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Jul. 16th, 2005 10:03 amI ws dreaming about MySQL tables, and how to make large ones more efficient.
Jul. 16th, 2005
Lack of Gaming
Jul. 16th, 2005 03:58 pmWell, gaming was mostly interrupted today.
We had to all level up our characters in Dave's RoleMaster game. Since Dave's been using a computer spreadsheet for all the characters, this means that each of us had to spend the 30 minutes or so doing leveling in serial. By around 3pm Kevin and I had done so and Woo was working on it, and there were another 3 people to go.
The folks decided to run Eric's D&D/Middle Earth game while waiting around, so I headed home, not being involved in that.
Ah well.
I'll make up for it by doing something gaming-esque later today. Perhaps more work on the HeroQuest elf book. Perhaps something else that strikes me.
(In that past I'd coax Kimberly into some game playing, but she's been mostly gameless all this year, and seems particularly down this weekend, when I would have been willing to play one of her favorites. She told me that she'd only be playing something for me. Fair enough.)
Two signs that it's summer:
1. Garage sales galore. There were three between my house and Donald's, and one more that I saw the sign for but never saw the sale. As with pretty much all garage sales, it was all largely junk. Mostly clothes. Some toys, some worthless books. A few pieces of badly worn furniture at one sale.
2. Houses for sale galore. Six between my house and Donald's, three on my street, then another three within a block of his house. One of them looked like a particular boondoggle: two beat-to-hell old Victorians, one of which has been abandoned for 10+ years, home to homeless people, at one time home to people making bombs in the cellear, has no front door, etc. They were being sold together for $2.4 million dollars. As is. I think that the phrases "$2.4 million dollars" and "as is" should never go together. Except perhaps in a sentence like this: "As is often said, $2.4 million dollars is a lot of money."
We had to all level up our characters in Dave's RoleMaster game. Since Dave's been using a computer spreadsheet for all the characters, this means that each of us had to spend the 30 minutes or so doing leveling in serial. By around 3pm Kevin and I had done so and Woo was working on it, and there were another 3 people to go.
The folks decided to run Eric's D&D/Middle Earth game while waiting around, so I headed home, not being involved in that.
Ah well.
I'll make up for it by doing something gaming-esque later today. Perhaps more work on the HeroQuest elf book. Perhaps something else that strikes me.
(In that past I'd coax Kimberly into some game playing, but she's been mostly gameless all this year, and seems particularly down this weekend, when I would have been willing to play one of her favorites. She told me that she'd only be playing something for me. Fair enough.)
Two signs that it's summer:
1. Garage sales galore. There were three between my house and Donald's, and one more that I saw the sign for but never saw the sale. As with pretty much all garage sales, it was all largely junk. Mostly clothes. Some toys, some worthless books. A few pieces of badly worn furniture at one sale.
2. Houses for sale galore. Six between my house and Donald's, three on my street, then another three within a block of his house. One of them looked like a particular boondoggle: two beat-to-hell old Victorians, one of which has been abandoned for 10+ years, home to homeless people, at one time home to people making bombs in the cellear, has no front door, etc. They were being sold together for $2.4 million dollars. As is. I think that the phrases "$2.4 million dollars" and "as is" should never go together. Except perhaps in a sentence like this: "As is often said, $2.4 million dollars is a lot of money."