Oops, two weeks. Time flies. I think I was a little unwilling to communicate after the whole wedding thing. He got his new orders in, but apparently he had to fight pretty hard to get somewhere other then Greece. I guess you can’t take spouses there. So now it’s Italy. Good for them I suppose, I hope that she can find something to keep herself going every day. I don’t see her as the domesticated home maker, but she will be surrounded by plenty of art and history so hopefully that will keep her inspired.
Got rid of a huge chunk of my gaming books today. Must have been 30 books or so. $55 store credit. Hmm, I know I didn’t want to keep them around anymore (they take up a lot of space) but for some reason I thought it might be more than that. I’m probably trying to attach an emotional value to them as well. I don’t really regret trading them in (picked up the 4E DMG and some minitures, woo!) but yeah, nostalgia is a bitch.
Our 4E game is going well, I picked up a magic shield last week and a magic sword this week. Rolling in the lewt, I believe I am nearing “Phat” levels. I might give the shield to our Warlord just to distribute things a bit more evenly. The sword is pretty neat though, so you’d have to pry it from my cold dead fingers. Or y’know, get me a shinier one. D&D should really just be called Death & Shinies.
No awesome fights yet, I’m sure one is coming up though. Last week we fought some kind of Jelly and a Blue Slime. Those were some hard fights, but they were fun. The first fight against the Jelly we were down two players, they were running late and attending a funeral, respectively. So it was a pretty big change missing the area damage from our Wizard and the straight damage a Ranger can deal. We got through it though, and without any character incapacitation I might add
A couple of us are working on our own game, a new setting. Well kind of new. We first played this setting about 8 years ago using the D10 system from White Wolf. I had a website up that was where we were supposed to be discussing things, but there was some huge database error with Drupal and I just made the decision to delete it. It wasn’t really being used anyways. So I’m going to put another one up soon using WordPress. So look for that one to show up at some point, we want to try to market the setting and build a community around it. We’ll see though, if it even goes anywhere it’ll probably just be a drop in the bucket.
Speaking of new sites, I’m about to launch a new site, sdbarhopper.com. The plan is to rate bars around San Diego. I didn’t see one specifically for San Diego and it’s something I think I could be good at. Plus that’s an awesome domain I managed to pick up, memorable. I was going to launch it last weekend but things got too hectic, so I’m pushing it back to next week. I also lost a bit of confidence in it when I told a couple friends about it and got the “Uh huh, that’s great.” response. The polite, I-hope-you-don’t-turn-this-into-an-epic-fail-but-you-probably-will response. Some times I really do hate these people. Regardless, I will move forward. I plan to rate Toronado San Diego first, since we’re both new. Except it’s had some more time to decorate. Quick thought about it, it’s fucking loud. After Toronado, a regular bar, maybe MacGregor’s. I need to make stickers and other crap to put up to drive some traffic. But that’s in the future.
Holy shit, look how far I got without talking about music. I’ve been almost entirely captivated by two bands the past couple of weeks, Goatsnake and The Hidden Hand. Both of them are kind bluesy throw backs, but with that Stoner Metal tinge to them. Goatsnake especially. One of the guitarists in it is from SUNN 0))), so it’s really really fucking heavy. I liked the Blues beforehand, but damn, I don’t think it’s ever sounded like this.
Cult of Luna released their new album today. I need to get it at some point, I don’t have the cash right now though. It would be really nice if that damn stimulus check I was promised would show up. The thing that pisses me off the most about that is that it should have been deposited about, oh, 3 months ago I think. Anyways the new album sounds like an interesting concept, they found some journal from a mental patient in the place the were rehearsing. Could be overwrought, could be awesome. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt since they kick quite a bit of ass.
I just noticed I swear a lot when I talk about music. Chalk it up to passion.
Site almost done, I finally figured out how I want to actually display my work. Hopefully that will get done tomorrow. I don’t see it taking that long, I do so hate talking about my work though. I don’t know why, maybe because I don’t think I’m very complicated and think it should be fairly obvious what I was doing.
Damn, I am long winded. Probably why I only try to do a few posts a week