everburning

As usual, it’s been a busy few weeks. The condo is still a bit of a mess but it’s getting cleaner. We’re shuffling things around in the office so it looks like a tornado hit it. Lost the damn cord for the Rogers terminal. Going to have see if it appears out of the rubble.

In other news, took a quick trip up to Owen Sound on the weekend. Spent most of it gaming, although we did go over to a friends house for some drinks and cheese. Mmm, cheese. Tasty cookies too. Was a pretty good weekend. Hooked up with my parents for dinner, tried to call Mike for coffee, but no answer. The bus trip kinda sucked tho. Three hours on a bus where you sit with your knees pressed to the seat in front of you isn’t so fun. Did get through a good chunk of my book which is nice. Gaming was a lot of fun. Not something I get to do too often anymore which kinda sucks. I was pretty convinced my character was fucked for a while but managed to get it worked out.

After a good weekend of gaming I’ve been spending time contemplating running my own game. I know the other guys would love me to do it, but I just haven’t got there yet. After trolling the forums on Monte Cooks site for a while I ran across Robin’s Laws of Good Gamemastering which looked kind of interesting so I picked up the PDF version last night. Have I mentioned I love my laser printer? I’ll have to give it a read through and see what I come up with.

Thinking of running a game invariably leads me into thinking of writing a program to help run a game with. Something with the relevant stats/listings from the SRD documents along with a wiki style setup for creating notes and other stuff. The ability to generate maps would be nice. I tried to look for some good, free, mapping software for OSX last night but didn’t come across anything. We’ll see if I get started before my ADD kicks in or not.

In EWL news Nathan got the drag and drop code up to a basically complete state. There are some changes we could do, and some enhancements, but the plan is to let it sit for a while so people can poke at it and see where it bleeds. This was a pretty big chunk of work. We didn’t think so originally, but it ended up requiring a lot of changes all over the place. So, good work Nathan. Now, fix the mess I’ve made of tree2, heh.

Well the move is over. We’re now in the process of getting settled into the new condo. In the end I’m really happy we hired movers. There would have been no way for us to get all that stuff out of our old appartment and into the condo in the time limits we had. I think if I move again I’m going to hire painters, packers and movers. I’ll just wait an extra 6 months before moving, heh.

It pissed rain all day but the moving guys just parked their truck right outside so everything was dry by the time it was moved into the new place. I bought them coffee and donuts since they had to work through the rain all day. Not that I didn’t get soaked walking down to Hortons, but that’s beside the point.

After getting everything moved in on Thursday night we wandered over to the Sheppard Grande and watched The Fountain. I’m not quite sure if this was a good or bad movie. It was a bit strange to follow, but that could also be because I was exhaused. I also didn’t expect to come out of one of Darren Aronofsky’s movies and have a good understanding of what it was about. I think I liked it. I have no idea if anyone else would tho.

We’ve been ripping through the boxes and containers at the new place over the last few days. All the boxes and bins are now empty and you can actually walk across the condo without having to step over anything. Makes a big difference to get the books on the shelves and setting up some new shelving for the office closet.

We’re still trying to work out just what to do with the TV in the living room. We tried to mount it on the wall but the places the stud finder said a stud was located didn’t have anything behind it. It’s currently just sitting on what used to be the bar.

The kitchen is working out great. There is a lot more cupboard space in the condo, and we added some extra shelving to act as a pantry where we can hide all of the caned goods.

We had the condo people come in and fix the washing machine and the master bathtub on Friday. Which, in the end, was a bit of an adventure. When he was fixing the bathtub a piece shot out of it and water sprayed everywhere. There was about ten minutes where water just gushed out of the tap. Had to hold a shirt over it to direct the flow into the tub (instead of all over the floor) so the guy fixing it could run to get the tool to turn off the water. Floor was nicely soaked but I think we’ve got the carpet dried out.

In a fit of consumerism glory Stacy and I picked up a copy of Lego Starwars, Oblivion and a second Xbox 360 controller. Oblivion is fun, there are a couple UI things that bug me but I’ll be putting some time into this one as well. Starwas is really, really well done. Both Stacy and I are loving it. They’ve done a fantastic job getting everything to fit together. Hopefully both games hold up to the test of time.

That’s it for now.