Weekend update

[alexxkay]

Spent much of Saturday with cvirtue, metageek and the twins. I book-geeked with the adults and -- eventually -- played with the children. The play had to wait a few hours, though, until the screaming died down. For some reason, whenever I first show up, the twins seem to think I'm The Devil or something. At any rate, they carry on and scream and cry for a considerable time, before eventually getting used to me. Disturbing, but I don't know anything I can do about it, other than Not Be Evil.

Spent a good chunk of the weekend playing the strangely-named Culdcept on the PS2. It's a bizarre Japanese hybrid between Magic the Gathering and, of all things, Monopoly! It's enjoyable, and surprisingly deep. Not short, though, as most matches take upwards of an hour. Hence I only really have time to play it on weekends.

Finished re-reading A Civil Campaign to kestrell. Also finished re-reading Shards of Honor myself. I don't think I previously noticed that the pilot that Cordelia cons into getting her off-planet at the end was named "Mayhew". Any relation to the drifter that Miles adopts in The Warrior's Apprentice?

Had some interesting dreams last night. "lucid dreaming" takes on new forms when you're working as a game designer. Often, when a dream doesn't seem to be going the way I'd like it to, I'll just halt it, fire up the editor, make a few changes, and try running it again.

Comments

Re: Not the Devil

[russkay.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, Alexx's father used to have that same effect on some kids. At the time we thought it was the beard, which was less common then than nowadays. But maybe it's something genetic ;)