So I upgraded
Jennifer to Mac OS X 10.3 by cloning Angela and changing a few
parameters. BIND took a reboot and Apache had a slight misconfiguration
but they were easy. Postfix totally didn't work and it took me three
hours to get it working. Eventually I tracked it down to some sort of
file problem and doing a clean reconfiguration fixed it. For a while
there Postfix was eating my emails, though it was mostly spam so no
problem.
Yesterday Shannon, Pick, Donald, and I played Mystery Rummy. It's a
Rummy-like game based on finding Jack the Ripper. The flavoring is
superficial and you can easily ignore it. But it was a fun game with
well-made cards and an exciting finish. You have to play several rounds
(I think we played eight) to get a winner (you need 100 points). Pick
and I were way behind through five games. And then Donald threw a game
to Pick to keep Shannon from winning. Then Pick one a game in like two
turns (lucky draw) to suddenly pull ahead. And then he won another game
to win the match.
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We went to
dinner at a Chinese restaurant in Oakland, near Jack Londdon Square.
Just Pick and his wife Wendy, Donald, and I were there. Good food
though Donald's entree arrived quite late. Then ice cream afterward. It
was nice. Wendy is pretty cool. Never really spent much time around her
but she can totally handle herself around gamer geeks and can hold up
an interesting conversation.
Woo and Fulton didn't show up. And I really wanted to run DC Heroes so
I ran just with Donald. I actually couldn't think of an adventure
concept until I was driving to Donald's apartment from Pick's house. It
was a short, two hour adventure but it went well and I think it was
maybe the best 1-on-1 runs I've ever done. Lots of subplots and a tough
main plot that Donald somehow found a way to solve.
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