May2005Cowshed and Waynne's Birthday22 May 2005 Cowshed:
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Time for sleep. RotS Been and Gone21 May 2005 Have just awoken after a long night of roleplaying. Adrianna wrote the mini-module which was set in the country-side near a Lord's estate and ran it for us. Very much an investigatory module despite the DnD setting. Had lots of fun attempting to determine what exactly was going on the in the small town of Redcreek and in particular, what the hedge wizard Altas had been up to and whether it had killed him. Saw RotS on Thursday evening with bunches of people. It was fairly cool - I'll leave the review? for the ReViews/ReViews section. Had a fun and very geeky postmortem session at the Coffee Bean afterwards. Ran into ex-digsmate, Sarah, beforehand. Never really want to see Woolworths' Peanut Buttercups again. In other news, we have put in an offer on a duplex 1 in Kenilworth Village. We should hear whether it has been accepted within the hour. Holding thumbs. [1] duplex seems to be estate agent speak for a sectional title unit which is not a flat. 4 days to Episode III15 May 2005 Weekend round-up:
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Addendum: Accidentally left my car lights on on Friday but Kieran helped jumpstart the car (Thanks!). Have now had battery water topped up and all seems to be good. :) 9 days to Episode III10 May 2005 Played in the VtES tournament at Outer Limits on Saturday. Although I didn't do too well in the winning stakes (however I did make it to the top table) the number of different political decks made both games quite interesting. On Saturday evening we watched Ginger Snaps and The Secret of Nimh with Neil. Ginger Snaps was awesome - a thoughtful, coming-of-age, female werewolf movie. Now to find the sequel and prequel. We didn't get to see the last bit of TSoN because the DVD died. Thankfully we found an online script to fill in the last few scenes. At around 2:30 on Sunday morning someone tried to fish my cellphone out of our window with a crude wire basket attached to the end of a long spikey pole they had obtained from the building site next door. Since this is the fourth or fifth theft or attempted theft this year we have redoubled our house hunting efforts. :| After spending most of Sunday looking at flats to buy we saw Kingdom of Heaven with Philip, Jo, Waynne, Jean, Steve and Jo. It was a decent enough film with plenty of cool costumes and other details to look at. Orlando isn't the best of actors but at least he seems to have broken out of the pretty-boy mold to some extent. Bubble Brothers6 May 2005 Yesterday I downloaded Bubble Brothers. It's like Bubble Bobble, but mad. Today my Redland mini-patch which fixes the MySQL storage hashes on PPC was put into Redland CVS. Hooray! P.S. We have now finished Bubble Brothers. Holidays5 May 2005 Back at work after a five day holiday in Arniston. Arniston is pretty sleepy - especially on weekdays - so be sure to take lots of stuff to do. We played lots of card- and boardgames (Munchkin, VtES, Lord of the Fries, Fluxx and more traditional things like 30 Seconds, Pictionary and Hollywood Rummy), took a long walk along the beech (where we saw numerous bits of marine life, both dead and alive), got smoked out by the fire, cooked, ate and read (I finished Difference Engine by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson). I managed to mostly avoid playing on the Game Boy (man, the graphics are so crap). On the Sunday after we arrived we attended Ty and Diane's farewell and got to talk to numerous people we haven't seen in quite a while. Our Cthulhu Dark Ages / 1920 (we're as confused as you are) campaign also started up again after a week's hiatus. Now with added players (Lucas and Mike). The first full 1920s session went kinda pear-shaped after five unarmed investigators (included as the most skilled combatant a young ballerina) where jumped by three knife weilding cultists in a darkened hotel room. Hopefully the next session will go better. |