Monday 16 February 2004

• Alan Menkin is an awesome musician, enough that I'll listen to the soundtrack to an aweful movie!

  
  

  What an interesting week I've had.  I finally got around to reading my church bulletin and noticed that supposedly the minister schedules had been E-mailed already.  I had wondered why they seemed so late in coming out, so I called the office.  Cathy mentioned that there were some E-mail troubles and that she would send me another copy.  Lo and behold, I was reading today!  It was a good thing I called.  As it was, I was a little nervous about having less than a week to prepare. 

  
  

  Then, Bill kept calling me to ask me to call everyone else about our Presidents' Day Renaissance Festival plans.  So I had to waste my cell phone minutes rather than inconvience him who has the landline phone with unlimited minutes.  And everytime he'd place a time restriction on when to call him back with information.  If he's the one in the hurry, shouldn't he be the one making the calls?  It's so frustrating.  Yet, anytime I've refused to be the point of contact for him, things fall through.  So I'm grinning and bearing it yet again.  God help me.

  
  

  So, Friday I ran the second installment of Star Wars:  Invasion of Theed to everyone's enjoyment.  We lost Russ to a new work schedule (and thus Sia-Lan Wezz), but gained Lori (who went out to the Requiem last week).  Lor chose to play Dane', a human female soldier.  She even put her hair in the same style as her charcter (as from the character sheet) who is training to become a queen's handmaiden.  I took even more liberties with this adventure than the last one, as all of my players are seasoned role players.  Next week, look for me to do the same. 

  
  

  Saturday we played Steve's D&D campaign again.  As we got up for breakfast, Twiggy went looking for trouble.  While everyone else was just starting to get together and have preparatory spells cast on them, Twiggy came back with three crossbow bolts (and one remaining hit point) sticking to him.  So, not fully equipped, the group set out to investigate.  Magnus was smart enough to use a sunrod so that we could see in the cellar which Twiggy had been exploring in the dark (without enhanced senses other than a Detect Magic spell which found nothing).  We ran into beings composed of nothing but bone, cartilage, and rotting leather armour.  Just as we finished them, several of the fifty or so barrels in the room busted open to reveal more skeletal attackers.  The half-orc ran at that point.  The rest of us continued to battle them.  Capernicus fell once, was healed by Twiggy, fell again to zero this time and healed himself.  Finally, the half-orc came back having replaced his sword with his two-handed hammer and having brought the dwarf's shield (but no one else's gear).  But the lack of one of our primary warriors for so long was taking its toll and even Serran fell to zero and had to heal himself.  Meanwhile, as new creatures burst from various barrels some started hacking away at the stairs so that we couldn't escape.  We had to end at a cliffhanger after we slew our thirty-third opponent.  Hopefully we'll survive next session as several of us have almost certainly leveled.  What was really cool is that Cap managed to hit once for sixteen damage!  His previous best in his four levels thus far had been seven.  I was so proud of him. 

  
  

  So, I obviously had to cancel my attendance of today's Whirlpool of Blood, much to my disappointment.  The Arizona Proving Ground is not scheduled in such a way that I can attend 5pm mass in my parish, so I usually either attend 5pm mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel or attend an earlier mass in my own parish (depending on whether or not my mother wants to attend mass with me that evening or not).  However, that meant that I was listening to The God Show this morning and learned about Home on Time, a faith-based approach to prioritizing one's life.  It totally fit with some of my own thoughts of late, so I filled out the questionaire on the site and hope to be able to implement some changes in my lifestyle in the near future. 

  
  

  Meanwhile, mass went well.  Father is still having a hard time in getting the congregation to follow the new proceedure of standing during the, "May the Lord accept the sacrifice..." portion of the preparation of the alter and gifts.  Not even all of the ministers stand during it yet, so I think our congregation is going to be slow to change in this instance. 

  
  

  Anyway, it's late and I have to get up early for the Arizona Renaissance Festival and Artisans Marketplace tomorrow.  Wish me luck! 

  
  

  What do you really think of me?

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