So I'm starting to run out of food. At best I have about a month of food around, usually more like two to three weeks. Since the foot injury, I haven't gone grocery shopping so and I'm home all the time so I've been going through my stocks. I still have about a week's worth of food so there's no real danger.

It is at these times that I start eating the reserve foods that are kept in cupboards and such. Mostly canned goods and some boxed stuff that can keep for months. This only happens because I'm trying to vary my diet, as I'm getting a bit tired of the three or four meals that I can make without milk. I miss milk, and the only thing is this almost empty carton of three week old milk that I should throw away. But I also haven't been able to throw away any garbage so that's also piling up.

Anyway, back to what started me writing. In my cupboard I found this box of instant brown rice. The expiration date is November 1998 so I think I should eat it now. Cook it up and it's horrible. This is about the time that I remember that I hate brown rice. It's so different than the rice I'm used to that it's just plain bad. I put a bunch of butter and some chicken grease and it is barely palatable enough to eat. Maybe I'll get sick later. That box goes into the trash.

I'm watching "Sports Night", which my sister really likes and recommended that I watch. It's an interesting show, based on a fictional ESPN Sport Center type of concept. And after seeing a few episodes I realized that it's not a sitcom. It's a half hour drama, or perhaps dramedy. There are no laughs, few jokes, some witticisms and amusing situations. But not the kind of funny situations that typify the sitcom genre. It is an interesting show though.

Now that the BattleTech campaign is essentially over I've put away all the sourcebooks and items I had out, so it's a lot neater. There is still one more session where we can discuss what happens in the immediate campaign future, and maybe set the seeds for the next campaign in an indeterminate number of years from now. But now I finally have a free table so I can set up a long wargame to play, by myself but at least it's something.

This'll leave us at one active RPG campaign for the time being until my Star Trek campaign starts. It'll be nice to have the extra free time, if only so that I can work on my campaign. Still not to sure whether it'll be run on Fridays or Saturdays. Depends on who will play, although Saturdays should be good. I'm still not confident that our group can handle the kind of campaign that I'm going to run, or that I have the skills and wherewithal to pull it off.

This is going to be more of a problem solving, diplomatic sort of campaign. Where you can have episodes where the main point is to develop your character. How does your character deal with this moral dilemma? How will they grow as a result? I can guess that this'll be a problem for a couple of people, as we're more of an action oriented group, where characters grow incrementally during the course of the campaign.