Why is it that everyone wants to schedule their stuff at the end of July? Sail training started a week ago. I am giving it a miss, but I really miss it. The people are a lot of fun and I really miss them. However, I like being able to move around without pain. My body needs the break, so I am listening to it for a change. I guess it's just as well in that my dad was in town last weekend anyway, and the post mortem meeting for ApolloCon 2009 was this Saturday. I was debating on going, but it turned out to be a good meeting and we got a lot done. They want my help with the LARP this next year. I am seriously thinking of doing it. I have a lot of quest writing experience from Amtgard so I think I can pull this off. The biggest difference is that in Amtgard quests, everyone comes with their own established characters. I will have to write each and everyone of these parts for all the participants in a LARP for a convention. I've done that before, it takes a while and can be fun to do. I have a lot of friends in Amtgard who probably can help with this and from what Kim tells me, she may allow boffer fighting. This will draw in Amtgarders and open up a lot of possibilities and problems too. There are a lot of details to be worked out as you can see. I can foresee a problem with players who wish to be non combatants and how will they function in this. There are tried and true Amtgard solutions for these things that I bet we can adapt to this. Sounds like fun. heheh In other news, I've added a color printer to my little computer set up. I've been wanting one for a long time to print out things like charts so I picked up a freecycled HP 720C just the other day. Its an old parallel printer all it needed was a couple of cartridges and a usb to parallel cable and I was up and running in no time. It's networked in through the linux machine and all my computers can print to it except the handheld. The only problem I've [...]
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