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Exhausting Weekend: Games, Scans, Eats
Feb. 14th, 2011 02:23 pmA tiring weekend. Each of Saturday and Sunday night I opted to go to bed because I couldn't keep my eyes open to read, which is totally uncommon. (More usually, I go to bed because it's time and hope I'll be able to sleep.)
Prepping Friday. Busyness started off on Friday when I prepped for my Saturday Kingmaker game. Actually, I didn't spend too long on that. I've found it a bit freeing not actually knowing what the players are going to do due to the sandbox setup of Kingmaker. It means there's a limit to what I can prep and it's resulted in me being more casual about both the prep and the run.
Scanning Saturday. Saturday was the marathon. The fine folks at Endgame were kind enough to let me scan covers from their stock (which includes a good chunk of used material!) for my RPG history book. So I got in there at 10.15, scanned until 12.20. Then I went and gulped down lunch, getting back just in time to run my Pathfinder game. Dave P. had to leave early so we closed that down at 4.30, and then I went back and scanned until 6.45.
Total count was almost exactly 200 scans, of which I'll lose a few as I edit them due to bad scanning. (I'd edited about 80 as of last night.) There were a number of very specific books I was looking for, but I was also able to increase the breadth of notable companies that I didn't own many books of (e.g., White Wolf, R. Talsorian, Hero Games, Palladium, etc).
My biggest problem with the Endgame scanning is that Endgame is run like a professional business. They get rid of old stock that doesn't move. Thus, for example, I still have a big gap in my scanning for the Dungeon Crawl Classics from Goodman Games, which surely existing in abundant quantities at 9 out of 10 game stores, gathering dust because the retailers refuse to drop prices (or recycle the material). Troll Lord Games and Palladium give me similar problems, though I've got at least a decent smattering of Palladium and may be able to get some more.
When I got home, Kimberly and I got groceries. Then we ate and watched a Chuck, then we read the penultimate chapters of White Night aloud. By which time my brain was largely off.
Family Sunday. And finally, Sunday. The daytime was pretty mellow, though Kimberly and I did spend an hour reading aloud to finish off the 30+ page final chapter of White Night.
That evening at 6 we went up to Taste of Himalaya, a Himalayan Indian restaurant in north Berkeley. There we met my mom, Bob, Jason, Lisa, and Rob for dinner. It was Jason's birthday. (Well, actually, today is.) The food was good, the company was nice. I gave my mom some hints on how to play Reiner Knizia's Money better. I was pretty surprised to learn that it was almost 9 by the time we left.
Rainy Monday. Today it's been raining lightly most of the day. Which is nice, as we've had six weeks without rain, which is pretty unusual for winter here. And, I like the occasional rainy day.
Prepping Friday. Busyness started off on Friday when I prepped for my Saturday Kingmaker game. Actually, I didn't spend too long on that. I've found it a bit freeing not actually knowing what the players are going to do due to the sandbox setup of Kingmaker. It means there's a limit to what I can prep and it's resulted in me being more casual about both the prep and the run.
Scanning Saturday. Saturday was the marathon. The fine folks at Endgame were kind enough to let me scan covers from their stock (which includes a good chunk of used material!) for my RPG history book. So I got in there at 10.15, scanned until 12.20. Then I went and gulped down lunch, getting back just in time to run my Pathfinder game. Dave P. had to leave early so we closed that down at 4.30, and then I went back and scanned until 6.45.
Total count was almost exactly 200 scans, of which I'll lose a few as I edit them due to bad scanning. (I'd edited about 80 as of last night.) There were a number of very specific books I was looking for, but I was also able to increase the breadth of notable companies that I didn't own many books of (e.g., White Wolf, R. Talsorian, Hero Games, Palladium, etc).
My biggest problem with the Endgame scanning is that Endgame is run like a professional business. They get rid of old stock that doesn't move. Thus, for example, I still have a big gap in my scanning for the Dungeon Crawl Classics from Goodman Games, which surely existing in abundant quantities at 9 out of 10 game stores, gathering dust because the retailers refuse to drop prices (or recycle the material). Troll Lord Games and Palladium give me similar problems, though I've got at least a decent smattering of Palladium and may be able to get some more.
When I got home, Kimberly and I got groceries. Then we ate and watched a Chuck, then we read the penultimate chapters of White Night aloud. By which time my brain was largely off.
Family Sunday. And finally, Sunday. The daytime was pretty mellow, though Kimberly and I did spend an hour reading aloud to finish off the 30+ page final chapter of White Night.
That evening at 6 we went up to Taste of Himalaya, a Himalayan Indian restaurant in north Berkeley. There we met my mom, Bob, Jason, Lisa, and Rob for dinner. It was Jason's birthday. (Well, actually, today is.) The food was good, the company was nice. I gave my mom some hints on how to play Reiner Knizia's Money better. I was pretty surprised to learn that it was almost 9 by the time we left.
Rainy Monday. Today it's been raining lightly most of the day. Which is nice, as we've had six weeks without rain, which is pretty unusual for winter here. And, I like the occasional rainy day.