tcpip | Prosper Activities, East Timor, Gaming

Prosper Australia is making moves again after being a quiet organisation for a number of years. Last Wednesday's intimate gathering in Broadmeadows with Liberal candidate Matthew Guy was worthwhile. He had an open mind on the issue and asked the right sort of questions. A write-up of my presentation is also available. This morning met with Glenyys Romanes, Labor member for Melbourne Province. Glenyys is an exceptional thinker, a real "social engineer" whose primary concern is outcomes. Again the message was well received. I have compiled a list of likely local councillors whom I can talk to about this issue. One pleasant discovery is that I know a majority of the councillors in the City of Yarra. A good place to start, one supposes.

Sunday was the bi-annual Unitarian fundraising concernt. Not for the first time our event was held with funds going to East Timor Women Australia. Numbers were a little low (about fifty) but the congregation did donate some $600 plus at least $200 in purchases of tais', bags and the like. All this money goes to the a women's cooperative in Taibessi, south of Dili who make traditional cloth products. The women of the cooperative are either former guerilla fighters, widows of the occupation or orphans from the occupation. To say the least, the money goes a long way. This follows on a couple of weeks ago from an event in St Kilda for Arte Moris at Theatreworks.

Had a big dice-rolling weekend. On Friday night played

droog64's HeroQuest game, where King Arthur is turning in a Christian fundamentalist and I've managed to get a small group of skirmishes as part of his campaign against the Saxons. On Saturday night visited Dwarfcon and played

mareth_redorb's Call of Cthulhu scenario. We all died except for one party member discovered the following morning half naked (the bottom half), in front of burnt hotel with numerous corpses and muttering about flying gargoyles and the blackness that should not be. In other words, as Cthulhu story should end. On Sunday played the Norman Britian Retro-AD&D game and introduced my Paladin, Sir duc Sean of the Innocent (of Irish/Occitan heritage of course).

imajica_lj joined us for gaming and returned to St Kilda for an evening of pizza and playing Project Zero. On topic for speculative fiction my review of Shade's Children has come out in the latest issue of Ticonderoga.