Day in the Life of an Idiot

Image: finished rosettes, pecan tossies, and some not made by us pettifores.

Merry Christmas to those of your for whom this is not just a weirdly rainy Monday. I'm, of course, somewhere in between. My family celebrates Solstice as our holy day/seasonal holiday, but both Shawn and I grew up celebrating Christmas. (Her more than me, since my parents are secular humanist Unitarian Universalists and so I grew up weirdly not-Christian, despite two years of Catholic grade school and an extended family who were all Roman Catholic.) Plus, when Mason was little, we basically used the dominant culture's celebration to draw out gift giving. Solstice is our biggest day, but we also dribble out presents on Christmas Eve and Christmas morning. We like the idea of Christmas morning stockings, so we do that, too. All of these things have become tradition, so we basically give presents from Solstice to Christmas morning.

One of the things you will not be surprised that I received as one of those presents was four RPGs from Mason, including the new Evil Hat Productions Girl by Moonlight. Evil Hat is the outfit that put out Thirsty Sword Lesbians. Girl by Moonlight is basically Sailor Moon-inspired Magical Girl role-playing. He also asked his game theory professor for recommendations for cyberpunk games, so I now I have three of those as well.

In other RPG news, Stay in Touch, the post-apocalyptic missive game is underway with a number of people.

I have one friend who decided to try email for the letters and so, technically, by chance, we're actually already finished. The official rules are that after players roll three doubles (you roll two dice so anytime you get the same number twice,), the game is over. We don't feel done and so have agreed to continue through another set of doubles. But, it's been interesting, because we've already hit a number of snags.

( no spoilers about Stay in Touch, outside of mechanical issues, but cut in case people don't want to read for any number of others reasons )

I'm glad I had this experience before the letters I know are on their way from other players have arrived, however.