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Crazy week and a crazy weekend.
Mar. 9th, 2012 04:07 amSo I haven't posted in a while. That's mainly because I've been working on finishing the Lightning Age III steampunk LARP in time for Game-a-thon -- I have three pages and some gear cards left to go, so go me! Success.
Speaking of which, I still need a witty name for the subtitle. The second Lightning Age game, centered around the revenge taken by the leader of the Mongolian/Hun faction, was Wrath of the Khan. This one is a U-Boat race to a sunken Lovecraftian city. Help me out!
But yeah, Game-a-thon is this weekend, so don't expect another peep from me until Monday or so (at which time I hope to be preoccupied with Mass Effect 3). We've got five people staying in our apartment (the only reason I am awake now is that we're waiting for my brother's train to come in), and I'm really looking forward to spending time with them all and eating lots of fast food.
The other reason this has been a crazy week is that Megan got a new job -- an office job at a health care place. It's a dollar-fifty raise from her current job making pitas at EXTREME PITA, not to mention she'll be going from fifteen hours or so a week to forty. And then, of course, the job comes with benefits. Health insurance, for the first time in years -- maybe I can stop wearing the glasses I got when I was twenty! (The pair I got when I was twenty-one broke when I was twenty-two, so I went back to the old set, which had the same or nearly the same prescription).
Anyway, this is going to nearly triple our monthly income, which is simply fantastic. It's going to be a rough month, however, because switching from one job to the next is working out to leave a sizable gap between paychecks, and that gap falls right over the end of the month, when everything comes due. Probably most of that can be fixed simply by letting various companies know WHY we'll be late, but you can never be sure of reasonable accommodation that way these days.
This is my life. It's pretty busy. And it's a lot of fun.
Hope everybody has a good weekend. Expect all kinds of LARP recaps next week, as well as me grumping about how this trilogy of LARPs may be growing a set of sequels -- I've done land, air, and sea travel. Now I just need underground terror and a Fin-de-Siecle improbably space race!
Speaking of which, I still need a witty name for the subtitle. The second Lightning Age game, centered around the revenge taken by the leader of the Mongolian/Hun faction, was Wrath of the Khan. This one is a U-Boat race to a sunken Lovecraftian city. Help me out!
But yeah, Game-a-thon is this weekend, so don't expect another peep from me until Monday or so (at which time I hope to be preoccupied with Mass Effect 3). We've got five people staying in our apartment (the only reason I am awake now is that we're waiting for my brother's train to come in), and I'm really looking forward to spending time with them all and eating lots of fast food.
The other reason this has been a crazy week is that Megan got a new job -- an office job at a health care place. It's a dollar-fifty raise from her current job making pitas at EXTREME PITA, not to mention she'll be going from fifteen hours or so a week to forty. And then, of course, the job comes with benefits. Health insurance, for the first time in years -- maybe I can stop wearing the glasses I got when I was twenty! (The pair I got when I was twenty-one broke when I was twenty-two, so I went back to the old set, which had the same or nearly the same prescription).
Anyway, this is going to nearly triple our monthly income, which is simply fantastic. It's going to be a rough month, however, because switching from one job to the next is working out to leave a sizable gap between paychecks, and that gap falls right over the end of the month, when everything comes due. Probably most of that can be fixed simply by letting various companies know WHY we'll be late, but you can never be sure of reasonable accommodation that way these days.
This is my life. It's pretty busy. And it's a lot of fun.
Hope everybody has a good weekend. Expect all kinds of LARP recaps next week, as well as me grumping about how this trilogy of LARPs may be growing a set of sequels -- I've done land, air, and sea travel. Now I just need underground terror and a Fin-de-Siecle improbably space race!
