waterdeep, to be precise. Having spoken to some people who, despite having played in the FR for a long time, have never played in Waterdeep. I'm thinking a relatively lower level start (2-3) this gives a bit of space for competence... another post may follow this. I'm tempted to run this on RPOL, or figure out something else to play it on, or set something up that would enable us to play it on tabletop, if we got everyone together. If you are interested in this please comment.



I've still got my Heroscape terrain to try out with Battletech, but that requires people coming over, so i think we need to find a time for a gaming weekend again. morgandria has talked about having one around her birthday, but i'm not sure if that would work out given timing and shortness of notice. The other option would be sometime in October, or November (for my birthday maybe). If you are one of the usual suspects (shlemkevich, otherjeff, jlindsay, acornya, arirthos) Let me know when you would be interested in getting together for games, or if sometime towards the end of august, or labour day weekend would be good for you.

The other thing i've thought about is getting MegaMek working on a number of computers and playing either a tournement of some sort, or do a large battle using the Megamek system. It's not quite the same as pushing minatures around on a table, but it's pretty close, and it doesn't involve me fixing the minatures i've got kicking around, as well as painting them up again.

This is the interview meme, this is where i tell people that if they want some interview questions, to ask for them here. If they'd like to ask 5 questions, ask them here.

( down the rabbit-hole )

Wow, been a while since a meaningful post here, so this may be a longer post than usual.



Since the last time i posted, i've been confirmed in my new position, with a raise, and job security. I'm now 15th from the top in security with about 7 people below me. This means i'm pretty lay-off resistant. The job pays fairly well, and moves me within range of 3x my starting wage per year. I get a raise Jan 1 for our contract raise, and move up a pay grid next september. This makes me feel pretty good about things, but now i wonder what the next goal will be. Probably some certifications, and some work on the side. The certifications will get me ready for the next step up in a few years.

Christmas was good, we ended up having a small Christmas dinner with my family on the 22nd, then headed to Peterborough for Yule with Heather's coven. I got a nice hot chocolate basket in the gift pillage, and was disappointed that more people weren't there to fight over the present jlindsay stole the idea for from me.

We then headed up to Ottawa to have Christmas Eve dinner at Heather's brothers place. They have a nice townhouse, with tons of space. Dinner was a nice roast beast with home made yorkshire puddings. We played a few rounds of fluxx and exchanged gifts. We got the first season of Fraggle Rock, a Camera Cell Phone, a very nice sweater, a dress shirt, some socks.... We went back to Heather's mom's place to spend Christmas Eve, then went to visit a few people in Smith Falls, including Heathers Dad.

More to come... gotta reboot.