It's Good To Be Back
Oct. 1st, 2002 07:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jamesqThe later half of September has been pretty crappy for me and my family. The health problems of my Mom and Dad necessitated stays at Foothills hospital and the Cross Bow centre respectively. For these reasons, I have been rather silent on the web page.
But things are, if not actually improving, at least easing in intensity. For example, my mom is now back home (to be joined by my dad on Thursday), so the short-term worrying has been replaced with the regularly-scheduled long-term worrying.
Other than that I've been forcing myself to finish as many little side projects as possible recently. Some of these projects have been going on for years now.
For example, some years ago, I inherited a chair from my folks. The chair consists of a series of bent tubing holding a black cushion in a sort of hammock fashion. The cushion tore within a few weeks of my getting the chair due to hideously excessive mass. As a result, it wasn't considered safe to sit in - instead, the Bruce and I used it as a convenient place to dump our stuff. All it would have taken to fix it was a concerted effort with a needle and some heavy-duty thread. Despite this, I did absolutely nothing with the chair for several years.
I lost Bruce's couch about two weeks ago (he gave it to Gareth, who desperately needed new furniture - for a sufficiently lax definition of "new"). As soon as it was gone I noticed that the living room was very very sparse.
So I had to get the chair fixed. I disassembled it and took it to the dry cleaner (who did repairs). They took one look at it and said "We can't handle anything this big - take it to a shoe repair store". Now shoe repair would not have been my first choice when dealing with this problem, but it turns out they were spot on.
I get to the shoe repair place by my apartment and give then the cushion. Their quote: $10 - which was about $40 less than I thought it would be, especially when they said it had to be hand-stitched. Ten dollars and two days later I had my chair back together. That weekend I also bought a chair from IKEA, and now my living room is still sparse, but at least I have enough places for people to sit to handle gaming.
Speaking of gaming, after a four month hiatus, I've started playing MTA again. We had to restart the last adventure because nobody (including me) had the foggiest clue what had happened. Luckily, the players got back into character almost instantly, which speaks to how well they're playing. Also, two PCs and three NPCs managed to get lucky, so it was a pretty fun evening even if all the sex was all make-believe.
But things are, if not actually improving, at least easing in intensity. For example, my mom is now back home (to be joined by my dad on Thursday), so the short-term worrying has been replaced with the regularly-scheduled long-term worrying.
Other than that I've been forcing myself to finish as many little side projects as possible recently. Some of these projects have been going on for years now.
For example, some years ago, I inherited a chair from my folks. The chair consists of a series of bent tubing holding a black cushion in a sort of hammock fashion. The cushion tore within a few weeks of my getting the chair due to hideously excessive mass. As a result, it wasn't considered safe to sit in - instead, the Bruce and I used it as a convenient place to dump our stuff. All it would have taken to fix it was a concerted effort with a needle and some heavy-duty thread. Despite this, I did absolutely nothing with the chair for several years.
I lost Bruce's couch about two weeks ago (he gave it to Gareth, who desperately needed new furniture - for a sufficiently lax definition of "new"). As soon as it was gone I noticed that the living room was very very sparse.
So I had to get the chair fixed. I disassembled it and took it to the dry cleaner (who did repairs). They took one look at it and said "We can't handle anything this big - take it to a shoe repair store". Now shoe repair would not have been my first choice when dealing with this problem, but it turns out they were spot on.
I get to the shoe repair place by my apartment and give then the cushion. Their quote: $10 - which was about $40 less than I thought it would be, especially when they said it had to be hand-stitched. Ten dollars and two days later I had my chair back together. That weekend I also bought a chair from IKEA, and now my living room is still sparse, but at least I have enough places for people to sit to handle gaming.
Speaking of gaming, after a four month hiatus, I've started playing MTA again. We had to restart the last adventure because nobody (including me) had the foggiest clue what had happened. Luckily, the players got back into character almost instantly, which speaks to how well they're playing. Also, two PCs and three NPCs managed to get lucky, so it was a pretty fun evening even if all the sex was all make-believe.
"OK, I want you both to roll against your hunt-wild-boar-with-a-lance-while-riding-a-horse-without-killing-yourself skill."
"Is that based off strength or agility?"
