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The Students are Back
Aug. 31st, 2013 10:24 pmIt's the end of August, and that means the students are back in Berkeley ... and I'd swear we've gotten a worse than usual batch this year. The loud music playing, yelling, and screaming have been constant in our neighborhood for days. Also, downtown has been packed, the streets have been packed, and none of the drivers know how to drive. The change in Berkeley in just a few days time was ... startling.
Very annoying.
I wish they'd get the hell off my lawn.
I've been taking the Labor Day Holiday as an opportunity to not work obsessively for a few days. I got my DnDClassics work done through the end of September last week (quite purposefully!), and I've been setting Designers & Dragons aside (as well as my many more minor writing projects) for a few days.
So, nice relaxation. I've been mostly reading. Among the reading, a book that I'd especially saved for the weekend The Animal Man Omnibus. Grant Morrison's writing is as great as ever, but when I reading last night I found the pages were irritating my fingertips(!). Most odd; I've had that problem from time-to-time with pulp paper, but this is nice glossy stock. Bummer; I may have to get rid of the nice omnibus. (For the moment I've saved my old TPBs from the sell-to-Moes pile; I'll see how I feel (and how my fingers feel) after I finish the omnibus).
And either tomorrow night or holiday Monday I'll get back to my gaming writing. I have an AP and a review to write early in the week. And then I need to decide what my next company will be for the ongoing writing of Designers & Dragons: The '00s. I'm four down, but more than that to go.
We also had some good news to head off the weekend: it looks like Kimberly's most recent health concerns have come to nothing. She's still trying to figure out where some excessive fatigue is coming from, but this was still very good news, as there were some scary possibilities.
And today I spent about 4 hours doing a nice bike ride up to San Pablo and then into the hills. I was back in Wildcat Canyon Park, but this time I rode straight up the north side of the park, which was a very challenging climb and which also had beautiful views of San Pablo Bay. I enjoyed it quite a bit, but I was too tired to ride the loose dirt trails by the last mile or so. (I walked that, as well as some of the climbs which were pretty much impossible due to the loose dirt combined with the angle of ascent -- more than once my back tire started just spinning in the dirt.) Fortunately Nimitz Way which runs along most of the ridge line is paved; I was fine when I got there.
All told, about 25 miles and a climb to 1000+ feet.
Very annoying.
I wish they'd get the hell off my lawn.
I've been taking the Labor Day Holiday as an opportunity to not work obsessively for a few days. I got my DnDClassics work done through the end of September last week (quite purposefully!), and I've been setting Designers & Dragons aside (as well as my many more minor writing projects) for a few days.
So, nice relaxation. I've been mostly reading. Among the reading, a book that I'd especially saved for the weekend The Animal Man Omnibus. Grant Morrison's writing is as great as ever, but when I reading last night I found the pages were irritating my fingertips(!). Most odd; I've had that problem from time-to-time with pulp paper, but this is nice glossy stock. Bummer; I may have to get rid of the nice omnibus. (For the moment I've saved my old TPBs from the sell-to-Moes pile; I'll see how I feel (and how my fingers feel) after I finish the omnibus).
And either tomorrow night or holiday Monday I'll get back to my gaming writing. I have an AP and a review to write early in the week. And then I need to decide what my next company will be for the ongoing writing of Designers & Dragons: The '00s. I'm four down, but more than that to go.
We also had some good news to head off the weekend: it looks like Kimberly's most recent health concerns have come to nothing. She's still trying to figure out where some excessive fatigue is coming from, but this was still very good news, as there were some scary possibilities.
And today I spent about 4 hours doing a nice bike ride up to San Pablo and then into the hills. I was back in Wildcat Canyon Park, but this time I rode straight up the north side of the park, which was a very challenging climb and which also had beautiful views of San Pablo Bay. I enjoyed it quite a bit, but I was too tired to ride the loose dirt trails by the last mile or so. (I walked that, as well as some of the climbs which were pretty much impossible due to the loose dirt combined with the angle of ascent -- more than once my back tire started just spinning in the dirt.) Fortunately Nimitz Way which runs along most of the ridge line is paved; I was fine when I got there.
All told, about 25 miles and a climb to 1000+ feet.