OK does anyone know what the deal is with the “no more late fees” thing at Crockcluster? Because I already know it’s bullshit and will probably make me mad.
Saint Valentine Died for your Sins
This time last year I was mentoring Liam, running Freeport D&D adventures, having a short stint at the gym in Coquitlam with Anghold, and going to Hell’s Kitchen. This according to last year’s calendar. Before my blog, the calendar was pretty much my diary, and each entry read “meet this person here at this time” or “played Power Enterprise with these people.”
This time this year, I visited Marlo for a special Valentine’s date. I got her some rosy quartz dice from Drexoll Games and they went over big. I also got her a Dragon Magazine and wrote her a special little true story. She got me Desert Sessions 9/10 and a big heart-shaped box full of chocolates (and some jelly beans a couple days ago). Easily my best Valentine’s Day in as long as I can remember. Yay for Torlo!
I'm starting to get excited about the Saturday Morning Cartoon Party
Here’s a reminder about how awesome it will be: http://thickets.50megs.com/cereals.htm
Oh just a little update on life in general
OK let’s see….whipporwills, whipporwhills….
First off things have been going super with Marlo. We just hit the 5 month mark. My job still stinks, and no leads on anything better yet*. Drawing has been really slow for the past few weeks but I just got another assignment yesterday so that should pick up. Absolutely nothing has been happening with the band. Gaming group is going smoothly with our new player, Jeni, and I am still planning on starting a shorter, funnier campaign. I met a guy at the Weathertop convention last weekend (which was really fun – and yes it got almost 2 minutes of coverage on some show called “Express” on Shaw, which repeated like every 3 hours for 3 days and was quite amusing) who seems like an excellent addition to a new gaming group. He’s new in town. He’s unfortunately named Chris. Kodos is good. Stewie is good and in his new office so hopefully he’s getting some sleep. I spent a couple hours last night rearranging the apartment and trying to organize all of our crap. It’s an uphill battle but I secretly like cleaning up (you wouldn’t know it from looking). Marlo has become enamoured with strippers which suits me fine, so we’re going again tonight. Tomorrow is Janet’s birthday and it’s been too long since I’ve hugged her. We will partily heartily.
Today is Yvonne’s birthday and repeat hugging sentiment but in decidedly no less sincere way. I spent weeks at work looking for a book that I thought she might like (as a belated Christmas present) but none of them seemed good enough. So I came up with something else which I hope will go over well. Happy birthday you crazy kids – I’m so glad I met both of you and I take pride in the fact that in some way I was responsible for you meeting eachanother.
* I had this idea, which I think is super good but I can’t do it myself. I want to open a laundromat. I could totally sit in the laundromat all day and read and write and draw and watch movies while handing out change. And at night we could play games in the laundromat. Where’s a good place to open a laundromat? Anybody want to go into business with me? I have no credit rating to speak of, but boy…can I ever hand out change to people who want clean underwear.
I am actually seriously considering this. Maybe I need to go to Taiwan/Japan and make some money first.
I've been reading too many D&D monster books
I had this pretty cool dream last night that I was a wizard, and this powerful hellish creature from another plane of existence came into our world to kill me. I sent dozens of monstrous allies to wear it down and so I could keep my distance while I prepared my final spell (we were all flying around as this was happening). Finally when the fiend defeated my last ally I cast my banishment spell and the thing returned to whatever dark place from which it sprung.
So let that be a warning to the rest of you.
The Necronomicon Files
A funny thing happened at work today – I found that we carry a book that I did the cover artwork for. Jamie said “kind of depressing isn’t it?” to which I replied “yes. Yes it is.”
Another amusing thing is as follows: I grabbed (“picked”) a box from overstock because there weren’t enough on the shelf to fill my order (it was “Anxiety and Phobia Workbook” in case you were wondering). Taylor also needed a copy of the book, so he grabbed what he needed. Then he made to put the rest of the books on the shelf for me, and I said “how come?”
He said, “just being nice.”
“But this isn’t the warehouse of nice.” I said.
He countered with “Sure it is. There’s niceness all around you, Toren.”
Then a few minutes later, I got in trouble from Sefic for putting the books on the shelf with their box. I just laughed, but I didn’t say anything (except I told Taylor). I guess he expected me to go back and fix it (I can never understand what he’s saying), because a few minutes later Sanjay – the warehouse manager – came up to me and he also told me not to put books back on the shelf in their box. I whispered “it wasn’t me.”
Sanjay asked “who was it?”
I said “Taylor – but I already told him about it. I’ll go and fix it.”
The ironing is delicious.
And those are the most interesting things that happen to me at work. EXCEPT today we listened to QMFM for a while, and that was great.
It's more like Jell-o pudding
I had a dream this morning that I went to a Bill Cosby performance and he did his routine sitting in the audience, speaking overtop a pre-recorded routine that was displayed on a screen.
Leave a message after the blern
I know they don’t want to spend valuable TV air time showing the crew waiting for a response from an alien ship, but on Star Trek when the captain says “hail them” and the com officer immediately replies “no response,” I always feel like MST’ing “Well did you let it ring 7 times?”
And a small order of deep fried zucchini…
Oh, also – somebody left a container of Church’s chicken in the fridge at the Cambrian hall. If you’re reading this now, somebody, I brought it home for Kodos to eat. And eat he did, with relish. I also had Church’s on the weekend, while Marlo was not enjoying her pizza hut dinner choice. And when the guy at the counter repeated my order of “can I get two breasts” to the female line worker, he smirked.
Nerd TV
I was interviewed by…Shaw I think, at the gaming convention this weekend. So watch out for me on everyone’s favourite channel: 4. Kathryn did a good job of promoting the con so not only did the TV people com, but we got a mention in the (Westender?) which made fun of nerds and mentioned that the event was free (it was not). I tried not to say anything too stupid in front of the camera – time will tell if I succeeded, or if the bit even makes it onto the tube. I mentioned how D&D is not quite the stigma it used to be, thanks to video games, and that gamers range all genders, age groups, and walks of life. Of all the gaming stores that support the VGG, I only mentioned Drexoll Games and Checkpoint Charlie’s, and I also forgot to mention our website. Oh well, at least I had fantastic hair.