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Columbian Weekend
Did my best to have a relaxing weekend to bleed off the stress of recent weeks/months/years. From how I felt this morning (relaxed, energetic), it was successful.
Saturday: Point Pinole. We've had some troubles getting the RPG gang together this month, so on Saturday I again had a biking holiday. I considered SF once more, but instead decided I'd prefer to return to my beloved, quiet Point Pinole while the weather remained good. And so I did, and it was restful.
Sunday: Open Streets. Sunday was our third annual Open Streets in Berkeley, so once more Kimberly and I got out there at the crack of 11am, when the Streets Open, and walked Shattuck up to the Commons in North Berkeley. This year there seemed to be more activism going on, and on the way back we saw more music being sung. As with last year, we stopped at Saul's for lunch before heading back. The highlight of our day was definitely hearing a group called The Blondies sing at the Pedal Powered Stage. A cool concept (bicycle-backed audio) and a good band.
Monday: R&R. Today I mostly lazed around. OK, I biked up to Lake Temescal the hard way (up past the Gateway Emergency Preparedness Center and over 24, which altogether requires some 100 feet or so of climbing over where Lake Temescal is), but that was just a bit of time in the afternoon. Taco Bell for dinner; what could be better.
The Work. Lest you think I totally vegged, I did do some work this weekend. A couple of histories for DnDClassics, so I don't lose my lead. And a fair amount of work on the extra histories we promised for Designers & Dragons after the Kickstarter. I finished a draft of my history of my local gaming group (sponsored by Dave S.) and I started in on the history of women in the industry.
The Media. But, really, I relaxed a lot. Among other things I finished The Crippled God, the 10th and final book of the Malazan Book of the Fallen. Whew! 5 years I've been reading those books and they're pretty great, but very, very dense. And now I'm done with the core series. I also made some good progress through Kurt Busiek's Astro City comics; I'd been wanting to reread the fist five volumes, which I probably haven't read for a decade, and I'm now on the fifth. That stuff is so instantly iconic that a few of the stories actually felt stale to me, because they'd made such a deep impression when I first read them. The ones that felt fresher to me, though, were still great. Oh, and The Walking Dead season 5 premiere rocked!
And that was my three-day Columbia weekend.
Saturday: Point Pinole. We've had some troubles getting the RPG gang together this month, so on Saturday I again had a biking holiday. I considered SF once more, but instead decided I'd prefer to return to my beloved, quiet Point Pinole while the weather remained good. And so I did, and it was restful.
Sunday: Open Streets. Sunday was our third annual Open Streets in Berkeley, so once more Kimberly and I got out there at the crack of 11am, when the Streets Open, and walked Shattuck up to the Commons in North Berkeley. This year there seemed to be more activism going on, and on the way back we saw more music being sung. As with last year, we stopped at Saul's for lunch before heading back. The highlight of our day was definitely hearing a group called The Blondies sing at the Pedal Powered Stage. A cool concept (bicycle-backed audio) and a good band.
Monday: R&R. Today I mostly lazed around. OK, I biked up to Lake Temescal the hard way (up past the Gateway Emergency Preparedness Center and over 24, which altogether requires some 100 feet or so of climbing over where Lake Temescal is), but that was just a bit of time in the afternoon. Taco Bell for dinner; what could be better.
The Work. Lest you think I totally vegged, I did do some work this weekend. A couple of histories for DnDClassics, so I don't lose my lead. And a fair amount of work on the extra histories we promised for Designers & Dragons after the Kickstarter. I finished a draft of my history of my local gaming group (sponsored by Dave S.) and I started in on the history of women in the industry.
The Media. But, really, I relaxed a lot. Among other things I finished The Crippled God, the 10th and final book of the Malazan Book of the Fallen. Whew! 5 years I've been reading those books and they're pretty great, but very, very dense. And now I'm done with the core series. I also made some good progress through Kurt Busiek's Astro City comics; I'd been wanting to reread the fist five volumes, which I probably haven't read for a decade, and I'm now on the fifth. That stuff is so instantly iconic that a few of the stories actually felt stale to me, because they'd made such a deep impression when I first read them. The ones that felt fresher to me, though, were still great. Oh, and The Walking Dead season 5 premiere rocked!
And that was my three-day Columbia weekend.