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longer being special in the modern era resonated with me.
Tonight's D&D game was a lot of fun. The party is slogging through some difficult terrain, and the visual imagery has been effective for me (both terrain and monsters). This is going to be a several-days trek that will wear the group down over time, but I think that's the right thing from a story perspective. Sure, if Frodo and Sam had had the ability to teleport straight to the heart of Mordor they would have, but had they done so Lord of the Rings would not be the classic it is. I play these games for story and character, and for me the story demands the trek.
Ever since we moved to our current house I've been building my sukkah using 2x2s, rope, and existing structures (a fence and a trellis). That's nice in a lot of ways, but it's a bit of a challenge to set up alone, and some of my infrastructure is hard to use. Meanwhile, a couple years ago our Pennsic group got a new shower frame made out of no-tools-required pipes that just slot together, and I think that's pretty spiffy. So today I ordered a tubular sukkah -- passing on their walls, as I've prefer the lattice I've been using for that. This gives me a free-standing sukkah that should go together very easily. Woo hoo. Who wants to come for dinner during the festival?
It was nice to get back to Sunday dinner after missing a few due to Pennsic. We began to see distant flashes of lightning not long after we finished eating; then we started to see really impressive lightning bolts with lots of forking that just lit up the sky. It was a very pretty storm (I wish I'd had my camera with me), and the liquid component was short-lived. It did a decent job on the humidity and didn't knock out our power. What more can you ask of a storm?
I moderate a mailing list that's a filter on an unmoderated SCA list. I reject messages that (1) clearly should have been sent privately, (2) are off-topic, (3) are flame-filled, or (4) duplicate other messages (the 17-replies-to-a-FAQ problem). Most of the time, I approve pretty much everything that comes in. But since Pennsic there have been a lot of rejections, first because of an accusation someone made that got a lot of people riled up, but then because of an inane thread on laundry. Yes, laundry. Not just things like how to clean tent canvas, which I believe to be on-topic for an SCA list, but discussion of dividing chores, whether it's ok for men to do laundry (!), horror stories involving bleach, and stuff like that. Sheesh. I hope that ends soon.
brass in pocket