Death and Rebirth

I've got a lot on my mind, but after last night's missed sleep, I hope (oh dear deities great and small I hope) I won't have any trouble getting to sleep tonight.

[Edit: 3 a.m. and the deities mock me. Insomnia fucking blows. I have taken my own advice and done the lavender aromatherapy oil bit. I just hope it works.]

Basic bits of news are sort of sad, really. Another 7th Sea PC died this session -- this time Idunn, the Vendel sharpshooter and "it girl", in childbirth. Since my character was the only one not close to the deceased and gifted with the necessary empathy, I wound up playing group Mum to the mourners. And Bjarne, the Vesten rune mage, is apparently mad and walking the earth as an oracle or something. This has been a very hard chronicle from the PC point of view.

[Edit: to clear up any confusion -- Idunn Laars is one of Simson's 7th Sea characters, not the player. I think Simson was cutting out some characters because he felt he was running too many or something. Between me killing off Aidan and him killing off Idunn and basically putting Bjarne (another of his characters) out of the picture, we lost three characters in the space of one chronicle.]

More news on the gaming group front includes our resident Ecstatics -- because Kat and Mark really need a free Sunday every now and then, they have decided to drop Mage. While it's sad to see E and Chloe go, that's not the part that sucks. The part that sucks, in my opinion, is having less face-time with two of my friends. But whatever they feel is necessary to make their lives easier is cool with me. I'm pretty sure I can still run, even after Simson leaves the party for the summer. A three-player party's not so bad; not like I haven't played it before. There are a couple of items that were in Chloe's possession that need doling out so they can stay in game, but that's easily managed. And corone might be able to play a few sessions in the near future. Last but not least, we might get fresh meat in if nadriel can think of anyone who might be interested. Sometimes it doesn't work as a dynamic, but my introduction into a very well-established group worked okay.

Good news at the moment, though, is that negotiations have freed up Sunday 6th March for a BESM one-off run by yours truly! I have a few last tweaks to make before I send the restrictions to the group, though ... and of course, I'm not 100% sure how large the group's going to be and who's going to be participating -- sometimes it makes a difference. So far I'm looking at a prospective group of nadriel, weaselbitch, dodgyhoodoo, Kat, Mark and Simson -- standard Mage session fodder, in other words. If corone is actually free on that weekend, woo-hoo! I'm hoping to make it an episodic sort of game where we can step away for awhile and come back to it as and when necessary, so despite the apparent one-offyness, I'm letting them roll up their own characters. I hope corone can manage without his BESM corebook because I'm sure not going to be able to manage without one. Maybe I can get hold of one before the day...

And in real-world news, my "I'm thinking of inviting the Sourcebook Central denizens over for dinner" thing turned into "Hey, want to come over for dinner Saturday after next?" -- "Cool". So I have dinner guests in two weeks. Yay!

No More Heroes

I think the aromatherapy thing may have actually worked -- fine, it took awhile, but I did finally get to sleep. I should take my own advice sooner, and more often.

*sigh* So soon after the death of Arthur Miller, I wake up to hear that Hunter S Thompson committed suicide. It's sad, and not just in a "the gonzo journalist offs himself" personal aspect sort of way. We're watching the giants die, and who from this generation is going to take their places? I just worry that the authors, actors, musicians and journalists we have today are ... well, disposable. Good for the short term, but ultimately forgettable. It's sort of as if we've turned the whole popular culture domain into one big whiteboard and scrub at it once a month or so.

Still waiting for cholten99's computer parts. They didn't arrive on Saturday and still have not arrived yet. Then I go pick up his duvet from the dry cleaners. I am Errand Girl, Champion of the Humble Chore! ^_^

Yuki!

(No, not the cat.)

It is snowing.

*squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee*!

That is all.

Mourning

*sniffle* They killed the hockey season!

There isn't going to be a Playoff run this year. Last-minute attempts to kill the lock-out and at least have a 28-game season failed. But nooooo, no one wanted to be the one to back down on the pay cap thing. I know hockey's not been the most lucrative sport lately, but sheesh, if people had simply sat and thought about it rationally...

And they keep saying that the sport will never recover because the bloody Americans don't give a toss (sorry to those of you who do). "It's not the national passtime", they say. Excuse me, but fuck you. It may not be the American national passtime, but the Canadians started the goddamn sport, and it's our national passtime, you blinkered fucks. A little respect would be nice, instead of just, "Oh well".

Bettman and Goodenow must die.

Mystery of the Vanishing Update

I don't get it.

It says that there are seventeen entries on kuo_li, and that it updated two hours ago. However, when I go on the page, it says that there are sixteen entries and last updated 18th February. I go to Calendar View, it says 1 entry, 21st February. I click on that one entry and it says, "No journal entries for this day".

So where'd the entry go? Did Livejournal get hungry and eat it? Why does it toy with me?

[Edit: A-ha! There it is! And the extra XP goes to nadriel!]