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tcpipThe past few days I have worked pretty consistently in getting RPG Review Issue 39 out with the "Far East" focus. It's almost ready, but there's still a matter of finishing off the final parts of layout and editorialising. It's amazing to think that we're close to ten years of this publication, which will be 640 pages in total when issue 40 comes out. Some sort of celebration will be due. In any case, in finishing off the final articles I've written probably close to 7,000 words in the past five days, including various game reviews, campaign summaries, editorials and so forth. Outside of this I've also had the opportunity to engage in a bit of actual play, specifically Megatraveller on Thursday night where we successfully defeated nanite-infected space zombies on a derelict ship, and RuneQuest on Sunday, where we defeated a blood-sucking vampire landlord, which really was a gorgeous metaphor. Mention must also be made that I managed to catch Kate R., who was briefly in town. She was one of the main organisers of MARS after I left Murdoch University and the last time we'd seen her was just over ten years ago. So we gave her a tour of the asylum and then went out to a local restaurant; "good food and even better company" was how she put it.
Workwise I have various papers and presentations piling up and various conferences that I have to prepare for; an article for the Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal due in a couple of days (mostly finished) and the Perth-based HPC Advisory Council for the end of the month. Given the relative brevity of my impending visit to Perth, I still have to consider whether to have my usual dinner gathering of old friends from the western lands. It's going to be doubly difficult given that I'll be sequestered in Fremantle as well and most of the old team are more in the inner north of Perth. I may have to delay such shenanigans for a later visit, which there almost certainly will be. I remember![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
decrypt_era describing Perth as a black hole. To truly escape, you would have to go beyond the event horizon which can periodically suck you in.
Workwise I have various papers and presentations piling up and various conferences that I have to prepare for; an article for the Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal due in a couple of days (mostly finished) and the Perth-based HPC Advisory Council for the end of the month. Given the relative brevity of my impending visit to Perth, I still have to consider whether to have my usual dinner gathering of old friends from the western lands. It's going to be doubly difficult given that I'll be sequestered in Fremantle as well and most of the old team are more in the inner north of Perth. I may have to delay such shenanigans for a later visit, which there almost certainly will be. I remember
decrypt_era describing Perth as a black hole. To truly escape, you would have to go beyond the event horizon which can periodically suck you in.