Announcement

Dear everyone who reads this.

I have decided that having two identical (more or less) blogs is stupid. So I am moving all my activity to Livejournal.

-T

Mm summer

These last two or three days have been fantastic, sun and summery without being killing. Over the weekend it was deadly. I was going crazy and not being able to do anything. I have not been able to get any writing done. It has simply been too hot to be productive. I was planning on getting stuff written last night. I have a ton of things that really could be written, but then Claire was distracting me with Oblivion. So I have been very very bad. I have been trying to plot out the next two chapters of Savin' Me but I got other bunnies jumping too high. I also want to do some art. Been wanting it for a few days now. Mmm not enough time...

I have been planning on moving all my blogging to wordpress, but I am not sure. What is people's opinion of this?

Moving, Reg stuff and other notes

Yeah, this blog is moving. I have had this account with blogger for three years now, or close to. It has been a surprisingly big part of my life. Very teraputic to write down your thoughts and feelings and angry rants. Same goes for LJ, though I had that for a lot shorter period of time, only one and a half year, but I will be more or less leaving that too. Everything will move to the new wordpress blog, and we are in the moving phase now, but this will take full effect on the last day of classes, as that is the last day when I have the class I originally got the wordpress account for. I will still have my accounts with blogger and LJ, just that my updates will all be on the word press account. I am also starting up the DEE project again their (that might be in full effect before the main blog). IMPORTANT NOTE: Some, possibly a lot, of post will be password protected. I tend to lean towards being as open as possible but sometimes that is not possible. If you want access to the password, email me, comment here or comment on the wordpress account.

Registraion for fall classes went fine. I got into everything I wanted. I am exited about Astro. Been wanting to take that class for a long time. Then there are Assembly and Operating Systems which will both be fun, I hope, if a lot of work. I am also looking forward to taking german again. And I got the section with a teacher that have been recommended to me.

In the rpg world, things are going ok. I am a little bit out of it, because every game I have played this year feels like it have been very political, this might not have been the intention, but that is how it feels. And lately I have been wanting to do more swashbuckling. You know, fights, insults, treasure, fight monsters, so on and so forth. Something that is lighter and more fun and less heavy on the political plot. This I guess is reflected in my last two characters Adrian and Ramon, both essencially swashbucklers, though only Ramon is an actual pirate. So I am looking into how I can do that. There is also two games I want to play, both of which can fit this style. Shadowrun and 7th Sea. 7th Sea is a swashbuckling pirate game already, but I only have the player's guide and don't really feel like dishing out tons of money. Shadowrun has a very dark and gritty overtone, but the underlying consept is very much that of swashbuckling. But it is also futuristic, character gen is confusing and it seems to be hard to recruit players for it and get the ones I have to be enthusiastic about it. Is that my fault? Am I doing something wrong as a GM? Or is it simply that people don't like futuristic games? I don't know.
But I have a few links for people
7th Sea, link to the game, has loads of interesting resources
Victorian Slang Glossary, just exactly what it sounds like

Costuming:
The bones arrived today. So I thought I should give you all a break down of the cost of the projects so far
Black sorceress:
Pattern and shipping $30
Fabric and shipping $90
Bones and shipping $86
Total cost $210 (estimated: no more than $250)
Total time so far 3-4 hours (estimanted: a lot)
The Shaman:
Pattern $7
Hooks ~$10-12
Yarn $13
Bones $9
Total cost $40
Total time so far: maybe an hour

"Walk on, walk on
What you got, they can't steal it
No they can't even feel it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight...
You're packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been
A place that has to be believed to be seen
You could have flown away
A singing bird in an open cage
Who will only fly, only fly for freedom
Walk on, walk on
What you got they can't deny it
Can't sell it or buy it
Walk on, walk on
Stay safe tonight
And I know it aches
And your heart it breaks
And you can only take so much
Walk on, walk on
Home...hard to know what it is if you never had one
Home...I can't say where it is but I know I'm going home
That's where the heart is"
-Walk On by U2

I don't know why I wanted to start with that song. It doesn't really have much to do with anything. Except to bring home a point I made the other day. Walk on. It is all we can do. And don't be afraid.

A brief note on the new title of this blog. Brief Mortality. The blogger account have the full sub title, LJ does not. Anyway it is 'And the sound makes it's way outta the window Minglin' with the traffic noises outside, you know, an' All of a sudden I'm overcome by a feelin' of brief mortality', it is from the spoken intro to the song Woke up this Morning by A3. The reason why I chose this is because often I am over come by this feeling. I see something beautiful, or grand, or ancient or so larger than life, and I am reminded about how small I am, and how little I really matter in the big picture. And you know what, it is a good feeling.

I bleached my hair, was intending on dying it blue, but now I like this, I might stay blond.

Maria Victoria is now unplayable. She's in jail. And is going to stay there for a while. So yesterday I statted out Ramon. He is going to be fun. He's an Egyptian orc. Tall, and when he isn't having problems with the ground moving (ie. on a boat or drunk) quite graceful. He is young and handsome in that slightly dangerous way. You know someone confident of their abilities, and those abilities include being able to hurt you badly. In the shower I realized why he is in London, must remember to tell Sibs. Ramon is a pirate and I have to figure out the way he speak, I have a feeling he swears by a ton of different gods. Heh, he is going to be fun, mainly because he'll rub Jaq the wrong way so badly..

First Entry

Well, well. My first try at something else than Elftown. Hopefully this is better. So let see, what was I wanted to ramble about today. Ehm, yeah: my sister. But I guess I'll do that on a thoughts on page. It fits better.
Today we had Human Rights longblock, we saw a movie about Mylai. It is a small village in Vietnam where a massacre took place during the Vietnam war, American soliders killed 500 civilans. Quite horrible to watch actually.
Now I can smell Cheryl making noodles, she got a package from home a week or so ago, full of good food not to mention candy. I need to move to Hong Kong when I get older, they have so much good food.
Just one more week and my first year here at RCN is over. Two months off, yay!