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ralphmelton as GM). Now that I understand some
of the game background I'm even more eager to play again. This is
a cool game system.
There was a passage in the chapter on advice for GMs that rang true for me. He describes a scenario that can happen in some games approximately like this:
GM: You've discovered the Big Baddy's plot to destroy the world.
Player 1: Hey, I didn't sign up to save the world; I signed up to find
the boss's brother. I go back and tell him his brother's dead.
Player 2: I'm still chatting up that babe, remember?
Player 3 is reading your White Wolf magazines.
Sucks, doesn't it?
Yeah, I've been in that game. :-) GMed it, too.
Saturday I invited some people from my synagogue over for lunch.
There's a group that always goes out to lunch (at a restaurant)
together after services, and of course I can't join them, so I got
them to relocate. It was a lot of fun, and fortunately the conversation
was secular enough for Dani to feel comfortable.
I didn't know how many people would be coming -- and, in fact, while some people I invited couldn't come, we also picked up one stray person who's not usually part of the group; flexibility is good. My approach to food in that situation is: make more than you think you'll need of something that will freeze. So we had roasted chicken (with oregano, rosemary, sage, garlic, and black pepper), which went over well. (Also other stuff, of course, but my Shabbat meals are not as elaborate as some.)
I want a bigger dining-room table. Ours is designed to seat six (we had nine crammed around it) and has no more expansion capability. If we'd had any more people I would have added a folding table, but there are times when I'd like to be able to have a more formal dinner for eight or so where a card table would just be wrong. Ralph and Lori have a table where the expansion comes at the ends rather than in the middle, and I like that a lot. (I think their specific table is out of production.) But if we shop for a new table, what do we do with our perfectly-good existing one?
I got together a few days ago with the autocrat for our proposed
Purim event. (Purim is on a Sunday this year. I would be the cook;
someone else is the autocrat.) I think it'll be a fun event; I hope
the officers approve it (and that that part of the calendar isn't
too crowded). Officers' meeting is Wednesday, so we'll know soon.
The SCA isn't allowed to serve alcohol, but people can bring their own. Purim wouldn't be Purim without alcohol available, so to encourage folks to bring some to share, we decided to have a brewing competition. Often an entry to a competition only involves one bottle, so I suggested we announce it as people's choice. :-) (That might encourage people to bring more.)
Since Purim has a disguise component, we're also having a competition for illusion foods -- things that look like other things. We'll announce it as no pork, shellfish, or milk products, but feel free to make it look like any of those. Hey, if someone can fabricate a lobster out of chicken or pastry, I want to encourage that. We've got some creative cooks, so I look forward to seeing what we get. (It's no milk because the feast is meat, not because there's anything inherently wrong with milk. Yes, I realize that no lard and no butter makes some types of baking a challenge; we ran this by one frequent local cook who thought that challenge made it interesting, not unappealing.)
Dani and I went shopping yesterday for a new vacuum cleaner (old one died).
I did not expect to see models varying by almost a factor of ten
in price. I'm not making that up -- cheapest ones were around $60 and
one was about $550. No, I don't know what makes the expensive one so
desirable.
Dani bailed on Firefly, but I'm enjoying it and am almost through the series. I think if he'd stayed for "Jayne Town" his opinion might have changed; I think that's when depth started to happen. I'll have to see Serenity next (didn't catch it in the theatre), but I'll wait until after my birthday to buy it. :-)
Heh -- my birthday is on Rosh Hashana this year. Two conflicting thoughts: (1) we'll celebrate some other day, and (2) hey, heck of a birthday party! :-)
Rosh Hashana is three weeks away. I believe I'm reading torah on one of the two days; I hope they make the specific assignments soon. I'm reading this coming Shabbat, so I won't look at it before then anyway, but I'd like to start looking at it immediately after that. We're having a second-day service (for the first time) this year, so that's twice as much torah reading to assign as usual -- and then Yom Kippur is about a week later. Sounds like a giant jigsaw puzzle. (Our rabbis of course can do the readings, but they try to give the opportunity to others for the high holy days, including the best of the previous year's batch of bar/bat-mitzvah students.)
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(I decided that I needed a table that could be expanded by one person; inserting leaves really takes 2.)
I hope you'll post some of the food made for the Purim event.
(My first thought about foods that look like other foods is something I've only read about in a novel, that didn't have a recipe: a steamed white pudding that has lots of berry juice inside that spurts out when cut. The author called it Death of Marat :-).)
I thought Firefly (and Serenity) was great; I'm surprised Dani bailed on it.
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Would the event be a masquerade as well?
-- Dagonell
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I've been watching Firefly when I'm visiting folks who have the DVDs; seen through the first episode on disc 3 (of 4) so far, though I may want to go back and re-watch that one. I definitely want to finish the series and then see Serenity.
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Dogs was fun. I'd play again.
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