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Still here and things are going good.

I adjusted my seat height, tried to swing my leg over and massively failed. rescued me and took me to the ER. I was wearing a helmet, did not hit my head and was fine except for the 20 stitches. Photos under the cut. Warning: the wound is bloody and gruesome.

( Warning: Photos of a bad ankle laceration. There are blood and stitches visible. )

Have a lot of D&D next weekend due to Hero Camp! Two full days (9a-12a Sat and 9a Sun to 5p - 20 hours worth) of fun organized by the excellent folks who run the Adventurers League room at Gamehole Con. I'm trying to decide if I should go into the event with a DM in mind and try to muster for that table, or not plan at all and see what happens.

Whatever happens, I'm looking forward to playing We Are Grung! again with slightly more sleep and being significantly more sober than I was at GaryCon. Being a wee bit drunk will probably help me not remember everything that is going to happen and I'm going to play a different pre-gen this time.

My Sunday home game continues to be weird, wonderful and mind breaking. Our time traveling changed the present and we're currently dealing with a shit ton of time travel paradoxes. It is very complicated - we're all (characters and players) delightfully confused, especially the new person who just joined our game. As it stands now, they're the only one from the current timeline.

In other D&D news, I need make the DM plunge and run a game in person. DMs get nice AL rewards and other perks like going to a con for free if you've signed up to DM enough slots.

Media consumption: listening to a lot of the Sawbones podcast lately. Modern medicine is a gift compared to historical medicine! Also, don't drill a hole in your head.

I'm now two weeks behind on Critical Role, my plan is to catch up on at least one ep this weekend. Doesn't sound like a lot, but each ep is over 3 hours long. I love the characters in the new campaign SO MUCH that I can't pick a favorite. They are all each wonderful and adorable in their own way *squishes them close.* I like the old campaign with high level characters and 2+ years of home game backstory before they went live on the internet, but it is so much *fun* to watch characters start at level 1 and cohere as a group.

I may like Critical Role kind of a lot ;D

D&D: Ordered my home game mini from HeroForge! The DM is going to paint it once it gets here, it'll be nice to have a painted mini (all of mine are unpainted). She is a manticora alchemist/necromancer wizard, she's a little dark and that is a-okay with me!
( Pic of mini behind cut )
Have a lot of D&D to play today and tomorrow. Going over to someone's house this evening to play and back there again tomorrow to play another three-ish sessions. No online home game, which makes me sad as my ranger is now a ranger-war cleric and we're heading to the underdark.

I need a place to sleep for Thu, Fri and Sat night - anyone have space or know someone who has space? I know it is super late notice and if it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen. Especially since I still need to buy my membership....

ETA: Have thought about this all day, think I need to skip the con this year :( Have too much stuff to get done and need to save money. Next year, next year I will be there!

I've been extra distracted this year because of work and this little thing:

(not my pic)

Not renting, bought that sucker! (!!!!!!!) We closed on Jul 25 and has taken over most of my brainpan since the start of June. So much painting left to do and then pack up the apartment before Aug 27, gah.

Work continues apace, I still like my new position. Lots of responsibility, but I'm okay with that and I haven't done an overnight in almost a year! I've found out since I started that scheduling is one of my strong suits, it's like a jigsaw puzzle: there is nearly always a way to fit the pieces together to make it work (and I apologize to my staff even though none of you know my online name and never will, I value you as far more than puzzle pieces). I've also found that I really don't mind being on call, though I do feel a bit silly sometimes when I'm carrying three phones - personal cell, work cell and on call cell!

Just saw the time, off to work with me. I get to pick my hours, but I hate starting after 930.

I have watched the first 12 episodes of Person of Interest today.

I regret nothing.

*cues up #13 to watch before bed*

Brace yourself Boston, I'll be in you again ;).

fairestcat and I are looking for a third and, hopefully, a fourth roommate. We're staying March 19-22.

Apparently I now update about once a year. I need to work on that.

Life has been going good, Earl and Eva are hale and hearty (she's still a diva and he's still a lovable asshole). Crochet has become my fandom of choice along with yarn, there are some I just want to roll around naked in a bathtub with. I'm looking at you, Shibui Silk Cloud, I'm looking at you (even if you'd be annoying as fuck to frog) *tactile person checking in*.

I wrote a thing for Yuletide this year, Jeeves and the Rummy Stitch and got who's left and who's leaving by spuffyduds. It was lovely and hurt in all the right places. Thank you!!!!

VividCon was fun this year, very low key. I had a great time talking to people and look forward to next year.

Just squeaking in under the wire before reveals but I got the awesome fic, Jeeves and the Amatory Dilemma. 23k works of Jeeves/Wooster AWESOMENESS.

I don’t know if you have ever had your torso scraped with a butter knife by your valet. There is not much in the experience to recommend it. Particularly when you suspect said valet is not entirely happy with you, and so wields the implement with more vim than strictly necessarily.

Or, the tale of how Bertie and Jeeves finally Confessed All to each other, despite – or, possibly, because of – the passion-dampening affects of Giant Squirts, thwarted wrestling, unhappy boating, rabbits (both of the Luminous and Dream varieties), an aunt who breakfasts on the ground bones of nephews who displease her, and a pair of very natty yellow socks.

Thank you, thank you, thank you awesome writer who gifted me with this fic. It makes me so very happy, I've been asking for Jeeves/Wooster for every Yuletide since 2007. I really did make high pitched squealing noises and seal-clapped when I read it. :D :D :D

Another Yuletide fic that filled me with joy:

The Wanderer's Reply to the Seafarer (The Exeter Book). Poetry in Anglo-Saxon. POETRY IN ANGLO-SAXON. With footnotes! And a translation! I am in serious awe of this author.

Also, Teen Wolf seems to have eaten my brain over the last couple days. Haaalp.

Yesterday, fairestcat and I showed izzy ALL the Marvel movies (five movies in one day was a lot of fun but man, by the time we got to Captain America, we were all a little crispy fried around the edges). This morning, we went with a bunch of other people to go see Avengers in the theater before heading to a Lebanese restaurant and having tasty food. A very good time was had by all :D