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shannon_aAs I expected, this weekend wasn't very restful, with gaming on Saturday and Eric's house-cooling party on Sunday. I generally try not to schedule up more than one of my weekend days, but that was not to be this weekend.
Gaming & Spreadsheets. I'd originally begged off on gaming on Saturday, for that exact reason, but then Eric, who runs our current daytime RPG too, said, "Y'know, there's only about 6 sessions of Erzo left", and so I was convinced to attend.
Erzo has been an institution of gaming here at Berkeley forever. Eric ran his first Erzo game on the first Saturday of the school year in Fall, 1989, also my first gaming day in Berkeley. That campaign ran for about 2.5 years with a break, then there was a later (abortive) game set in the Erzo Age of Knowledge, then this latest, much more fully feature campaign, set in the Erzo Age of Cold, then Water. It'll be sad to see it go (and we'll see if we're still holding together as an RPG group a year after Eric is gone).
The session was actually very mellow. We're planning a huge magical ceremony, and so we spent about 3 or 4 hours talking about how to divvy up the spoils from the ceremony, with lots of brainstorming about interesting things we could do with water magic. At the end, we actually spreadsheeted out our current plan for what to do, so we could pass it on to Dave W., who's character is heading the ceremony, and who wasn't around this weekend due to a contract back in the midwest.
He's since looked at the spreadsheet and doesn't entirely agree with it; ah well.
Dave P., Donald & I played a few hands of Safaru, one of the Mu games afterward, while they waited for Kevin to do his grocery shopping (after which point they headed off to Kevin's place for more RPGs).
Cooling House. And that brought us to Sunday, which was Eric's house-cooling party. (They needed to schedule it now, before they empty the house so that the realtors can stage it correctly.) Donald gave me a ride, which meant that I was a couple of hours late; I got there a bit after 2. A number of Barb's friends were there, along with gamers Dave S. and Dave P.
After making nice and socializing for a couple of hours, most of Barb's friends headed out, and that let us get down to gaming. We played Category 5, Apples to Apples, Family Business (the first time I'd played in years; I think I last played with Bill's edition, and it's been 6 years or so since he moved away), and Titan: The Arena (the original, which was Eric's copy).
At the start of the party, when Dave P. showed up, Barb told him that he had to take home some Whiskey he'd brought previously if it wasn't done by the end of the party, so he spent much of the party making drinks for everyone. I held out for a while, but then he served me up a Mudslide laced with more Whiskey, and after that my resistance faded. I got pretty drunk, which I haven't done in years. Barb and Dave P. were both pretty fucked up too.
(Dave S., amazingly, was the model of restraint, perhaps because he had his child with.)
Anyway, a good time was had by all. For my house-cooling presents I took home a few games Eric didn't want (Overthrone and Knights of the Rainbow, both alledgedly pretty mediocre German games, but I was still entirely interested in trying them out) and a bowl of mouse-toys which was pressed upon me for the cats. The cats have been pretty mouse-overloaded since Christmas, but they actually seemed to enjoy the new ones too. (There are even more mice strewn all over the house now.) I looked but there didn't seem to be anything Kimberly would be enthusiastic about. (She hadn't been able to attend due to continued sickness.)
Afterward I got home and sobered up enough by 10pm to go grocery shopping.
Today I'm working, though as usual on holidays I plan to spend some time doing "fun" stuff; I've actually got a pile of programming projects backlogged, and I plan to sit down with one of those and actually push on it after I've worked through mail a bit more and eaten lunch.
Gaming & Spreadsheets. I'd originally begged off on gaming on Saturday, for that exact reason, but then Eric, who runs our current daytime RPG too, said, "Y'know, there's only about 6 sessions of Erzo left", and so I was convinced to attend.
Erzo has been an institution of gaming here at Berkeley forever. Eric ran his first Erzo game on the first Saturday of the school year in Fall, 1989, also my first gaming day in Berkeley. That campaign ran for about 2.5 years with a break, then there was a later (abortive) game set in the Erzo Age of Knowledge, then this latest, much more fully feature campaign, set in the Erzo Age of Cold, then Water. It'll be sad to see it go (and we'll see if we're still holding together as an RPG group a year after Eric is gone).
The session was actually very mellow. We're planning a huge magical ceremony, and so we spent about 3 or 4 hours talking about how to divvy up the spoils from the ceremony, with lots of brainstorming about interesting things we could do with water magic. At the end, we actually spreadsheeted out our current plan for what to do, so we could pass it on to Dave W., who's character is heading the ceremony, and who wasn't around this weekend due to a contract back in the midwest.
He's since looked at the spreadsheet and doesn't entirely agree with it; ah well.
Dave P., Donald & I played a few hands of Safaru, one of the Mu games afterward, while they waited for Kevin to do his grocery shopping (after which point they headed off to Kevin's place for more RPGs).
Cooling House. And that brought us to Sunday, which was Eric's house-cooling party. (They needed to schedule it now, before they empty the house so that the realtors can stage it correctly.) Donald gave me a ride, which meant that I was a couple of hours late; I got there a bit after 2. A number of Barb's friends were there, along with gamers Dave S. and Dave P.
After making nice and socializing for a couple of hours, most of Barb's friends headed out, and that let us get down to gaming. We played Category 5, Apples to Apples, Family Business (the first time I'd played in years; I think I last played with Bill's edition, and it's been 6 years or so since he moved away), and Titan: The Arena (the original, which was Eric's copy).
At the start of the party, when Dave P. showed up, Barb told him that he had to take home some Whiskey he'd brought previously if it wasn't done by the end of the party, so he spent much of the party making drinks for everyone. I held out for a while, but then he served me up a Mudslide laced with more Whiskey, and after that my resistance faded. I got pretty drunk, which I haven't done in years. Barb and Dave P. were both pretty fucked up too.
(Dave S., amazingly, was the model of restraint, perhaps because he had his child with.)
Anyway, a good time was had by all. For my house-cooling presents I took home a few games Eric didn't want (Overthrone and Knights of the Rainbow, both alledgedly pretty mediocre German games, but I was still entirely interested in trying them out) and a bowl of mouse-toys which was pressed upon me for the cats. The cats have been pretty mouse-overloaded since Christmas, but they actually seemed to enjoy the new ones too. (There are even more mice strewn all over the house now.) I looked but there didn't seem to be anything Kimberly would be enthusiastic about. (She hadn't been able to attend due to continued sickness.)
Afterward I got home and sobered up enough by 10pm to go grocery shopping.
Today I'm working, though as usual on holidays I plan to spend some time doing "fun" stuff; I've actually got a pile of programming projects backlogged, and I plan to sit down with one of those and actually push on it after I've worked through mail a bit more and eaten lunch.