Trade-Off

In other, non-Affils related news, I am still dead last in The Good Old Hockey Game fantasy league thing. And Thugtuzzi Crisis is still trying to trade me for Kovalchuk. He made me a halfway serious offer this time, at least (offered me Murray), but not quite serious enough for me to consider it. Obviously laughing in his face when he offered me Weekes for Hasek has made him take me just a liiiiittle bit more seriously.

You won't have seen a word count bar in the last couple of days, mainly because I haven't written a goddamn thing since the last one. Between various stresses, disappointments and the back-wrenchy, I haven't been in the mood. It's a good thing I'm so far ahead or I would be unutterably screwed. As it is, I'm probably going to finish off most of it this weekend. Hey, if I can do 10k in a weekend, 12k and a bit shouldn't be so hard. I just need to start earlier in the day or something. Still, I'm looking forward to spending at least some time with my Sims this weekend, and it's so much better doing it during the day for some reason. Staying up all night writing makes one feel accomplished; staying up all night playing Sims 2 makes one feel like a social outcast who hasn't got anything better to do.

I'm kind of torn at the moment. You see, weaselbitch texted awhile ago asking if we were going to go see Goblet of Fire this weekend. I think dodgyhoodoo would be quite happy to go and see it now, but I'm dead set on waiting at least two weeks, with the deadline set at post-Dragonmeet. This is mainly because I don't want to share the cinema with a bunch of ill-disciplined kids and possibly their parents. However, most of the people I know who want to see this film, whether I'm likely to see it with them or not, want to see it RightNowThisMinute. The thing is, if I don't go see it RightNowThisMinute, I'm stuck with listening to people either rave about or critique it for two weeks, not to mention depriving myself of the social outing aspect of the cinematic experience. Still ... screaming kids. Ugh. No.

*whoomph* There it is...

We don't have the Player's Guide proofs yet. We do, however, have the GM's Guide proofs. They look good, although some of my formatting isn't there (my fault for not thinking, "Oh, dodgyhoodoo is going by plain text and thumbnails alone so maybe I'd better say something..."), and I caught a couple of small errors. But that can be fixed on PDF; this is just the special edition Dragonmeet run and anything I missed out can be corrected in an Errata section on the site. Apparently White Wolf do this even with 2nd Ed, so I shouldn't feel too bad.

Still, the art came out nicely, it's nice and easy to read and I didn't screw it up royally, so far as I can tell. But of course, I'm going to have to wait until Sunday to show it to anybody. Goodie. But at least by then there's a chance we'll have the Player's Guide so I can show it in one go. It is a shame that the Player's Guide didn't come to us first but there you go. At least we're getting stuff...