Last night, I returned to Hobbytown to attend their game night. I brought along a copy of Mage Knight. I wasn’t sure that anyone would be interested in playing it, but I thought, “Either I’ll have fun playing this game, or I’ll have fun playing some other game. Either way I come out ahead.”
It's a measure of how profoundly my appetite has changed when I have to throw away food I've kept in my fridge because it's gone bad. That never used to happen, except for lettuce and onions and such. Now I eat so much less that the food has a chance to spoil. I have an endoscopy this…
Now this was a horse of a different color. First of all, it had a "very easy" difficulty for us fumble-fingered oldsters. There were no impossible jumps like the one I talked about for U1. This doesn't mean I didn't have to replay some sections more than once to figure things out, but it never got to…
Yesterday was phone call day. Lots of friends and relatives called me to ask me how I was doing, and bring me up-to-date on their own lives. It was good to have that contact. Last night (early this morning) was a bad night. My eye ached and I couldn't sleep. I took a Tramadol, and resisted the…
I'd forgotten the reason I hate platformers. I was playing U1 on my PS3, enjoying the story, not getting too bogged down anywhere because I was playing on "easy" difficulty. Then I get to the jump I couldn't make; it's the final vine jump to scale the fortress wall. I tried for an hour, and another half-hour…
Once every two years, the Particle Data Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories publishes their Review of Particle Physics. This is both a web site and thick magazine, about the size of the New York telephone directory. The production issues associated with such a volume are so complex that, even though it’s only published biennially, publication is distributed among several physics journal publishers; in 2010 it was published by Journal of Physics; this year it was published by Physical Review D.
In other words, it’s a big deal.
I went to Hobbytown again last night for their game night. Once again, I had a good time, despite the fact I’d been feeling under the weather earlier in the day.
I played two games:
I work at Nevis Labs, a 57-acre estate in Irvington NY, on the eastern shore of the Hudson River. Today I decided to take a walk. It was the longest walk I'd taken since this whole medical drama began. I had no trouble, no shortness of breath, no pain in my legs. In late September, I have…
I wanted to let some folks know: Right now, all my work on Isaac Bonewits' biography has stopped. I'm dealing with health issues. That has to be my "project" for now. If you'd like to volunteer any memories, materials, thoughts, ideas, or contacts, I'll be glad to receive them. The best place to send them is the…
Today I went to a party at the home of Emily and Tim. They were celebrating the second birthday of their daughter. It was not really a birthday party, as much as it was an excuse for folks to hang out and have a BBQ. At first I told them that maybe I'd come. Then I changed…