Today I spent mostly
reading and watching DVDs and working on my web site. Woo called me at
15:00 asking for a ride from SFO airport when he arrived there at
21:15. No problem. You know when I have day to myself I don't get that
much done. Sure I'm doing lots of little things but at the end of the
day I keep thinking that I have all these other things I didn't do.
Partly it's because I procrastinate. Hmm, mostly it's because I
procrastinate. If I give myself something that I have to do then I tend
to put it off and do something else. It's one of those things that I
keep trying to improve and yet I never seem to really get any better at
doing.
After I picked Woo up we went to China Palace Restaurant which is a few
stores away from Sweet's Singapore Noodles restaurant that he loves. We
had prawns with scrambled eggs, salt and pepper fish bits, squid soup,
and the complimentary soup. It's the "Anti Fulton Seafood Meal". It was
great and this restaurant is so much better than the one that serves
Singapore noodles. A lot more crowded too.
We talked about basketball which I sort of keep up for the Kings but
not really. I really should try to pay more attention to the NBA so I
can talk with Woo, give us some common ground. I tend to be so insular
and Woo and I rarely talk mostly because we don't have that much in
common I suspect. Or at least nothing in common we are both passionate
about. You only need that one passionate topic to have a good
conversation, otherwise it's a conversation full of nothing.
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Also talked about the
gaming group. People who need to run campaigns are Donald who I think
has never run one in our group, Woo who needs to prepare better for his
next campaign, and Sweet who I really need to support next time he
runs. I tried to be supportive in Sweet's time travel campaign but I
missed too many weeks and I really hate multiple GMs.
Woo is thinking of running some sort of modern day campaign, since that
seems to be a niche we haven't really addressed. Some sort of modern
day horror a la a video game rather than Cthulhu. The kind where hordes
of undead are there to be killed, not to tear you apart and send you to
gibbering madness. I suggested Deadlands: Hell on Earth which is kind
of like a Western-style Gamma World with zombies. Woo unfortunately
doesn't know what Gamma World is so I kind of explained it to him.
I mean, it's not as if there is any room in our gaming schedule for
another game. Shannon is going to run Elric or something like that
which I'm sure will have good plots though the system I'm not so sure
about. Also in the day game Pick is going to run his pirate game
hopefully using Rolemaster. Then at night we have my BattleTech game
and Eric's d20 Middle Earth game.
I've probably said this before but in case I didn't there are a couple
of things I don't like about the current day game. Most importantly
I've come realize that I miss Sweet being there. Yes I hate his
characters but I like him personally and it's kind of bland without him
there. He's very enthusiastic. Also I've come to realize that I hate
BRP, mostly because it has uneven character progression: characters who
do stuff increase faster, characters who are better get to do more
stuff. Characters left behind the curve get farther and farther behind,
as I've realized all my BRP characters have done. It's subtle and I
didn't notice it before, but it's really freaking annoying.
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