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Dicey
Rain wasn't forecast to begin until 3 p.m., but no sooner had I left the house than large cold drops start to fall. I got to the bus stop just as the Clark 22 did; a woman waiting even remarked on it. Middle Eastern Bakery seemed less full than usual, but the counterman was in the back making falafel, so the proprietor had his hands full running from the register to the back of the house and back. I waited only five minutes for the bus home but the driver ignored my signal and I walked an extra block in the frigid drizzle. At home, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
monshu, who'd completed his own trip to Mariano's and back before I left the house, deplored the crappiness of the weather. I suggested he put the fire on and regretted that I couldn't simply stretch out in the bath reading a bad novel.
Today was a game day, but with two of the party out of town, we decided against having an RPG session and instead played other games--a streamlined, dice-based version of Pandemic and a deck-building superhero combat game. The latter seemed too easy after our struggle to beat the former. The dice were against us in the first two games, and remained against JB in the last, which landed him squarely in the barrel. He embraced it. At the end, it was all going to come down to his roll until we wisely took it out of the hands and passed it to the Ewok, who succeeded handsomely. JB insisted on having a roll anyway, to see what he would've gotten, and failed in a fashion so stunning I literally fell to the floor laughing.
monshu, who'd completed his own trip to Mariano's and back before I left the house, deplored the crappiness of the weather. I suggested he put the fire on and regretted that I couldn't simply stretch out in the bath reading a bad novel.Today was a game day, but with two of the party out of town, we decided against having an RPG session and instead played other games--a streamlined, dice-based version of Pandemic and a deck-building superhero combat game. The latter seemed too easy after our struggle to beat the former. The dice were against us in the first two games, and remained against JB in the last, which landed him squarely in the barrel. He embraced it. At the end, it was all going to come down to his roll until we wisely took it out of the hands and passed it to the Ewok, who succeeded handsomely. JB insisted on having a roll anyway, to see what he would've gotten, and failed in a fashion so stunning I literally fell to the floor laughing.
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The problem actually affects the whole West/Southwest of the U.S. Las Vegas depends wholly on hydro-electric from Hoover Dam, and water from Lake Mead behind it. But Lake Mead is starting to seriously suffer from lack of water. If Vegas didn't have 50% of it's homes empty, (the 2008 Sub-Prime Economic Crime Wave,) they'd be in much worse shape.
Erik and I also hold a Games Day about once a month, and we get a pretty good turnout. I used to play an RPG campaign with my closest friends for over 20 years. But they all moved away from the SF Peninsula due to cost of living.
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What happened with my college friends is that we all spread out across the Chicago area, so finding a place where we could all commute to in a reasonable amount of time became more and more difficult. Add in the usual strains of competing commitments and it eventually fell apart.
It sounds like someone may be trying to start up the monthly bear gaming group again but I'll believe that when I see it.