Nerdy Thoughts

I've been re-reading some of the posts from when I first started blogging and the difference in how I write now compared to how I wrote back then and, uh...yikes?

Of course, I had to do the math and I realized I started my Livejournal eighteen years ago?!?! I started blogging in January 2004 during my third year of university so I would have been twenty. I guess I shouldn't be too hard on twenty-year-old me for sounding like an idiot. I suppose fifty-six-year-old me will be just as judgmental in another eighteen years, assuming this site is still around and I'm still periodically blogging.

Another thing I picked up on while reviewing my older posts is I have a pattern of blogging during the winter and dropping off the face of the earth once the weather gets warmer. Which is fair, after months of snow it's only natural I'd want to be outside to take advantage of the nicer weather. That pattern is also true for my writing RPG habits. In the past, I usually start or join games in the fall or spring when the weather is wet and there are no holidays to distract me.

Recently I've been poking around the RPG advertisements on Tumblr though I think it's more curiosity about what games are out there than any real interest in joining. Journaling and poking around with some old fanfiction has been scratching my writing urge plus every time I look at an RPG I'm reminded of how much time RPGs can take up between character creation, plotting, posting, and then waiting for someone else to reply. Just thinking about it makes me feel tired.

Here's to the patron saint of beekeepers! Or one of them, rather. Seems the saints were just nuts about bees or people were just nuts about associating them with bees. There's St. Ambrose, St. Benedict, St. Gobnait/Abigail, St. Bartholomew, and St. Dominic. Probably more that I don't know about. While raised Catholic, I haven't really participated in the church in decades but I still find the saints fascinating.

Saints aside, it's been a nice Valentine's day so far. I made breakfast for J, the sun's splitting the rocks (NL speak for it's sunny), and it's been pretty chill. Also, I gotta say, one nice thing about growing older is I've noticed my friend's group is less angsty/negative about Valentine's Day. In my twenties, it was guaranteed to see quite a few snarky LJ posts, tweets or Facebook posts about the day but not so much throughout my thirties. Granted, people post less on social media and many of my friends are in steady relationships now but still, all my coupled & single friends are way more chill about it now. I'm chalking it up to maturity.

In other news, I'm debating backing a Kickstarter for a reprint of Good Society: A Jane Austen RPG. Well, really debating the amount tier. It's close to being backed and I'm eyeing the highest tier that includes the whole set but the inevitable question is: Do I really need this? The answer is no.

Do I feel like really want it? At the moment, yes but I'm also trying to be better at pausing and asking myself if it's something I truly want and will use. So it's been bookmarked so I can take a couple of days to decide. If a Regency based RPG is something you might be interested in, check it out here: LINK

Now I'm off to go for a walk with J to enjoy the nice weather.

It's Victoria day in Canada, also known as May 2-4...called that even if it's not on the 24th. In Newfoundland it's pretty much a holiday centered around camping. Even the weather is usually terrible. For reasons I've never understood, a lot of the camping takes place in gravel pits. Hell, there's even a song about it, if you like hokey folksy comedy music that can be grating on the ears. I mean, I'm from Newfoundland and Buddy Wasisname & the other fellers band is a local institution so I've grown to like them but ...yeah. Let's just say they're not indicative of my usual musical tastes.

...I'm getting off track though. The point I was trying to make is that it's Victoria day which is a federal holiday so I had the day off work.

Which is great because I had a D&D game Sunday night that went past midnight so I was happy I got to sleep in. It was a pretty decent game last night, I and a couple of others got to introduce new characters as our last characters were killed off trying to steal magical healing pears from a evil wizard/possible necromancer. My new character's a female Triton (think aquaman / namor types if you're not familiar) who's from a family of fighters but secretly she wants to earn gold so adventuring so she can open a tavern/restaurant. Unfortunately she was a little more violet in game than I meant to be but she survived her first night so, success!

Today was mostly a day of lazing around with my partner before I went to have coffee with my best friend. It was really nice because even though we're in the same D&D group, we haven't had a chance to hang one on one for the past month. Hard to fully catch up with a group around, can't really talk about private stuff or have a bitch session about annoying things when every one else wants to rp.