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The thirty-year-old carpet in our house has to go. Yesterday we took the drive out to a suburban flooring store, picked a laminate and paid a few thousand dollars for underlay, boards, and associated labour, the latter being the most expensive part. Even then it's going to take a fair bit of effort because, well, so many books and bookcases, and the fact we live in a townhouse. I don't so much live in a house but rather a library which, according to many of my friends, is some sort of utopia. I guess even libraries need their flooring changed on occasion and the place is about due for a spring-clean.
Last night was a quite a night out; went out with Brendan E., and new housemate, caught up with Morgan R., and partner visiting from Geelong, and Amy came along as well. We had dinner at the Grace Darling in Collingwood, which is nice decor, but stupidly and unpleasantly loud. Brendan's new housemate is doing a double major in criminology and philosophy, so as one can imagine having a great opportunity to discuss some of those finer points. Also watched a bit of Archer 1999 and the movie Bright, which dealt with some obvious themes in a fantasy-cum-cop-action story, very reminiscent of Shadowrun roleplaying game, as many have noted.
Speaking of such things, played Megatraveller on Thursday night with our switched-characters. The GM is building a narrative where our two-sets of characters, space pirates versus imperium marines, are skirting around each other. In a very different genre it could be like William S. Burroughs', Nova Express, but I don't think it will turn out that way. Today I have an Eclipse Phase session, where the sentinels and proxies have to deal with rogue AIs taking over anti-matter bombs and psionic and psychotic mutants. Also during the week started doing a lot of organisational work for RuneQuest Glorantha Con Down Under IV. Plenty more to be done, however, especially in the advertising and ticket-sales!
Last night was a quite a night out; went out with Brendan E., and new housemate, caught up with Morgan R., and partner visiting from Geelong, and Amy came along as well. We had dinner at the Grace Darling in Collingwood, which is nice decor, but stupidly and unpleasantly loud. Brendan's new housemate is doing a double major in criminology and philosophy, so as one can imagine having a great opportunity to discuss some of those finer points. Also watched a bit of Archer 1999 and the movie Bright, which dealt with some obvious themes in a fantasy-cum-cop-action story, very reminiscent of Shadowrun roleplaying game, as many have noted.
Speaking of such things, played Megatraveller on Thursday night with our switched-characters. The GM is building a narrative where our two-sets of characters, space pirates versus imperium marines, are skirting around each other. In a very different genre it could be like William S. Burroughs', Nova Express, but I don't think it will turn out that way. Today I have an Eclipse Phase session, where the sentinels and proxies have to deal with rogue AIs taking over anti-matter bombs and psionic and psychotic mutants. Also during the week started doing a lot of organisational work for RuneQuest Glorantha Con Down Under IV. Plenty more to be done, however, especially in the advertising and ticket-sales!
