I got in late from my anniversary dinner to find a message from one of the ushers at our wedding. I’d like to say he remembered our anniversary, but the truth is he recently found my web pages (through the songs, I think–he was drummer in The Last Psalm back in the early seventies) and has called a couple times, and when he got someone else here he was told that we were out celebrating the wedding he attended thirty-one years ago. I returned his call, because he has emphasized that he is always up late, and indeed he was up and chatted with me for quite a while. Eventually he was asking about the books and the Multiverser game, and I have promised him that today I will set up the character generation thread for him, and he has promised that he will call me around ten tonight to walk him through it–he knows so little about role playing games that he thought Dungeons & Dragons™ was originally a card game. So I’ve a bit of extra work on my plate, but a new gamer on the way. I’m toying with running him in a world I’ve never even thought of running before, but it’s going to take me a bit of scrambling to put it together. Anyone know anything about the history of Bourbon Street Jazz?

Meanwhile, the car is back, brakes repaired; the truck will be another day, hopefully not more than that.

–M. J. Young

There is really not much to say today. I am told that the truck might be ready tomorrow morning, and that the car will also be done by the afternoon, so here’s hoping at least one of them is right; we had to return the borrowed van this morning and borrow a houseguest’s car for an hour, but now I’m piloting a rental boat–seriously, I’ve been driving minivans for the past several years, and this thing feels huge. Actually, it’s as if it’s bigger on the outside than it is on the inside, to reverse the famed comment about a more flexible vehicle. When I’m standing next to it, I feel as if it’s really huge, but when I’m inside it I don’t really have the sense of roominess inside.

I was thinking that I really had nothing to report here. I fell asleep early last night, awoke in the middle of the night and saw to a few things, then went back to bed, got up to roust the schoolboy, then went back to bed. I think I’m well rested, although my body seems to be fighting something. I didn’t watch anything I needed to watch, but then I’ve not yet moved the DVD player back to the bedroom. I did take my mother-in-law shopping, which took up a fair chunk of the evening. I’ve got a dinner date after work tonight, to celebrate our thirty-first anniversary (I hope I’ve done the math aright), and she expects to be out on time so I really don’t have much time to finish what’s on my plate as it is. So it’s a day with little to report.

However, when I arrived to write this blog, the site software informed me that there was an incoming link to the site from a source with a rather disturbingly vulgar name–at least, to me. It turns out to be a blog by one of our gamers, linking to his game thread here at Gaming Outpost–one of Scott’s people, not mine, although that doesn’t really make a difference. I’m not sure I understand the logic of the vulgarity, although perhaps it is his first blog entry and he’s hoping it will show up in search engines and get him some readers. Probably if it works, they won’t be back.

Anyway, as mentioned, I don’t have a lot of time. I’d better use it well.

–M. J. Young