The Weekend
Jul. 26th, 2010 12:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aSaturday. As usual I was out at EndGame. That's two months straight that we've hit 3 weeks out of 4. We had our second session of the finale to the Savage Tide campaign and things are zooming along quickly! That despite ending at 5pm due to previous engagements for some of the players.
We're quickly coming to a change-up point in our Saturday gaming. Savage Tide just has 1 or 2 weeks left in it, while my Traveller game has a potential stopping point two-three weeks away. So, we're going to have one or both games changing sometime in fall, depending on how play styles balances with new potential games. Donald has talked about running something while Mary has talked about running The Dresden Files. With everything else on my plate, I'm ready to drop back to running just half the time, so hopefully that's how things will work out.
Because of the early game end, I stopped at the new Other Change of Hobbit on my way home. The store is shaping up. It's definitely bigger, brighter, and more inviting than the old store was (than either old store was). I'm not sure how much foot traffic they're going to get, down on the wrong end of Berkeley, however. 'course, that's what I thought about Dark Carnival when they moved up the hill 15+ years ago.
Sunday. K. and I have had a bit of a pattern lately on Sundays. She ends up feeling sick. I fritter around the house until 3pm or so while she sleeps. As it starts to get late, I see if there's a last chance she wants to head out and do anything, then I (usually) go out on my own. So that was pretty much today.
Around 3.30pm I headed out to the Ohlone Greenway which I rode up to Codornices Creek. One of my maps had shown some very short and disconnected trails down there by University Village, and I wanted to explore them.
There turn out to be two current trails south of the Village. One is just a dirt path running along overgrown creek area that I couldn't get into because they closed it down for a four-month reconstruction on Wednesday. (Great timing, that.) A couple of blocks further west there's a block of paved trail followed by a block of unpaved trail that slowly fades away into smaller and smaller footpaths. If you hike up a bit and through some thorns you come to the railroad tracks. Target is just on the other side (and past that, a really easy trail to the Albany Bulb), but sadly there's no particularly good way to get there.
What's perhaps more exciting is the bit in between those two paths, which I'd seen several months ago as being marked for future construction of a trail that would connect the Ohlone Greenway to the Bay. It seemed impossibly far off in our current horrendous financial climate, but surprise, surprise, they started work on it last month (which also explained the closure of the eastern trail). Mind you, those three or four blocks of trail are still a long ways from connecting the Ohlone Greenway to the Bay, with the railroad tracks being the biggest obstacle, but I will look hopefully toward next January when they say they'll be finishing up work*.
(Of course the last trail "finished" in the current economic climate was the Richmond Greenway which has an idiotic several block detour right in the middle, so I'm not convinced this is really the time for getting things done right, as the "finished" Richmond Greenway is so far from right it's not even funny.)
Beyond that, reading, cleaning, and watching of TV went on today. I did a tiny bit of the coding work on a version of my friend's Armorica game for the iPhone, but I've had troubles really getting it going. I'm hoping to do something by the end of this week, though, as I'd love to show at least a skeleton off when he does his release party next Saturday. Perhaps that deadline will encourage some productivity.
* This stuff is always pretty badly documented on the internet, but from what I can see, current plans will extend trail along the creek from San Pablo to the RR tracks, which is certainly a nice little walk, but stops just short of either of the hard parts of connecting up the bay and the Ohlone Greenway ... as is the case pretty everywhere along the Greenway.
We're quickly coming to a change-up point in our Saturday gaming. Savage Tide just has 1 or 2 weeks left in it, while my Traveller game has a potential stopping point two-three weeks away. So, we're going to have one or both games changing sometime in fall, depending on how play styles balances with new potential games. Donald has talked about running something while Mary has talked about running The Dresden Files. With everything else on my plate, I'm ready to drop back to running just half the time, so hopefully that's how things will work out.
Because of the early game end, I stopped at the new Other Change of Hobbit on my way home. The store is shaping up. It's definitely bigger, brighter, and more inviting than the old store was (than either old store was). I'm not sure how much foot traffic they're going to get, down on the wrong end of Berkeley, however. 'course, that's what I thought about Dark Carnival when they moved up the hill 15+ years ago.
Sunday. K. and I have had a bit of a pattern lately on Sundays. She ends up feeling sick. I fritter around the house until 3pm or so while she sleeps. As it starts to get late, I see if there's a last chance she wants to head out and do anything, then I (usually) go out on my own. So that was pretty much today.
Around 3.30pm I headed out to the Ohlone Greenway which I rode up to Codornices Creek. One of my maps had shown some very short and disconnected trails down there by University Village, and I wanted to explore them.
There turn out to be two current trails south of the Village. One is just a dirt path running along overgrown creek area that I couldn't get into because they closed it down for a four-month reconstruction on Wednesday. (Great timing, that.) A couple of blocks further west there's a block of paved trail followed by a block of unpaved trail that slowly fades away into smaller and smaller footpaths. If you hike up a bit and through some thorns you come to the railroad tracks. Target is just on the other side (and past that, a really easy trail to the Albany Bulb), but sadly there's no particularly good way to get there.
What's perhaps more exciting is the bit in between those two paths, which I'd seen several months ago as being marked for future construction of a trail that would connect the Ohlone Greenway to the Bay. It seemed impossibly far off in our current horrendous financial climate, but surprise, surprise, they started work on it last month (which also explained the closure of the eastern trail). Mind you, those three or four blocks of trail are still a long ways from connecting the Ohlone Greenway to the Bay, with the railroad tracks being the biggest obstacle, but I will look hopefully toward next January when they say they'll be finishing up work*.
(Of course the last trail "finished" in the current economic climate was the Richmond Greenway which has an idiotic several block detour right in the middle, so I'm not convinced this is really the time for getting things done right, as the "finished" Richmond Greenway is so far from right it's not even funny.)
Beyond that, reading, cleaning, and watching of TV went on today. I did a tiny bit of the coding work on a version of my friend's Armorica game for the iPhone, but I've had troubles really getting it going. I'm hoping to do something by the end of this week, though, as I'd love to show at least a skeleton off when he does his release party next Saturday. Perhaps that deadline will encourage some productivity.
* This stuff is always pretty badly documented on the internet, but from what I can see, current plans will extend trail along the creek from San Pablo to the RR tracks, which is certainly a nice little walk, but stops just short of either of the hard parts of connecting up the bay and the Ohlone Greenway ... as is the case pretty everywhere along the Greenway.