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*

[horngirl.livejournal.com]

Thanks for coming, was good to see you!

[nerdwerds.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[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.

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

Congratulations :-)

[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!

[darklion.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. The venue sounds muchly great.

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!

[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*

[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...)