Civil Union, House Warmings, Welfare, GURPS Krononauts

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Last Thursday caseopaya visited the local Registry office and applied for a civil union. We we will be holding a celebration in the Old Council Chambers at Trades Hall on Saturday, December 18, which comes with a nice Dickensian aesthetic. Currently engaging in the not-so-mad rush to contact the relevant people, prepare food and drink etc. It's a lot less stressful when you decide to go low-key in the first instance.

On Saturday attended a housewarming for horngirl and alchemon and had a delightful conversion with the two hosts, as well as with the txxxpxx's, and damien_wise. There was also an intersting collection of semi-exotic meats (goat, boar, camel) on offer at the BBQ. I can rather wish for more housewarmings, as the following day the speaker at the Unitarians was Tony Keenan, CEO of Hanover Welfare Services, speaking on "the changing face" of homelessness - many more single women in their 60s and families have fallen into said destitute state, primarily due to the pressures on housing supply. In a somewhat distant tangent the LUV-beginners workshop on Saturday afternoon had Tony Forster, speaking on the work of One Laptop Per Child project, and the rather impressive (Linux-based, deliberately hackable) Sugar interface.

Finished my short episode of the shared-narrator GURPS Krononauts game. I had combined a visit to members of the the mid-nineteenth century U.S. literary circle including characters such as Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The story ended up with a visit to Sleepy Hollow with a missing antagonist time-traveller incorporated part of the plot of Rip van Winkle and (one of my old favourites) The Facts in The Case of M. Valdemar, leading to the character to be seemingly be trapped in a closed timelike curve, but also becoming a discorporate consciousness (and becoming part of the group's AI patron) thus avoiding temporal radiation poisoning. Oh, good fun, trust me.

Comments

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

YAY!!! Congrats to you two!

Wish you happiness... <3

Also, kudos for opting for a low-key scenario. *nod*

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Thanking you muchly :)

I've tried to follow a middle-path between being low-key, but also classy in a dilapidated manner... The Old Council Chambers really suit what I'm trying to express (I've added a picture above now)...

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

I also wanted the place to speak for itself. So we did it on top of a small hill under a tree. Next to a small chapel. With a view to a lake.

After all what matters is how you feel the place, and what your preferences are. The rest are just spectators/participants.

[mireille21.livejournal.com]

COngratulations :)

nice place too, I'd totally get Civil Unioned there.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

For the Union makes us strong!

[horngirl.livejournal.com]

Thanks for coming, was good to see you!

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

BTW, I should chat you with off list about this diet you're on... This was a doctor's suggestion?

[horngirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she's kind of a cross between a GP and a naturopath - but she's an actual qualified GP.

[nerdwerds.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[nerdwerds.livejournal.com]

Wrong person methinks. I'm not on a diet.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Yes, my mouse went wonky (ancient laptop) - I meant to respond to the post above you!

[nerdwerds.livejournal.com]

Mmm camel.

[niamh-sage.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on your impending celebration! I hope it's a lovely day. Low key sounds like a jolly good idea.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

I wonder if I can smuggle the rats in for the celebration?

(After all, Trades Hall has its share...)

[niamh-sage.livejournal.com]

Do they have a policy on animals in general? If they allow dogs in, for example, then I can't see why rats should be excluded! :D

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Seeing-eye rats! Now there's an excuse...

I think we'll keep the little rodents at home, or at least until the reception.. The young one in particular is a bit skittish and might get scared from all the people...

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

Congratulations :-)

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

BTW, can I get an email address for you? :)

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

I've sent an LJ message with the requested data.

[lula-neith.livejournal.com]

Good news! I hope the union and celebration are as lovely and stress-free as you wish. And that housewarming sounds like it was a lot of fun!

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly. It was a fun afternoon/early evening. Very lovely company.

[darklion.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. The venue sounds muchly great.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Plus you have another excuse to visit Melbourne, he hints broadly :)

[darklion.livejournal.com]

I have leapt at the excuse and found myself some flights, none of them on A380s fortunately.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

That's such a delight to hear! :)

Union, LUV and Sugar

[ferret-otaku.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the Civil union.

One Laptop per Child: Great cause! OK Guilty of not supporting that one yet.

GURPS Krononauts: Power to the GM for working out continuity!

Re: Union, LUV and Sugar

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

#1 That you!

#2 Not as successful as it should be, but it has certainly spurred things on with some interesting competitors. The future is bright, at least in computing.

#3 God yes. I'm thinking it'll make a great short story!

[lifedistilled.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, Lev. :)

[the-shadow298.livejournal.com]

Congrats on getting the CV.
Very happy for you both. :D

[delicious-irony.livejournal.com]

Yay for you guys!

Sadly, we can't be in town to wish you well in person, so please accept lots and lots of happiness for the future anyway!

*love*

[caseopaya.livejournal.com]

what more could we ask for, if we can't have your delightful presence :)

[shadow-5tails.livejournal.com]

Congratulations and best wishes to you both! Have a lovely celebration - the venue looks delightful.

(I'm sure I should've noticed before now that this comment hadn't posted yet...)