Lev Lafayette's journal

I've had a good couple of weeks, sociability wise. I made one of my Itaalian feasts for txxxpxx and Mr. Pxx several days ago. Last weekend went to that fine establishment Polly's to join Brendan E for birthday drinks; upon my return discovered that a third of the keys from my laptop were missing as Trouble has discovered a new ability in rat engineering (thankfully all keys are now recovered and reset). On topic, the good folk at Ticonderoga have put up my review of Firmin, an excellent book that is both delightful and saddening. Last Monday attended a pleasant BBQ at the home of work colleague Andy Botting. Gaming wise, had an excellent session of Dragon Warriors on Friday, which included significant plot tension with a faery-tale setting (a newcomer to the group described at the best game he's played for years) and on Sunday our "part II" of Gulliver's Travels witnessed an unwelcome arrival at Lilliput (we previously made good trade with the Brobdingnag).

This Saturday eve, caseopaya and I are going to see Watchmen at the Classic Cinema; if anyone else is interested in coming along, drop us a line. artbroken reminds us what it could have been (ouch! my poor eyes!).

On top of all this, I'm drowning in work. I have to finish the first draft of a book for Iron Crown Enterprises by the end of this month, I've been battling with an enormous checklist for a set of Drupal modules (event, views, resource conflict etc) for the Australian Plant Phenomics Centre, and I desperately want to finish off my own publication "Designing Worlds of Adventure" (taking the title from the Paul Jaquays' series in Different Worlds). On top of that, another issue of RPG Review is due in the last week of this month, so I have to have that ready as well. Finally, I'm finishing off an brief (c2,000 word) sketch of economics for Isocracy which has some rather disparate sources (the Georgists, obviously, but also Mutualism, the Austrian school and Alec Nove's The Economics of Feasible Socialism").