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We have a new car, which has some similarity with our old car (traded in a blue 1995 Nissan Micra for a blue 2010 Nissan Micra). The Micra is just right for an inner city family of two who have very occassional country journeys. The network engineer described it as the "world's best car"; at first I thought he was taking the piss, but it turns out he was quite serious, having owned such a vehicle in Ireland.
On the topic of Ireland, they recently held a general election where there was a massive swing to the various left-wing parties (and a collapse of the Green vote), breaking the Fine Gael/Fianna Fail duopoly in the wake of the Irishbankingreal-estate crisis and subsequent bailout. Despite these results I suspect that there will not be further improvements in the broad left vote as the incoming government engages in an austerity campaign and have written a small piece outlining my pessimism. I hope to be proven wrong.
Sunday attended the Unitarians to hear Anne Sgro, president of the Union of Australian Women, speaking on International Women's Day and specifically the apparently never-ending campaign for pay equity. After this conducted the Philosophy Forum discussion on The Phenomenology of Perception. With a title like that I expected a lot fewer people; instead the turnout was significantly larger than normal with a number of new younger people making an appearance with excellent contributions. After that took the car for a journey out to the wedding of Jiri and Sarvnaz at Nathania Springs; a delightful ceremony with its multi-cultural elements (Jiri is Czech, Sarnvaz is Persian), a well-suited couple (both with PhDs in computer science). Best wishes to them both!
Interesting gaming news over the past several days; on Thursday ran a session of In A Wicked Age, which has the interesting mechanic of generating the characters and plot elements as part of the game story itself, a thoroughly entertaining method;![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
recumbenteer played a very interesting Adonis-like character in the ancient Egyptian setting that was selected (you may have noticed I have an Egyptian motif running of late). With pre-generated plot elements the GM has to be very quick on their feet, but usually there is sufficient tension generated for a good narrative to emerge. Last night was another session of Britannia-Pendragon where we've unearthed a community of protective bleiden under threat from druidic shapeshifter. It's been a good game, but the pacing has been a little slow for my liking.
On the topic of Ireland, they recently held a general election where there was a massive swing to the various left-wing parties (and a collapse of the Green vote), breaking the Fine Gael/Fianna Fail duopoly in the wake of the Irish
Sunday attended the Unitarians to hear Anne Sgro, president of the Union of Australian Women, speaking on International Women's Day and specifically the apparently never-ending campaign for pay equity. After this conducted the Philosophy Forum discussion on The Phenomenology of Perception. With a title like that I expected a lot fewer people; instead the turnout was significantly larger than normal with a number of new younger people making an appearance with excellent contributions. After that took the car for a journey out to the wedding of Jiri and Sarvnaz at Nathania Springs; a delightful ceremony with its multi-cultural elements (Jiri is Czech, Sarnvaz is Persian), a well-suited couple (both with PhDs in computer science). Best wishes to them both!
Interesting gaming news over the past several days; on Thursday ran a session of In A Wicked Age, which has the interesting mechanic of generating the characters and plot elements as part of the game story itself, a thoroughly entertaining method;
recumbenteer played a very interesting Adonis-like character in the ancient Egyptian setting that was selected (you may have noticed I have an Egyptian motif running of late). With pre-generated plot elements the GM has to be very quick on their feet, but usually there is sufficient tension generated for a good narrative to emerge. Last night was another session of Britannia-Pendragon where we've unearthed a community of protective bleiden under threat from druidic shapeshifter. It's been a good game, but the pacing has been a little slow for my liking.