Tag: frustration

December 21, 2007

Do I have anything to say…?

I’m really wiped out from work right now. This is the busiest I’ve been in about two years, and there is all kinds of backstabbing political crap going on right now… and it looks like I’m backstabee numero uno. Joy. So, anyway, I’m sorry that I haven’t been updating very much of late. I’ve been preoccupied. That said, I had...

December 10, 2007

Wah.

This makes me sad. In other news, I’m in grant-writing hell. I believe that is Hell #847 for those keeping track.

November 8, 2007

Ick

I probably should have just stayed home sick today, but I came into work this afternoon to prep for a couple meetings tomorrow. The request for proposals for a big mega-grant that I’m working on was just published yesterday. The applications are due February 1, which means I will be crazy-busy until then. This probably won’t detract from my blogging,...

September 18, 2007

The Face of a Killer?

Sometimes, I don’t know what George is thinking. Last night, in our Aberrant game, he introduced “The Quaker” as a villian. The Quaker, of course, has seismic powers. I nearly had to leave the room after being overcome with stupid. Stupid isn’t necessarily a problem, but the campaign has been fairly serious and realistic (given that it is, you know,...

September 12, 2007

Bad Press

Lore Sjöberg thinks he’s funny. He hasn’t been. Not since the Brunching Shuttlecocks… and I suspect that Brunching may have been funny despite him. I sometimes find myself reading his column in Wired – mostly because I follow a link and didn’t realize it would end up on his column. I find that I am invariably sorry I did so....

September 6, 2007

Sometimes, I am a flake

I haven’t been getting much work done on the Goblins of Gourm. I think that a combination of factors have contributed to this. Mostly, I think it is that I just lost momentum. On the other hand, for the past couple days, I’ve had an idea germinating for a huge gaming project. Maybe it is a setting book. Maybe it...

August 16, 2007

4venture

The 4e announcement depresses me. I am trying to figure out why this is. Some random thoughts: I’m worried that the licensing will change. From what I’ve read, it sounds as if all open-license-fan-material will need to be run through Gleemax. If that is true (and it may not be), it has at least some unpleasant consequences for what I’ve...

July 27, 2007

Random leveling thought and away message

First, I should apologize for not updating lately. I’m in the middle of moving and will be headed to New Orleans next week. It will probably be two weeks before I begin updating regularly… unless I figure out how to do so from my new Treo. Anyway, I was reading a thread on a forum (probably EN World – I...

July 10, 2007

GenCon?

I’ve never been to GenCon. I really want to go this year. I don’t know if it will happen. It ought to. Angela is going. She and Grace have a table in the art show, and will – hopefully – be selling much art. Anyway, that means I have a place to stay in Indianapolis (not that I would need...

June 19, 2007

Mediocre game night

Last night’s gaming was mediocre at best. We were playing Aberrant. I’d missed the past two games due to travel and work craziness, but my PC had been kept in the loop, doing a bunch of run and fetch type things that kept him off screen most of the time. The set-up was promising. My PC was developing a crush...