Friday November 26 0900

I am sick: yesterday I slept 24 hours in interrupted bursts. Half the reason I'm in work today is because I cannot endure another day on my less-than-comfortable mattress. It will probably be a half-day regardless, and I have to make sure I don't spread it: gonna wash hands frequently, not touch public things (like door knobs) and ensure I don't talk into anyone's face. Feeling a bit better today, but I hope I'm okay for the concert on Sunday.

Wednesday November 24 0922

Another day, another couple-hundred Mao.

This has been the longest-feeling month back ever, and I hope the rest of my contract doesn't feel so fatiguing. I've got a couple remedies to the work crush though:

On Mondays: D&D excitement (@ evening)
On Tuesdays: Tired from staying up too late.
On Wednesdays: Goth-Night partying (@ evening)
On Thursdays: Tired from staying up too late.
On Fridays: Poker Night or Night-In (@ evening)
On Saturdays: Tired from staying up too late. Prepare for Monday.
On Sundays: Adventure around Shanghai, get some sleep.

I also have Armin Van Buuren this Sunday, and Toby comes two weeks from today-ish. Both of those are good to look forward to!

Friday November 19 1014 (100th Post!)

Friday is here! I'm going to spend the weekend playing Minecraft, preparing the next D&D session, and atoning for how geeky that is. I'll go outside, promise.

I Am Not Dead in an Apartment Fire

Giant Giant Fire

Huge apartment fire (20+ stories) half a block away from my apartment. I'm okay, but sure does smell bad. Total shame about the very likely high death toll.

Regardless, still DM-ing =P

Monday November 15 1041

Been hectic, but some fun stuff has happened.

I'm running a Dungeons & Dragon game (4th edition), with all my western coworkers as players. I'm running a Dark Suns game, which will mean a lot of blighted desert and insect monsters. My coworkers' party consists of an elven Raider, a psionic Templar judge, and a sanctioned Defiler mage.

Although the game features the dominance of the Sorceror Kings over their city in the campaign book, I'm fast-forwarding to the future where the intrusion of The Gray (a scary nether-dimension) has resulted in an even more chaotic than normal setting where all the Sorceror Kings have either died or gone missing.

The party is a troupe of templars who are in the service of the Sorceror King of Balic, a city on a peninsula into a quicksand sea. They are returning across the Great Ivory Plain from Gulg after a failed diplomatic effort: Gulg is in chaos, with its Sorceror Queen dead, nullifying their mission. Concerned that their own Sorceror King is gone too, they trek south across the great salt flat.

First for-real adventure is tonight!

Wednesday November 10th 1421

Although it's been ridiculously busy roping the game design back together, it is going as well as I could hope for. To reward myself after payday, I've bought tickets to see Armin Van Buuren at M2 at the end of the month. It'll be nice to finally see him live, although I've never been to such a crowded venue before. Hopefully the candymen don't come out too strongly!

Monday November 8 0926

Well, at least they had the courtesy to wait until I came back to explode the project. This week we start from scratch with a short 4-month deadline over the whole thing. It's gonna be a busy week!

Tuesday November 2 1654

I just realized I now have more employees than my boss at my last job. What a strange thing!

Monday November 1 1812

I'm in China again!