Tuesday 26 September 2006
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Heroes. 'Nuff Said.
How long, on average, is a baseball actually in play during a ballgame?
Tonight premiered one of the best shows in the history of television. If you did not watch Heroes, you should watch its encore tomorrow night. NBC has "Must See TV" for the first time in more years than I care to count. If I could only watch one show a week, Heroes would be it. The writing was brilliant; with excellent pacing, great uses of foreshadowing, just enough surprises, a wide variety of personalities and interpersonal relationships, and an overall brilliant introduction to the theme and characters of the series. I could go on and on, but then I risk building up people's expectations. I went in with no expectations and am now hooked!
Anyway, a couple of weeks ago Rudy was moving in his girlfriend and her daughter and was kind enough to donate his desk and several bookcases to me so long as I helped move them over here. Easily done. So now I no longer have boxes of books stacked around the house. Nor do I have stacks of gaming books on various coffee tables. These will go a long way into making this house more habitable and friendly to visitation by others.
The choir director at my church would like me to join the 09:30 mass choir, as he is desparately in need of tenors. It'd be a major commitment, with choir practice every Wednesday night after work and attending morning mass every Sunday. I'm not that big on morning masses, as I'm not usually fully awake for them. Although, I surprised myself last weekend when I was fully cognicent during the entire 08:00 mass. My voice cracks when I sing, but he's convinced that I'd do well based upon my lectoring abilities. We'll see.
This past Sunday was Confirmation for many of the preteens, teens, and adults in our parish. The vicar general prosided on behalf of the bishop, and did a great job of tying their Confirmation into his homily. Before mass my mother and I visting the grandparents who surprised us with a delicious spaghetti diner before playing games and watching the Diamondbacks lose another game.
The previous Sunday (after that 08:00 mass) I went to the Alternate Shield of Alamor meeting to play a couple of Living Arcanis modules set in Freeport. The original version of my character was from Freeport, until they made it campaign illegal. I think it's campaign legal again, but I've invested too much into his current background as an Altherian to bother with it now. The original Val was gentry from Freeport with the val'Inares bloodline powers. Now he's an Altherian gentry with val'Abebi bloodline powers (bloodline powers being tied to the god from whose stock your lineage comes). I understand the campaign world a lot better now than I did then, so I think this character is better anyway.
Maio, our GM for both mods, said that he's enjoyed running for me both then and at Phoenix Con Games. Sanders said that he always has fun with me at the table. He still can't believe that I took stomp for my psychic warrior. Aparently no one takes that power. It works in about half of the mods that I play him in, which always surprises everyone else at the table. Eventually I'll be playing mods with a high enough APL that everyone will be able to make the save DC, but in the meantime I'm having fun. That's what I tried explaining to them all. I'm there to have fun, not min/max my characters.
That said, if I ever play another intro module I've made myself another character. My val psywar made sixth level at the end of that day, so he won't be eligible for any low-level only mods. Stanley wants to run through Taboo, which is a levels 1 and 2 only module. His character is only a hundred or so from third level so he's jonesin' to do it soon. My new character is a gnome shaman. Gnomes are the twisted and deformed offspring of the dwarves (former giants cursed by the gods into their current form) and humans. The curse of the dwarves manifests itself in the gnomes with horrible physical deformities, so I chose mine to be a twisted spine and partially webbed fingers and toes. Gnomes are the lowest of the low in any and all societies, so it'll be a fun change of pace from my gentried val (val being the offspring of the angels of the gods and humans created for and charged with the defense and leadership of humanity).
Sanders was bragging about my MSHAG campaign again. People really loved that campaign. Every once and a while people ask me to start another MSHAG campaign, but I'm just not reading comics like I used to do. They cost so much money, the only comic I still read isn't even a super hero comic. I could probably reimmerse myself, but right now I'm enjoying immersing myself into Dark Sun.
In fact, we've resumed play. I was a little disappointed in myself that I never got my printers working so I could print the combat maps and monster tokens. I think it really detracted from the play experience, but everyone seemed to have enough fun that we played well past our usual cutoff time. I was rather unhappy with it all, but that's my perfectionist nature.
The same thing happens when I lector. When I feel that I could have done better someone comes up and thanks me for doing such a wonderful job. Meanwhile all I can think is that they must be mistaken. Yet it happens often enough that I have to assume that I am doing adaquately. I don't get any negative feedback, despite requests for constructive criticisms.
There's good news on the job front. We've been terribly understaffed, and with some peoiple sick and others having motor vehicle troubles, it's only been worse. Luckily, rumour has it that they'll be hiring another person in October. Yay! Maybe then I can get caught up on all the side projects I'm supposed to be working on. Not too likely, but I can dream.
I escaped from the Dungeon of Sharetheroad!
I killed Melody Kilroy the zombie.
I looted the Dagger of Ceramics, a Figurine of Lasherdemon, the Dagger of Science Fiction, the Sword of Tflas, the Armour of Comics, the Wand of Horror, the Armour of Reading, the Amulet of Fantasy and 16 gold pieces.
Score: 91
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Comments (7)
Heroes? What's the premise?
Thanks for the post by the way
Note one - on the choir thing tell him you'll give it a test run. That way you are not fully committed.
Note two - I got your friend request thing but it says I have to Upgrade to do that and I can't do that right now.
But I hope we can still be "friends"
Sounds interesting. Adding Ali larter can't hurt either.
Steak is good! How have you been?
Thanks for the update
First off, no I'm not in a time warp, just saved a bunch of old blog posts for a rainy day (or a day where I'm trying to clean out my Inbox). Second, I tried joining the choir this past (school) year. It worked pretty well for the fall, but in the spring my wife's tutoring at night prevented me from making most practices (also on Wednesday nights) so I wasn't able to participate as fully. In any case, it has been an enjoyable experience and I hope you enjoyed it, too. Of course, whether you did or didn't, you probably already blogged about it but I never read it. But one day, I will. My Inbox will never die!
@bassaf - That's funny. I do the same! Recently I've been commenting on early May 2009 posts, but that's because I go backward through my Inbox. Feel free to comment anytime.
The choir thing never worked out. I was always showing up late or missing practice completely due to my work schedule. I'd like to try it again someday when my schedule is different. I am now an Extraordinary Minister of the Eucharist in addition to my lectoring duties. That doesn't require attending any practice sessions each week. I often substitute as an EM on Sundays on which I am not lectoring. I also still find myself being thanked for reading well right after a mass in which I felt I read poorly, so go figure.
Other updates to my blog post above: My val psiwar is 10th level, my gnome shaman 3rd level, my Dark Sun campaign has been on a long hiatus, and I was finally talked into a new MSHAG campaign which is set in the mid-1980s which will have its second session this upcoming Sunday.