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Perfect Isolation, Here Behind My Wall
Mar. 17th, 2020 04:33 pmSo, in news that will surprise nobody, going down to that London even though the Book Fair was cancelled was not strictly tactical. The thing is, I needed a proper holiday, and having the whole week meant spending actual time with my old pals Gee and Chris before they fuck off to Japan, and being able to go to the Wellcome Collection and see an exhibition that was totes research-relevant, and motivating myself to at least open and annotate a Scholarly Book again (I did two chapters of Shared Fantasy which isn't much but it's more than I've done all year so far).
It also meant seeing an Erin and a Katy and their gorgeous cats, and playing some Azul and Everdell (good board games) and some Tapestry (difficult board game) even though Eurogames give me impostor syndrome a bit because I'm not good at them and HOW DARE I STUDY GAMES WHEN I CANNOT EVEN MASTER THE RULES?
And it even meant going up to Shepherds' Bush and playing some proper Warhammer, which is always nice since I only get to do that a few times a year now. Certainly helped that I won both games, chuff chuff. Buuut that's probably where I got the scratchy cough that's settled in even though I'm not breathing London air now and is probably the NINETEEN CROWS DISEASE. Or it might have been at the Wellcome now that I think of it, I definitely touched some interactive exhibits while I was there.
So I'm staying in my plague pit for the next two weeks. Work have sent up a care package of basic vegetarian breakfast stuffs and potatoes and Quorn (and like six proofs for me to read, and I can tell they actually thought about me because Ghostland is in there and I've been meaning to read it). So that's nice.
And I have a lot of big slow things I've been meaning to do and might as well get on with, like writing a sort of hacky companion to V5 so I can figure out some of the new rules and put some more definite advice on how to play alongside it, and learning a bit of CSS so I can put it online. I have a Neocities account I'm not using so I might as well do fanstuff on it and complete the triforce of old-school World Wide Web.
I'm also probably gonna start streaming again in the evenings, for someone to talk to. Might do a big Total War campaign, real paint the map job where I try to fight everyone. Or start back on Overwatch if lots of mates are going to be self-isolating, get the meme team back together. We'll see. At least I'm used to staying indoors for days on end, although I didn't want to go back to the freelance life just yet.
It also meant seeing an Erin and a Katy and their gorgeous cats, and playing some Azul and Everdell (good board games) and some Tapestry (difficult board game) even though Eurogames give me impostor syndrome a bit because I'm not good at them and HOW DARE I STUDY GAMES WHEN I CANNOT EVEN MASTER THE RULES?
And it even meant going up to Shepherds' Bush and playing some proper Warhammer, which is always nice since I only get to do that a few times a year now. Certainly helped that I won both games, chuff chuff. Buuut that's probably where I got the scratchy cough that's settled in even though I'm not breathing London air now and is probably the NINETEEN CROWS DISEASE. Or it might have been at the Wellcome now that I think of it, I definitely touched some interactive exhibits while I was there.
So I'm staying in my plague pit for the next two weeks. Work have sent up a care package of basic vegetarian breakfast stuffs and potatoes and Quorn (and like six proofs for me to read, and I can tell they actually thought about me because Ghostland is in there and I've been meaning to read it). So that's nice.
And I have a lot of big slow things I've been meaning to do and might as well get on with, like writing a sort of hacky companion to V5 so I can figure out some of the new rules and put some more definite advice on how to play alongside it, and learning a bit of CSS so I can put it online. I have a Neocities account I'm not using so I might as well do fanstuff on it and complete the triforce of old-school World Wide Web.
I'm also probably gonna start streaming again in the evenings, for someone to talk to. Might do a big Total War campaign, real paint the map job where I try to fight everyone. Or start back on Overwatch if lots of mates are going to be self-isolating, get the meme team back together. We'll see. At least I'm used to staying indoors for days on end, although I didn't want to go back to the freelance life just yet.
