MERP Friday: May 1
Here’s my Making, Enjoying, Reading, Playing entry for the week ending May 1st, 2009. Use the comments to share your own MERP, if you’re of a mind.
Making:
My creative endeavors are mostly tied up in getting ready for the reports I’ll be presenting to my biggest freelance client at their bi-annual meeting coming up next week in Chicago. I’ve done a couple of minor VAM things but not as much as I’d like, and of course you may also notice I’ve blogged a lot less this past week than I was earlier in April. It’s hard to keep up that kind of pace, frankly, although it really was nice to see the Monkey’s visitor stats shoot way up and have lots of interesting comment threads going. Smooches to those of you who made that happen.
Enjoying:
I loved the Chuck season finale. I hope it comes back next year. Lost is convoluted, complex, confusing, and challenging. I’m still hooked. No apologies. In Plain Sight is back, and that makes me very happy. And I found myself surprised to enjoy Jeff Goldblum’s new character in Law & Order: CI.
Reading:
I recently got my reserve copy of The Steel Remains by Richard Morgan. Wow. Wow. Hook line and sinker, baby. Comics-wise, I’ve gotten into Warren Ellis’ FreakAngels and I’m digging it a lot. On the other hand, Ellis’ Ignition City debut didn’t grab me much. I also received my print hardcover of Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies, and my feelings on that were shared a couple days ago here. Rich, Norwood, and I are gearing up for a campaign in June – hopefully joined by a particularly gifted swashbuckler-style guest-player I’m about to invite to join us. (hint: his first name appears elsewhere in this post in another context and some of you old-school Harping Monkey fans might remember him). Thus S7S will soon be moving from the “Reading” section into …
Playing:
Currently – a Primetime Adventures series called Nebula Blue with Erin and David Moore, Norwood, and Rich. Sort of The Poseidon Adventure + Alien + Space pulp + I don’t really know what yet.
On deck – Burning Wheel: Rome, running through May with Rich and Norwood and guest-GM Ogre Whiteside.
Also in May – I’ve gotten into a face-to-face game!! Every two weeks I’ll be getting together with Mark Kinney, Clay Karwan, and my new pal Andrew Black. We’re starting with Mark running us through a few sessions of Spirit of the Century.
After that – I will be running Swashbucklers of the 7 Skies as mentioned above for the Canoneers. We’re planning for this to be an actual ongoing campaign played every other week for as long as we’re having fun with it. This will be the first “long” campaign for all of us in quite some time, and also the first time I’ve run something for the Canoneers.
So, that’s my MERP week. How ’bout you?
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Burning Wheel: Rome? Why do you do these things to me, dude. Seriously.
Though I should point out that, in regards to your S7S note of a guest swashy player, my name does not actually appear in the post, so you forgot. By adding this comment I fix that.
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This past week I put the finishing touches on a presentation for a year-long project at work and gave it to a director and two HR heads and received some acclaim. Next week I put it to the head honcho who will hopefully agree to the proposal and institute a major change in how we evaluate performance and provide feedback to our employees within the work group.
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I caught up on Sarah Connor Chronicles and watched the season finale. I know this show won’t make it to a third season, but it really should. HBO ro Showtime should snatch this show up and continue it. It will never get the numbers that Fox wants for it and that makes me a bit sad.
The wife and I also started watching February episodes of Fringe again. We’d missed on episode and for a while my wife wanted to watch that episode before continuing, but she finally relented and we’re hooked again. It is so X-Files the good stuff but with a framework for why weird stuff happens. I love it.
We also watched four episodes of Spaced this week, this show is pure and amazingly entertaining geekery.
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I just finished the audiobook version of Lirael by Garth Nix, it was a fun book but I had a few problems with it.
#1 The two main characters began too miserable for me to engage or sympathize with them for a long stretch and I almost gave up.
#2 When one of the characters started to show some backbone, I wanted to like him. But then near the end he reverted and I just wanted to punch him in the eye.
#3 The book ended with no resolution, just a set up for the last book in the trilogy. Thank God I already have the audiobook for the third cued up. If I’d been reading this right when it came out, I would have been super-pissed.
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I started my old school D&D game this past Monday. It was so fun to sit down at a table with four gamers and look across at their faces and watch them roll dice. I’m really loving that, been a few years since I got this not at a con or quick visit back home in TN.
As Mick mentioned, we began our short PTA miniseries, Nebula Blue. It was fun, but I am out of practice with PTA and it showed. Luckily, the playgroup was forgiving and even stepped in to bring some fun, so yay.